Steve Noble – percussion
Alan Wilkinson – saxophone
Douglas Benford – tenor recorder/accordion/objects
Angharad Davies – violin
Marjolaine Charbin – piano/voice
Doors 3pm | music 3.30 | £10/£8 donation at the door
Angharad Davies
Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist based in London working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance. Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation. Much of her work involves collaboration. She has long standing duos with Tisha Mukarji, Dominic Lash and Lina Lapelyte and plays with Common Objects, Cranc and Skogen. She has been involved in projects with Tarek Atui, Tony Conrad, Richard Dawson, Gwenno, Roberta Jean, Jack McNamara, Rie Nakajima, Tim Parkinson, Eliane Radigue, Georgia Ruth and J.G.Thirlwell. Most of her records are released on Another Timbre but she also has releases on Absinth Records, allthatdust, Confront recordings, Emanem, Potlatch, NI VU Ni CONNU and winds measure recordings. Her first orchestral piece was commissioned by LCMF in 2019 : I ble’r aeth y gwrachod i gyd….?/ Where did all the witches go…? She has since been commissioned by Explore Ensemble: Sitting with Emptiness (2022); GBSR duo: Empty Spaces II (2023) and made new pieces for andPlay, Dominic Lash and Heather Roche in 2025.
https://johnbutcher1.bandcamp.
Steve Noble
Steve Noble is London’s leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O’Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more. In the early eighties, Noble played with the Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, before going on to work with the pianist Alex Maguire and with Derek Bailey (including Company Weeks 1987, 89 and 90). He was featured in the Bailey’s excellent TV series on Improvisation for Channel 4 based on his book ‘Improvisation; its nature and practise’. He has toured and performed throughout Europe, Africa and America and currently leads the groups N.E.W (with John Edwards and Alex Ward) and DECOY (with John Edwards and Alexander Hawkins).
https://bandcamp.com/tag/
Alan Wilkinson (alto, baritone saxophones, bass clarinet) has for many years been a leading figure in the British Improvised Music Community. His reputation of a full blast, take no prisoners approach was cast in the Leeds based trio Hession/Wilkinson/Fell. Based in London since 1990 his current groups include a long standing trio with John Edwards and Steve Noble, the quartet The Founder Effect with John Coxon, Pat Thomas and Noble, and many collaborations past and present with among others Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann, Thurston Moore, J.Spaceman, Chris Corsano, Konstrukt and Talibam!
Marjolaine Charbin
Marjolaine Charbin is a French pianist performer based in London. After studying sound engineering and later jazz piano at the conservatoire in Brussels, she has developped a practice rooted in improvisation. Her sonic palette moves fluidly between prepared and unprepared piano: inside-piano techniques, objects, contact microphones and voice merge with the keyboard sounds. She has collaborated with a wide range of musicians including Eddie Prévost, Ute Kanngiesser, John Butcher, Phil Durrant, Artur Vidal, Bill Thompson, Chris Cundy, Angharad Davies, Grundik Kassiansky, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, Dominic Lash, Maggie Nichols… as well as with dancers, theatre and film. Drawing from her practice of musical, sonic and philosophical fragments that attracts her attention, Marjolaine approaches performance as a site of discovery and social reconstruction. Latest releases include, on matchless recordings, a duet with Eddie Prévost “The Cry of a Dove Announcing Rain” and “The Art of Noticing” with John Butcher, Ute Kanngiesser and Eddie Prévost, which was listed amongst the 10 best albums of the year 2023 by the New York City Jazz Review. She received a grant from the Arts Council England to develop her creative practice in 2022.
https://marjolainecharbin.
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 and member of the trio Small Print Drama with Tom Ward and Iris Colomb. 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/
