Thursday 13th April
Noise Upstairs

The Octet will follow Phil Morton’s score 50:50 that is  - 50 % freeplay & 50% tacet, silence during the performance of a thirty minute piece.The music, the musicians are driven by free improvisation in music, whilst they are constrained by the score can the musicians brings a coherence, grace and power to a music that is not composed.

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