London Tour, Sun 28 Feb++ ◉ MSP/piano/+, solo & w London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO), Sue Lynch / Hutch Demouilpied, Adrian Northover & others ◉ Música Dispersa (@ New River Studios), Noizemaschin!! (@ Amersham Arms), The Horse Improv Club (@ /i’klectik/ Art-lab)…

I keenly look forward to return to London at the end of February and the first half of March for a tour that will not only involve solo work, but also collaborations with some of the many brilliant improvising musicians on the London scene.

Following below is a list of the dates & general info on me, followed by info on each show in more detail:

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Solo electronica

Música Dispersa @ New River Studios, 199 Eade Road, N4 1DN

Sun 28 Feb

CANCELLED due to flight schedule problem

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Solo electronica

Noizemaschin!! @ Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, SE14 6TY

(Rail: New Cross)

Tue 01 Mar, Set 2, 9:30pm

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3 shows at

/i’klectik/ Art-lab, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG

(Tube: Lambeth North)

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Indo-piano++, w Jazz Thali:

Adrian Northover, Harvir Sahota (ਹਰਵੀਰ ਸਹੋਤਾ), Tasos Stamou (Τάσος Στάμου), and

Mike Cooper

Fri 04 Mar, 8pm

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Laptop | piano w the great London Improvisers Orchestra

Sun 06 Mar 8:30pm

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Laptop | piano – solo & w Sue Lynch & Hutch Demouilpied

@ The Horse Improv Club @ /i’klectik/ Art-lab

Tue 08 Mar 9pm

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◉ Joe Lasqo (keyboards | laptop | objects)

Pianist / laptopist Joe Lasqo studied classical music in India; computer/electronic music at MIT, Columbia, Berkeley/CNMAT; has been a long-time performing modern & avant jazz musician; & has lived, played and listened in several Asian and European countries (now in San Francisco). He’s keen on the application of artificial intelligence techniques to improvisation and the meeting of traditional Asian musics with the 21st century.

Joe had a weekly solo residency for 3½ years+ in the afternoon piano series at San Francisco’s legendary Viracocha, and has appeared recently with Bruce Ackley and Steve Adams of ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Aaron Bennett’s Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra, Phillip Greenlief’s Orchesperry, his own Renga-kai (連歌会), Mukaiji-kai (霧海箎会), and Fushigi Kenkyūkai (不思議研究会) ensembles, synthesist Thomas Dimuzio, clarinetist/vocalist Beth Custer, pianist Thollem McDonas, percussionist Suki O’Kane, sound artists Joe Snape (UK) & Lucie Vítková (Czech Rep.), technodivas / electronic musicians Pamela Z & Viv Corringham (NYC/London) and many others. He’s recently resumed a solo residency at San Francisco’s remarkable PianoFight performance complex.

au quotidien, a new album with German-Swedish saxist/flautist Biggi Vinkeloe, master drummer Donald Robinson, and cello madman Teddy Rankin-Parker is in production for release in early 2016.

◉ Tue 01 Mar | solo laptop, Noizemaschin!! London #4 @ Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, SE14 6TY (Rail: New Cross), Set 2, 9:30pm

Experimental audio and video arts. Entry 5£.

As curator, composer Sam Gillies, says:

“The month that brought you ‘Pi Day’ also brings you Noizemaschin!! #4!….”

NoizeMaschin!! is a series of concerts whose origin lies on banks of the lovely Swan River in West Australia, having started at Perth’s Artifactory, and now metastasised to London. The paramount design constraint of the NoizeMaschin!! concept is rapid flow, where performers pass the flow like a ball to each other in a fast-paced, ever-changing sonic experience.

Sam Gillies is a composer and sound artist with an interest in the function of noise as both a musical and communicative code in music and art. His work treads the line between the musically beautiful and ugly, embracing live performance, multimedia and installation art forms to create alternating sound worlds of extreme fragility and overwhelming density. Sam’s music has been programmed at both national and international conferences and festivals, including the Test Tone Series at Superdeluxe, Tokyo and the International Computer Music Conference.

Also appearing in this show – Set 1, 8-9pm:

◉ Xavier Velastin:

Combining signal processing with unorthodox usages of traditional instruments such as amplified hammered dulcimers, Xavier Velastin forges a path forward to new sounds.

◉ Bombshell –  Magpie music, exploring the shiny bits of all genres with a focus on face-paced, dark, bass music with melodies from post-apocalyptic blues landscapes.

Genre: electronica, industrial, hiphop, bluesy, chameleon, fusion

Hometown: Outer space.

◉ Natalie Galpern: Vocals, feedback and electronics from visiting New York sound artist and performer.

Her creative process involves explorations of the voice using computer interactive technology and recorded sound.

◉ Francesca Ter-Berg: Cellist extraordinaire

Francesca is a cellist specialising in klezmer and gypsy music, which she has studied with internationally renowned musicians and teachers, most recently the legendary Manouche maestro Tcha Limberger. She performs with acclaimed folk singers Sam Lee and Katy Carr and has recently collaborated with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Mercury Award Winner Talvin Singh (ਤਲਵੀਨ ਸਿੰਘ).

Francesca teaches klezmer for the Jewish Music Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and frequently hosts world music shows live on Resonance 104.4FM.

◉ Miguel Angel Ortiz Pérez: “Crisis, Stress, Insomnia, Despair. Can we enjoy music inspired by the taxing demands of contemporary life? We’ll find out…”

Miguel Angel Ortiz Pérez is a Mexican composer and sound artist from Hermosillo Sonora, now based in London. He’s been involved in a vast range of activities related to modern music & sound art, working as a composer, sound engineer, lecturer, score editor, promoter & sound designer.

He also is a member as a performer in ensembles such as BLISS, Control Group and M&B; where he may play anything from acoustic instruments like cello & trumpet, to laptop improv and performance with bio-instruments or hyperinstruments.

Miguel graduated from the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, México before pursuing a Masters degree and PhD at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, and now works as a research associate at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Also appearing in the show – Set 2, 9:30-10:30pm:

◉  raxil4: Analogue dronescapes meet the twin worlds of noise and improvised electronics

raxil4 is sound and sculptural artist Andrew Page… His dark brooding dronescapes combine analog and digital sound sources, including field recordings, detuned radios, computers, turntables, CD & mp3 players, tape recorders, 8-bit gameboys, handmade electronic devices, broken vintage equipment and handmade sculptural instruments (made from mainly found materials such as hospital crutches, driftwood and bones reclaimed from the River Thames).

◉  VeRa Spektor – Apocalyptically rhythmic free-noise improvisation featuring no-input feedback, radio, and DIY electronics

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3 shows follow at /i’klectik/ Art-lab, London’s leading platform for visual, performance and sound art, alongside maker-tech for social and community development.

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◉ Fri 04 Mar | Indo-piano++ w Jazz Thali @ /i’klectik/ Art-lab, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG (Tube: Lambeth North), 8pm

Saxophonist Adrian Northover and I have been exploring our joint interest in the intersection points between Indian music & modern jazz, and this has led to tonight’s concert with his colleagues Harvir Sahota (ਹਰਵੀਰ ਸਹੋਤਾ) and Tasos Stamou (Τάσος Στάμου) from Jazz Thali.

I’m also delighted that we’ll be joined by great avant lap steel guitarist and electronic musician Mike Cooper, “The icon of post-everything music” (Lawrence English)

Jazz Thali are a London-based jazz/traditional/fusion instrumental quartet interpreting musical pieces from retro Bollywood and from classical Hindustani tradition, from Greek rebetika music, gypsy riffs and jazz tunes. The band has developed a unique multicultural music style, completing the missing links between Eastern and Western traditions and orchestrations. Extending the techniques of their instruments (tablas, saxophone, bouzouki, chord organ & double bass), Jazz Thali produce sounds that resemble both native styles from older traditions as well as contemporary music styles, in a playful manner.

Line-up:

◉ Adrian Northover: alto & soprano sax

Adrian plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra, The Remote Viewers, Ensemble Trip-Tik, Vlad Miller’s Notes From Underground, Indo-fusion band Dha (धा), Eardrum and other long-term and ephemeral projects within the improvised music scene, including solo saxophone recitals.

◉ Harvir Sahota (ਹਰਵੀਰ ਸਹੋਤਾ): Tablas & Tarambuka

Harvir is a renowned Tabla player who was born and brought up in South West London. Currently working with various instrumental projects and DJ’s right across the spectrum.

He is also the instigator of Sahota Sounds, an exciting project which features original collaborations in the field of contemporary world-music.

◉ Tasos Stamou (Τάσος Στάμου): bouzouki & electronics

Tasos Stamou (Τάσος Στάμου) is an experimental music composer/performer and an instrument maker, as well as a multi-instrumentalist interested to express through different arrangements the essence of traditional music in conjunction with contemporary music.

As a member of Jazz Thali he has been exploring the possibilities of the Greek bouzouki as a string instrument resembling other traditional ones, such as the Indian mandolin or sitar, the turkish saz, etc.

◉ Plus special guest, Mike Cooper: lap steel guitar and electronics

For the past 50 years, Mike Cooper has been an international artistic explorer, constantly pushing the boundaries.

Playing lap steel guitar, electronics, and singing, he is an improviser and a composer, a visual and installation artist, film maker, and radio arts producer.

Initially a folk-blues guitarist he is one of the principal instigators of the acoustic blues boom in the U.K. in the mid ’60s, arguably stretching the possibilities of that genre even more than figures such as Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, etc. by taking it into the more avant-garde musical areas occupied by guitar innovators such as Elliott Sharp, Keith Rowe, Fred Frith and Marc Ribot.

The unexpected and unconventional possibilities of the rebetika repertoire as revealed in Mike’s album Rembetronika with vocalist and sound artist Viv Corringham (hear it at archive.org: here…) were the inspiration for a wonderfully fun New Rebetika tour I did with Viv in California last November (link).

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◉ Sun 06 Mar | laptop, piano, objects, conduction w London Improvisers Orchestra @ /i’klectik/ Art-lab, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG (Tube: Lambeth North), approx. 8:30pm

A great tradition continues at /i’klectik/ Art-lab. Entry 5£/7£.

The London Improvisers Orchestra is dedicated to free and conducted improvisation, drawing on a large and shifting pool of improvising musicians from London and beyond.

LIO was born from the embers of Butch Morris’s Contemporary Music Network tour in 1997, which featured musicians from London’s thriving improvising community in a group known as The London Skyscraper, using Morris’s “conduction” techniques for large-scale improvising.

Steve Beresford, Evan Parker and Ian Smith, who were part of the Skyscraper group, and later also Caroline Kraabel & Pat Thomas, who were not, discussed the possibility of continuing this approach to creative music-making, and of putting together an orchestra of improvisers.

The core of the group is generally twelve to forty players. There have been guest appearances from many visiting international improvisers, such as Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Axel Dorner, Anna Homler, Susan Alcorn, Annie Lewandowski, Charlotte Hug, Sainkho Namtchylak (Сайнхо Намчылак), Jaap Blonk and many more.

LIO has released CDs on Emanem and PSI, sometimes featuring performances at the Freedom of the City festivals curated by Evan Parker, Martin Davidson and Eddie Prevost.

I am especially pleased to do this show, not only to conduct and play with such superb musicians, but also to do it at the cozy and wonderful /i’klectik/ Art-lab, which has become a strong centre of “makerspace arts” in a way that reminds me of Noisebridge and Grey Area Foundation from my home base in San Francisco… (however, /i’klectik/ have the distinction of offering, in addition to maker-tech, adventuresome tapas and excellent food and drink…).

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◉ Tue 08 Mar | laptop & piano, solo and w Sue Lynch & Hutch Demouilpied, The Horse Improv Club @ /i’klectik/ Art-lab, 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG (Tube: Lambeth North), 9pm

Another show at the the great /i’klectik/ Art-lab, with two of Europe’s most daring wind players. Entry 5£/7£.

Sue Lynch is currently a member of David Petts’ Remote Viewers, with John Edwards, Mark Sanders, Caroline Kraabel, Adrian Northover and David Petts, and Helen McDonald’s Future Groove, as well as being an alumna of the legendary Happy End Big Band. Sue is also a member and co-arranger for Hogcallin’, a Mingus tribute ensemble.

She also performs with Adam Bohman, Eddie Prevost, Jennifer Allum, Hutch Demouilpied, Richard Sanderson, Steve Noble and Sharon Gal (שרון גל).

She is co-promoter of The Horse Improvised Music Club with Adam Bohman and Hutch Demouilpied.

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Hutch Demouilpied is a composer, musician, sound designer and songwriter who is based in London. Her songs and music have been used in film and television projects around the world and she’s collaborated with film-makers, animators, artists, choreographers and theatre directors on various projects as a composer and sound designer. As an accomplished musician she plays trumpet & flute and has her own albums released as well as playing as a session musician with many artists.

I am honoured to join these great musicians, in addition to doing some solo work, in this show.

Also appearing in the show:

◉ Marcio Mattos (cello), Neil Metcalfe (flute) [FB], John Rangecroft (sax).

◉ Jean-Michel van Schouwburg (Vocals), Adam Bohman (amplified objects/text), Adrian Northover (saxes), & Daniel Thompson (prepared guitar).

◉ Hutch Demouilpied (trumpet/flute), Sue Lynch (tenor sax/clarinet).

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Come vibrate with us as San Francisco and London momentarily overlap!

 

どうぞ。。。

Joe