Live duos & quartet improvisations:
Adrian Southby – guitar
Tansy Spinks – violin
Mark Wastell – percussion/bowls
Douglas Benford – tenor recorder/objects
Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash
Adrian Southby
Adrian Southby is a multi-instrumentalist and improviser based in Brighton. His work is mainly concerned with exploring sonic possibilities using unorthodox techniques. Long standing projects Simian Carbuncle and Mutter have proved fertile breeding grounds for experimentation with prepared guitars and extended techniques. He regularly performs in Brighton and London with a number of collaborators and ensembles, and is a regular participant with Brighton’s Safehouse collective.
phonocene.bandcamp.com
Tansy Spinks
Multi-disciplinary artist and performer, Tansy Spinks’ practice includes photography, sound, video, drawing, painting, text based and written works. She received her PhD researching site-specific sound as a performative practice from LCC, (CRiSAP), University of the Arts London, with David Toop, Angus Carlyle and Cathy Lane. She studied Fine Art in Leeds, has an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art and is a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music, London (violin teaching). As Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Middlesex University, (on PhD, MA, BA and exchange programmes), she has also held posts as a Lecturer in Illustration and Fine Art at Camberwell College of Art, UAL, acted as EE for the BA Photography and Media courses at Hertfordshire, Manchester Metropolitan, Plymouth University and external advisor for Fine Art course validations. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, SFHEA. She has also exhibited widely both at home and abroad. Photographic images have been purchased for several collections including the National Media Museum, Bradford and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. Major publishers of book and CD covers have used her visual work commercially. More recently, she has been a regular member of The London Improvisers Orchestra, the weekly London Improvisation Workshop (with Eddie Prevost) and has performed in many alternative venues such as Café Oto, Iklectik, South London Gallery, Beaconsfield, Whitstable Biennale fringe and for many promoters such as Ad Lib, Konsztrukting Soundz, Avant Garden, Cozy Nook, Jazz Rumours, Luft, Flim Flam, Babble & Squeak, The Instant Orchestra (Latitude) and The Sound Bureau, playing alongside many notable performers of live improvisation, on violin, objects and with voice. Recent music was devised for artist film-makers Anne Robinson shown at APT and Keith Piper shown at Tate Britain. Tansy lives and works in London. https://tansyspinks.com/sound-
Mark Wastell
Mark Wastell is a versatile improvising musician who has played a central role in the British improvised music scene for over a quarter of a century. He has performed and recorded extensively and his varied resume includes projects with Derek Bailey, Phil Durrant, John Butcher, Lasse Marhaug, Rhodri Davies, Simon H. Fell, Burkhard Beins, John Tilbury, Mattin, Mark Sanders, Tony Conrad, Evan Parker, Tim Barnes, Bernhard Günter, Keith Rowe, John Zorn, Peter Kowald, Joachim Nordwall, Otomo Yoshihide, Paul Dunmall, David Toop, Alan Wilkinson, Max Eastley, Hugh Davies, Julie Tippetts, Alan Skidmore, Mike Cooper, Chris Abrahams, Stewart Lee, Clive Bell, Arild Andersen, Jan Bang, Maggie Nicols, Thurston Moore and David Sylvian.
https://www.
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 having been a regular contributor to the Lonely Impulse Collective. His collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Iris Colomb, Tom Ward, Dominic Lash, Mirei Ya, Georgina Brett, Sue Lynch, Blanca Regina, poet Tamar Yoseloff, Angharad Davies, sculptor Rob Olins, Matt Atkins, Lina Lapelyte, Marjolaine Charbin, Sylvia Hallett, Steve Beresford, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, John Edwards, Jennifer Allum, Clive Bell, Emily Shapiro, Verity Lane and many others.
http://dbenford.bandcamp.com/
