An afternoon of improvised music with popular combo LUFT – Alan Newcombe (saxes), James O’Sullivan (electric guitar) and Chris Hill (clarinet, objects of noise) and Douglas Benford (miscellaneous instruments), Mario Guarnieri (percussion), Ivor Kallin (viola/violin) and Helena Paul (cello).
Chris Hill is an improvising musician and sound artist. Based in London he regularly plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Eddie Prévost’s workshop group and collaborates and records with Ed Shipsey as Egg & Crisp, James O’Sullivan and Alan Newcombe as LUFT, Matt Atkins and co-ordinates Project 50:50 with Phil Morton.
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James O’Sullivan is a London based experimental guitar player and improvisor who
employs a playful but meticulous approach to the instrument through the bringing together of physicality, resonance, detail, and dynamics. He seeks to co-create a rich, layered, and engaging music that entwines the excitement of the moment with a creative, focused exploration, to shape an enduring document of the guitar’s potential. jamesosullivan.co.uk
Alan Newcombe is a former member of the London Musicians Collective in the mid 80’s and since returning to live playing has been involved in MOWO, the Skronk sessions, the London Improvisation Workshop, Babble and Squeak, No Computers and the 50/50 project. More recent performances include a quartet with Eddie Prevost, Dominic Lash and NO Moore, a nonet curated by James O’Sullivan, and duos with Chris Hill and Keisuke Matsui.
Douglas Benford, composer and sound artist, has been involved in various audio genres and monikers since the late 1980s, performing at institutions in the UK (Bristol’s Arnolfini, London’s Science Museum, Tate Modern, The Roundhouse, ICA and Glasgow’s CCA), festivals worldwide (Mutek, Synch, Transmediale) and has had installation work in numerous UK galleries (London, Swansea, Stroud and Essex). His pieces and performances have been aired on the radio internationally, BBC Radio 3 and the Ambrosia Rasputin show on Resonance FM. After numerous electronica releases and activity in the 90s and 2000s, he now plays using acoustic sources (eg harmonium, tenor recorder, objects) with the London Improvisers Orchestra and Confront Recordings / Mark Wastell’s The Seen collective and regularly attends Eddie Prevost London improvisers workshop. His collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Dominic Lash, Blanca Regina, poets Tamar Yoseloff and Iris Colomb, Angharad Davies, sculptor Rob Olins, Matt Atkins, Lina Lapelyte, Marjolaine Charbin, Sylvia Hallett, Steve Beresford, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, Dominic Lash, Rachel Musson, Keisuke Matsui, Tom Ward, John Edwards, Jennifer Allum and Sue Lynch.
http://dbenford.bandcamp.com/
Ivor Kallin plays viola with Barrel and the London Improvisers Orchestra; bass and vocals with Glowering Figs and words as Ambrosia Rasputin and with John Bisset as Smoo. Ivor Kallin presents a weekly radio show on Resonance FM.
Mario Guarnieri is a London-based free-improvisational drummer collaborating and playing live in different musical combos. He attends Stuart Wilding’s Lo Fi Ensemble workshops and Eddie Prèvost’s London Improvisation Workshop. His work has been recorded and broadcast on Soho Radio and he also releases his solo work on Bandcamp as Patasonus. During the 90’s and 00’s Mario was the drummer with The Positively Testcard, known mainly for their live performances of upbeat and very danceable penny whistling Kwela tunes. Performances included Glastonbury 2007 (Left Field Stage), and live sessions for BBC Radio programmes such as: Andy Kershaw and (the late) Charlie Gillett, plus appearances on Loose Ends, The Arts Hour, Mel and Sue, Phil Jupitus and more.
Helena Paul has been involved in projects, gigs and sessions/workshops with Camilla Saunders / Cancantata (Footloose Community Arts) over many years; improvisation, her compositions, including an opera called Soya Susie; collective work including Burnt Bridges Theatre (1982-6) and Terabac Theatre (2016-17), System 50:50 for improvisers and a regular attendee of the London Improvisers Workshop.
