Chris Hill is an improvising musician, sound artist and event promoter. Based in London he regularly plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Eddie Prévost’s workshop group and with many others on the London scene. More recent collaborations and releases have been with Phil Morton (Project 50:50), Matt Atkins (Map & Territory; Moonside Tapes, 2023, Meanderable; Grisaille 81, 2024), Stephan Barrett (Dawn and Soil Bound; MRM 75, 2023), Microtonal Music (Moonside Tapes, 2023), Ed Shipsey as Egg & Crisp (Making a Meal of Things; MRM 47, 2021, Suckle Time; Astral Sewage Epiphany no.1, 2023, Cleverness Ferments Meat; Chocolate Monk 614, 2024) and Alan Newcombe and James O’Sullivan as LUFT (Scatter Archive, 2024).
discountgnostic.bandcamp.com
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.
adambohman.bandcamp.com
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, 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, Clive Bell, Emily Shapiro, Verity Lane and many others.
dbenford.bandcamp.com
Georgina Brett studied undergraduate music at Edinburgh University under Peter Nelson and Nigel Osborne, focusing on contemporary music study and techniques. On the strength of her final electronic compositions and her compositional work as music director of the university theatre company Georgina secured a scholarship to The Banff Centre in Canada to study composition and a bursary fund to study an MA at Birmingham University under Jonty Harrison. In early 2000’s Georgina worked on a series of binaurally recorded fieldwave CD releases of the environment of eco-festivals and since 2003 she has explored the territories of the voice and delay pedals making collages of vocal sound, usually non-verbal. In 2012 Georgina began Tuesdays Post : Live Progressive Ambient in order to create a platform for artists who explore acoustic instruments and electronics, focussing on music both eccentric/eclectic/electro-acoustic and also with a sense of aesthetic beauty.
www.georginabrett.co.uk
Iris Colomb is an artist, poet, improviser, curator, editor, and translator based in London. Her practice merges poetry and other art forms to explore various relationships between visual and verbal forms of text through projects involving performance, poetic book-objects, experimental translation, and improvisation. She has been resident artist and poet at the Centre For Recent Drawing, she is now the Co-Editor of HVTN Press, the founder and curator of the investigative poetry & performance platform SLANT, as well as a member of the interdisciplinary collective No Such Thing, half of the performance duo Soft Play with poet and artist Paul Ingram, and half of the sound and text duo [something’s happening] with composer Daryl Worthington (Beachers). She is currently working as a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton. Her poems have also appeared in a number of UK magazines and anthologies, as well as Russian, Austrian, Spanish, German, Brazilian and US publications. Iris’ visual works have been showcased in collective exhibitions in the UK, France, Austria, and Ukraine. Her artist books have been collected by the National Poetry Library as well as Chelsea College of Art’s Special Collection since 2016. She has been curating exhibitions and events seeking possibilities beyond the traditional format of poetry readings since 2015. Each of her events is a unique live experiment, merging poetry and other art forms including film, visual art, sound, and movement.
skronkimprov.bandcamp.com//iris-colomb
Ed Shipsey is a musician active on the improvisation scene. Along with the many collaborations he is involved in he promotes the improvisation and spoken word event Hard Work.
Mario Guarnieri is a London-based free-improvisational drummer collaborating and playing live in different musical combos. He attends Stuart Wilding’s Lo Fi Ensemble workshops and Eddie Prèvost’ London Improvisation Workshop. Some of his improvisation work has been recorded and broadcast on Soho Radio (OTL Show, Ben Watson) Mario also releases his solo work of experimental/electronic music on Bandcamp under the moniker of Patasonus and has also been broadcast on Resonance FM (A Duck In A Tree, :zoviet*france:; Sonic Imperfections, Nigel Bryant; and Gwaith Sŵn’s Sonic Darts). During the 90’s and 00’s Mario was the drummer with The Positively Testcard, known mainly for their live performances of upbeat and very danceable penny whistling Kwela tunes. Performances included Glastonbury 2007 (Left Field Stage), and live sessions for BBC Radio programmes such as: Andy Kershaw and (the late) Charlie Gillett, plus appearances on Loose Ends, The Arts Hour, Mel and Sue, Phil Jupitus and more.
