Cumbria-based new music and sound art festival Full of Noises presents two nights of performances by artists from their 2013 programme. Day 2 sees performances from composer Lauren Redhead, who will be presenting a version of her piece Entoptic Landscapes, composed for FON alongside other short pieces; a solo trombone set from Gail Brand, who has been described as "the most exciting trombone player for years" by The Wire; and amplified tuba duo ORE, making music informed (but not limited) by their enthusiasm for drones, doom metal, improvisation and minimalism.

Starting life in a former canteen building on the edge of Barrow-in-Furness' Trident submarine manufacturing plant, FON has invited a wide range of artists to explore the Lake District's industrial fringe from Faust, AGF, Philip Jeck, Hildur Gudnadottir and Tetsuo Kogawa to Dopplereffekt, Mobile Radio, Haco, John Wall, Lee Gamble and Richard Youngs.

This year's festival took a back-to-basics approach through a programme of work focusing on analogue and acoustic sound sources, archaic and obscure technologies and a series of talks focusing on the forerunners and pioneers of experimental and electronic music. Works included new commissions for handbells, EMS Synthi A and a tuba/trombone/organ 5.1 system alongside lectures on Pierre Schaeffer and Hugh Davies, a film portrait of Lol Coxhill and a giant black sub-bass-emitting bouncy castle.

Each of the two nights at Café Oto will feature three artists from this year's programme alongside a short introduction from the festival curators. FON will also be taking up residence in the project space during the afternoons with performances, talks and short films from the festival archive.

Full of Noises OTO Project Space schedule.

LAUREN REDHEAD

Lauren Redhead is a composer from the North of England. Her music has been performed by, amongst others, Ian Pace, Rhodri Davies, rarescale, and the Nieuw Ensemble, and commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Yorkshire Forward, and Making Music and the PRSF for Music. She has recently been an artist in residence with Octopus Collective in Barrow, and is a composer in residence with BL!NDMAN ensemble in Belgium. Lauren will be presenting a version of her piece Entoptic Landscapes, composed for FON alongside other short pieces.

laurenredhead.eu/



GAIL BRAND / solo trombone performance

Described as "the most exciting trombone player for years" (The Wire), Gail has recorded and performed on the international jazz and improvising scene since the early 1990s with Billy Jenkins, Elton Dean, Evan Parker, Phil Minton, Pat Thomas, Lol Coxhill, Veryan Weston, Oren Marshall, Maggie Nicols, Georg Graewe, Martin Hathaway, Liam Noble and countless others. Recent work includes: work with comedian Stewart Lee and appearing in 'Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle': a duo with US improvising vocalist Morgan Guberman; long standing duo with drummer Mark Sanders and Gail Brand; Gail Brand Sextet performing her pieces with edgy improvisation at the heart of the music. Gail has been an interviewer on BBC Radio 3's Jazz on 3 programme, interviewing vocalist Maggie Nicols and more.

www.gailbrand.com



ORE

ORE are Stuart Estell and Sam Underwood.

‘We play slow music using two tubas and amplification, informed (but not limited) by our enthusiasm for drones, doom metal, improvisation and minimalism. We are heavy, but our heaviness comes from the way our bass, contrabass, and subcontrabass sounds hang in the air and relate to their surroundings – natural echoes, natural silences.’

“…authentically unusual sounds from the deep, resonant depths of their instruments, almost pulsing at times as they generated a marvellous, foghorn-deep drone, punctuated by snatched breaths, like hissing gas or the wind’s whistle. The primordial noises were somehow more impressive for being organic in nature and all the more so when you consider that this was the duo’s first public performance.” – The Line Of Best Fit

“Dissonant tones rub together like giant battleships scraping along one another as the duo of Ore alternate between passages of static drone and slow groans of “riff”.” – ATTN:Magazine

“The music David Lynch would use if he was doing a Hovis advert.” – Mark Fell

www.oretubadoom.com/

FON 13 - ORE from Octopus Collective on Vimeo.