Adrian Roper– voice, prepared guitar
Isaac Robson– electric bass
James Spinney– percussion
Scott Biagi– accordion
Mosquito Farm is Maddie Banwell and Grace Black – handmade mechanical, electronic and acoustic instruments.
Adrian Roper is a visual artist and musician, a folk singer, songwriter and lover of sound, listening and group improvisation. He has been engaged with the emergent Collaborative Vocal Improvisation practice and is a regular participant at Lo- fi Improvisation workshops in South London as well as Eddie Prévost’s London Improvisation Workshops. He has performed at Theatreship, Konstrukting Sounds and Improvox.
Isaac Robson’s first forays into improv came through Xposed club, Cheltenham. Robson plays bass as part of the Lo-fi Improvisers group in South London, performing at events such as Skronk, Konsztrukting Soundz and has been featured on Ambrosia Rasputin show, Resonance FM.
James Spinney makes music and sound as part of the non-fiction filmmaking collective Fee Fie Foe. He plays percussion with the LoFi Ensemble, influenced by John Stevens’ Search and Reflect and Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening practices.
Scott Biagi met the other members of this ensemble at the Lofi Improvisation Workshop. He was drawn to free improvisation as an attentional practice in which noticing takes precedence over compositional design. After studying philosophy, he completed a master’s degree in electroacoustic composition at the BEAST studios at the University of Birmingham, pursuing an interest in the tradition of musique concrète. Free improvisation offers an alternative way of attending to sounds acousmatically-that is, without concern for how they are produced. We have to learn to play without intending anything, ideally without knowing what we are doing at all.
