There will be a talk/interview in front the performances, hosted by Michael Edwards and Martin Parker, a discussion gathering multi-cities free improvisation musicians.
Paul Hession http://www.softdrum.freeserve.co.uk
When it comes to British Free Improv drummers, if Paul Hession’s name has circulated less than, say Paul Lytton, Tony Levin or Mark Sanders, it is mostly due to the fact that he worked hard to nurture an avante-garde scene in his hometown of Leeds instead of moving to London. His loquacious, effervescent playing and high listening skills deserve as much attention and recognition as the aforementioned artists. Hession is best known for his
participation in the Hession/Wilkinson/Fell trio, George Haslam’s Siger Band and his various projects with Simon H. Fell and Mick Beck.
Mike Hurley http://www.myspace.com/mikeyhurley
Representing a younger generation of improvisers Hurley has quickly established himself as an original voice on the Free Jazz/Free Improvisation scene and has collaborated with a huge variety of improvisers. He is the co-founder with Bruce Coates of the Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra (BIO). He is the current brains behind the innovative Fizzle series of concerts in Birmingham and the brains behind a new series co-promoted by Birmingham Jazz at the Midlands Art Centre - The Invention Convention. Amongst his many collaborators are Mick Beck, Lol Coxhill, John Coxon, Paul Dunmall, John Edwards, Patrick Farmer, Christopher Hobbs, Bruce Coates, Paul Hession, Miles and Tony Levin, Tony Marsh, Pete McPhail, Neil Metcalf, Paul Rutherford and Mark Sanders. Regular ensambles include SCHH (Shaw/Coates/Hobbs/Hurley), Friendly Fire (friendlyfiremusic.com) He is also the percussionist of the band folk/punk group Mama Matrix.
Raymond MacDonald http://www.myspace.com/raymondarmacdonald
Raymond MacDonald co-leads The George Burt / Raymond MacDonald Quartet (Leading Scottish contemporary jazz - The Guardian) and is a founding member and key player in The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. (the premier league of the international improvisation scene” - Sueddeutsche Zeitung). uch of Raymond MacDonald’s work explores the boundaries and ambiguities between what is conventionally seen as improvisation and composition. He also performs with Neil Davidson, The Scottish Jazz Composers Ensemble and international saxophone quartet Rich in Knuckles. He has recently collaborated with Lol Coxhill, Ken Hyder, Axel Dorner, Keith Tippett, Harry Beckett, Evan Parker, Gunter Sommer, Fred Frith, Keith Rowe, George Lewis, Steve Noble, Steve Beresford, Maggie Nicols, Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Tatsuya Nakatani, Michael Zerang, Fred Longberg-holm.
Fritz Welch http://www.humansacrifice.net/
Fritz Welch is known as both visual artist and drummer of New York based project Peeesseye, which combining elements of warped rock architecture, freejazz, horror, intergalactic glassolalia and stripped down abstract expressionism. Welch moved to Glasgow to live in 2008, and has been very active over locally to European wide in avant-garde and improvisation music, like many occasions with new group Brittle Hammer Trio, multi-performances in INSTAL festival 2009, and Berlin based FURTUR etc.
Lin Zhang http://www.myspace.com/aliasedneuron http://www.myspace.com/divaabrasiva
From China, via Sweden, Northern Ireland, as music acoustics researcher he moved to Edinbrugh. Later, Zhang founded Grind Sight Open Eye and start organising experimental, avant-garde, noise music events in 2007. He performs in “Aliased Neuron”, “Diva Abrasiva”, and list of collaboration projects.
Using drums, along with crotales, bells, bowed metal, strings, and
amplification, Eli creates a unique whirlwind of sound that balances
sparse droning harmonics with intense, fast, free rhythms. He has
performed, recorded or collaborated with artists such as Jandek, Phill
Niblock (performed a new work of his for bowed crotales and
saxophone), Roscoe Mitchell, Loren Connors, Charles Cohen, Anthony
Coleman (appearing on his New World Records Release), Aki Onda, Bryan
Eubanks, David Linton, Steve Pyne (Redhorse), Greg Kelley, Ashley
Paul. Eli has performed at venues like The Institute of Contemporary
Art (Boston), Irving Plaza, Merkin Hall, Issue Project Room, The Stone
and The Knitting Factory (NYC and LA), and countless bookstores,
basements, and small galleries around the US and Europe. His band Red
Horse recent self titled LP was chosen as Tip of The Tongue by David
Keenan’s Volcanic Tongue shop. He has released solo CD’s and
cassettes on his own imprint REL as well as for labels such as Rare
Youth (debut solo LP, Livingston), Reverb Worship and Something on The
Road.
“…fantastic LP of austere solo percussion and dark matrixes of
strings from this past collaborator with Jandek, with aspects of
Scelsi and Dumitrescu, , Keiji Haino and Biota….. This is an amazing
set that straddles 20th century avant garde thought, sound sculpture,
free jazz and contemporary drone and is one of the most lovingly
assembled packages to have passed through VT of late”
-david keenan (volcanic tongue, wire magazine)
“It’s hard to envisage that this music has been made by just one
person ..especially on parts of Untitled, where the music slowly
builds..the slower more textural sections are particularly striking:
bowed cymbals, bells and fender rhodes give track 2 a chamber music
intimacy.”
@ The Canon’s Gait, 7:30pm door £5
Machinefabriek
http://www.machinefabriek.nu
http://www.myspace.com/machinefabriek
Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuyderveldt from Arnhem, Holland) is amongst the finest experimental/electronic artists of recent years – his ultra-prolific back catalogue showcases his ability to perfect classical ambience, organic drone soundscapes, electronic minimalism and cathartic noise, and he has been hailed as one of the most interesting new [...]
@ The Bowery, 7.30pm Door £4
Plunge Trio
http://www.myspace.com/plungetrio
The saxophone-bass-drums trio Plunge, based in Malmö, Sweden is now touring w their latest album “Refreshingly Addictive”. This is the third release from the group on the Swedish modern jazz/improv label Kopasetic Productions.
Plunge has been in existence since 2001 and deal with collectively improvised, acoustic music. Their music is [...]
Parallax
http://www.myspace.com/parallaximpro
“This Norwegian trio plays attentive and playful improvised music with references as diverse as traditional jazz and Asian music, as well as abstract soundscapes. Rustling, crackling, stealthily winding and melodic, the music moves effortlessly from a mere whisper to intensely suggestive stretches of rhythmic improvising. The music [...]
@ The Bowery, 7.30pm Door, 8pm First act
£6 Door / £5 Advanced List: Email your name to tickets@grindsightopeneye.co.uk for Advanced List.
White
http://www.myspace.com/whitebeijing
was formed by Shou Wang and Shenggy in January 2006, and has quickly become one of the most acclaimed outfits in the Beijing new music scene. White’s sound is ever evolving, spiralling outwards from [...]
