Live quartet improvisation:
Sofia Vaisman-Maturana – cello
Charlie Folorunsho – voice
Dave Fowler – percussion
Douglas Benford – tenor recorder/accordion/objects
Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash on the door
Sofia Vaisman-Maturana
Is a Chilean music composer, poet, and improviser. She first arrived to London in 2018 to do her MA in Music Composition at King’s College London. Upon her arrival, she approached the world of free improvisation, performing with the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) (2018-2021). In 2022, together with Caroline Kraabel she co-found ONe Orchestra New made up exclusively of women and trans people. During the pandemic, she was invited to collaborate with the Lonely Impulse Collective (LIC) (2020-2022), from where she regularly published more than fifty miniatures and soundscapes, some of which were been broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM. She has improvised with several international artists in sessions at 100 Years Gallery, Cafe OTO, IKLEKTIK, El Internado de Valparaíso, and Festival Acéfalo. She has also produced music for several plays, and her compositions have been premiered at Sala Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico City), Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (Santiago, Chile), the LMTA Balkono theater (Vilnius, Lithuania), and the Midtown Arts & Theatre Center Houston (USA), among others. In 2015 she published her first collection of poems, ‘Pasillos de tiempos precoces’ (Editorial Planeta de papel, Valparaíso, Chile) and her second collection of poems: ‘No le pongamos nombre a lo nuestro’, (Ediciones Puntos suspensivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina) as soon after. In 2019 she was awarded with the second place at Victorina Press Poetry Awards, (London). She writes in Spanish but has translated several of her poems into English. And has performed her work at remarkable events such as FLAWA (2022) and the Tate Late (2022), completing her PhD in Music Composition at King’s College London. She writes regular chronicles for SalvoConducta (Santiago-Buenos Aires) and is working in the publication of her third collection of poems, together with writing her first novel.
https://sofiavaisman.com/
Charlie Folorunsho
Charlie Folorunsho is a vocalist and actor whose theatre credits include The Mosquito Coast (Young Vic), Satyagraha (ENO & Metropolitan Opera, New York), The Firework Maker’s Daughter (Lyric Hammersmith), Gilgamesh (London Parks), The Lower Depths (The Clink Vaults), Muhammad Ali & Me (Ovalhouse), Under Their Influence (Tricycle), The Southwark Mysteries (Southwark Cathedral) and The Arrival (Newcastle Playhouse). As a voice performer with the Lo-Fi collective and associated artists such as Ghost Mind, he has performed at Boat Ting, Improvox, Longfield Hall, Skronk and many other venues.
https://skronkimprov.bandcamp.
Dave Fowler
Drummer Dave Fowler musical associates include Jim Dvorak, Alan Wilkinson, Roberto Bellatalla, Harrison Smith, Neil Metcalfe, Elton Dean, Maggie Nicols, Jerry Wigens, Sue Lynch, London Improvisers Orchestra, Yabasta, The Glowering Figs, Jim Dvorak, John Grieve, Marcio Mattos, Neil Metcalfe, Phil Minton, Julia Doyle, Ntshuks Bonga, the Porkestra – the list is endless. He is one of the finest, most responsive, dynamic, listening drummers out there, but far too busy playing and enjoying music to maintain an online presence!
https://shrikerecords.
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 contributor to the Lonely Impulse Collective. His collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Dominic Lash, Blanca Regina, poets Tamar Yoseloff & Iris Colomb, Angharad Davies, Verity Lane, Clive Bell, sculptor Rob Olins, Matt Atkins, Lina Lapelyte, Marjolaine Charbin, Tilly Coulton, Sylvia Hallett, Steve Beresford, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, John Edwards, Jennifer Allum and Sue Lynch.
http://dbenford.bandcamp.com/
