The distinguished artists for the evening are:
CHA (Coates, Hobbs, Anderson)
Sax, clarinet, percussion/electronics (free improv)
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Mark Summers
Viola da Gamba/electronics
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David Bainbridge / Laurie Tompkins
guitars/electronics (solo and in collaboration)
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£5 entry, all profits go towards future events.
Some more info on the artists:
CHA (Bruce Coates, Christopher Hobbs, and Virginia Anderson) is a new group with a long pedigree. Bruce Coates (saxophones) is highly regarded on the Birmingham free improvisation (Frimp) scene (having worked with Paul Dunmall, Jamie Smith, John Edwards, Lol Coxhill and Mark Sanders). Coates co-founded the Birmingham Improvisers' Orchestra (BIO) and founded the FrImp improvisation series. Christopher Hobbs is probably best known for his membership in the classic lineup of the legendary free improvising group AMM from 1968–71 (with Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe, Lou Gare, and Cornelius Cardew), but he's also recorded with the group SCHH ( Walt Shaw, Bruce Coates, Hobbs, and Mike Hurley). Nominally a pianist, Hobbs plays a wide variety of percussion, keyboard, computer and other electronic instruments in CHA. Virginia Anderson was an associate member of the Redlands Improvisers' Orchestra (a forerunner of Los Angeles ‘Cold Blue’ postminimalism) and co-founded the Anything Goes Örchestra, a Southern Californian improvisation group that broadcast a weekly all-night radio show in the 1980s and recorded a number of albums and singles. She is an exponent of new works and techniques for the Eb clarinet, but also plays a range of sounding objects. CHA explores the borders between typical frimp (with its free-jazz associations), experimentalism and indeterminacy, and avant-garde extended techniques and combines it with domesticity and good friendship. CHA is art as life in comfy slippers, sipping a nice cup of tea.
MARK SUMMERS is a performer who specialises in improvisation on the viola da gamba, largely in conjunction with live computer processing. He previously worked as a professional musician performing early and contemporary music, then as a researcher in information science. He is now gradually returning to performing around the UK and abroad, whilst looking after his young son.
Mark is also a part-time doctoral student at the University of Sheffield where he examines instrumental improvisation with interactive computer processing from the performer’s point of view.
DAVE BAINBRIDGE has performed throughout the UK in solo, chamber and orchestral settings. He is fast establishing a reputation in the world of contemporary music and has premiered works by composers including Simon-Steen Andersen, Tim Garland, Daniel Bernard Roumain, David Futers, Nelson Augusto Bohórquez-Castro, Chaines, Jack Sheen and Gillian Menichino. He is passionate about collaboration and continues to work closely with several composers including Tom Rose, Callum Dewar and Laurie Tompkins. Dave has made premiere recordings of several works, recorded with the acclaimed counter-tenor James Bowman and for the Slip Discs experimental music label. He is in demand as a chamber musician and performs regularly with Martin Bickerton as the Nova Guitar Duo.
LAURENCE TOMPKINS is a composer and musician based in the U.K. His practice seeks to forge new possibilities in the no man's land between established contemporary composition and electronic music disciplines. His music has been performed at the Royal Festival Hall, Snape Maltings, The Sage, Gateshead, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He has participated in courses with the National Youth Orchestra, the Royal Academy of Music, Opera North, and Aldeburgh Music. Having received a scholarship on entry in 2009, he recently graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with First Class Honours, studying with Larry Goves.
As a co-founder and co-director of the experimental record label Slip Discs, Laurie has curated releases and live performances from Leo Abrahams, Oliver Coates, Mark Fell, Larry Goves, Aisha Orazbayeva, Mica Levi, Bass Clef and many others in the past year alone. Wherever performances occur, the curation emphasises a commitment to a live experience that both revels in and questions the implications of the performance space.
