1st November 2023
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 19th November 2023
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Thursday November 23rd 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
At The Coach House, 22 Walpole Road, Brighton, BN2 0EA

Please note the change of venue!  We are back at The Rose Hill in December, but for this gig we’re at the lovely Coach House in Kemptown!

Lawrence Casserley‘s instrumental approach to live computer sound processing is the hallmark of his work, which is documented on many CDs, and he has performed and given workshops throughout Europe and in North and South America, Asia and Japan.

Philipp Wachsmann is regarded by many as an outstanding improviser of great invention. He has always been able to create new approaches within improvised music utilising acoustic and electronic sources. He considers himself to be “fortunate to have toured with Derek Bailey, Christine Jeffries, and Frank Perry in the 70’s, and more recently with Evan Parker’s Electro-acoustic Ensemble”. He can be heard on over 100 LP’s & CD’s – groups including, King Ubu, the LJCO, Iskra 1903, Stellari String Quartet, Duos with Paul Lytton (ECM and Bead), Lawrence Casserley, Matthew Hutchinson and Roger Turner.

Currently living in London, Pascal Marzan performs on a 10 string microtonal guitar.
After studying classical guitar – mainly devoted to the twentieth century repertoire – and teaching guitar in several music schools in Budapest, Hungary and France, Pascal has dedicated himself to free improvisation and the exploration of microtonal tunings of his instrument. His playing has been influenced by his interest in the folk musics of Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.

Jean Michel Van Schouwburg is an improvising singer from Belgium. He is well versed in all sorts of vocalising: throat singing, overtones, yodels, mouth sounds, falsettos, multiphonics, invented languages to name a few.

Here he is in Peter Strickland’s 2012 movie Berberian Sound Studio, playing himself playing a goblin:

Plus

ACZ

Andrew Greaves: keyboards
Clive Craske: percussion
Z*qhygoem: electric guitar / electronics

Plus The Wildcard Quartet and DJ Fiery Biscuits

6th December 2023
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 10th December 2023
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Wednesday December 20, 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Jacques Demierre: piano
Axel Dörner: trumpet
Jonas Kocher: accordion

A new ensemble consisting of three leading figures of the improvising scene in Europe. The trio plays an improvised music totally focused on the here and now.
The music of these three very strong players covers a wide musical range going from silence and tiny sound lines to eruptive and sharp sonic attacks, sound and listening forming the core of the music, rather than any stylistic idiom.

Jacques Demierre

Jacques Demierre is pianist, performer and composer, his musical and sound work develops itself in various directions : improvised music, contemporary music, sound poetry, sound installation. His compositions and sound realisations are concerned with the activity of listening and with sound space. On the piano, Jacques Demierre has developed a unique operating style, never ceasing to redraw new sound topographies, making us forget the physical weight of the instrument.

Axel Dörner

German trumpeter Axel Dörner has a unique style of playing based on unusual, often self-invented techniques that make use of breath and microscopic sounds as much as conventional note-playing.

Jonas Kocher

Jonas Kocher is a sound artist and accordionist with a strong interest in process oriented works and improvisation. He currently works with Joke Lanz, Axel Dörner, Jacques Demierre, Gaudenz Badrutt, Hans Koch, with the Šalter Ensemble, Ilia Belorukov, Eiko Yamada, Frantz Loriot, Christof Kurzmann, Kai Fagaschinsky, Klaus Filip and many others. As sound artist Jonas Kocher has realised works that are situated between composed theatre, installation and concert pieces.

The tour is supported by Pro Helvetia, the City of Biel/Bienne, the Canton of Berne and the Canton and Republic of Geneva.

Ron Caines, I’m Dr Bouyant and Andrew Greaves

Saxophonist Ron Caines was a key player with the UK prog outfit East of Eden  in the late ’60s and early ’70s, and then shifted focus to playing improvised music in Bristol.  He has had a number of albums released by Martin Archer’s Discus label in recent years, to great critical acclaim.  In this trio he joins two musicians that can be regularly found playing at Brighton’s long standing electronica night Spirit of Gravity.

Wildcard Quartet

With Monty Oxymoron, Adrian Southby, Dave Allen and Andrius Radavicius.

DJ Fiery Biscuits

3rd January 2024
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 21st January 2024
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Sunday 31st March 2024
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Wednesday January 31, 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Sentient Beings

Faith Brackenbury: violin
Tony Bianco: drums
John Pope: double bass
John O’Gallagher: saxophone

Four strongly individualistic improvising voices from the US and UK come together for an exploration of spontaneous composition. Blending US saxophonist John O’Gallagher’s cerebral study of 12 tone improvising and the music of John Coltrane, UK violinist/violist/vocalist Faith Brackenbury’s jazz and contemporary strings and inventive use of effects, UK bassist John Pope’s energetic jazz, pop and rock influences and Tony Bianco’s mercurial and octopusian drumming will create a spiritual, intellectual, powerfully absorbing experience.

Dragons of Disgust

Dragons of Disgust are a wonky avant prog jazz metal power trio made up of Ned Peckham (Yellow Door) on drums, Ruben Aaronovich-Bruce (Yellow Door/Howling Spheres) on tenor saxophone and Adrian Southby (ChopChop/The Golgis/Simian Carbuncle) on baritone guitar. They play a combination of tricky compositions and disturbing improvised soundscapes. On stage they laugh a lot. Don’t look for evidence online, there isn’t any.

+ Wildcard Quartet

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

7th February 2024
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 25th February 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Thursday February 29th 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

The Remote Viewers

Adrian Northover: saxophones
John Edwards: double bass
David Petts: saxophones

Since their inception 20 years ago The Remote Viewers have released 14 albums of genre-defying music that melds free-improvisation with song form and suite-like compositions, and they conjure up an overall feeling of listening to a soundtrack to an as yet unmade film.

The group has been a mutable beast over the years, but saxophonists Adrian Northover and David Petts have been present as core members throughout. They are joined in the trio version of the group by John Edwards, whose energy and inventiveness on the double bass never fails to impress.

They will have a new CD called ‘This Strange Place’ on the merch table at the gig, and there is also a download-only release around the same time called ‘The Tank in the Clinic’.

https://theremoteviewers.bandcamp.com/

Hutch Demouilpied & Sue Lynch Duo

Hutch Demouilpied is a composer, sound designer and musician who is based in the UK. “Hutch Demouilpied’s excellent, sparingly used score suddenly takes on a keening electro edge….” Variety Magazine 2017

As an accomplished musician she plays trumpet and has her own music released and has performed with Sue Lynch, Richard Sanderson, Steve Noble, Mark Sanders and Eddie Prevost amongst others. She co-promotes the Horse Improvised Music Club and her podcast Improvisor is well worth checking out.

www.hutchdemouilpied.com

Sue Lynch currently runs ‘The Horse Improvised Music Club’ with Adam Bohman, Hutch Demouilpied and Adrian Northover. She performs with Adam Bohman, Eddie Prevost, Richard Sanderson, Anna Homler, Steve Noble, Crystabel Riley, Caroline Kraabel and Sharon Gal.

In 2016 she formed, ‘Paradise Yard’, an electro acoustic ensemble, featuring women improvisers, performing at Iklectik, Cafe Oto and The ICA. In 2018, she performed at 3 Klange Tag Music &Word Festival, Switzerland with Hildegard Kleeb, at Womad BBC Stage and, Tusk Festival and Guess Who Festival with Psychedelic Afro Beat Sudanese band, The Scorpios.

Solo performance at Pied Nu Festival, Le Havre 2019. Recent releases with FMR records with ‘Dial’, a quartet featuring, Sue Lynch, Dawid Frydyk, John Edwards and Dave Fowler and ‘Secant/Tangent’ (dxdy recordings) with Crystabel Riley and Nathan Moore.

https://suelynch.bandcamp.com/
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The Wildcard Quartet

Line-up TBC
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+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

6th March 2024
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Wednesday March 20, 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

OBTRAM 3

Anthony Moore: piano, guitar, electronics, voice
Olie Brice: double bass
Tullis Rennie: trombone

OBTRAM 3 is a new trio put together by Anthony Moore, who was a founding member of  Slapp Happy, and a collaborator with Henry Cow and This Heat.

Anthony Moore
British experimental music composer, performer and producer. He was a founding member of the band Slapp Happy, worked with Henry Cow and has made a number of solo albums. From 1995 -2015 he was professor for sound art and music, working on the social and technical history of sound in Cologe. From 2000 to 2004 he was the principal of the Academy of Media Arts in Köln, Germany. Now based in the UK, he operates across many genres; ambient drone, musique concrète and immersive, multi-channel sound installations. He continues to compose, perform and release work on various labels such as Touch, Drag City (Chicago), P-Vine (Tokyo) and others.

Olie Brice
Olie is a committed free improviser, who has performed, toured and recorded with many of the leading names in the music. Frequent collaborators include Mark Sanders, Paul Dunmall, Rachel Musson, Tobias Delius, Cath Roberts and Luis Vicente, and he has also appeared with the likes of Evan Parker, Tony Malaby, John Butcher, Ingrid Laubrock, Ken Vandermark, Eddie Prevost and Louis Moholo.

Tullis Rennie
Tullis is a composer, electronic musician, improvising trombonist, and field recordist. His varied career to date has touched upon many different conceptual approaches, examining the impact of listening with jazz musicians Matthew Bourne and Graham South on 2018’s vinyl-only release Muscle Memory, and investigating the hidden process of performance preparation with Manchester- based Vonnegut Collective on 2021’s 48 Hours (Moving Furniture Records).

Adam Bushell + Paul Khimasia Morgan

Adam Bushell: vibraphone
Paul Khimasia Morgan: amplified acoustic guitar body

Second outing of this recently formed duo!

+ Wildcard Quartet

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 31st March 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

3rd April 2024
7pm
£3 / £2 members