Live quartet improvisation:
Bendict Taylor – viola
Julia Doyle – double bass
Mario Guarnieri – percussion
Douglas Benford – tenor recorder/accordion/objects
Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash door
Benedict Taylor is a solo violist, violinist & composer, working in improvised and new music. As an improviser he likes to play and record with many super people, and over the years has worked with; Keith Tippett, Evan Parker, Terry Day, Lauren Kinsella, Lawrence Upton, Alex Ward, Cath Roberts, Tom Jackson, Renee Baker, Paul Dunmall, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Dirk Serries, Steve Beresford, Angharad Davies, Neil Luck, John Edwards, Ivor Kallin, Anton Mobin, Hannah Marshall, David Leahy, Adam de la Cour, Alison Blunt, Chris Cundy, Daniel Thompson, Kit Downes, Yves Charuest, Alexander Hawkins, Tom Challenger, Miya, Tetsu Saito, Erika Sofia Sollo, Gianni Mimmo, Stephen Crowe, Marcello Magliocchi amongst others. Festival, venue and radio appearances include; Spontaneous Music Festival Poland, BBC Radio 3, Jazz en Nord Festival France, BBC Radio Late Junction, Cafe Oto, The Vortex, London Contemporary Music Festival, Tete a Tete Opera Festival, Ronnie Scott’s, Aldeburgh Festival, Galway Jazz Festival, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte Montepulciano, Southbank Centre, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Fête de la Musique Berlin, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Manchester International Festival, Royal Court Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Manchester Jazz Festival, Cheltenham Festival, BBC Radio 2, Resonance FM, Radio Libertaire – Epsilonia – Paris, Rotterdam Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, Palm Springs Film Festival, London Film Festival. He has an annual ongoing series of solo string albums, investigating the viola and violin in all manner of ways.
benedicttaylor.bandcamp.com
Julia Doyle is primarily a double bass player, with violin as a second fiddle. She have worked extensively in jazz, folk, world musics (currently including Argentinian tango and Klezmer) and any acoustic based (bass-ed) music. ‘I love to play dance music. I also spend much of my time in education, I co-edited an improvisation hand book (Search & Reflect by John Stevens) and currently work with special needs teenagers (GLD & ASD) in Tottenham, London’. Julia regularly plays with Maggie Nichols, and the London Improvisers Orchestra.
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Mario Guarnieri is a London-based drummer/percussionist, interested in playing across and in-between the lines free improvisation, experimental and groove. He is currently playing with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Lo Fi Ensemble and the Eddie Prèvost London Improvisation Workshops. His recent collaborations include Sue Lynch, John Macedo, Ross Lambert, Iris Colomb, Douglas Benford, Ivor Kalin, Helena Paul, Stuart Wilding, Matt Clark, Charlie Folorunsho and many more. Performed at venues/events, including: Ad Lib, Ealing; Hundred Years Gallery; Charles Hayward’s Lewisham Arthouse Series; Adam Bohman’s Improvised Music Concert Series at the Royal Albert; Lev Dudas’ Konsztrukting Soundz; Zen Jerk and ImproVox. Some of these performances have been recorded and broadcast on Resonance FM (‘The Ambrosia Rasputin Show’ and ‘Late Lunch With Out To Lunch’) and Soho Radio (The OTL Show). Mario also releases his solo work of experimental/electronic music on Bandcamp under the moniker of Patasonus, which, also, has been broadcast on Resonance FM (A Duck In A Tree, :zoviet*france:; Sonic Imperfections, Nigel Bryant; and Gwaith Sŵn’s Sonic Darts). During 80’s He was touring the UK small venues with a variety of indie/funk/rock groups. During the 90’s and 00’s Mario was the drummer with The Positively Testcard, known mainly for their live performances of upbeat and danceable Kwela tunes. Performances included Glastonbury 2007 (Left Field Stage), and live sessions for BBC Radio programmes, such as Andy Kershaw and (the late) Charlie Gillett, plus appearances on Loose Ends, The Arts Hour, Mel and Sue, Phil Jupitus and more.
patasonus.bandcamp.com
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 and member of the trio Small Print Drama with Tom Ward and Iris Colomb. 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.
dbenford.bandcamp.com/music
