Bhob Rainey (USA) Sat 21st November in Brighton!

 

Tickets here:  https://wegottickets.com/f/28365

Aural Detritus Concert Series are pleased to present Bhob Rainey in a trio with Phil Durrant (electronics/mandolin) and Paul Khimasia Morgan (guitar body).

Bhob Rainey is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser. On the saxophone he has developed a distinctive, hallucinatory vocabulary that often sounds electronic, interspersed with an uncanny mastery of multiphonics. In 1998 he co-founded the duo nmperign with trumpeter Greg Kelley, touring extensively while upending a host of improvisational givens. Seeking to bring rigor to improvisation at a larger scale, he later formed The BSC, an eight-piece ensemble that navigated the challenges of group improvisation without relying on predetermined structures or cues. Their work and practices were explored in the 2011 book and album, Manual. Rainey additionally has a long list of collaborators and an especially refined solo saxophone style. He was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2013 for his work in this field.

Phil Durrant is a composer, electronicist and veteran participant in the London free music scene. A key figure alongside Mark Wastell and Rhodri Davies and others in New London Silence, Phil collaborates widely; with John Butcher, Bill Thompson or Martin Vishnick among others, has been part of Trio Sowari with Bertrand Denzler and Burkhard Beins, MIMEO with Keith Rowe, Kaffe Matthews, Thomas Lehn, Rafael Toral and others and is a regular participant in Mark Wastell's THE SEEN. Phil co-organises Streatham's regular Sound Bureau free improv events with Tansy Spinks.

Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improvisor who utilises acoustic guitar body with feedback systems. He currently works with Steve Beresford and Faradena Afifi as Bee Reiki Trio, Teresa Hackel, Adam Bushell and plays synths and samplers with Rubber Bus.  Paul is the head of Aural Detritus Concert Series and organises Brighton Ambients Open Sessions. 

Support is from Simian Carbuncle; the Brighton-based duo of Adrian Southby and Matt Clark, and the music performances will be interspersed with spoken word readings by The Wire's Daniel Spicer.

Incoming

 

Tickets here:  https://wegottickets.com/f/28365

First look - adcs 2026 programme!

 

 

 

HAPTIC / Sarah Hughes / Paul Khimasia Morgan Friday 3rd October 2025

In partnership with Lost Property, Aural Detritus present an evening of sound art / improvisation

Venue:  atthecoachhouse, Kemptown, Brighton

Tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/haptic-sarah-hughes-paul-khimasia-morgan-tickets-1663228644649?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwY2xjawMs8RRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBQcko1Y2RXUnM3RHZaek9VAR65Rf3U13mrhGOH_BouvXhP-SPGsVgTaC-cI_FRo41ZfXw59uPaud35AUXSCw_aem_hepyM4lG4fSHBw6eBN4i8Q

Salient information:

Haptic

Across two decades of restless experimentation, the Chicago trio Haptic has earned a reputation for meticulously assembled recordings that are complemented by unpredictable, often riveting live performances. Consistently blurring the line between different genres and disciplines, Haptic’s practice has expanded to include collaborations with dancers and filmmakers, soundtracks, installations, and unique site-specific performances, and they are as likely to be found performing in a gallery or museum as a bar or concert hall. Throughout the fall of 2025, the group will stage a series of unique events to celebrate their 20^th anniversary, beginning in Chicago and continuing with a tour of the UK. In concert, the trio is frequently joined by a different rotating fourth member, and here they will be accompanied by artist, composer, and performer Sarah Hughes.

“Indescribably beautiful” –The Wire

“Mesmerizing, totally engrossing” –Boomkat

“Sheer artistry, plain and simple” – Decoder

 

Sarah Hughes

Sarah Hughes is an artist, composer and musician producing work that explores the boundaries of compositional practice, moving between drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance. Her work has been performed internationally, often played by and with musicians similarly interested in the mutability of disciplines. She has written for numerous experimental music ensembles, including Apartment House, Extradition, Southland, Ordinary Affects, and Distractfold. Across exhibitions, performances, residencies and commissions, Hughes has worked with London Contemporary Music Festival; Counterflows; Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival; South London Gallery; Musée d’Arts de Nantes; Cafe Oto; King’s Place; and Holywell Music Hall, among others.

      photo by Sean Kelly

 

Paul Khimasia Morgan

Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improvising musician, recording engineer and visual artist.  As well as being a third of Bee Reiki Trio with Faradena Afifi and Steve Beresford, he has worked creatively with Blanca Regina, Jason Kahn, Charlotte Keefe, Cristiàn Alvear, Klaus Janek, Ryu Hankil and Simon Whetham; is a participant in the groups TIDES (with Paul May, Peter Marsh and Daniel Spicer) and Mark Wastell's THE SEEN.  He pursues a duo with Adam Bushell which “…continue their explorations in dialogue between vibraphone and acoustic guitar body and electronics…”  They are currently recording an album for Rose Hill Records.

Paul has previous work available on Discus, Hard Return, Minimal Resource Manipulation (MRM), Lonely Impulse, Linear Obsessional, Crónica, The Spirit of Gravity, Korm Plastics, Con-V, Absence of Wax, TSOKL and Confront Recordings.

Since 2010, Paul organises Aural Detritus Concert Series (adcs) events; heading a team that organised three “micro-festivals” of improvised music, composition and sound art at Brighton Phoenix art gallery from 2012 to 2014.  These “micro-festivals” will resume in April 2026.

Paul hosted the podcast The Archive of Aural Detritus during Covid Lockdown.  He writes about new music for The Sound Projector magazine and Honest Music For Dishonest Times and in 2022 contributed writing on contemporary Chinese sound-artists to the book Perfection Of Understanding.

 

“…feedback-like tones rising carefully amid a cloud of metal thorns…more physicality than most you hear, which gives the performance some nice faux visual weight…” – Byron Coley in The Wire magazine.

 

 

A Walk To The Chattri out now - free download

 

https://auraldetritus.bandcamp.com/

This is a short album of what I refer to as "process sound walking", whereby I freely interact verbally with a pair of portable recording devices while exploring a location in what is to me a kind of rural mini-dérive.

The possibilities afforded by a pair of recording devices is explored most thoroughly in "Back Toward The South Downs Way A Skylark Nesting" where the waves of feedback, wind-noise, birdsong and distant narrative were created by overdubbing from one device to the other in real time. My motivation for this activity is to make my own record my perception of a gradual insidious encroachment of development of landscape, and subsequent potential loss of wild habitat in rural and semi-rural areas. Although the South Downs is protected from development having been given the status of a National Park, planning permission had been granted for 500 new houses less than half a mile away from the site of the start of this soundwalk. At the time of release, that housing development is nearing completion, with the total eradication of a meadow habitat essential to ground-nesting skylarks and other birdlife.

Additionally - simply for my own entertainment possibly - I wanted to present material evidence of me talking to myself; something I catch myself doing more and more these days.

My narrative is deliberately banal - factual descriptions of the landscape I was seeing ahead of me, around me or on the ground as I walked, along with the occasional brief interaction with other walkers. My intention was to produce a simple document. Sometimes there is the sound of a gate opening and closing. Despite passing a livery at the start of the walk, no horses were encountered this time, sadly.

Recorded January 2022.