Live quartet improvisation:
Jamie Coleman – trumpet
Florence Uniacke – vocals/misc
Daniel Thompson – guitar
Douglas Benford – harmonium/objects
doors 7.30 | music 8pm | £5/8 cash
Jamie Coleman
Jamie Coleman is an accomplished trumpet player and has played with Nathaniel Catchpole, the Cinematic Orchestra. Alex James, John Edwards and Eddie Prévost and many other improvisers. “Coleman’s slow trumpet lines had a tenderness that evoked more physical kinds of intimacy. The trumpet became breath, warmth, vibration in a way that got the skin prickling, the senses suddenly sharpened.” The Wire.
jami
Florence Uniacke
Florence Uniacke is a poet and artist practicing with movement and sound. Published works include Can Get in No Particular Place (Extract, 2016), Suiving (Ma Bibiliotheque, 2020), Vocable (Crater Press, 2023), Speeches of Mary (Veer 2, forthcoming).
mabibliotheque/Florence-Uniacke
soundcloud.com
Daniel Thompson
Daniel was born in Norfolk, England. Largely self-taught, he moved to London in 2005 and studied with the guitarist John Russell for two years. Since then, he has performed at many venues and festivals across the UK and Europe. In addition, he has also been organising concerts including the ‘The Shoreditch Church Concert Series’ with Benedict Taylor. Currently you can hear and see Daniel performing solo, with other musicians in many ad-hoc improvising situations and in long-term collaborations or ‘working groups’.
Recent collaborations include performances and/or recordings with Neil Metcalfe, Steve Noble, Caroline Kraabel, Max Reed, John Edwards, Benedict Taylor, Tom Jackson, Vid Drasler, Evan Parker, Adam Bohman, Sue Lynch, Alex Ward, Kay Grant, Roland Ramanan, Adrian Northover, Marcello Magliocchi, Alan Wilkinson, Colin Webster amongst others. Daniel is the founder and artistic director of Empty Birdcage Records, a label dedicated to releasing documents of free improvisation.
emptybirdcagerecords.bandcamp
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 being a regular contributor to the Lonely Impulse Collective. His collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Dominic Lash, 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, and Sue Lynch.
dbenford.bandcamp.com
