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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John Bisset is a guitarist, improviser, composer, and film maker living in London.
‘I was taught piano from aged five, but at eleven I got hold of a guitar on which I was left to my own devices. My relationship with the guitar continues to enchant and confound me; my attempts at mastery ever elusive. Musical encounters with others disrupt my intentions, undercut my expectations, generate new sounds and extended techniques which are enriching, and somehow impossible to access in solo playing.’
In the 1970’s, while still a schoolboy, I was part of the Manchester Musician’s Collective, whose members included Trevor Wishart (pioneer of electronics and improvising vocalist), Tony Friel (cellist/bass player with the Fall) and Simon Holt (composer and artist). This eclectic mix of musicians and the correspondingly diverse gigs we put on at Manchester’s Band on the Wall was rich and wondrous, and I’ve continued this diversity, working in improvisation, songs, movie making, and organising events.’
https://johnbisset.bandcamp.com/
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
Andrea Bolzoni is a London-based guitarist mainly involved in freely improvised music. His practice is informed by a background in jazz and electroacoustic composition, as well as the many teachers, mentors and collaborators he has encountered over the last 20 years. His work is primarily driven by the question “what makes sound, sound?” Current projects see him collaborating with Kostas Chondros, Francesco Forzani, Barbara Mukoda, Elien De Schryver, Mario Guarnieri, among others. Andrea’s sounds can be found on labels such as Leo Records, Creative Sources, Setola di Maiale, Auand, Bunch, and Latent Space.
Iris Colomb is an artist, poet, improviser, curator, editor, and translator based in London. Her practice merges poetry and other art forms to explore various relationships between visual and verbal forms of text through projects involving performance, poetic book-objects, experimental translation, and improvisation. She has been resident artist and poet at the Centre For Recent Drawing, she is now the Co-Editor of HVTN Press, the founder and curator of the investigative poetry & performance platform SLANT, as well as a member of the interdisciplinary collective No Such Thing, half of the performance duo Soft Play with poet and artist Paul Ingram, and half of the sound and text duo [something’s happening] with composer Daryl Worthington (Beachers). She is currently working as a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton. Her poems have also appeared in a number of UK magazines and anthologies, as well as Russian, Austrian, Spanish, German, Brazilian and US publications. Iris’ visual works have been showcased in collective exhibitions in the UK, France, Austria, and Ukraine. Her artist books have been collected by the National Poetry Library as well as Chelsea College of Art’s Special Collection since 2016. She has been curating exhibitions and events seeking possibilities beyond the traditional format of poetry readings since 2015. Each of her events is a unique live experiment, merging poetry and other art forms including film, visual art, sound, and movement.
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MFN Trio – Alan Newcombe (alto and tenor saxophones), Jordan Muscatello (acoustic bass) and Dave Fowler (percussion)
