Adam Bohman, a London-based composer, performer and artist, has ploughed a singular path in music since the mid-70s. He studied with Phil Wachsmann at the City Lit in the early 80s. This led to the formation of Morphogenesis, an innovative live electro-acoustic group. A workshop group at the Cockpit Theatre around the same time spawned Diastolic Murmurs, a music theatre duo with artist Crow. Since then, he has been very active in the free improvised music scene of London – playing in many ad hoc combinations and organising concerts. He is a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra. Over the years, he has recorded sessions for BBC Radio 3 and his music is broadcast regularly. He has toured in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Japan.
Sue Lynch (saxophone, clarinet, flute) currently runs ‘The Horse Improvised Music Club’ with Adam Bohman, Hutch Demouilpied and Adrian Northover. Has performed with Adam Bohman, Eddie Prevost, Anna Homler, Richard Sanderson, Steve Noble, Crystabel Riley, Caroline Kraabel and Sharon Gal. Currently performs with the Psychedelic Afro Beat Sudanese band ‘The Scorpios’. In 2016 she formed, ‘Paradise Yard’, an electro acoustic ensemble, featuring women improvisers, performing at Iklectik, Cafe Oto and The ICA. In 2018,she performed at 3 Klange Tag Music &Word Festival, Switzerland with Hildegard Kleeb, at Womad BBC Stage and, Tusk Festival and Guess Who Festival with The Scorpios. Solo performance at Pied Nu Festival, Le Havre 2019. Recent releases with FMR records with ‘Dial’, a quartet featuring, Sue Lynch, Dawid Frydyk, John Edwards and Dave Fowler and ‘Secant/Tangent’ (dxdy recordings) with Crystabel Riley and Nathan Moore.
John Trice is a London-based musician, artist, designer and co-curator known for his significant contributions to the UK free improvisation and experimental music scene. John hosted a vibrant live music and arts venue and a podcast spinning and discussing an eclectic mix of rare records before founding Shrike Records with Mark Davies. Dedicated to documenting the raw energy and subtle interplay of avant-garde and improvised music by renowned performers such as John Butcher, Steve Beresford, Sophie Agnel, Alex Ward, Caroline Kraabel, John Edwards, Rachel Musson, Steve Noble, Charles Hayward and Pat Thomas, the label’s catalogue is preserved in the British Library National Sound Archive. John creates the artwork for releases inspired by each unique sonic expression and regularly contributes to Lo-Fi and London Improvisors workshops and Ben Watson’s ResonanceFM show, Late Lunch With Out to Lunch.
Tony Hardie-Bick is a musician and entrepreneur whose interests in electronics and music overlap significantly. An early musical epiphany while touring with legendary punk band Sham 69 inspired him to design and build a series of digital musical instruments Commercial success followed with his design for the world’s first touch screen that responds to the sound of fingertip impacts. Tony’s recent return to musical instrument design has seen his distorting filter algorithms licensed to Ableton in 2022, followed by the construction of apparatus for listening to the sound of cities, live, in real time, anywhere in the world. The city sounds are filtered and distorted using a radical new instrument, as yet unnamed, in dialogue with other musicians.
