Live trio improvisation:
Julian Woods (guitar), Benjy Sandler (saxophone) & Douglas Benford (harmonium/objects)
Doors 7.30 | music 8pm | £8/£10 donation
Julian Woods
Last minute substitution for Heather Roche
Benjy Sandler
Benjy Sandler is a saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and composer from North London. He is currently studying for a Master in Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Recent performance highlights include playing twice at the EFG London Jazz Festival – both with his own co-led quintet and with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra – and regular concerts with the London Improvisers Orchestra. He has released and appeared on multiple albums, the latest of which attracted the praise of Jazz FM. As well as performing on and composing for acoustic instruments, he likes to explore electronics and has produced pieces that use wavetable synthesis to manipulate acoustic sounds; one of these was featured at the “Polyphonic” exhibition at the Crypt Gallery in Euston in 2023.
www.benjysandler.com
Douglas Benford
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 being 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, and Sue Lynch.
dbenford.bandcamp.com
