Doors 7.30 | music 8pm | £10 cash
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Lawrence Casserley
“…the certainty is that Lawrence Casserley can be more innovative and creative than many of the ringleaders of the young generation of ‘laptoppers’.” Rui Eduardo Paes
Lawrence Casserley (born Essex, England, 1941) has devoted his career to the creation and promotion of live performance electronic music in a wide variety of ways for more than fifty years. In 1967 he became one of the first students of electronic music on the new course at the Royal College of Music, London, taught by Tristram Cary. His career continued at the Royal College of Music, where he became Professor-in-Charge of Studios and Adviser for Electroacoustic Music.
Since taking early retirement from the RCM in 1995 he has worked with many of the leading improvisers, particularly Evan Parker and his Electracoustic Ensemble. While he focuses primarily on the real-time transformation of other musicians’ sounds, he also uses voice, percussion, home-made instruments and found objects as separate sound sources or inputs for his self-designed Signal Processing Instrument.
Casserley’s instrumental approach to live computer sound processing is the hallmark of his work, which is documented on more than forty releases; he has performed and given workshops throughout Europe and in North and South America, Asia and Japan. Current collaborations include Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Philipp Wachsmann, Trevor Taylor, Gianni Mimmo, Martin Mayes, Nicola Baroni, Martin Hackett, Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash, Jeffrey Morgan, Harri Sjöström, Yoko Miura, Mia Zabelka and Viv Corringham. He is a regular member of Oxford Improvisers.
Phil Marks
Phil Marks has played in the electro-acoustic band bark! for over thirty years, was a member of the Alan Tomlinson trio for many years and has also played for many years with pianist Stephen Grew and saxophonist Mick Beck along with many others.
Dominic Lash
Dominic Lash is a double-bassist and guitarist. His most regular current collaborators include John Butcher, Angharad Davies, Heather Roche, Pat Thomas, and Alex Ward. He runs the label Spoonhunt and curates the Cambridge improvised music series Soundhunt with N.O. Moore.
Massimo Magee
Massimo Magee is a writer, artist and musician based in London. His work is wide-ranging, including multimedia fiction, text art, sound and image audiovisual digital art pieces, digital visual art, experimental music (improvised, composed and everything in between), free jazz, radically extended saxophony, electronics, data manipulation and much more. He is the creator of a form of art he calls Audiovisual Digital Abstraction. In improvised music, he has worked with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Marc Edwards, Eddie Prévost, Tony Irving, Ken Ikeda, and many more.
