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_Scape – 9 September 2010
Brothers Norm and Rod Skipp (electronics and ‘cello) combine forces again as _scape to unveil a sonic palette featuring live electronics, instrumental performance and improvised sound. Originally formed in 2008, the duo explore the interaction of live and pre-composed electronics with instrumental performance and have appeared as part of the last two Chorlton Arts Festivals.…
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Partial Trust – 12 August 2010
Partial Trust is a new collaboration between Richard Knight and Abigail Sanders, exploiting the relationship between unadulterated acoustic and electronic phenomena. Sourcing from the hauntingly rich and pure timbres of the French Horn, Abigail emphasizes the natural acoustics of the instrument through multiple extended techniques, in a never-ending attempt to synchronize with (or combat against)…
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Partial Trust – 11 August 2010
Partial Trust is a new collaboration between Richard Knight and Abigail Sanders, exploiting the relationship between unadulterated acoustic and electronic phenomena. Sourcing from the hauntingly rich and pure timbres of the French Horn, Abigail emphasizes the natural acoustics of the instrument through multiple extended techniques, in a never-ending attempt to synchronize with (or combat against)…
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Partial Trust Podcast – 11 August 2010
This podcast literally takes you on a journey – by interspersing a variety of influential tracks with field recordings from inside a train. I recommend a fun game to enhance the experience of listening – listen to it at not quite full volume on a train and become aurally confused! Observe your mood when…
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Darnall Sinfonia Podcast – 8 August 2010
Eclat – Pierre Boulez Duration II – Morton Feldman Get In Line – Art Ensemble of Chicago Bungee – Harmen Fraanje Quartet Silver Apples of the Moon (extract) – Subotnick Cathode #5 – Otomo Yoshihide Snagglepuss – Naked City Three Architects Called Gabrielle (Just What I Expected) – Django Bates Don’t Try To Use Me…
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Sheffield New Music Ensemble – 14 July 2010
The University of Sheffield New Music Ensemble provides a regular showcase for new music and there is also an established tradition of performance of music theatre and operatic work as well as compositions for larger ensembles such as concert band, chamber orchestra and chamber choir.
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The Hunter Brothers – 8 July 2010
Anton Hunter, Johnny Hunter, Sam Andreae and Ben Cotrell lay down some law.
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Partwildhorsesmaneonbothsides – 10 June 2010
Pascal Nichols and Kelly Jones have shared the stage with acts such as Sonic Youth, Black Dice, Hrsta, Vanishing Voice, moha!, the A Band, KK Null, Birds Of Delay, Rhys Chatham, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Lucky Dragons, Corsano Flower Duo, blood stereo. They have also collectively collaborated with Os Loosers, Valerio Cosi, Christian Munthe,…
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Peter Faircloug & Hayley Youell – 9 June 2010
Since graduating from the City of Leeds College of Music with Distinction in Drums and Percussion, Peter Fairclough has performed and/or recorded with Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall, Ute Lemper, Huw Warren, Peter Whyman, Steve Berry, John Harle, Kenny Davern, Peter King, The Matrix Ensemble, The Bournemouth Sinfonietta, The Mike Westbrook Orchestra and The Theatre Royal…
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Richard Scott & Phil Marks – 13 May 2010
Phillip Marks has been performing and promoting improvised music in Manchester, the UK, and Europe since the mid-80s. He is a founder member of Bark! and has been playing with pianist Stephen Grew and saxophonist Mick Beck for the best part of twenty years. Recent collaborations have included a trio tour with trombonist Alan Tomlinson…
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Instrument Building Workshop – 13 May 2010
Instrument design is many things to many people. It brought us the modern orchestra, the engineering feat that is the grand piano, the digital sampler, and a near endless world of things in between. There are several classes of instruments (as can be seen on page 3) and we will explore nearly all of them…
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Mick Beck & Yvonna Magda – 12 May 2010
Mick Beck has been working since 1980 in jazz, free music and as a composer and club/ festival organiser. As a composer he looks for structures that can diversify and strengthen the impact of improvisation; as an improvisor his aim is to mix compelling rhythms, zaney melodies, changes of mood and flexibility in playing techniques…
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Darnall Sinfonia – 14 April 2010
Tom Owen, Steven Jouanny and Johnny Hunter are current and former Sheffield University Students who pop up here and there on the Sheffield and Derbyshire amateur circuits. Our genuine musical concerns include The European and American Avant Garde, Krautrock, Be-bop, Post-bop, Fusion, Industrial, Ska, During Rock, Phonetic Mash-up, Basementcore, Proto-skiffle, Alsace Sham-revival Drones, Rural Doom…
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Darnall Sinfonia – 8 April 2010
Tom Owen, Steven Jouanny and Johnny Hunter are current and former Sheffield University Students who pop up here and there on the Sheffield and Derbyshire amateur circuits. Our genuine musical concerns include The European and American Avant Garde, Krautrock, Be-bop, Post-bop, Fusion, Industrial, Ska, During Rock, Phonetic Mash-up, Basementcore, Proto-skiffle, Alsace Sham-revival Drones, Rural Doom…
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NUS Label Launch Party – 28 March 2010
Exciting performances by NUS Artists Gift of Life and Rodrigo Constanzo. Also the performance of Cobra by workshop participants. ……………………………………. John Zorn’s Cobra is either an often performed contemporary music composition, an improvisational game, a short attention span barrage of noise, a social experiment, or every piece of music you’ve (n)ever played or heard. I…
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Orfeo 5 – 12 March 2010
Orfeo 5 are Shaun Blezard (electronics) and Keith Jafrate (saxophones). they use improvisation to find structure and vice versa, in music that is romantic and narrative and mysterious all at once, playing long pieces which evolve over time to create a sense of place and landscape, but which also incorporate strongly rhythmic passages. their style takes in influences from…
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Orfeo 5 Podcast – 11 March 2010
I’ve tried to give a very broad overview of shared loves and influences of orfeo 5 without leaning too far in any one direction. They are all there in our sound some obvious some not so obvious. Hope you like it Shaun (orfeo 5) Tracklisting: 1. Nine Barrow Down – Field Recording by Keith Jafrate…
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Takahashi’s shellfish concern – 11 March 2010
Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern combines abstract expressionist visual art with experimental electronic-acoustic music to accentuate the similarities of both during improvised exchanges. Angela Guyton and Rodrigo Constanzo create a new event that requires the audience to consider this merger of music and art as a single expression. The concept for Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern took shape in…
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Apropos – 11 February 2010
Apropos are Iain Harrison (saxophones) and Scott Mc Laughlin (computer), playing music that lives somewhere between the composed/notated and the freely improvised. Scott Mc Laughlin is a composer (studies with PA Tremblay, Bryn Harrison, Christopher Fox and James Saunders) whose work focuses on the ambiguity of minimal surfaces involving inharmonic and repetitive materials. Iain Harrison…
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John Zorn’s COBRA Workshop – 11 February 2010
John Zorn’s Cobra is either an often performed contemporary music composition, an improvisational game, a short attention span barrageof noise, a social experiment, or every piece of music you’ve (n)ever played or heard. I can’t be certain as to which it is or isn’t but I do know that it involves a group of performers, a…
