Wednesday 22 April 2026, 7.30pm

Adam Bohman – Three-Day Residency: Duvel Mortgage + Ensemble Trip-Tik + The BBC + special guest

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“This second evening of Adam Bohman’s residency is another sandwich. Between two slices of deeply researched media adumbration is an oboe-led pousée into the heart of free chamber music.”

The BBC specialise in dramatisations of neglected texts. Through the use of what might be termed ‘foley effects’ they seek to re-animate material from literature, tv & film. In preparation for this evening, there will be much to do: the crisping of the linen, the deep draughts of Botot water, the brushing up of their Italian. All this to ensure that the performance will not go pyriform.

Richard Crow, Adam Bohman and Jonathan Bohman are the names behind this most suggestive of acronyms. Their association dates from the early 1980s, when they kept a wary eye on the Cockpit Theatre from the confines of The Duke of York. The initial artistic venture was Diastolic Murmurs, the duo of Adam and Crow (see Thursday). Jonathan held out until the 2010s. Away from the A&E room of rock’n’roll, the nurturing nipple of jazz and even the cagoule of folk, they follow their own somewhat skewed muse.

Fresh from Bury St Edmunds, Duvel Mortgage’s special brand of country music is ready to tackle the capital’s psychic manifestations. A needle taped to the side of an oscillator. Is this the untethering of the map and the territory? The Bohman Brothers and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson settled these differences, recording for posterity their journey through the centroid of the Brome triangle, before turning to the weightier issue of television simulacra. In this sleepover version, Duvet mortgage investigates suspected TV hypnagogia, leading to bouts of filmic serialisation. Are there metaphysicians in the adjacent bed? What price, rest?

Ensemble Trip-tik (Adam Bohman, Adrian Northover, Catherine Pluygers) formed in 2004. The members met through playing with the London Improvisers Orchestra. Each player brings their unique experience from different sound worlds to the group. Adam Bohman has spent many years at the cutting edge of experimental sonic arts, Catherine Pluygers is a renowned classical oboist, specializing in performances of contemporary composition. Adrian Northover has worked with improvisation in a myriad of forms,from jazz to Indian classical music, through to free improvisation.

 

Duvel Mortgage

Duvel Mortgage is the trio of Sophie Sleigh-Johnson and The Bohman Brothers. The group performs a carefully blended mix of offbeat poetics, low-lying music, and sound obstruction using unconventional instruments and household materials. As of late 2025 and early 2026, they have been active on the UK live performance circuit.

Duvel Mortgage by Lepke B

Ensemble Trip Tik

Ensemble Trip-tik (Adam Bohman, Adrian Northover, Catherine Pluygers) formed in 2004. The members met through playing with the London Improvisers Orchestra. Each player brings their unique experience from different sound worlds to the group. Adam Bohman has spent many years at the cutting edge of experimental sonic arts, Catherine Pluygers is a renowned classical oboist, specializing in performances of contemporary composition. Adrian Northover has worked with improvisation in a myriad of forms,from jazz to Indian classical music, through to free improvisation.

Since its formation Trip-tik has performed at many venues in and around London, and has also workedin collaboration with many other musicians including Eugene Martinec , Alison Blunt, Terry Day, Jacques Foschia, Vanessa Mackness, Barbera Meyer, Caroline Kraabel, John Russell, Roland Ramanan,David Leahy, Daniel Thompson, Vladimir Miller and Sylvia Hallett.

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The BBC

Richard Crow, computer & voice
Adam Bohman, amplified & voice
Jonathan Bohman, amplified & voice

The BBC was formed on the 18th October 1922. The first director, John Reith, summarised its purpose as threefold: to inform, to educate and to entertain. Now, almost 100 years later, a different BBC (Bohman, Bohman, Crow) merely seek gainful employment in an increasingly hostile world.

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