Thursday 19 June 2025, 7.30pm
claire rousay is a singular artist known for challenging conventions in experimental and ambient music forms, masterfully incorporating textural found sounds, sumptuous drones and candid field recordings into music that celebrates the beauty in life’s banalities.
claire's live show brings a singular reflexivity, unflinching honesty and adroit humour to the performance space, with an ever-burgeoning audience accepting the invite into her soundworld.
Tara Cunningham is a guitarist who operates predominantly within improvisational and experimental music. She released her tape album Almost - Not Exactly via Non Classical in August ‘25, and vinyl release Warm Ground via ODDA in November ‘26. Ongoing projects as a collaborator and side person include; The Sleeves, Modern Nature, Sebastian Rochford, Red Snapper, Liam Noble, Laura Jurd and Caius Williams.
Hannah Marshall is a cellist who is continuing to extract, invent, and exorcize as many sounds and emotional qualities from her instrument as she can. She has been a regular member of Alexander Hawkins’ Ensembles and has toured in Europe and South America with Luc Ex and Veryan Weston’s ensembles – SOL 6 & 12. She plays with ‘String Terrorists’ - Barrel (a trio with Violinist Alison Blunt & Violist/poet Ivor kallin). And has been invited by Fred Frith and Suichi Chino in their residencies at café Oto. She also plays with Terry Day, Tim Hodgkinson, Roger Turner, Paul May, Kay Grant, and the London Improvisers Orchestra.
Caius Williams is a musician from London who plays the double bass, guitar, and bass guitar. He works in collaboration with others, alongside various solo projects, and often works with improvisation and explorations of resonance and perception.
He is in the collaborative groups ‘Crosspiece’ (with Theodora Laird), ‘Argia’ (with Tara Cunningham & Theo Guttenplan). He also works as guitarist/bassist for feeo, alongside lots of other varied work as a supporting musician, both in studio and touring internationally. Some recent collaborators include Steve Noble, Tom Challenger, Charles Bullen, Jack Dove, Zheng Hao, Maggie Nicols, Mark Wastell, Rory Salter, Regan Bowering, Sachiko M, Mark Sanders, and others
Caius has also been organising ‘GRAIN’ since 2022: a concert series and label, focussed on programming new and adventurous music
https://caiuswilliams.bandcamp.com