Helena Paul has been involved in projects, gigs and sessions/workshops with Camilla Saunders / Cancantata (Footloose Community Arts) over many years; improvisation, her compositions, including an opera called Soya Susie; collective work including Burnt Bridges Theatre (1982-6) and Terabac Theatre (2016-17), System 50:50 for improvisers and a regular attendee of the London Improvisers Workshop.
Mario Guarnieri is a London-based drummer/percussionist, interested in playing across and in-between the lines free improvisation, experimental and groove. He is currently playing with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Lo Fi Ensemble and the Eddie Prèvost London Improvisation Workshops. His recent collaborations include Sue Lynch, John Macedo, Ross Lambert, Iris Colomb, Douglas Benford, Ivor Kalin, Helena Paul, Stuart Wilding, Matt Clark, Charlie Folorunsho and many more. Performed at venues/events, including: Ad Lib, Ealing; Hundred Years Gallery; Charles Hayward’s Lewisham Arthouse Series; Adam Bohman’s Improvised Music Concert Series at the Royal Albert; Lev Dudas’ Konsztrukting Soundz; Zen Jerk and ImproVox. Some of these performances have been recorded and broadcast on Resonance FM (‘The Ambrosia Rasputin Show’ and ‘Late Lunch With Out To Lunch’) and Soho Radio (The OTL Show).
John Trice is a London-based musician, designer, and co-curator known for his significant contributions to the UK’s free improvisation and experimental music scene. He is a driving force behind Shrike Records, a London-based label dedicated to documenting the raw energy and subtle interplay of avant-garde and improvised music, as well as being involved with the Lo-Fi and London Improvisors workshops and performing at events such as Adam Bohman’s in New Cross, and the Horse Improv club. As co-curator and producer for Shrike alongside Mark Davies, Trice has been instrumental in releasing vital recordings from the experimental community. He produced the album Elusive, which brings together renowned improvisers like John Butcher and Steve Beresford, and was responsible for the releases by Sophie Agnel, Alex Ward, Caroline Kraabel, John Edwards, Rachel Musson, Albert Newton, Charles Hayward and Pat Thomas amongst others.
Tony Hardie-Bick: Tony Hardie-Bick is a musician and entrepreneur whose interests in electronics and music overlap significantly. An early musical epiphany while touring with legendary punk band Sham 69 inspired him to design and build a series of digital musical instruments Commercial success followed with his design for the world’s first touch screen that responds to the sound of fingertip impacts. Tony’s recent return to musical instrument design has seen his distorting filter algorithms licensed to Ableton in 2022, followed by the construction of apparatus for listening to the sound of cities, live, in real time, anywhere in the world. The city sounds are filtered and distorted using a radical new instrument, as yet unnamed, in dialogue with other musicians.
