Since the 1960s Trevor Watts has been at the forefront of many innovations as a saxophone player, percussionist and composer. He is the only founder member of The Spontaneous Music Ensemble still left – other founder members were John Stevens & Paul Rutherford, and later members included Kenny Wheeler, Dave Holland, Evan Parker and Derek Bailey. His Amalgam group began in 1967 with bassist Barry Guy and trombonist Paul Rutherford, and he was a founder member of Barry Guy’s London Jazz Composers Orchestra. He was the instigator behind the Moire Music Group and The Drum Orchestra, which involved musicians from North and South Africa and Latin America. He has played with many great US jazz musicians, including Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, Steve Lacy, Kent Carter, Rashied Ali, Steve Swallow and Bobby Bradford. http://www.trevorwatts.co.uk

Stephen Grew is a pianist and electronic keyboard player based in Lancaster UK. He is in several bands, Grutronic, an electronic improvising quartet, Grew quartet, an acoustic 4 piece, and also plays with violinist Graham Clark, drummer Tony Bianco and saxophonist Evan Parker.

Nothing Here is Perfect

Nothing Here is Perfect is an experimental documentary film about improvised music by Noah Payne-Frank. Featuring a cast of nearly 40 singers and players, fragments of sound and picture from more than a dozen performances at London’s Cafe Oto are woven into an entirely new creation. As the music ebbs and flows, a narrator tells a tale of discovery and resistance. These opaque melodies, performed with the conviction and fervour of worship, will never be perfect. Yet they offer safety and harmony in a frightening and chaotic world.

Featuring Evan Parker, Eddie Prévost, Mats Gustafsson, Thurston Moore, John Edwards, Peter Brötzmann, Chris Corsano, John Tilbury and many more.

www.newsolemns.com

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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 have a new CD called Last Man in Europe that is released to coincide with this tour, and will be playing all new compositions on the night.

Bare Springs

Peter Pick: saxophone
Ade Fettucini: guitar / clarinet
Tom Roberts: bass
James Parsons: drums

PLUS

The Wildcard Quartet

Gus Garside: double bass
Clive Craske: percussion
Al Strachan: cornet / electronics
Monty Oxymoron: piano / drums

Jennifer Allum is a violinist specialising in improvised and new music. Based in London, Allum studied at York and Goldsmith’s universities, and was a long time attendee of Eddie Prevost’s weekly Friday night workshops. She has a few recordings available, all on Matchless Recordings, the most recent of which was a duo with cellist Ute Kanngiesser, which was recorded in the Bell Tower of Hackney.
http://www.jenniferallum.info/

David Toop is a musician, author, professor and Chair of Audio Culture and Improvisation at London College of Communication.

He has published five books including Ocean of Sound, Rap Attack and Sinister Resonance. His first album, ‘New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments’, was released on Brian Eno’s Obscure label in 1975 and he has collaborated with artists ranging from John Latham, Bob Cobbing, Carlyle Reedy and Ivor Cutler to Rie Nakajima, Evan Parker, Max Eastley and Akio Suzuki.

http://davidtoopblog.com/

Diana Policarpo is a visual artist and free composer based in London and Lisbon working in drawing, score, sculpture, performance and multi-channel sound installation.

Her work investigates power relations, popular culture and gender politics, juxtaposing the rhythmic structuring of sound as a tactile material within the social construction of esoteric ideology.

She creates performances and installations to examine experiences of vulnerability and empowerment associated with acts of exposing oneself to the capitalist world.

As well as working on solo projects she often collaborates and has recently made live performances with Scratch Orchestra, Hákarl, Áine O’Dwyer, AAS, Cabiria, Erinyes and The Orchestra of Futuristic Noise Intoners.

Hákarl is the solo project of musician/writer/moaner Kev Nickells. Professionally he does something or other to do with computers, whilst moonlighting as cyber janitor for Bang the Bore. A hired improv gun in the UK scene, musically situated somewhere in the region of late-period Alfred Schnittke and the free-jazz of Albert Ayler. Easily wound-up, which doesn’t necessarily make his time-keeping any good. Hákarl is interested in exceptionally long gigs (viz., disestablishing material-fetish music) and has played with Diana in a couple of these in London and Brighton.

Tania Chen and Ingrid Plum
“Some Like it Hot” is a music theater piece by Tania Chen with electronics by Ingrid Munk Plum & Tania Chen

TANIA & INGRID
LOVE:

Shoes
Perfume
Lipstick
as did Marilyn Monroe

Some Like it Hot flirts with universal thoughts on beauty, senses, sensory pleasure in all its glamour, darkness, erotic and seductive power through time, sound, words, visual imagery.

Be dazzled

Note: this session will take place at the Rose Hill, 70-71 Rosehill Terrace, Brighton, BN1 4JJ

In this trio Graham Dunning plays turntable, dubplates and dentristry tools, walkmans and amplified objects. Colin Webster plays saxophone and Sam Underwood the tuba.

In 2014 Graham and Colin released two albums of recordings on the Linear Obsessional and Raw Tonk labels. They also toured the UK and Switzerland – the video below is from their set in Zurich.

The trio performed a memorable set at Supernormal festival in 2015 and released a CD called Bleed on ADAADAT label – a track from which is below.

Fettucini Spicer

Fettucini Spicer attempt to provoke/shock each other into action by the application of a multitude of instuments and objects too numerous to mention!

Wildcard Quartet

Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/431030

Fourth Page

Fourth Page was formed in 2010 almost by accident on a sunny Spring afternoon in Surrey. The very first notes the band ever played together that day ended up on their debut album, ‘Along the Weak Rope’, which was released later that year. Two more albums followed for Forwind and the legendary Leo label over the next couple of years (along with a lot of gigs in churches).

The band’s unique and entirely improvised approach to song form has drawn comparisons to everyone from Schubert to David Sylvian, Paul Bley, Talk Talk and John Martyn, but in truth Fourth Page sound like no-one but themselves. Now, after a few years spent concentrating on other projects and collaborations (often with each other in various combinations) the quartet are back together.

This time the band’s sound is a little harder edged, more electric. Maybe this is a refection of the harder edged times we live in at the close of the decade, but at the heart of Fourth Page’s music there’s still a luminous, fragile beauty.

A new album ‘The Forest from Above’ is in the works, with live dates in the UK and Europe expected in the near future.

Charlie Beresford – guitar, voice
Carolyn Hume – keyboards
Peter Marsh – bass
Paul May – drums

https://www.facebook.com/4thpagemusic/
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=2f92Vfx5CIA&feature=youtu.be
https://fourthpage.bandcamp.com/

Lullula

Armorel Weston – voice
Kay Grant – voice
Jim Dvorak – trumpet & voice
Otto Willberg – double bass

This quartet of London-based musicians take their name from the woodlark Lullula, known for its heavenly song. The group use free improvisation to create a joyous and delightful sound, never complacent and full of surprises.

The Wildcard Quartet

Sara Jane Glendinning
Gus Garside
Ade Fetuccini
JayBee

MARESUKE OKAMOTO: cello
Maresuke was born in Tokyo and started contrabass solo on Japanese jazz scene in 1982 while playing in Seikei University Orchestra. In this period he played with lots of Japanese improvisers and participated in New Jazz Syndicate. Currently he performs in the world improvised music scene in collaboration with musicians such as Audrey Chen, Carlos Zingaro, Emile Lesbros, Hugues Vincetn, Hui-Chun Lin, Ricardo Tejero, Terry Day, Tristan Honsinger and Wolfgang Georgsdorf.

http://soundcloud.com/marerubner
http://maresuke.bandcamp.com
http://www.facebook.com/maresuke.okamoto

MARCELLO MAGLIOCCHI: drums/percussion
Musical explorer, has performed and recorded in many and variated musical universes in addressing different languages such as jazz, the instant composition, live music for silent movies and more, interacting with the worlds of dance, theatre. Currently its rhythmic timbre research takes the form of sound experiences with musicians from around the world by participating or organizing different ensembles of improvisers, video materials, electronics. Since 1974 has worked in several projects (concerts, recordings, jam sessions etc) involving the most significant musicians of jazz and Italian artists and improvisers in the world scene as: Mal Waldron, Peter Kowald, Jim Dvorak, Steve Potts, Joelle Leandre, John Tchicai, Beniat Achiary, Carlos, Zingaro, Evan Parker, Michel Godard, Tom Varner, Harri Sjostrom, Sakis Papadimitriou, Kent Carter, William Parker, Adrian Northover, Daniel Thompson, Maresuka Okamoto, J.M.Van Schouwburg, Marcio Mattos and other guests

http://soundcloud.com.marcello-magliocchi
http://soundcloud.com/marcello-magliocchi- ciiao
http://wwwfacebook.com/marcello-magliocchi
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/240250
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL604790A4007B570D http://clockstipfest.tumblr.com

ADRIAN NORTHOVER: saxophones Played and recordings with B Shop for the Poor, The Remote Viewers, Sonicphonics (with Bully Bang), The London Improvisers Orchestra, Ensemble Trip-Tik, Ricardo Tejero, The Custodians, Sabu Toyozumi, Terry Day, Tristan Honsinger and JJ Duerinckx, duo CDs with Adam Bohman, Tasos Stamou, Daniel Thompson and others. Current project include ‘Hard Evidence’ with John Edwards and Steve Noble, playing the music of Thelonious Monk, Vladimir Millers Notes from the Underground, ‘Hogcallin’ – a septet playing the music of Charles Mingus and a trio with Marcio Mattos and Marilza Gouvea. This year (2016) has also seen collaborations with Neil Metcalfe (flute), Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg (voice), Vladimir Tarasov (drums, and Marcello Magliocchi (drums) and Daniel Thompson (guitar). Adrian is also involved with Indian music (Jazz Thali) and works with live music for film (Ensemble Kino)

http://www.adrainnorthover.co.uk

MATTHIAS BOSS: violin

Born in 1958 in Biel, Switzerland where he lives and dedicates himself to working with refugees and music. He studied at the University of Bern and lived in Milan during a period devoted to painting. He practices different artistic forms: music, writing, poetry, painting, sculptures (with selected objects sometimes found, to create ephemeral sculptures), associating them, passing from one to the other without borders. Matthias Boss has developed an extraordinary relationship with his violin. His play, anarchic, microtonal-tonal is influenced not only by music but also by other aspects of life, destruction-construction, way of being in the moment, places … He has a genuine ability to create associated with a remarkable sound projection. He has played throughout Europe in various projects (876 trio with Mr. Magliocchi and JM Van Schouwburg), L. Casserley, A. Northover, J. Demey, C. Zingaro, JP Viegas, S. Siegel, R. Del Piano, P. Gibbs among others.

http://www.facebook.com/matthias.boss1

GUS GARSIDE: double bass has worked in a variety of musical settings – jazz, contemporary music, rock, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly, improvised music where he has performed with many leading players. As well as playing in many one off improvising or contemporary music situations he regularly performs in Arc (a string trio with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill), The Static Memories ( an electronic duo with Dan Powell) and the West Hill Blast Quartet, (a free jazz quartet with Ron Caines, Dan Spicer and Andy Pyne) . He also creates structured improvisational compositions including The Star Field, The Sleepwalkers (featuring 10 of the leading improvising string players in the UK –including Alison Blunt, Benedict Taylor, Marcio Mattos and David Leahy) and Collective Stories (a commission in Quebec with Grand Groupe Régional d’Improvisation Libérée).

Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/435750

Shatner’s Bassoon

“Partial to onstage sparks and explosions…”
Jez Nelson, BBC Jazz on 3

“the album release next year will be symptomatic of what freedom of thought and musical instinct can create”
John Toolan, Jazz Yorkshire

“the opening sentence of their press release – ‘Shatner’s Bassoon sound like nothing you have heard before’ – is (unusually) no exaggeration”
Chris Parker, London Jazz News

“Shatner’s Bassoon are funny without being silly and musically intricate without being introspective. Chris Morris would be proud.”
David Murphy

Bolide

Bolide don’t actually sound like “six drunken tramps having a fight in a school music room cupboard” anymore, but it’d be a shame to let truth get in the way of a good simile. Here’s how they sound of late anyway…

Note: this is an extra show in the Safehouse programme jointly presented with Uneasy Music, and is on at The Rosehill, Rose Hill Terrace, Brighton BN1 4JL

Tickets: £8, £6 concessions
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/433749

Jacques Demierre & Anouck Genthon

The duo work of Jacques Demierre, voice, and Anouck Genthon, violin, is poetic and musical. They perform pieces influenced by the European experimental sound poetry and by the vocal and instrumental poetic touareg tradition. Both voice and violin draw on the poetic expression of speech and on the sung poetry with accompaniment by anzad (touareg one string fiddle from Niger).

Together they play a heterophonic soundscape of voice and strings, an intense and clear
interweaving verbal and musical stuff, where sounds, breaths, frictions, silences, vowels and consonants trace their own way.

Jacques Demierre is a pianist, composer and improviser. Whether acoustic or electro-acoustic, respectful of traditional music writing or embracing free improvisation, his experimentation feeds into music as well as sound poetry. It is all driven by the same constant search for consciousness of sound. Author of numerous pieces for ensemble or voice, he also explores the power of everyday noises. Extending the possibilities of the piano, he also interrogates the ways in which it can approach the sphere of language.


Anouck Genthon is a French violinist improviser and ethnomusicologist based in Geneva, Switzerland. Using her instrument, the violin, in both traditional and extended techniques, her work delves deeply into her own improvised language through sound experience. She is particularly interested in the process of listening, focusing on the listening experience be it with an electro- acoustic set up or while acting out a listening walk.

Ingrid Plum

Gorgeously atmospheric vocal techniques woven around field recordings and electronics – The Guardian

Ingrid Plum uses her voice with extended technique, improvisation, field recordings and electronics, to create layered soundscapes, spoken word and songs. Having performed and exhibited installation sound art and visual art since 2002, she creates work that sits between sound art, improvisation, multi-media installation, neo-classical and contemporary Nordic folk music. Incorporating her research into extended technique and folk traditions with field recordings and site-specific work Plum’s performances developed an improvised spatial responsiveness before going on to study directly with Meredith Monk.

Plum formed the free improv group Susurrations with Legalliene in 2011 and in 2012 she
launched Plum Records and released her solo EP The Tunnel Recordings followed in 2015 by her debut album Plangent.  In 2016 this was followed by Everything Is Becoming Science Fiction –  a collaboration with Graham Dunning, Ian Stonehouse and John Harries and Unsung, a collection of early sound works from installations and films. In 2016 she formed PlumPyneThornton, a free improv trio with Andy Pyne (Map 71) and composer/pianist/writer Timothy Thornton and joined The Larsens all female noise choir as a founding member. Plum is a visiting lecturer in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Sound and Media at Goldsmiths University Of London and the University of Brighton. She is the founder of Bechdel, a DIY event platform for female experimental/noise/spoken word/improv/free folk/free jazz/folk/Neo classical acts and is based between the UK and Denmark. Her current project Taut features scores by artists including Graham Dunning, Helen Frosi, Áine O’Dwyer, Tania Chen, Stephan Barrett, Iris Garrelfs, Jez Riley French, Nick Hudson, Kev Nickells, Bobby Barry, Lisa Busby, Lia Mazzari, Greta Pistacecci and more.

Gus Garside

Gus has worked in a variety of musical settings – jazz, contemporary music, rock, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly, improvised music where he has performed with
many leading players. As well as playing in many one off improvising or contemporary music situations he regularly performs in Arc (a string trio with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill), The Static Memories ( an electronic duo with Dan Powell) and the West Hill Blast Quartet, (a free jazz quartet with Ron Caines, Dan Spicer and Andy Pyne) . He also creates structured improvisational compositions including The Star Field, The Sleepwalkers (featuring 10 of the leading improvising string players in the UK –including Alison Blunt, Benedict Taylor, Marcio Mattos and David Leahy) and Collective Stories (a commission in Quebec with Grand Groupe Régional d’Improvisation Libérée).

Adam Pultz Melbye – double bass
Simon Rose – baritone saxophone
Paul Stapleton – bonsai sound sculpture (BoSS)

Ens Ekt features the experimental musical inventions of Paul Stapleton (Californian born, Belfast-based) placed in dialogue with the circular breathed multiphonics and harmonic textures of Simon Rose (English born, Berlin-based) and the resonant gestural and spectrally focused playing of Adam Pultz Melbye (Danish born, Berlin-based). The group explores emergent timbral, dynamic and social musical structures through improvisation. The trio configuration offers an opportunity to explore new modes of interactions in part facilitated by purpose built technologies that intertwine metallic, wooden and electronic resonances in real time.

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