Contact improvisation sessions in Liverpool

The Gathering Liverpool - an update, news item

In collaboration with the Department of Performing Arts at Edge Hill Universit, Concurrent will bring a week of innovative performances, workshops and discussions on improvisation to Tate Liverpool this February under their Tate Exchange programme. Engaging with the provocations that the most important exchanges are in ideas and between disciplines, the work will explore the non-verbal exchange of ideas through improvising, and how those processes translate between performance disciplines to support creative interaction across boundaries.

Open Circuit 2017 constitutes our most varied offering of contemporary music to date. Twelve different events spread across five days present a diverse collection of music, including concert music, structured improvisations, performers with realtime electronics, acoustmatic electronic music, and audio-centric video games.

Jigsaw Session 8 -  Improvisers' Networks Wales

This is an open & public workshop/performance session exploring the nature and practice of free improvisation in music through a mixture of; the playing of the music, discussion and simple workshop routines.

OscilloScope: experimental electronic music : Bangor

Handmade Music is a brand-new experimental music night in Belfast specially curated by Moving on Music (MOM) and The Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC).

Ensemble 50:50 - Grew Quartet -
Monday 5th December  2016
7.30 pm £7.50 & £5.00

Grew Quartet

Grew Quartet is the extension of the long running Grew Trio, crucially adding a bassist in the person of the superb Seth Bennett. The brilliant clarinet player Matt Robinson completes the current lineup. Stephen Grew on piano and Phillip Marks on drums have been the constants since the group's formation in 1995.

Matt Robinson, Clarinet
Seth Bennet, Double Bass
Phil Marks, Percussion
Stephen Grew, Piano

https://grewquartet.bandcamp.com/

Enesemble5050

Free improvisation explored in a large ensemble format by members of the Centrifuge network, an extended network of musicians active in the free improvisation genre in the north of England.

BEATRIX WARD-FERNANDEZ violin
CAMILLA CANCANTATA trombone, voice.
CHARLIE COLLINS percussion
DAVE TOMPKINS double bass
DEREK SAW trumpet
MARK HANSLIP aaxophone, To be confirmed.
NATHAN BETHANY oboe and cor anglais
PHIL HARGREAVES sax
PHIL LUCKING trumpets
PHIL MORTON accidents & treatments

The Venue
The Kings Arms
11 Bloom Street
Salford M3 6AN

Fizzle / praxis:arts presents

CENTRIFUGE

No. 40

Birmingham

Centrifuge brings together an exciting collection of improvising musicians based across the North and Midlands. Coming from a wide spectrum of musical backgrounds, and working within different musical practices, they will combine in various small groupings to deliver a program of freely improvised music.

Since an inaugural meeting in October 2008 Centrifuge has been organising concerts, workshops, and festival appearances, featuring many leading improvisers based north of the capitol. Current events, taking place in Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Lancaster, and Crewe are almost a monthly occurrence, this is the sixth visit to Birmingham and Fizzle.

Participants in Centrifuge No. 40 are -

ANDREW WOODHEAD keyboard
BRUCE COATES reeds
IAN SIMPSON guitar
MARK SUMMERS bass clarinet
LEE ALLATSON drumset
MARTIN HACKETT electronics
PHIL HARGREAVES sax
PHIL LUCKING trumpets
PHIL MORTON accidents & treatments
PHIL ROWLAND trumpet
RICHARD SCOTT violin.

Centrifuge: where creative forces meet.

Tuesday 15th Nov. 2016

THE LAMP TAVERN
157 Barford St

Birmingham B5 6AH

7.30 pm          £7.00 / £5.00 OTD