Live quartet improvisation:
Lucia H Chung – electronics
Jordan Muscatello – double bass
Roland Ramanan – trumpet
Douglas Benford – tenor recorder/accordion/objects
Doors 3.30 | music | £10 cash on the door
Lucia H Chung
Lucia H Chung is a Taiwanese experimental noise artist based in London, United Kingdom. She performs and releases music under the alias ‘en creux’ where sound creation springs from her interests and fascinations in the inherent noise floor within audio equipment. She uncovers and reveals such hidden noise via her manipulations with no-input feedback mixing. The volatile nature of feedback and the unpredictable glitch from the excessive energy generated within the equipment becomes her improvisational and compositional strategy. As the word ‘en creux’ suggests, she summons a hollowed out, reversed form of sound from the mixing console.
Lucia’s passion lies in live performance and has regularly performed solo and with collaborators in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America, including Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (CH), Krama Festival (GR), Lisboa Soa Festival (PT), Sanatorium of Sound Festival (PL), Festival Electropixel (FR), Sonorities Festival (NI), Through the Floor Festival (UK) and Supernormal (UK).
She also works as a broadcaster and an independent curator at Happened. She has curated and organised residency programmes and music events around the UK and Europe, including 3-month Taiwanese Experimental Music residency for Music Hackspace at Somerset House Studios, Inland virtual residency between Lacking Sound Fest. (Taiwan) and IKLECTIK (UK), and a panel discussion Going Platinum! on video game music as part of Grounding Practice at Somerset House Studios.
https://encreuxmusic.bandcamp.
Jordan Muscatello
Jordan Muscatello is active in experimental and improvised music in London. Predominantly playing bass, he has been a frequent attendee of Eddie Prévost’s weekly workshop for over a decade and has performed with many members of London’s community of improvising musicians. His regular activities include the noise project West Grealing, playing double bass with the Rick Jensen Trio and with petals and Ed Shipsey as dogs paw trio. He plays electric bass in Diaries of Destruction II, an experimental drone metal project with producer/composer/guitarist Elif Yalvaç, recordings of which were released as an album in 2024. He also operates Spinky Records, releasing noise and beats.
https://spinkyrecords.
Roland Ramanan
Since his first experiences playing with legendary drummer John Stevens in 1989, As well as being a photographer, Ramanan has been a major presence on the London improvised music scene. Constantly exploring the boundaries between composition and improvisation as well as the sound possibilities of the trumpet, he has worked with Peter Brotzmann, Eddie Prevost, Evan Parker, Simon Fell, Marcio Mattos, Alex Ward, Alex Hawkins and Tony Marsh. Ramanan has been a conductor and stalwart of the London Improvisers Orchestra since its inception. He has two recordings on Emanem records (Shaken and Caesura) and also a release on Leo records. Ramanan also plays in the punk, funk, improv trio Vole, released on Babellabel.
http://rolandramanan.com/
Douglas Benford
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, and regularly on BBC Radio 3’s Freeness programme 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, toys, objects) with the London Improvisers Orchestra and Confront Recordings / Mark Wastell’s The Seen collective, as well as being a contributor to the Lonely Impulse Collective. His collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Dominic Lash, Blanca Regina, poets Tamar Yoseloff & Iris Colomb, Angharad Davies, Verity Lane, Clive Bell, sculptor Rob Olins, Matt Atkins, Lina Lapelyte, Marjolaine Charbin, Tilly Coulton, Sylvia Hallett, Steve Beresford, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, John Edwards, Jennifer Allum and Sue Lynch.
http://dbenford.bandcamp.com/
