• Partial Trust – 11 August 2010

    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)…

  • Partial Trust Podcast – 11 August 2010

    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…

  • Darnall Sinfonia Podcast – 8 August 2010

    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…

  • Sheffield New Music Ensemble – 14 July 2010

    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.

  • The Hunter Brothers – 8 July 2010

    The Hunter Brothers – 8 July 2010

    Anton Hunter, Johnny Hunter, Sam Andreae and Ben Cotrell lay down some law.

  • Partwildhorsesmaneonbothsides – 10 June 2010

    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,…

  • Peter Faircloug & Hayley Youell – 9 June 2010

    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…

  • Richard Scott & Phil Marks – 13 May 2010

    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…

  • Instrument Building Workshop – 13 May 2010

    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…

  • Mick Beck & Yvonna Magda – 12 May 2010

    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…

  • Darnall Sinfonia – 14 April 2010

    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…

  • Darnall Sinfonia – 8 April 2010

    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…

  • NUS Label Launch Party – 28 March 2010

    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…

  • Orfeo 5 – 12 March 2010

    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…

  • Orfeo 5 Podcast – 11 March 2010

    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…

  • Takahashi’s shellfish concern – 11 March 2010

    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…

  • Apropos – 11 February 2010

    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…

  • John Zorn’s COBRA Workshop – 11 February 2010

    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…

  • Apropos Podcast – 11 February 2010

    Since most of the music that really influences me (all pop music influences me) is by nature long and slow, I decided to skip all that and just go for an eclectic mix of songs I love. No thought was put into this (because then it would have been as long as I am old),…

  • Trio Forge / Sehnaoui / Toulemonde – 14 January 2010

    Trio Forge / Sehnaoui / Toulemonde – 14 January 2010

    Born in 1978 and living in France, Christine is from lebanese origins. It is with the discovering of improvised music in 1997 that Christine Sehnaoui decided to start her own autodidact study of sound experimentation on the alto saxophone. She creates a personal language on how to make electronic music on an acoustic instrument. Far…