Doors 7.30 | music 8pm | £10 cash on the door
Advance tickets £8 : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eighteen-ass-improv-evening
Heidi Heidelburg is an anarchic soprano, guitarist, composer and improviser. Her main project is award-winning experimental duo Witch ’n’ Monk, with hybrid flute player Mauricio Velasierra. Their eponymous album was released on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records and named The Guardian’s Contemporary Album of the Month. Witch ‘n’ Monk host and curate the popular Berlin-based series FLUID FORM CLUB for radically creative live music and its convergence with other art forms.
Heidelberg’s other collaborations include HaïKaï – a vocal trio with French vocalists and composers Leïla Martial and Jessica Martin Maresco, Philipp Ruttgers’ North Sea Jazz Festival Commission ‘Twists of HC Andersen’, Ari Benjamin Meyers’ ‘Forecast’ and ‘Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung’ at the Staatsoper Stuttgart. www.heidiheidelberg.com
Laura Moody is composer, cellist, vocalist, songwriter and theatre performer from the UK. Her work focuses on storytelling, ritual, the expressive potential of musicians’ physicality and the transformation of spaces through sound, music and movement. She considers all of her work to be theatre of some kind. In her solo work she explores what is possible using only acoustic cello and voice, drawing on diverse influences to create what she believes are pop songs, although nobody else agrees with this definition. She has also created works for The Hermes Experiment, Phaedra Ensemble, Aldeburgh Festival and is a frequent collaborator at Shakespeare’s Globe and with Radiohead’s Philip Selway. Co-director of the improvising and collaborative group Elysian Collective, she has also worked with Meredith Monk, Bjork, Simon Fisher Turner and Kae Tempest among many others.
angela wai nok hui : a percussionist and sound artist. She uses sounds that are not meant to be, childhood-like sugarcoating to frame and tell the true story of the living, uses sonic elements to bring attention to the phenomena of activism and self-love with a bitter aftertaste.
