Friday 29 November 2024, 7.30pm
Ace line-up from Feedback Moves, featuring @xcrswx - the duo of Crystabel Efemena Riley and Seymour Wright, a rare solo electronics set from Pat Thomas, Vasco Alves and yplo, aka Paul Abbott and Michael Speers.
@xcrswx [Crystabel Riley and Seymour Wright]
Contrasts:
the LIVE (evolved sounds/patience/relentless-ness);
and:
the ANDROID (cropped media [sounds+visuals]/impatience/edits);
e.g.;
Call Time/Hard Out 7"
https://soundcloud.com/feedbackmoves/sets/call-time-hard-out
plus;
Lookbook digital
https://soundcloud.com/cafeoto/tr008-xcrswx-lookbook-sample
and;
Fixes 10" [split]
Coming soon on Feedback moves.
Pat Thomas studied classical piano from aged 8 and started playing Jazz from the age of 16. He has since gone on to develop an utterly unique style - embracing improvisation, jazz and new music. He has played with Derek Bailey in Company Week (1990/91) and in the trio AND (with Noble) – with Tony Oxley’s Quartet and Celebration Orchestra and in Duo with Lol Coxhill.
"Sartorially shabby as Thomas may be, and on first impression even rather stolid, he has a somewhat imperious charisma that’s immediately amplified when he starts to play. Unlike other pianists whose virtuosity seems to be racing ahead of their thought processes Thomas always seems supremely in command of his gift, and his playing, no matter how free and ready to tangle with abstraction, always carries a charge of authoritative exactitude." - The Jazzmann
My work investigates the materiality of sound and aspects of acoustic phenomena through the use of minimal and unstable processes, which may include synthesis, amplification techniques or the gaita de fole (portuguese bagpipes).
In this show I'll present a solo electronics performance where I'll explore and expand on the systems and material created for my last record – Estrada Longa – recently released in a physical format by the London based label Feedback Moves.
Ongoing collaborations include OndaXoque (+ Pedro Rufino), a duo with Margarida Garcia and GAX (+ Seymour Wright). In 2024 I started the bagpipe group As Rochas da Ajuda, where I approach the instrument from a collective prespective and explore the possibilities of polyphony.
Paul Abbott is a musician and drummer. He plays with real and imaginary drums, synthetic sounds, performance and writing.
Recent and ongoing collaborations include: XT with Seymour Wright; XT+Pat Thomas; XT+Anne Gillis; X Ray Hex Tet; F.R.David, very good* & Rosmarie with Will Holder; film sound for Keira Greene; Rian Treanor Duo; RP Boo Trio with XT; The Creaking Breeze Ensemble with Nathaniel Mackey; yPLO with Micheal Speers and performances with Cara Tolmie.
Paul has performed at venues and festivals internationally. He was a co-founder and co-editor of Cesura//Acceso journal for music, politics and poetics, and SAM resident artist at Cafe OTO 2015. In 2022 he completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Florian Hecker and Nikki Moran. He is currently undertaking research at Royal Conservatoire/Academy Fine Arts Antwerp.
Recent releases include: solos Nsular, Ductus; XT+Pat Thomas “Akisakila” / Attitudes of Preparation (Mountains, Oceans, Trees); XT Deorlaf X, Palina’Tufa; Creaking Breeze Ensemble & Nathaniel Mackey Fugitive Equation; F.R.David very good*; RP Boo Trio 31.12.18.
Michael Speers (b.1992) is a musician from County Down, Ireland working with natural & synthetic sound material—using drums, computer, microphones, feedback—in performance, installation and electroacoustic composition
currently a PhD student at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast.
Recordings published by Anòmia, C.A.N.V.A.S., Party Perfect!, Wasted Capital Since 2013, Takuroku, Krim Kram and Feedback Moves.
