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, so as to shape an enduring document of the guitar’s potential.
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, and co-ordinates Project 50:50 with Phil Morton.
Alan Newcombe was a member of the London Musicians Collective in the mid 80’s and since returning to live playing has been involved in MOWO, the Skronk sessions, the London Improvisation Workshop, Babble and Squeak, No Computers and the 50/50 project. More recent performances include a quartet with Eddie Prevost, Dominic Lash and NO Moore, a nonet curated by James O’Sullivan, and duos with Chris Hill and Keisuke Matsui.
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. She has been curating exhibitions and events seeking possibilities beyond the traditional format of poetry readings since 2015 and is one half of the performance duos Soft Play with Paul Ingram and composer Daryl Worthington [something’s happening].
Ed Shipsey – is a musician active on the improvisation scene and has recently fallen in love with Leigh On Sea.
Dave Fowler – Has collaborated with an endless list of players including Jim Dvorak, Alan Wilkinson, Roberto Bellatalla, Harrison Smith, Neil Metcalfe, Elton Dean, Maggie Nicols, Jerry Wigens, Sue Lynch, London Improvisers Orchestra and many others. He is one of the finest, most responsive, dynamic, listening drummers out there, but far too busy playing and enjoying music to maintain an online presence!
Jordan Muscatello is a London-based bassist predominantly active in improvised music. A frequent attendee of Eddie Prévost’s weekly workshop, he has performed with many members of London’s community of improvising musicians and was a regular member of Rick Jensen’s Apocalypse Jazz Unit.
Matt Atkins is a London based sound and visual artist whose principal interests are reductionism, chance, repetition and texture. He uses objects, percussion instruments, occasionally a laptop and cassette recorders to create sound collages in both the recorded medium and live, often in collaborative performances.
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