Live trio improvisations to visuals, including a reading by Calum Storrie:
Sofia Vaisman-Maturana – cello
Stuart Wilding – percussion
Douglas Benford – tenor recorder/objects
Calum Storrie – scores/reading
Doors 7.30 | music 8pm | £10 cash
Calum Storrie is an artist, writer and designer. His art practice takes a number of forms from drawings of imaginary architecture to collage and spontaneous drawings of live performances. He has created graphic scores for Steve Beresford, George Garford, Verity Lane, Mark Sanders and the Ligeti Quartet. In a previous existence he designed exhibitions for, among others, the Royal Academy, and Wellcome Collection. The film ‘Calum Storrie; Drawing etc’ is on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Stuart Wilding is an improvising percussionist, playing a mixture of junk percussion, lap harp and cello. He is active in several current collaborations: Ghost Mind, Longstone, Lo-fi Ensemble, Mike Adcock duo, Mark Hewins duo, Pete Robson duo, Professori Sognare, Madrona, the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra and Chris Cundy’s Speed Hobby. He currently runs the ‘Lo-fi Improvised music Workshops’ in Camberwell and Improvox events at Bridewell Theatrel. In the past he has worked in a number of smaller improvising ensembles and with the Flying Down Trio, Hither Green Drone Orchestra and Makeshift. He was also a performer and musician with the Hand in Glove Performance Group.
https://stuartwilding.
Sofia Vaisman-Maturana is a Chilean music composer, poet, and improviser. She first arrived to London in 2018 to do her MA in Music Composition at King’s College London. Upon her arrival, she approached the world of free improvisation, performing with the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) (2018-2021). In 2022, together with Caroline Kraabel she co-found ONe Orchestra New made up exclusively of women and trans people. During the pandemic, she was invited to collaborate with the Lonely Impulse Collective (LIC) (2020-2022), from where she regularly published more than fifty miniatures and soundscapes, some of which were been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM. She has improvised with several international artists in sessions at 100 Years Gallery, Cafe OTO, IKLEKTIK, El Internado de Valparaíso, and Festival Acéfalo. She has also produced music for several plays, and her compositions have been premiered at Sala Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico City), Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (Santiago, Chile), the LMTA Balkono theater (Vilnius, Lithuania), and the Midtown Arts & Theatre Center Houston (USA), among others. In 2015 she published her first collection of poems, ‘Pasillos de tiempos precoces’ (Editorial Planeta de papel, Valparaíso, Chile) and her second collection of poems: ‘No le pongamos nombre a lo nuestro’, (Ediciones Puntos suspensivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina) as soon after. In 2019 she was awarded with the second place at Victorina Press Poetry Awards, (London). She writes in Spanish but has translated several of her poems into English. And has performed her work at remarkable events such as FLAWA (2022) and the Tate Late (2022), completing her PhD in Music Composition at King’s College London.
https://sofiavaisman.com/
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 nowadays employs acoustic sources (eg recorders, 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, a member of the trio Small Print Drama with Tom Ward and poet Iris Colomb, and the Multiple Melodicas group. His collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Dominic Lash, Blanca Regina, poets Tamar Yoseloff, 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/
