Tuesday 7 April 2009, 8pm
A night of live music programmed by Adam Bohman bringing together four players working with electronics, found objects, turntables and synthesisers. The evening will be split into solos, duos, trios and a quartet.
Paul Hood – turntables, objects, electronics
Martin Hackett – synthesiser and electronics
Richard Sanderson – small instruments and electronics
Adam Bohman – Prepared strings, objects and wine glasses
Steve Beresford - Keyboards, toys, electronics
“As a free improviser Adam Bohman has pretty much everything required for the job. He weilds an armoury of soundmaking devices - a disassembled violin, springs, lightbulbs, a barbecue grill, a wire record rack, a wooden box with wires stretched across - and creates a post-serial slipstream of variegated events, where more detail is pressed into a split second than ought to be allowed.” - The WIRE
Steve Beresford has played and composed a wide range of music on both pianos and electronics, from free improvisation to more commercial styles. Moving to London in 1974, he played in Derek Bailey’s Company, in the group Alterations with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack and in The Three Pullovers with Nigel Coombes and Roger Smith. Beresford has continued to play free improvisation with a large number of prominent musicians, including Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn and Han Bennink. He has collaborated with Christian Marclay in various ways for many years, and he has a new CD on Emanem – Check For Monsters – with Peter Evans and Okkyung Lee.
Time Out has called him "A Toy Rattling Maniac" and an "Electronic Guru"
Dan Warburton in the Paris Review said he "flirts deliciously with the fringes of soft techno”
Everett True he "played some very sweet and haunting laptop electronica, hidden among the rafters" and "deserved more attention for sure"
