Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash door
Colin Webster
London based saxophonist Colin Webster is quickly establishing himself on the European avant-garde scene. Collaborating with some of the key figures in improvised and experimental music, Webster is known for working from extreme sonic palettes – from minimal to maximal, constantly pushing boundaries.
“The application of circular breathing techniques are essential to this ritual-ready, sustain-heavy sound, it seems. Fans of an ensemble like Phurpa might get as much out of it as jazz cadets into, say, Peter Brötzmann, and if you happen to be the sort of wildcat who likes both, then Vs Amp is likely your kind of journey into sound.” – Noel Gardner, The Quietus
https://colinwebster.bandcamp.
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-
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 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.
http://dbenford.bandcamp.com/
