JAMES O’SULLIVAN is a London based experimental guitar player and improvisor who employs a playful but meticulous approach to the instrument through the bringing together of physicality, resonance, detail, and dynamics. He seeks to co-create a rich, layered, and engaging music that entwines the excitement of the moment with a creative, focused exploration, so as to shape an enduring document of the guitar’s potential.
CHRIS HILL is an improvising musician and sound artist. Based in London he regularly plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Eddie Prévost’s workshop group and collaborates and records with Ed Shipsey as Egg & Crisp, James O’Sullivan and Alan Newcombe as LUFT, and co-ordinates Project 50:50 with Phil Morton.
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ALAN NEWCOMBE was a member of the London Musicians Collective in the mid 80’s and since returning to live playing has been involved in MOWO, the Skronk sessions, the London Improvisation Workshop, Babble and Squeak, No Computers and the 50/50 project. More recent performances include a quartet with Eddie Prevost, Dominic Lash and NO Moore, a nonet curated by James O’Sullivan, and duos with Chris Hill and Keisuke Matsui.
TANSY SPINKS is a multi-disciplinary artist intrigued by sounds, materiality and live improvisation. She has performed extensively at home and abroad and exhibited nationally and internationally. Her photographic work, (which includes many commissions for record companies and publishers), is in collections such as The Museum of Fine Art, Houston and the National Media Museum, Bradford and her videos can be found in the Wellcome and BFI libraries. She has a PhD in Sound Art, (LCC), MA in Photography (Royal College of Art, London), BA in Fine Art (Leeds Polytechnic) and is a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music (violin playing and teaching). Her recent book, Sound Art and Music: Philosophy, Composition and Performance, (co editors, Dack and Stanovic), features an essay on site-associative, live, sound-making strategies. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Middlesex University, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and External Examiner and guest lecturer at many universities in the UK.
website: tansyspinks.com
MATT ATKINS is a London based sound and visual artist whose principal interests are reductionism, chance, repetition and texture. He uses objects, percussion instruments, occasionally a laptop and cassette recorders to create sound collages in both the recorded medium and live, often in collaborative performances.
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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.
JO MORRISON is a vocalist & sound maker with an increasing penchant for costume. She participates in the London Improvisation Workshop & is part of the Noisy Women Present collective. Performs & conducts with the London Improvisors Orchestra & is a current student at TOMA, an independent art school in Southend.
