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Special blurb: Latter day Reekie all-star losers join hands again to dabble in the dark arts.. . We're bringing ham 'n' cheese to the party plus a special guest appearance from the Witchfinder General.
CARTER
ambient drone
Carter is the solo project of Bristol based electronic musician & home recording artist Neil Carter. Utilising synthesisers, guitar, tape loops and field recordings Carter looks to create pieces of hazy dream ambient. Awash with electronic warmth, digital noise, tape hiss and sculpted feedback drones. Loops that slowly, patiently evolve and degrade...
COIMS are an experimental sound duo, often using modern percussion and fretted instruments to create primitive sonic freedom.
Dead Space Chamber Music are a Bristol-based experimental duo. They will
explore the form and acoustics of the Edwardian Cloakroom, integrating
sound-works from Engaged Voice (2014), Southerns’ site-specific ‘vocal
residency’ of the space.
Tom Bush - guitars, programming / treatments
Liz Muir (Saltings) – cello
Ellen Southern - voice, field recordings
Free EP: www.dscm.bandcamp.com
explore the form and acoustics of the Edwardian Cloakroom, integrating
sound-works from Engaged Voice (2014), Southerns’ site-specific ‘vocal
residency’ of the space.
Tom Bush - guitars, programming / treatments
Liz Muir (Saltings) – cello
Ellen Southern - voice, field recordings
Free EP: www.dscm.bandcamp.com
DWELL
noise/drone/rock
Glistening drone ‘n’ dissonance-heavy experimental/noise-rock from guitar/voice/electronics & drums duo of above average height. Will be more of toned down/ear-friendly affair for this one though. Maybe.
EP/64
« The EP/64
As a raw singer, I feel a real pleasure improvising with a lot of musicians in Bristol. I've been developing this aspect within the collective DSC for a while now, and I am still excited by the idea of creating from the -sometimes chaotic- scratch.
4 years ago, I woke up after an agitated dream about my band! Few recollections of the dream itself but a vivid memory of the band name; EP/64. The Ephemeral Project/64 is intended to disappear after 64 -or so- exclusive performances trying to create the magic of improvised music.
Determined to realise this project, I've asked 3 friends and very talented musicians to join me in this experimental journey : Dan, Nick and Matt.
Each of our performances will be recorded to keep a least a trace of the ephemera. Dali »
As a raw singer, I feel a real pleasure improvising with a lot of musicians in Bristol. I've been developing this aspect within the collective DSC for a while now, and I am still excited by the idea of creating from the -sometimes chaotic- scratch.
4 years ago, I woke up after an agitated dream about my band! Few recollections of the dream itself but a vivid memory of the band name; EP/64. The Ephemeral Project/64 is intended to disappear after 64 -or so- exclusive performances trying to create the magic of improvised music.
Determined to realise this project, I've asked 3 friends and very talented musicians to join me in this experimental journey : Dan, Nick and Matt.
Each of our performances will be recorded to keep a least a trace of the ephemera. Dali »
Ghost Mind consists of Jon Andriessen on guitar and effects, Pete Robson’s horns and Stuart Wilding on percussion. All this combined with a background of found sounds gathered from around the planet.
The concept of Ghost Mind was devised from members of the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra. The idea was to carry on that experimental, improvised sound with an added backtrack - the Ghost - in a more compact trio replacing the Orchestra and creating a soundscape with a space difficult to create in a larger group. Having formed in 2014, the band, based in Cheltenham and London, have played across the UK and recently returned from a tour of Germany where they also collaborated with Göttingen trio, Brainville Desperados. 2016 will see the release of their first album, a collection of live improvised performances.
https://vimeo.com/162428635
The concept of Ghost Mind was devised from members of the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra. The idea was to carry on that experimental, improvised sound with an added backtrack - the Ghost - in a more compact trio replacing the Orchestra and creating a soundscape with a space difficult to create in a larger group. Having formed in 2014, the band, based in Cheltenham and London, have played across the UK and recently returned from a tour of Germany where they also collaborated with Göttingen trio, Brainville Desperados. 2016 will see the release of their first album, a collection of live improvised performances.
https://vimeo.com/162428635
HANNAH MARSHALL
SOLO CELLO
Hannah Marshall a musician who extracts as many sounds and qualities from the cello as she can. Her playing is influenced by environmental sounds, western classical music, jazz, noise, traditional songs and melodies, blues, birds and movement. She plays freely improvised music and also music that uses varying notation & structures for improvisation. She collaborates with musicians from different fields and genres on projects and makes and composes music with artists from other disciplines including theatre, film, dance, live art, and story-telling. She is co-artistic director of visual theatre company The Ding Foundation.
Hannah plays in regular improvising groups that perform in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. Overseas collaborations and performances include with Nicola Guazzaloca, Josep Maria Balanya, Luc Ex & Gianni Mimmo, Fabrizio Spera, Peter Jacqueman, Stale Liavik Solberg. She has also performed with Fred Frith, Thomas Lehn, Suichi Chino, The Boar Collective and Evan Parker in their residencies at Cafe Oto, and The Vortex in London. She has been supported by The Arts Council, Jazz Services & Sound and Music for touring and making new work in the UK. For more info go to http://hannahmarshall.net
Hannah plays in regular improvising groups that perform in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. Overseas collaborations and performances include with Nicola Guazzaloca, Josep Maria Balanya, Luc Ex & Gianni Mimmo, Fabrizio Spera, Peter Jacqueman, Stale Liavik Solberg. She has also performed with Fred Frith, Thomas Lehn, Suichi Chino, The Boar Collective and Evan Parker in their residencies at Cafe Oto, and The Vortex in London. She has been supported by The Arts Council, Jazz Services & Sound and Music for touring and making new work in the UK. For more info go to http://hannahmarshall.net
Repo Ice Trio
Repo Ice is an entirely improvisatory group that are firmly entrenched in the Bristol DIY scene, solidly championing, hosting and playing with the great and the good of the Bristol underground for the past two years. Drawing on influences such as post punk, spiritual jazz and no wave, these are blended into an intense sound of their own. They will be playing as a smaller version but no less powerful group of Harry Iceman Furniss (cornet) Ant brown (bass) Yoni Bitterman (drums) ... www.soundcloud.com/iceman-furniss
Matthew Grigg and Mark Langford
Free guitar/reeds duo
Freely improvised, inaugural duo exchange betwixt reeds and guitar. Lyrical multiphonics, overloaded amplifier and explorations at the outer edges of tone.
MCZH
Voice and electronics
Nick Janaway (Solarference, DSC, Newton Disc) presents a new vocal/electronic improvisation piece – a minimal and intimate one-man show with microphone and laptop, wrapping the audience in layers of subtly transformed vocal noises, from hushes and sweet nothings to ecstatic tones, dogs trying to operate paper shredders, etcetera. Brap brap.
Oliver Owen
Improvised electronic music
Oliver Owen performs improvised electronic soundscapes using bespoke software tools.
"Working as an improvising musician allows me to explore and express ideas in ways that feel more intuitive, honest, and true."
He works freely with sound, synthesising tones and noise, and structuring arrangements in real time.
"I strive to combine raw elements of sound into 'sonic-worlds' that are both intriguing and welcoming to the listener."
Examples of his work can be found at:
https://soundcloud.com/oliverjowen
https://oliverjowen.wordpress.com/sonic-improvisation/
"Working as an improvising musician allows me to explore and express ideas in ways that feel more intuitive, honest, and true."
He works freely with sound, synthesising tones and noise, and structuring arrangements in real time.
"I strive to combine raw elements of sound into 'sonic-worlds' that are both intriguing and welcoming to the listener."
Examples of his work can be found at:
https://soundcloud.com/oliverjowen
https://oliverjowen.wordpress.com/sonic-improvisation/
PEARLY GATES & Duswunder
Live improvised atmospheric drone
A first time, improvised set by two musicians from different points of the spectrum. Expect dark & cavernous electronics and thick slabs of looped guitar drone.
RANDOM PONY
GUITAR AND LAPTOP NOISE.
Random Pony are an improvisational duo consisting of Stathis Kampylis on electronics and Odysseas Pappas on guitar. When not hunting for butterflies they attempt to make sounds, noise and other things that are audible.
Rebecca Sneddon and Matthew Grigg
SAXOPHONE, GUITAR AND ELECTRONICS
Freshly minted Free Improvising duo emerges blinking into the light // Horn and guitar create spontaneous compositions veering from quiet subtlety to energetic outbursts, tiptoeing and crashing through instinctive sonic environments
Rebecca Sneddon - Alto Saxophone - "freewheeling skronk", "equal parts Peter Brötzmann and a young John Zorn"
Matthew Grigg - Guitar, Amplifier - "tonal noiser and industrial jazzer … aligned to free improv, noise and string theory"
Rebecca Sneddon - Alto Saxophone - "freewheeling skronk", "equal parts Peter Brötzmann and a young John Zorn"
Matthew Grigg - Guitar, Amplifier - "tonal noiser and industrial jazzer … aligned to free improv, noise and string theory"
RUN LOGAN RUN
TWO MAN SAXOPHONE/DRUM MAYHEM
Taking cues from the British Punk Jazz scene and utilising extended breathing techniques and special FX (championed by players such as Mats Gustafson and Colin Stetson), Run Logan Run create music that is both beautiful and brutal. Though the band have only been together since 2015 they have already gathered a cult following in their hometown of Bristol and recently played two exceptional support slots opening up for Melt Yourself Down and Colin Stetson. They are currently touring the UK to showcase their debut release EP1, which came out in April 2016.
SALTINGS
ambient drone noise collective
SALTINGS is a Bristol-based music collective formed in 2015, specialising in improvisatory, electronic, ambient and drone music. Founded by Andrew Cooke (live programming and synths) and Caitlin Alais Callahan (double bass), they formed as a live duo off the back of Andrew's self-released eponymous album, in order to perform at Theaster Gates' Sanctum installation in Bristol 2015. Since then they have added a further member, Liz Muir (cello), played numerous gigs to critical acclaim, and have many exciting plans to collaborate with other musicians and filmmakers in the works.
http://www.soundcloud.com/saltingsmusic
http://www.soundcloud.com/saltingsmusic
Stereocilia
Stereocilia is Bristol based guitarist and composer, John Scott. John uses his guitar, analog synths and live looping techniques to create dense, rich layers of sound. His live show is centered on a visual backdrop he has created, with the improvisation acting as a live soundtrack.
John’s Debut album Mumurations came out on his Echoic Memory Label in November 2013, bookended by two E.P’s and a string of compilation appearances. 2016 see’s the release of his second album, The Road to the Unconscious Past, due out in late spring on Echoic Memory. A new EP is also in the works for UK label, Low Point.
John’s Debut album Mumurations came out on his Echoic Memory Label in November 2013, bookended by two E.P’s and a string of compilation appearances. 2016 see’s the release of his second album, The Road to the Unconscious Past, due out in late spring on Echoic Memory. A new EP is also in the works for UK label, Low Point.
TINA HITCHENS AND BEN TRINKLE
SOLO FLUTE, ELECTRONICS, AND VISUALS
Calve is a film and music collaboration made by Ben Trinkle and Tina Hitchens. Beginning from a shared interest in fragmented repetition, Calve is an exploration of the interference arising from the animation of Ben's previously static images and Tina’s part-composed responses using flute and electronics.
http://btrink.tumblr.com/
https://tinahitchens.wordpress.com/
http://btrink.tumblr.com/
https://tinahitchens.wordpress.com/
Traces
Traces seeks to explore beautiful textures of sound through live manipulation of samples and rhythms, avoiding software or pre-programmed sequences, instead using basic samples, effects and live rhythm programming with multiple drum machines. Using mirrorballs and abstract colour projections to create an immersive and sometimes euphoric experience.
Yvonna Magda
solo violin
Yvonna Magda is a violinist, improviser, composer and performer based in Bristol. Inspired by a range of styles her music explores the spaces between harmony and discord; structure and spontaneous expression. For this event she will be creating a live soundtrack using a mixture of acoustic violin, electronics, loops and effects to visuals by Richard Edkins and stop-motion animations by Ana Luisa Munoz Del Valle.
Yvonna has toured and performed at venues and festivals across the U.K. and Europe and her compositions have been featured on Radio 3 and Channel 4. Working in various contexts, she has improvised to live visuals, composed and performed for film, theatre and animation and accompanied spoken word, dance and puppetry. She has studied music with, among others, Mark Dresser and Mark Feldman. More recently, she has worked as a multi-instrumentalist, touring with Theatre Alibi and Dragon Breath Theatre, and as Musical Director for The Independent Scrutineers.
www.richardedkins.co.uk
https://yvonnamagda.wordpress.com/
[email protected]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAhlwd3X_us
Yvonna has toured and performed at venues and festivals across the U.K. and Europe and her compositions have been featured on Radio 3 and Channel 4. Working in various contexts, she has improvised to live visuals, composed and performed for film, theatre and animation and accompanied spoken word, dance and puppetry. She has studied music with, among others, Mark Dresser and Mark Feldman. More recently, she has worked as a multi-instrumentalist, touring with Theatre Alibi and Dragon Breath Theatre, and as Musical Director for The Independent Scrutineers.
www.richardedkins.co.uk
https://yvonnamagda.wordpress.com/
[email protected]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAhlwd3X_us