Friday
21st June 2013
Main Gallery:
- The premiere of Patrick Farmer’s score A tree / is as complicated as is / A word performed by Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Kostis Kilymis, Daniel Jones, Paul
Khimasia Morgan and Patrick Farmer.
- Sarah Hughes & Kostis Kilymis
- Loris [Patrick Farmer/Sarah Hughes/Daniel
Jones]
Main Gallery Ante Room:
- Nil
Angharad Davies is a violinist based in London. She is an active performer in contemporary,
improvisation and experimental music both as a soloist and within
ensembles. Since making London her base
in 2002 she has developed a specific approach to the violin, extending the
sound possibilities of the instrument by attaching and applying objects to the
strings or by sounding unexpected parts of the instrument's body. She is dedicated to exploring and expanding
sound production on the violin.
Sarah Hughes is an artist and musician
based in the UK. She plays zither and
piano in improvising groups and as a founding member of the Set Ensemble, a
group of musicians dedicated to the performance of contemporary composition. She performs with long-term collaborators
Patrick Farmer, Daniel Jones and Stephen Cornford and has also performed with
musicians such as Antoine Berger, Seijiro Murayama, Angharad Davies and Jurg
Frey. She has performed throughout the
UK and Europe, and has participated in various international festivals such as Blurred
Edges in Hamburg, i and e in Dublin and Cut and Splice in
London. She is the co-founder of Compost
and Height, curating projects such as Michael Pisaro’s Only [Harmony Series
#17], Manfred Werder, Ben Owen and Patrick Farmer’s New Works and
the current Water Yam Project.
Kostis Kilymis is an artist focusing on feedback systems and
representation in musical performance and artistic practice. His main instrument is the mixing board,
through which he captures and manipulates electroacoustic phenomena,
pre-recorded material and electronically generated sound. He has been an improviser, performer and
collaborator -his encounters including Lucio Capece, Nikos Veliotis, Leif
Elggren, Sarah Hughes, Stephen Cornford and Phil Julian amongst others.
Daniel Jones is an improvising musician based in Brighton,
England. One third of the group LORIS,
(with Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes), and an ex-member of Tierce, (alongside
Ivan Palacky and Jez riley French), he has had music released on the Another Timbre, Cathnor and Roeba labels.
Paul Khimasia Morgan has releases on Absence of Wax, engraved glass, con-V, Cronica and TSOKL. He edited all six issues of the zine Honest Music For Dishonest Times from 2001-2009. Paul curates aural detritus concert series.
Patrick Farmer
Sarah Hughes & Kostis
Kilymis started
working as a duo in 2012. Their
collaboration has resulted in a couple of hours of improvised music, an
interpretation of a George Brecht score, and a fixed document in the shape of
the Consumer Waste cdr edition 'The Good Life'.
LORIS are Patrick Farmer, Sarah
Hughes and Daniel Jones.
Nil Acoustic improv for wind, glass and metal.
Nil
is Chris Parfitt on wind instruments, voice and found objects and Dan Powell on
singing bowls, glass harmonica, found objects and voice. They started
performing together in August 2011 and combine free improvisation with elements
of performance art.
Chris
Parfitt has been on the improv scene for many years and is a member of the
Brighton Safehouse improvising collective. As an improvisor He is a member of
4thirtythree with Tim Wood and Stuart Revill, and also Noteherder and Mccloud
with Geoff Reader. Chris plays wind instruments, piano and electronics. He has
collaborated with Chris Cook (Hot Roddy Ramshaw/Remote) and most recently with
Dan Powell in Nil.
Dan
Powell began making sound for installation works in the mid 90′s. Since moving
to Brighton he has concentrated on experimental and improvised music using
laptop, guitar and tuned percussion. He is a member of Brighton based
collective Spirit of Gravity and has performed across the UK. His work has been
played on WFMU and BBC Radio 3. As well as performing with Chris in Nil he is
currently working with Gus Garside in their duo The Static Memories and their
first album will be released in late 2012.
Saturday
22nd June
Main Gallery:
EMB Ortolan
These
tiny birds - captured alive, force-fed, then drowned in Armagnac - were roasted
whole and eaten that way, bones and all, while the diner draped his head with a
linen napkin to preserve the precious aromas and, some believe, to hide from
God. Music by EMB Ortolan has been
published by Hive Music, TSOKL and The Sound Projector. http://euphoniousmurmurblend.blogspot.co.uk/
Neil Luck is a composer and performer based in London. His works have been performed by numerous
ensembles and soloists in the UK, Europe, Canada and Japan, as well as on BBC
radio 3 and Resonance FM. As a
performer, and creative director, Neil has worked appeared at leading venues
and festivals in the UK and internationally, including the ICA, Kings Place,
Whitechapel Gallery, the Tate Britain, in Vilnius as part of the 2009 Capital
of Culture celebrations, and has appeared as a guest twice at the Tokyo
Experimental Festival, Japan. He is the
founder of ARCO - an experimental string ensemble, and
is a co-founder of Squib-box; an
artist led cooperative dedicated to the production, recording and dissemination
of contemporary avant-garde music.
Hakarl "Paraphrasing Schnittke (in several
senses) - 'I write a chord down on the page, and it rusts'; Hákarl isn't so
much the deleterious failure of rust but an aspiration towards that atrophy. Would that, in haughty polemics, I could bear
authentic witness to mourning..."
Jason Williams & Dan
Palmer
David Birchall I am a musician based in Manchester. I am
self-taught as a guitarist from the age of 14 using improvising as a learning
and performing model alongside writing and performing music in a wide variety
of groups which exist at various points along the continuum between composition
and improvisation. I have toured widely in the UK and Europe. Music I have made has been featured on BBC1,
BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 Music and Resonance FM. I have also worked with dancers, performers,
filmmakers and visual artists in The Lowry Theatre, Salford, The Greenroom,
Manchester, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, Whitworth Gallery and the
Arnolfini, Bristol. I hold a Post
Graduate Teaching Diploma and am active as an educator. I run a monthly improvising workshop with two
colleagues and can also offer guitar lessons for beginners onwards. I am also helping promote an ongoing concert
series of improvised & experimental music with friends as Tubers Music.
"I think he uses spoons,
pieces of wood, round objects, saucers maybe, that dance around and do all sort
of weird things. All along Birchall
plays the strings and does that in a nervous hectic way, certainly in ‘Play As
Parable’ and the tracks that follow after that – roughly the second half of the
release. Quite a blast, but a very nice
one. Totally crazy, wild playing.”
- Frans de Waard, Vital
Weekly
Paul Khimasia Morgan See Friday 21st.
Embla Quickbeam Emerging from a
netherworld of spectral radiophonics and atmospheric ambience, the
Brighton-based Embla Quickbeam, once a member of ritualistic supergroup Leopard
Leg, is a paragon of creeping malice and subtle disquiet. Her off-kilter symphonies of haunted rapture
and discordant dreamscapes are a glimpse into a kingdom of unsettling
beauty, and a monocle for the third eye.
Embla Quickbeam is the moniker of the audio investigations of Rowan
Forestier-Walker.
Richard Scott’s Lightning
Ensemble Richard Scott is an electroacoustic composer
and free improviser living in Berlin working with analogue modular synthesizers
and alternative controllers such as the Buchla Thunder and Lightning and his
own self-designed WiGi infra red controller developed at STEIM. He has been
composing and performing improvised music for over 25 years, producing,
performing and recording with artists such as Evan Parker, Twinkle³, Edward
Barton, Clive Bell, Olaf Rupp, David Ross and Grutronic. He studied
improvisation with John Stevens, saxophone with Elton Dean and Steve Lacy,
action theatre improvisation with Sten Rudstrom and electroacoustic composition
with David Berezan and Ricardo Climent.
His
work has been featured on BBC Radio 3 and 4, International Computer Music Conference,
London Jazz Festival, BEAM, Bratislava NEXT Festival of Advanced Music, SARC
Sonorities Belfast, Berlin Interaktion Improvised Music Festival and MANTIS
Electroacoustic Music Festival, Manchester. He is a long term artistic resident
at STEIM in Amsterdam, sometimes a Lecturer in Music at Lancaster University
and co-curator of two underground experimental, improvised and electronic
concert series in Berlin: AUXXX Berlin and Basic Electricity.
Daniel Spicer is a writer, broadcaster and
improviser based in Brighton. He is a
member of the chaotic electro-acoustic improvising sextet, Bolide, and the
free-jazz unit, West Hill Blast Quartet. Daniel also performs solo works of sound
poetry, spoken word and improvisation, and has released two solo CDs on The Slightly Off Kilter Label: Engruntled (2011) and YLVMLVY (2013). He presents a weekly radio show,
The Mystery Lesson, on
Brighton's Radio Reverb 97.2FM, playing new releases in avant-garde improvised
music. He is a regular contributor to
The Wire and Jazzwise
magazines and is currently working on books about
Peter Brotzmann and Turkish psychedelic music. He could do with a holiday, or at least a nap.
Grundik Kasyansky (b. 1974, Moscow) is a London-based musician
who works in experimental improvisation, live installation, audio collage, and
designs sound for dance, theatre and film. He wrote poetry before switching to electronic
music and it deeply influenced his current practice.
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (b. 1981,
Thessaloniki, Greece) is a musician and a linguist based in London. She is active in experimental and improvised
music since 2006. She plays the zither,
a string instrument, and uses ebows and objects on its resonance box to produce
sustained or granulated sounds. Her
approach focuses on the interplay between spontaneity and elaborate techniques. She has performed solo, in long-term
collaborations or in occasional formations with Jennifer Allum, Alfredo Costa
Monteiro, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Matt Davis, Axel Dörner, Phil
Durrant, Ferran Fages, Anastasis Grivas, Franz Hautzinger, Robin Hayward, Chris
Heenan, Ute Kanngieser, Grundik Kasyansky, Tisha Mukarji, Ivan Palacký, Eddie
Prévost, Henrik Olsson, Christine Sehnaoui, Birgit Ulher and Daichi Yoshikawa
among others. Her first solo album
“stroke by stroke” was released in 2011. Recently, she released ‘outwash’, a trio with
Angharad Davies (violin) and Tisha Mukarji (piano), and recorded several
compositions for the Wandelweiser und so weiter boxset, both on Another Timbre. http://www.strokebystroke.net
Szilárd [Jeremy Young] Szilárd plays "New Sound Works For The
Short Films of T.Nishikawa".
Tomonari Nishikawa’s silent experimental 16mm films are
gorgeously realized tone poems that deconstruct and reassemble the cinematic
frame. Beauty is confronted with its
edges, doubled over, layered, cut, scratched and faded. Sound-artist Jeremy Young (aka szilárd and
co-founder of Palaver Press) has composed textural scores that mimic
Nishikawa’s surface tensions and manipulations by dubbing material to
reel-to-reel tape and actively incorporating similar looping, splicing and
hole-piercing techniques to his audio. Young
also incorporates shifting tonal patterns of sine-wave frequencies and contact
mic’d objects to colour the sound palette of these pieces.
Dirar Kalash (b. 1982, Palestine). Dirar works with live performance, combining
text, sound, image, video and movement. Regularly using free and open-source
software in the field of real-time audio and video and image processing, he is
also a multi-instrumentalist and engages in musical composition and free
improvisation. His work is based on everyday life as a phenomenon, which is
then subjected to live processing, composition and decomposition in order to
transcend time and matter to a ritualistic live performance.
Some
of his group participations include a live audio-video performance for the 2011
/si:n/ Festival of Video Art and Performance in Ramallah, and a video and sound
installation for the 2011 Open Studio exhibition at the Khalil Sakakini
Cultural Centre (Ramallah), in addition to an almost regular musical
performances in the range of free and improvised music in Palestine and Egypt.
Noteherder & McCloud / _minimalVector We
are a Brighton based duo, Geoff Reader and Chris Parfitt, working with a fairly
limited acoustic environment which we are attempting to explore. Chris plays
Soprano sax and occasionally shouts, Geoff plays with Synthesisers and effects
pedals. He also occasionally shouts.
For this performance we are working with Bartosz Dylewski who uses his own
audio visual system (_minimalVector) to transform our sounds into visual
transformations of empty jpegs and photographs. Sometimes we get a pseudo
narrative going on, mostly it's just an immersive audio visual experience that
transforms the world into some strange grey place beyond psychedelia.
This year we have CDs: On Slightly off Kilter "The bottle loose in the drawer" and Exotic Pylon "South Coast Lines".
Chris is also a member of nil who are also playing during the concert series, 4thirtythree and The Barrow Boys. Geoff is taking it easy as a member of Idiot Drone Farm.
This year we have CDs: On Slightly off Kilter "The bottle loose in the drawer" and Exotic Pylon "South Coast Lines".
Chris is also a member of nil who are also playing during the concert series, 4thirtythree and The Barrow Boys. Geoff is taking it easy as a member of Idiot Drone Farm.
Sunday
23rd June
Iris Garrelfs’ traces / inofwith / sound ‘In following
Garrelfs’ vocal project, and the abstracted processing that in the end comes to
release the voice into new configuration, I’m also led to hear her work as
giving new sensuality to the electronic body.’ Brandon LaBelle, 2011
Iris Garrelfs is a
soundartist and composer “generating animated dialogues between innate human
expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing” as the Wire
Magazine put it. Others have compared
her musical output to Philip Glass, Joan La Barbara and Henri Chopin.
Iris looks at
interrelatedness, patterns and interaction through performances, mixed media
projects and recordings. Moulding
complex collages, her solo work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals
internationally including the Royal Academy Of Arts, Gaudeamus Live Electronics
Festival, Visiones Sonoras, International Computer Music Conference and
more. Collaborations include Scanner and
Thomas Koner (Futurist Manifest,at Rencontres Internationales, Madrid) amongst
many others.
Now in its 16th year, Iris
is one of the founding directors/curators of Sprawl, advocating experimental
sound through live events and recordings, which has seen collaborations with
the Tate Modern, the Goethe Institute featuring internationally renowned
artists such David Toop, Vladislav Delay, Pole and many more. She is currently an AHRC PhD research fellow
at LCC, London. In a previous
incarnation as photographer she has been published by magazines such as The
Wire, Mary Claire and others.
Tony Bevan Bass, Tenor & Soprano saxophones.
After
studying classical flute at secondary school, at the age of sixteen Tony Bevan
began playing the soprano saxophone, inspired by the dislocated rhythms of
Captain Beefheart and the endless repetitions of Terry Riley (for good or ill,
influences that have stayed with him to this day), and with encouragement from
Aylesbury town boy Lol Coxhill, who was kind enough to give him his first soprano
lesson and point him in roughly the right direction. A year later he bought a tenor saxophone, and
quickly added Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Warne Marsh to his list of influences. Around this time he also discovered the music
of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Han Bennink via Topography of the Lungs and was drawn haplessly into
the world of Improvised music.
In
the years since Bevan has toured extensively throughout Europe and North
America, appearing with numerous European and American musicians, (particularly
Americans, such as Joe Morris, Barre Phillips, Jeb Bishop, Michael Zerang,
Chris Corsano, Marc Ribot, Henry Grimes, Sonny Simmons, Bobby Few, Odean Pope,
Sabir Mateen, Damon Smith), as well as featuring in legendary drummer Sunny
Murray’s European trio. This group,
established in 2004, has now released four recordings (“Home Cooking in the
U.K”, “The Gearbox Explodes!”, “Boom Boom Cat” and “I Stepped onto a Bee”) and
featured in the celebrated documentary on Murray, “Sunny’s Time Now!”. Bevan was also in Murray’s Big Band (also in
the film). Bevan and Murray continue to
play and record together
The
other major figure in Bevan’s musical life was the late, great Derek
Bailey. Bevan appeared many times with
Bailey's Company, and released his first CD (“Original Gravity”) on Bailey's
Incus label. A further record on Incus,
“Bigshots” with bassist Paul Rogers and percussionist Steve Noble, was released
in 1992. He continued to play and record
with Derek until the guitar master’s untimely death in 2005, recording in duo
(“Under Tracey’s Bed”), in Derek’s group Limescale, with Otomo Yoshihide (“Good
Cop Bad Cop”), and with Bruise, Bevan’s own group. Bruise was formed in 2004, and featured a
line-up of Bevan, Orphy Robinson on vibes, Ashley Wales of Spring HeelJack on
electronics and John Edwards and Mark Sanders on Bass and drums
respectively. They have released three
recordings, (including the one with Bailey), and are widely regarded,
particularly in America, as one of the most important contemporary working
bands – e.g. “all that Supersilent would like to be, but aren’t” stated
Timeout.
Bevan
has also performed with Fourtet; Tony Buck (of The Necks) , Matthew Bourne,
Steve Reid, J-Spaceman/Spiritualised (he is a featured soloist on their latest
album), Luc Ferrari, Phil Minton and many, many others, and is currently acting
as a consultant for Antoine Prum’s film on British improvised music; “Just Not
Cricket”. Tony Bevan runs the Foghorn label.
“Already
a contemporary giant of the saxophone” - Point of Departure, U.S.A
“The
world’s greatest improvising Bass saxophonist” - Timeout.
“Tony
Bevan likes to jokily acknowledge the terrifying power of his signature axe,
the bass saxophone – his label is called Foghorn, after all, and this new
power-trio outing rightly goes by the name of Monster Club. But though he can be a sonic
terrorist in the Brötzmann/Wilkinson vein, I prefer to think of him as just as
much a Harry Carney rhapsodist – listen to the way he caresses a note during
the quieter moments of this album's centrepiece, "This is Murder", or
to his tender flutters and chromatic waverings on "You're telling
me!". He also has a taste for jaunty, elbows-out rhythms that make him
virtually a second percussionist in this kind of group, which is one reason why
this encounter with whirlwind drummer Chris Corsano (best known for his
fearsome duo with Paul Flaherty, though he's also been spotted lately in a trio
with Evan Parker) is especially memorable:” - Nate Dorward, U.S on “Monster
Club”.
Lama Dalai is the joint effort of Brighton based
composers/improvisers Johannah Henderson & Duncan Harrison. The project
bases itself around themed or conceptually driven performances while the
components of Henderson and Harrison's works vary radically in each case. Thus
far, Lama Dalai have incorporated texts, field recordings, scores, chance
operations and home built instrumentation into their ongoing experimentation in
liminal stages between structure and improvisation.
Gus Garside (double bass and electronics) has worked in a
variety of musical settings – jazz, contemporary music, pop, cabaret, dance,
theatre and most importantly, improvised music where he has performed with many
leading players. Gus formed Arc in 1988 and
their third album the pursuit of
happiness was released on Emanem Records in 2009. He formed In Sand in 2004 and their first
album Whatever came out mid
2008. Gus is part of the Brighton
Safehouse collective.
“…where he differs from the average jazz bassist
is in the range of sonorities he conjures from his instrument” -
Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD
Simon Drinkwater is at the
moment exploring polyphony. He uses
voice as the sole sound source and relays it through both tape and digital
delay; using the digital on a long slow decaying loop which picks up microtonal
mumblings and forms them into undulating swathes of choral drone, reminiscent
of Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna. His improvisations incorporate shifting chord
changes, feedback and rhythmic fragments of psycho-babble sound poetry. Simon also plays improvised music on the
harp.
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