THE WORKSHOP SERIES: PHILIP SOMERVELL / PAUL ABBOTT / ROSS LAMBERT / JAMIE COLEMAN / UTE KANNGIESSER / JENNY ALLUM / YUKI OKAMOTO / DAVID O'CONNOR / SEBASTIAN LEXER / TARA STUCKEY


workshop

MONDAY 26 July 2010

 

Times : 8pm

Tickets : £5 / £4 concs

Ticket on the door Only

 

The Workshop Series — a monthly concert of experimental improvised music drawn from participants of Eddie Prévost's weekly workshop.

 

This month's line-up:


Philip Somervell - piano
Paul Abbott - electronics

Ross Lambert - guitar
Jamie Coleman - trumpet

Ute Kanngiesser - cello
Jenny Allum - violin
Yuki Okamoto - piano

David O'Connor - saxophone
Sebastian Lexer - piano+
Tara Stuckey – clarinet

 

Extracts from an introduction to an experimental improvisation workshop:

 

"Each musician should look at the materials they use for making music, as an infinite resource for sound production […] the relationship between musician and sound source is fluid and capable of far more responses that can be imagined. Imagination itself is stimulated — ignited— only by practice. The musician is urged to try and search without specific objectives and even without hope or expectation of finding anything. Paradoxically this can lead to undreamt of results. These findings become part of the musician. They are part of self-invention."

 

"[Simultaneously it is suggested] that the musician refers to and extends the openness of enquiry, to the other participating musicians and what they are doing. For here, I contend, there is an infinitude greater than that encountered in our relationship with mere static material."

 

"Playing then, becomes a way of experiencing and accessing constantly renewable energy — that is consequently free of expectation and formula. It is full flowing cognition."

 

Full details at - http://workshopseries.wordpress.com