Saturday 10 August 2019, 7.30pm
Adam Bohman’s life is a continual bricolage – from his artworks to his sound works, via his tape diaries and text pieces. He magpies and gleans away pedestrian gems, and from his hoard he conjures up a prolific and kaleidoscopic creative output. It’s a pure and wonderful compulsion. Filmed within and around his creative den – his sublimely cluttered flat in Catford – Adam guides us through tabletops overspilling with springs and metal, tottering piles of collages, and the joys of street signs of Lewisham, offering an intimate glimpse into his processes and passions.
Director: Cathy Soreny
Cathy is a documentary filmmaker who on one hand focuses on co-created films for social change, on all the rest of her limbs documents and celebrates the UK underground improvising scene. As part of Sheffield community TV collective Peak Signal 2 Noise she has developed a unique approach to exploring creativity. http://ps2n.org/
Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of underground music for decades. Working with home-built instruments, found objects, tape cut-ups, collages, ink drawings and graphic scores. Favouring acoustic sounds over electronics, he explores the minute tendrils of sounds coaxed from any number of non-musical instruments and objects. He is a member of British experimental groups, Morphogenesis, The Bohman Brothers, Secluded Bronte, and The London Improvisers Orchestra. Adam's music is unique and experimental, incorporating musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation.
Secluded Bronte - Richard Thomas, Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman - formed in London and launched in New York City in 2002. They released their first album, Secluded In Jersey City, on the Pogus label.
Secluded Bronte resist classification. They've been compared to This Heat, Wire, The Specials, John Zorn, Jean-Luc Godard, Ennio Morricone, Talk Talk, The Residents, The Fall, John Cage and Sun Ra. They sound like none of those artists. They sound a bit like some of them. But those artists sound like other artists too. Secluded Bronte have made radio dramas, performed sketches and plays and made visual art. Currently they're working on a feature film as writers, actors, producers and composers. Therefore trying to classify them is a waste of time, the only thing you can conclude is that elusivity is the aspect that best defines Secluded Bronte. But, if you really need a summary then a long time fan, the comedian Stewart Lee, has probably come up with the best appraisal so far:
“People who hate my stand-up often deny it even constitutes ‘comedy’. Doubtless many would wonder if the work of the veteran improvisatory trio Secluded Bronte should be considered ‘music’. Instruments may be involved, perhaps furniture, maybe even words, or all three in a chance collision of calculated heterogeneity.” - Stewart Lee.
https://fforddallan.bandcamp.com
Adrian is based in London, plays alto and soprano saxophone, and is involved in music production.He can currently be heard playing on the London club scene with a wide range of musicians, as well as solo saxophone performances.
He has made recordings with B Shops for the Poor, The Remote Viewers, Sonicphonics (with Billy Bang), The London Improvisers Orchestra, Ensemble Trip-Tik, Anna Homler,
John Edwards, The Custodians, and CD’s with Adam Bohman, Tasos Stamou, Daniel Thompson, Marcello Magliocchi, Bruno Gussoni and many others.
He has performed at many international festivals, including the Montreal Jazz Festival, Sound Symposium, Victoriaville, Leipzig Jazz Festival, Tallin Festival, Arkangel Jazz, Freedom Of The City, Bari Jazz and others.
http://www.adriannorthover.co.uk/
Sue Lynch works as an experimental saxophonist and a visual artist. She curates The Horse Improvised Music Club with Adam Bohman and Adrian Northover. Performs with Psychedelic Sudanese band ‘The Scorpios’. Has performed at 3 Klange Tag Festival, Switzerland with Hildegarde Kleeb, Womad BBC Stage, Tusk Festival and Guess Who Festival (Utrecht) with The Scorpios. Solo performances at Pied Nu Festival, Le Havre, SuperNormal Festival 2025 and collaboratively at Light Sounds Festival 2024.
Releases include, ‘Secant/Tangent’ (dxdyrecordings) with Crystabel Efemena Riley and N.O. Moore, ‘Blue Tapes-Minaru’,with LA based artist Anna Homler as featured in an interview in October 2023 Wire Magazine on bluetapes.bandcamp.minaru. 'Sax & Drums' on Scatter archive with Regan Bowering and ‘Orbit-Son’ with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson and Adam Bohman on the Infantree Label. Upcoming release with Adam Bohman and Crystabel Efemena Riley on Café Oto label OTOROKU.
Tom Scott – reeds & electronics – has been involved in music making since the early 80s. Interested in a wide range of musical genres (composed, devised, written and improvised) and has played in many different settings; alt rock, jazz punk, graphic scores, urban folk, soundtracks and scapes. He has collaborated with numerous musicians, dancers, poets and performance artists as well as devising soundtracks for theatre pieces. He has worked with Adam Bohman in a duo and larger ensembles since 2010. “I find working with Adam musically fascinating and challenging. With the array of sounds and sound sources he has, it is like searching for shadows of something you half recognise to work with and build on.”
