WEDNESDAY 23rd September 2009
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £6
Steve Beresford, Max Eastley and Al Doyle – Trio
David Toop - solo
Ute Kanngiesser – solo
A night of improvised music organised by Steve Beresford featuring a trio with Beresford Hot Chip member Al Doyle and sound sculptor, artist, and musician Max Eastley. Plus two solo performances one by David Toop on guitar, flutes and laptop and another solo by cellist Ute Kanngiesser
Max Eastley
Max Eastley is a sound sculptor, artist, and musician.
"A fascinating meeting of surreal improv strategies and electronic abstraction, A Very Long Way From Anywhere Else, is, as the title suggests, a pretty unique piece of work. Recommended." BOOMKAT / UK review of Spaceheads & Max Eastley
LINKS
http://www.myspace.com/maxeastley
Al Doyle
Al Doyle plays Roland SH-101, Nord Wave, Moog Little Phatty, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussion and Vocals for electropop band Hot Chip.
LINKS
http://www.myspace.com/hotchip
http://www.hotchip.co.uk/site/
Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford has played a variety of instruments, including piano, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano. He is probably best known for free improvisation, but has also written music for film and television and has been involved with a number of pop music groups.
From early on in his career he was playing a wide variety of music, playing the Hammond organ in a soul music covers band, featuring on Trevor Wishart’s early work Journey Into Space (1973) and free improvising. In 1974, Beresford moved to London, where he played in Derek Bailey’s Company events and in the groups Alterations with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack, and the Three Pullovers with Nigel Coombes and Roger Smith. He was also a member with Gavin Bryars and Brian Eno of the Portsmouth Sinfonia.
Beresford has continued to play free improvisation with a number of prominent musicians, including Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn and Han Bennink. He has also worked with a number of popular musicians, including The Slits, Frank Chickens, Ted Milton and The Flying Lizards.
LINKS
http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mberes.html
David Toop
David Toop is a musician/composer (guitar, flutes, laptop), writer, and curator. David has worked with musicians including Brian Eno, John Zorn, Prince Far I, Jon Hassell, Derek Bailey, Talvin Singh, Evan Parker, Scanner, Ivor Cutler, Akio Suzuki and Jin Hi Kim.
LINK
http://www.davidtoop.com/
http://www.last.fm/music/David+Toop
http://www.myspace.com/davidtoop
Ute Kanngiesser
LINKS
http://utekanngiesser.com/
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