Live improvisation:
Iris Colomb – voice/megaphone
Tom Ward – saxophone
Douglas Benford – tenor recorder/objects
+ guest Tom Mills – theremin
Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash
‘Small Print Drama’ is an ongoing trio project who have previously performed at BRAK, Zen Jerk, Adam Bohman’s Lion Heart Productions events. They also have released this: https://dbenford.bandcamp.com
Iris Colomb
Iris Colomb is an artist, poet, improviser, curator, editor, and translator based in London. Her practice merges poetry and other art forms to explore various relationships between visual and verbal forms of text through projects involving performance, poetic book-objects, experimental translation, and improvisation. She has been resident artist and poet at the Centre For Recent Drawing, she is now the Co-Editor of HVTN Press, the founder and curator of the investigative poetry & performance platform SLANT, as well as a member of the interdisciplinary collective No Such Thing, half of the performance duo Soft Play with poet and artist Paul Ingram, and half of the sound and text duo [something’s happening] with composer Daryl Worthington (Beachers). She is currently working as a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton. Her poems have also appeared in a number of UK magazines and anthologies, as well as Russian, Austrian, Spanish, German, Brazilian and US publications. Iris’ visual works have been showcased in collective exhibitions in the UK, France, Austria, and Ukraine. Her artist books have been collected by the National Poetry Library as well as Chelsea College of Art’s Special Collection since 2016. She has been curating exhibitions and events seeking possibilities beyond the traditional format of poetry readings since 2015. Each of her events is a unique live experiment, merging poetry and other art forms including film, visual art, sound, and movement.
https://skronkimprov.bandcamp.
Tom Ward
Tom Ward is a musician, composer and computer programmer from Yorkshire, currently based in London. His primary instrument is the saxophone, but in recent years he has also increasingly explored the bass clarinet and flute. Tom leads a number of groups playing his own compositions (including Madwort Saxophone Quartet and Madwort’s Menagerie), as well as collaborating on a number of freely improvised and collective groups including Cotovelo (PortaJazz), Spinningwork, Ma/ti/om, and an ever-shifting variety of duos and trios. He co-runs the regular BRÅK night, an improvised music gig in a South London homebrew shop where he has played with such improvisers as John Edwards, Corey Mwamba, Charlotte Keeffe and more. As a side-person, he has toured/performed with Dee Byrne’s Outlines, Beats & Pieces Big Band, Overground Collective, Favourite Animals, Porpoise Corpus and many more. In 2020, he was heavily involved in Noise Orchestra’s Autonomous Noise Unit (ANU) project, building an easy-to-use standalone JackTrip device for realtime online musical collaboration, as well as facilitating live internet broadcasts from mulitple locations using JackTrip for London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) and Sloth Racket.
https://madwort.co.uk
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. His collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Iris Colomb, Dominic Lash, Mirei Ya, Georgina Brett, Steve Beresford, Sue Lynch, 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, Clive Bell, Emily Shapiro, Verity Lane and many others.
http://dbenford.bandcamp.com/
Tom Mills
Tom Mills is an electronic musician based in London. In addition to his solo work he plays Theremin in the group Bobhowler with Alicia Gardener-Trejo and Andrew Woodhead and also played on the album ‘Improvisers Inside Electronics’ alongside Antonio Acunzo, Tony Hardie-Bick and N.O Moore.
https://earshots.bandcamp.com/
