30.01.2025
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.
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On The Edge is a regular performance night, where we bring in better-known and sometimes out-of-town musicians and groups who have an emphasis on improvisation in their work. We try to precede the headliner with an established, local musician or group. The night is opened with the Wildcard Quartet, which is made up of names that have been picked out of a hat at the preceding Safehouse open session.
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Safehouse Brighton is a collective that hosts two separate nights that focus on improvised and experimental music: Safehouse, on the first Wednesday of every month, and On The Edge, on the last.
Safehouse is a regular open session, which is open to all musicians of all levels to improvise, sonically, in a conversational way. We have been using a format in which participants are picked out to be put into a small group that improvises for 10 minutes or so, while the remaining musicians act as audience, then the next group is formed and so on.
On The Edge is a regular performance night, where we bring in better-known and sometimes out-of-town musicians and groups who have an emphasis on improvisation in their work. We try to precede the headliner with an established, local musician or group. The night is opened with the Wildcard Quartet, which is made up of names that have been picked out of a hat at the preceding Safehouse open session.
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