Doors 7.30 | music 8pm | £10 door cash only
An evening of improvised and experimental music. Solo – trio – quartet
Matthew Grigg is Bristol based musician and concert organiser active in improvised and noise musics.
“somehow treads an impossible line between fragile beauty and gnarled anger” – Phil England, The Wire
“focuses primarily on intuitively creating sound on the electric guitar. Influences such as avant-garde, musique-concrête and noise are never far away in his idiosyncratic sound palette…” – New Wave of Jazz
“I have no idea how Grigg plays his instrument, but it is barely recognizable as a guitar.” – FdW, Vital Weekly
Martin Hackett is part of Oxford Improvisers, the London Improvisers Orchestra, Le Grand Orchestre de Muzzix of Lille, and the on-line ensemble Blank Canvas Octet. Current projects include the trio ‘Tern’ with Emil Karlsen and Philipp Wachsmann, and as yet unnamed trios with John Bissett and Julian Faultless, and with Phil Morton and Nick Branton
Dominic Lash is a freely improvising double bassist and electric guitarist who the Free Jazz Collective has called an “exceptional creative musician”. He also both writes and performs composed music and, as an academic, researches and writes about film.
Since the beginning of 2022 he has been based in Cambridge, where he organizes the Soundhunt improvised music series, with the guitarist N.O. Moore, on the last Sunday of every month at Thrive on Norfolk Street
Born in Canada, clarinetist Heather Roche trained in England, lived in Germany for 7 years and now lives in London.
She has played with Apartment House since 2016, with ensembles and orchestras including Musikfabrik (Cologne), the WDR Orchestra (Cologne), the London Symphony Orchestra (London), the London Sinfonietta (London) and has premiered many solo works for her instrument.
“What makes all of this so fully absorbing is how Roche has completely internalized extended techniques for clarinet into her playing, with nothing sounding forced or contrived.” – Point of Departure
