Thursday June 13th 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill
Faradena Afifi: viola, violin and voice
Steve Beresford: piano, electronics and toys
Paul Khimasia Morgan: guitar body and electronics
Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over forty years, freely improvising on the piano, electronics, and other things with people like Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, John Zorn, and Alterations (with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack).
He has written songs, written for large and small ensembles, and scored short films, feature films, TV shows, and commercials. He was part of the editorial teams of Musics and Collusion magazines, writes about music in various contexts.
Faradena Afifi is the curator of ‘The Noisy Women Present’ and the ‘Noisy People’s Improvising Orchestra’. She plays bowed string instruments, piano and percussion and uses voice and movement. She is also a community musician, street and folk musician.
Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improvisor who uses an amplified acoustic guitar body. He has performed in regular and ad-hoc groupings with Steve Beresford and Blanca Regina, Cristián Alvear, Richard Sanderson, Jason Kahn, Simon Whetham, Seth Cooke, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Ryu Hankil, Charlotte Keefe and Mark Wastell’s THE SEEN.
The trio have a new CD coming out on Discus Records which will be available at the gig.
Gus Garside and Clive Craske
Clive Craske and Gus Garside worked as a duo in several performances of John Cage’s Ryoanji some years ago. They are back with two of their own creations. Gus’ piece, Reimagining, is an electro acoustic improvisation drawing references from Ligeti, Debussy and hip hop. Clive’s own graphic score, entitled Merge Matrices, will be structured uniquely for this performance.
Gus Garside is double bass player concentrating these days on improvised music, free jazz and contemporary music Gus plays in several different groupings including his longstanding string trio Arc (with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill). He has worked on four 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.
Clive Craske is both a radio and festival DJ and an improvising percussionist. His Sound Laboratory show on RadioReverb covers a wide variety of more off-kilter and experimental genres of music, and is currently sponsored by The Spirit of Gravity. He is in an improv trio, ACZ, with Andrew Greaves of SoG (synthesisers) and Z*qhygoem (hammered dulcimer, guitar, voice, percussion and electronics); ACZ performances are guided by themed audience contributions written immediately prior to each performance. Clive is a long-time member of and current Chairperson of Safehouse Brighton.
+ Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits