Kirke Gross (‘cello), Julia Brüssel (violin), John Bisset (lap steel guitar) and Douglas Benford (tenor recorder / objects)
Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash
Julia Brüssel is dedicated to a wide variety of genres and has a passion for dealing with musical diversity, characteristics, flexibilities and roles. Accordingly, her work includes solo performances both unplugged and with live electronics, but also work as a composer and home producer. In the avant garde/experimental (kraut) rock genres she has played with bands like TheDorf, faUSt, RKet, Horse Lords,..and has led several projects like the experimental string ensemble Liasemble, the Jazzband Julia Brüssel Quartet and is also a co-leader of the band song-improv band hilde. In addition to this she founded various projects of other genres and is currently working on a new project with Ghanaian percussionist Abass Dodoo. Julia has played on numerous jazz and avantgarde festivals (e.g. Berlin Solo Impro, Berlin Jazz Festival, Bezau Beatz (…),and has performed at the Moers Festival many times since 2018. She regularly plays and collaborates with international artists and formations in and outside of Europe.
https://creativesources.
Kirke Gross is a London-based Estonian cellist and improviser. She is active in London music scene as an improviser and as part of different groups in experimental, folk and pop music. She also has her own solo project – Ramilda.
https://m.soundcloud.com/
John Bisset is a guitarist, improviser, composer, and film maker living in London.
‘I was taught piano from aged five, but at eleven I got hold of a guitar on which I was left to my own devices. My relationship with the guitar continues to enchant and confound me; my attempts at mastery ever elusive. Musical encounters with others disrupt my intentions, undercut my expectations, generate new sounds and extended techniques which are enriching, and somehow impossible to access in solo playing.
In the 1970’s, while still a schoolboy, I was part of the Manchester Musician’s Collective, whose members included Trevor Wishart (pioneer of electronics and improvising vocalist), Tony Friel (cellist/bass player with the Fall) and Simon Holt (composer and artist). This eclectic mix of musicians and the correspondingly diverse gigs we put on at Manchester’s Band on the Wall was rich and wondrous, and I’ve continued this diversity, working in improvisation, songs, movie making, and organising events.’
https://johnbisset.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, BBC Radio 3 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, tenor recorder, objects) with the London Improvisers Orchestra and Confront Recordings / Mark Wastell’s The Seen collective and regularly attends Eddie Prevost London improvisers workshop. His collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Dominic Lash, Blanca Regina, poets Tamar Yoseloff and Iris Colomb, Angharad Davies, sculptor Rob Olins, Matt Atkins, Lina Lapelyte, Marjolaine Charbin, Sylvia Hallett, Steve Beresford, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, Dominic Lash, Rachel Musson, Keisuke Matsui, Tom Ward, John Edwards, Jennifer Allum and Sue Lynch.
http://dbenford.bandcamp.com/
