Current band line-up includes:- Sigara Dorsalis + Corixa and Micronecta genera of Lesser Water Boatmen; Hornwort; Hull Wind Turbines; Meg and Grahams' Fridge; Andrews' Liver Salts; Tate n' Lyles Golden Syrup; Indoor Sparklers; Hazelnuts on fire; Pumpkin Seeds; Wire Fence at Cley; Aeolian Carpark at Salford Quays; Humber Bridge; ErasmusBrug; Panasonic SL-SX315; E-Bow and The Springrods; Oral-B Cross Action electric toothbrushes; Bottles; Frying Eggs; Wind mashed umbrellas (or parts thereof); Vibro-tron.
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Hugh Davies; Toshiya Tsunoda/WrK; Chris Watson; Jeph Jerman; Stilluppsteypa; Max Eastley; Joe Colley; Bernhard Gunter; M60/M62; starlings; ponds and canals; Akio Suzuki; Thomas Koner; springs; Maplins and cheap piezo transducers; Luigi Russolo/Italian Futurism; Insects; Lionel Marchetti; Joe Devlin; Morton Feldman; NON/Boyd Rice; AMM; John Cage; Morphogenesis; Steve Roden; Surf by Phillip Jeck; Matt Wand; charity shops; Richard Chartier; Onkyo; Alan Lamb; The Hafler Trio; Francisco Lopez; Davide Mosconi; Fluxus; John Barry; Adam and Jonathan Bohman; Stephen P. McGreevy; Nurse With Wound; Joseph Beuys; Scott Duffy; W.T.Statham; John Wall; Ponds and ditches; Alvin Lucier; Charlemagne Palestine; David Lynch; Prehistory/fossils; Metal fences and railings; songbirds; Chas Smith; The Baschet Brothers; Pan(a)Sonic; cooking and washing the pots; quotidian sound; other peoples litter; being skint; general mudgrubbing, scavenging and scrounging; urban bushcraft (for musical purposes); there are many others... -+-+-+-+-+- W.G.Sebald; W.S.Borroughs; A.Solzhenitsyn; Cabinet Magazine; J.G.ballard; P.Auster. +-+-+-+-+-+ Past and present collaborators:- David Audinet; Ruth Barberan; Deborah and Paul Bartholemew; Gareth Bibby; Adam Bohman; Lucio Capece; Seth Cluett; Gene Coleman; Matt Davis; Angharad Davies; Rhodri Davies; Michel Doneda; Benedict Drew; Phil Durrant; Barry Esson; Luke Fowler; Jez riley French; Helena Gough; Mariella Greil; Dave Griffiths; Tasos Grivas; Ben Gwilliam; Karen Gwyer; Graham Halliwell; Giusepe Ielasi; Coti K; Tonny Kluften; Tomas Korber; David Lacy; Alastair Leslie; Helmut Lemke; Michael Maierhof; Louisa Martin; Kaffe Matthews; Wade Matthews; Sachiko M; Heiner Metzger; Phil Minton; Werner Moebius; Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Rob Mullender; NVA; Owl Project; Evan Parker; Brian Percival; Keith Rowe; Christine Sehnaoui; Lars Scherzberg; Coryn Smethurst; Akio Suzuki; Simon Swatman; John Tilbury; David Toop; Rafael Toral; Toshiya Tsunoda; Birgit Uhler; Paul Vogel; Vu D'un Oeuf; Daniel Weaver; Alex Ward; Ami Yoshida; Ingar Zach.
Ben Drew and myself recording railings in Dundee, photographed by Luke Fowler.
Based in Prestwich (near Manchester) and existing on limited budgets, I spend time foraging for interesting sounds in my immediate surroundings, such as the sound of roadside railings played by passing cars or the secret languages of underwater insects and plants.
I'm fascinated by the sound that exists as a kind of (exotic!?) substratum to the everyday world. Using contact mics or hydrophones, the more I investigate, the more the world opens up in front of my ears.
Like many others before me, I've come to consider the world as an amazingly complex and varied generator of sound, one where hidden sonic treasures may exist within the most mundane or seemingly familiar of environments.
Following on from Cages' 4'33", I've come to realise that both music and noise are entirely context specific and that music arises from a framework of specific listening.
Alongside an array of invented sonic devices and processes, I use some of this recorded material in solo improvisation and installation, as well as with a host of experimental and improvising musicians from around the globe.
During summer 2006, I produced the radio show, Audio Sketchbook, for Resonance FM, London and summer 2007 saw me work with and alongside Toshiya Tsunoda, producing outdoor sound installations for NVA's Half Life, Scotland (see www.arika.org.uk).
Ongoing projects include an improvising trio with Rhodri Davies and David Toop, a duo with Graham Halliwell, a quartet with Angharad Davies, David Lacy and Paul Vogel as well as recent collaborations with Helena Gough, including a trio with Ben Drew.
Also, see:
http.//www.thewire.co.uk - for a recent article by Nick Cain and recordings.
http.//www.bagatellen.com/?p=2128 - for a recent interview with Alan Jones.
Thesis is the second release of Impulsive art, yet the first compilation album. -Deeply dedicated to the experimental – electronic scene brings you a brilliant and unique collection of sound-works by some of the best artists of the scene
Thesis features sound compositions by Andrey Kiritchenko , Mad EP, Keef Baker, Larvae, Spyweirdos, Moogulator, Atmogat, Tapage, Mobthrow, IP Neva, Abstractive Noise and Nole Plastique
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Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
Hi Lee - was fab seeing you at Wiltons on Friday - the DAARS was just AMAZING! I think the food mixer motor is a good threat to the old turntable motor! will be in contact soon about gigs etc.. sure to see you soon!
Svarte Greiner (Deaf Center/Miasmah/Type) explores deep into a dark, mysterious and disturbing universe. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Earth, Volcano the Bear, David Darling & Deathprod, the music is draped in Lynchian mysticism and horror film cinematics. "The music of Svarte Greiner is practically perfect. It's like that sound in our heads we've been imagining for ages but had never actually heard." - Type Records.
The Sight Below (Rafael Anton Irisarri/Miasmah/Immune) draws as much on modern genre progenitors like Brian Eno, Robin Guthrie and My Bloody Valentine as it does from the more historic traditions in neo-classicism from Erik Satie and Olivier Messiaen. His album Glider has appeared on Thom Yorke's radar in making the Radiohead's lynchpin's top ten playlist.
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon Scott (former Slowdive) is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise, producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
Machinefabriek is amongst the finest experimental/electronic artists of today. His ultra-prolific back catalogue showcases his ability to perfect classical ambience, organic drone soundscapes, electronic minimalism and cathartic noise. He is hailed as one of the most interesting new experimental musicians by the Wire magazine.
Xela is the shady, underworld atmospheres and improv horrors of John Twells, owner of Type Records. "Xela has always been able to pre-empt the shifting tides of electronic music and deliver a statement that's definitively of its time” (Boomkat).
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon Scott is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise, producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
JANEK SCHAEFER Janek Schaefer is a London based sound artist, musician, and composer. He is known for his innovative work with sound & installation art. He plays in duos with Philip Jeck (Songs for Europe CD), Robert Hampson (Comae CD), Stephan Mathieu (Hidden Name CD) and Charlemagne Palestine. Janek runs his own label [audiOh!Recordings] and web site: http://www.audioh.com
ILLUMINATI Music which serves up a dish of evocative noodles set in an electronic musical sauce. Illuminati has, so far, released 4 albums and various EP's as well as collaborative pieces and compilation appearances for other record labels. http://www.myspace.com/daveclarksonilluminati
JONATHAN FISHER Jonathan Fisher creates drones and soundscapes that will sound beautiful with the church acoustics at Burst Couch 27. He lives in Manchester and was a founder member of the Hippocamp netlabel, which celebrates it's 8th birthday in 2009.
COTTRELL, KOPECEK & HUNTER Improvisational trio featuring guitar/ effects, sax and electronics/ live sampling. Release and more information at http://www.concretemoniker.co.uk
+ NOISY TOYS Roadshow Come along to investigate the science of music through specialist electronic musical equipment. Workshop - open attendance between 2pm till 4pm. http://www.noisytoys.org
Evan Parker - saxophones Stephen Grew - piano Phillip Marks - percussion
An all too rare appearance in Manchester by one of the great masters of the saxophone... Evan Parker has been at the forefront of improvised and experimental music for over forty years, with a unique and innovative approach to his instrument that has been hugely influential. A master of extended techniques like circular breathing and multiphonics, he's made over 200 albums with artists like Derek Bailey, Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt, Spring Heel Jack, Michael Nyman, Spiritualized, Cecil Taylor, John Stevens, Gavin Bryars, Brotherhood of Breath, Basil Kirchin, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink, Tony Oxley, Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Globe Unity Orchestra, Stan Tracey, Chris Corsano, Jah Wobble, Sainkho Namtchylak, Vic Reeves, Thurston Moore etc etc.....
He is joined by Stephen Grew on piano and Phillip Marks on percussion who have been making their own contributions to the world of adventurous improvisation for over 20 years. Those of you who saw them at last years Manchester Jazz Festival will know just how good they are...
