Originally billed as a duo of Ingar Zach and Derek Bailey, John Butcher stood in for Bailey at the last minute.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Since the 1960’s Oliverios has had a profound influence on generations of musicians through her work with myth and ritual, improvisation and meditation.
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
An contradictory guitarist, he’s equally at home in slow, halting acoustic improvisation or piercing minimal examinations of electric guitar.
Lo-fidelity sheets of parinirvanic mangled tone get driven into oblivion by two longstanding gurus of the Northern England primitivist noise.
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.