Debut London performances from three new ensembles spanning the full range of acoustic-electronic performance and comprised of some of the most exciting musicians currently working in the capital.

For the opening duo, installation artist and improvising musician Stephen Cornford - who works by reconfiguring and re-imagining consumer audio electronics - lines up alongside Dan Bennett on computer and modular synthesiser. German cellist Ute Kanngiesser performs in a new trio alongside Shakuhachi player / multi-instrumentalist Clive Bell, and improvising violinist Jennifer Allum, with whom she's previously released a CD on Matchless Recordings recorded in Hackney's historic bell tower. Rounding off the evening, prolific double bassist Dominic Lash forms another new trio alongside Greek musician and linguist Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga on zither, and sound artist, composer and improviser Phil Julian on computer and electronics.


DOMINIC LASH (DOUBLE BASS), DIMITRA LAZARIDOU-CHATZIGOGA (ZITHER), PHIL JULIAN (COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS)

Dominic Lash has performed with Tony Conrad and Evan Parker; other currently active ensembles include a duo with Alex Ward, a trio with John Butcher and John Russell and The Convergence Quartet (with Taylor Ho Bynum, Harris Eisenstadt and Alexander Hawkins). He also leads The Set Ensemble (an experimental music group mainly devoted to the work of composers from the Wandelweiser collective). Recent CD publications include work on the Another Timbre, Cathnor, Clean Feed and Psi labels. He was resident in New York for much of 2011, where he performed with musicians including Michael Pisaro, Fay Victor and Nate Wooley.



Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (Thessaloniki, Greece) is a musician and linguist based in London. She is active in experimental and improvised music since 2006. She plays the zither, a string instrument, and uses ebow's and objects on its resonance box to produce sustained or granulated sounds. Her approach focuses on the interplay between spontaneity and elaborate techniques. In the last few months, she has performed with Mark Wastell, with whom she just released their live performance as BEFOREHAND on confront recordings, and in quintet with Jennifer Allum, Eddie Prévost, Matt Davis and Seymour Wright. She is preparing a duo release with Martin Küchen and has recently launched the online project 'MOBILE #2 OR odds ratio' on Another Timbre with Nate Wooley, Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Ferran Fages), Xavier Charles, Enrico Malatesta and Christian Weber.

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Phil Julian is a UK based experimental sound artist, composer and improviser. Under both the Cheapmachines alias and his own name, Phil Julian has been venturing across various strains of unorthodox sound since the late 1990′s, with his prolific output on a catalogue of imprints encompassing a diverse range of sonic textures. Studio recordings and live performances within Europe and North America have focused on the use of analogue electronics (particularly unstable and/or chaotic systems) and computer based works.




TRIO - UTE KANNGIESSER (CELLO), CLIVE BELL (SHAKUHACHI), JENNIFER ALLUM (VIOLIN)

Ute Kanngiesser is a German cellist based in London. Classically trained as a child, she turned to improvisation and experimental music while practicing physical theatre and dance in Berlin. Her strongest associations are with musicians around Eddie Prevost's workshop such as Jennifer Allum, Seymour Wright, Grundik Kasyanksy, Ross Lambert and Sebastian Lexer. She has also worked with AMM, John Butcher, Angharad Davies, Steve Beresford, Paul Abbott, Terry Day, Roger Turner, Lol Coxhill and Guillaume Viltard.



Clive Bell is a British Shakuhachi player who studied with the renowned Shakuhachi player Kohachiro Miyata, one of today's greatest Japanese Shakuhachi masters. He regularly gives concerts and lecture demonstrations on Japanese music both as a soloist and as a duet with Rié Yanagisawa, who plays the koto, the shamisen, and sings. Bell is also a respected multi-instrumentalist, playing the khene, a large Thai bamboo mouth organ, and flutes from Bali, China, Thailand, and European, as well as the crumhorn and the accordion. He is a member of different groups, such as Kahondo Style and British Summer Time Ends and performs as a duo with guitarist Peter Cusack and Rié Yanagisawa. He also works with dance and theatre groups and is a skilled improviser.



Jennifer Allum is a violinist who improvises and plays experimental music. While she was a post graduate student at Goldsmiths, London in 2005 she began to attend Eddie Prevost's weekly improvisation workshops and to work with composers such as Christian Wolff, Tom Johnson, Michael Pisaro and Michael Parsons. She has three recordings available from Matchless Recordings, the latest of which is a duo cd with the cellist Ute Kanngiesser, which was recorded in Hackney's historic bell tower.




DUO - STEPHEN CORNFORD (PORTABLE DEVICES) & DAN BENNETT (COMPUTER & MODULAR SYNTHESISER)

Stephen Cornford is an installation artist and improvising musician who works by reconfiguring and reimagining consumer audio electronics. Stephen is currently a Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University where he co-curates the Audiograft Festival. He initially studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art before completing an MA at Dartington College of Arts. He has established ongoing collaborations with Samuel Rodgers - with whom he runs the Consumer Waste label - Ben Gwilliam and Patrick Farmer. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Rumpsti Pumsti (Berlin), Lydgalleriet (Bergen) & Campbell Works (London). Stephen’s work has been included in Sound Art Klang als Medium der Kunst at ZKM Centre for Media & Art and Urban Sounds at the Haus der Elektronische Künste in Basel amongst other group shows. His audio works have been published by Senufo Editions, Accidie Records, 3LEAVES , Cathnor and Another Timbre.



Daniel Bennett is a Bristol based musician working with electronics, acoustic instruments and location recording. Ongoing projects include duos with Stephen Cornford and Clive Henry; an improvising trio, Aigon DAAC, with Dominic Lash (bass) and Stuart Chalmers (tapes); and Skjølbrot, a solo recording project producing dream-logic geographic reports informed by Walter Benjamin's monadological histories and the landscapes of industrial infrastructure and data-processing. Previous projects include music for theatre and installation, and the noise rock band Hunting Lodge.