Sunday 15th September 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Wednesday 25th September 2024
Doors open: 7pm for a 7:30 start
Session: 7:30 – 10:30pm
46-56 Portland Rd, Worthing, BN11 1QN
£3 

2nd October 2024
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 20th October 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Thursday 24th October 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

A special Safehouse double bill featuring Japanese pianist Yoko Miura.

Yoko Miura is a pianist currently living in Fukuoka, Japan. Born in Tokyo, she started studying classical piano from the age of 5 and later became interested in jazz and improvised music. She says of her musical approach: “I am trying to make a kind of different universes interweaving and exchanging with different process, values and ways, with people, not only the musicians but also painters and dancers”. She has performed and recorded with many players including Gianni Mimmo John Russell, Lawrence Casserley, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Mia Zabelka, the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and many more.

Concentrating these days on improvised music, free jazz and contemporary music, double bassist Gus Garside plays in several different groupings including his longstanding string trio Arc (with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill). He has worked on three highly acclaimed albums as part of the Ron Caines/Martin Archer Axis and a duo album with the French saxophone player Hervé Perez released on the New York 577 label in 2021. He has created structured improvisations for performance in the UK and Canada featuring leading players in both countries and is making a welcome return to working with dance building a project with Mim King. He was a founding member of the Brighton Safehouse collective.

James Parsons is a drummer with an affinity for free, improvised playing, and has performed in a wide range of groups over the years including Bolide, Ron Caines Trio, Bare Springs, God’s Teeth and the Interstellar Tropics, The Burbling Mind and Grass Balloon.

Viv Corringham is a US-based British vocalist and sound artist, described as “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3). She has worked with many musicians including Pauline Oliveros, Charles Hayward, Mike Cooper, Elliott Sharp, and Maggie Nicols. She has done concerts and sound work in twenty-six countries in venues such as Hong Kong Arts Centre, Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico, Issue Project Room New York, and Institute of Contemporary Art London. “From cool Brion Gysin–esque wordplay to looped and multilayered operatic wails” (The Wire).

Lawrence Casserley has devoted his career to the creation and promotion of live performance electronic music in a wide variety of ways. He has worked with many of the leading improvisers, particularly Evan Parker and his Electracoustic Ensemble. 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.

+ The Wildcard Quartet

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Wednesday 30th October 2024

Note: there is no session in Worthing this month.

6th November 2024
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 10th November 2024
12-5pm workshops
5-8pm gig open to the public
£8 / £6 members

Safehouse has been a hub of activity for Brighton’s improvised music community for the last 20 years, so we’re having a workshop / gig / party to celebrate!

The day will run like so:

12pm-3.30pm – workshop with Cosmic Transmissions
3.30pm – 4.15pm – workshop on Gus Garside’s new piece ’20 Years’

break

5pm – 8pm – gig open to public featuring:

Rachel Musson / Mark Sanders / Olie Brice Trio
Cosmic Transmissions (conducted improvisations)
Gus Garside’s ’20 Years’

Sunday 17th November 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Wednesday 27th November 2024

No Worthing Safehouse in November – back soon!

4th December 2024
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 8th December 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Tuesday December 17th 2023
7.30pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
At The Coach House, 22 Walpole Road, Brighton, BN2 0EA

Note the different venue! Coach House, not Rose Hill

Zimmermann/Lienhard

Swiss experimental duo Zimmermann / Lienhard have been active since 2018, exploring the similarities and differences of acoustic accordion and electronic oscillator sounds, playing with psycho-acoustic effects and blending.

Through the many years of playing together an impressive delicacy and intimacy of their improvised interplay has emerged.

ACZ

The trio of Safehouse members return with their often instruction-based improvisations.

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

Plus The Wildcard Quartet 

Plus DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 19th January 2025
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Thursday January 30th
7pm
£9 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

“The Bohman Brothers and Romuald Wadych have at last risen from the cinders of The Dave Craught Five. On this evening, after seven months of two shows a night at The Varna Club in Memel – they will arrive in Brighton to present a salute to some of those other members of the DC5: Jack McGrumber, Kenneth Trompette, Shane Forte. They will play a selection of the old material and a few new ones.”

The Bohman Brothers

Adam Bohman and Jonathan Bohman have been recording together since their early teens and playing live since 1984.

Their repertoire includes a combination of sounds created in the moment and distinct compositions including songs. They use unconventional instruments, household objects, dislocated text from found, literary and commercial sources and collaged layers of recordings.

“It’s hard to describe the raw, explosive audio art they perpetrate. Everyday objects and sounds are worked on until they become saturated with lurid suggestion, resulting in a bizarre, hysterical immediacy. The convulsive beauty bears comparison to both composers Helmut Lachemann and James Dillon and to sound terrorisers Bark! and Furt. Nevertheless, in the traditions of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, the Bohman Brothers kitchen-sink realism laughs at the grand claims of lofty art. They will show you fear in a sponge from a drainer.”
– Ben Watson, The Wire Magazine

https://thebohmanbrothers.bandcamp.com

The Burbling Mind

Karen Constance & Dylan Nyoukis, James Parsons and Al Strachan come together for a fourth time for more mental burblings via electronics, tapes, percussion, voice and cornet.

+ The Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 2nd February 2025
5pm-7pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£5

Safehouse Collective and the Free Range Orchestra from Canterbury join forces to play John Zorn’s Cobra and other experiments in group improvisation.

Cobra was conceived as a system with very detailed rules but with no pre-conceived sequence of events – a ‘game piece’ – for a group of musical improvisors and a prompter. The title was inspired by a table-top war game.

Zorn said his goal with Cobra was to harness the creative developments in improvisation and extended techniques by New York City’s downtown scene musicians in a semi-structured way, but without hindering their performances; he was interested in telling the musicians when to play, and with whom, but without telling them what to play.

Plus-Minus (1963, 1974) by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was a key inspiration for Zorn, inspiring him to develop methods play with or against each other and in response to his cues but without dictating specific notes, sounds, or other formal structures.

Safehouse and Free Range Orchestra are pictured below in the first of these joint gigs, which happened in Canterbury in November.

Thanks to Outlands Network Exchange Programme for the commission that made this possible.