Thursday 25 September 2025, 7.30pm
Great line-up put together by percussionist, improviser and sound artist, Regan Bowering, featuring Vespertilio folia ferens - aka the duo of Luciano Maggiore and Seymour Wright, plus solo sets from Ciaran Mackle, Rory Salter and Regan herself.
Luciano Maggiore is a Palermo-born, London-based musician whose work is characterised by the use of speakers and several analogue/digital devices (samplers, CD players, walkmans, tape recorders) as well as acoustic objects and addresses the performativity of the musical act, the perception of it, and the obscurity that emanates from it.
His main interests include mechanisms of sound diffusion, performance, repetition, endurance, non-human animal languages, dance, and folklore.
http://lucianomaggiore.blogspot.com/
https://edizioniluma.bandcamp.com/
https://lucianomaggiore.bandcamp.com
Seymour Wright is a saxophonist. His work is about the creative, situated friction of learning, ideas, people and the saxophone – music, history and technique – actual and potential.
Seymour's solo music is documented on three widely-acclaimed collections - Seymour Wright of Derby (2008), Seymour Writes Back (2015) and Is This Right? (2017).
Current projects include: @xcrswx with Crystabel Riley; abaria with Ute Kanngiesser; [Ahmed] with Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Pat Thomas; GUO with Daniel Blumberg; XT with Paul Abbott; The Creaking Breeze Ensemble; a trans-atlantic duet with Andy Guthrie, and, with Jean-luc Guionnet a project addressing an imaginary lacunae in Aby Warburg's Atlas Mnemosyne.
@xcrswx
Ciaran Mackle is an Irish musician based in London since 2012. His practice spans improvisation, electroacoustics, and song, often navigating the intersections between traditional forms and experimental sound. His work is grounded in a tactile engagement with texture, phrasing, and the performative possibilities of sound.
Long-term collaborations include the micro feral concrète of Ashcircle (active since 2014), and Breathing Heavy, a saxophone and sampler duo with Sam Andreae. From 2019 to 2023, he curated the Cliff-Edge series at Hundred Years Gallery, fostering a space for avant-garde and improvised music in East London.
Recent work has drawn heavily from Irish and English folk traditions, exploring melodic phrasing within abstract structures. His debut solo album, sitting still for a living, released under his own name, reimagines traditional song through a lens of experimental performance and long-form sampler composition.
Rory Salter is based in London, working mostly with sound and performance, as a musician and sound technician. Recordings are available via Index Clean, TEETH, Research Laboratories, Zoomin' Night & others. A new album 'a sky cold as clay' is out now on Infant Tree.
Regan Bowering is a percussionist, improviser and sound artist based in London. Her solo work explores various combinations of drums and percussion, objects, amps, speakers, and feedback. Her debut album “Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces” (Dec 2023 on Bezirk Tapes) was described as “a play of contrasts, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” (The Quietus). She is one third of a collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake, with two releases: “2 Movements” (Feedback Moves, 2024) and "Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers" (Infant Tree, 2023). Her debut LP A Technology of Feeling is set to be released January 2026 on Infant Tree.
