Benedict Taylor predominantly works within improvisation, new composition and 20th/21st century music.
Described as a virtuoso violist, through his performance work there is a focus on solo performance as a creative and investigative process.
As an improviser he has performed and recorded closely with many artists through the UK, EU, North America and Asia, including Keith Tippett, Evan Parker, Terry Day, Lauren Kinsella, and Alex Ward.
Matthew Grigg is active across free and experimental musics. “Drawing on intuitive technique, close listening, signal noise & feedback” (Westport Sound), he has collaborated extensively with artists such as Colin Webster, Matt Davis, Charlotte Keefe & Dominic Lash.
His approach to his instrument is grounded in an exploration of it’s potential, unbound by convention. The music sits outside of easy categorisation, reframing ideas of improvisation and noise.
“musician who focuses primarily on intuitively creating sound on the electric guitar. Influences such as avant-garde, musique-concrête and noise are never far away in his idiosyncratic sound palette…” – New Wave of Jazz
Tina Hitchens is a improviser, flautist and composer / sound artist who works largely in the fields of free improvisation, sound art, and contemporary classical music, playing and writing in a variety of musical groups as well as working with artists from other disciplines.
Tina currently writes / improvises / performs in a range of settings – and has worked with the Welsh National Opera, National Dance Company Wales, PM Music Ensemble, National Theatre Wales, The Sherman Theatre, and multiple smaller groups.
Jo Kelly is a musician and game designer who lives in Bristol in the UK. They are also a cruciverbalist and an ailurophile.
I am a musician, composer and songwriter.
They are especially interested in improvisation, and play double bass in various configurations, as well as occasional solo performances. & have played with many other groups over the years, both past and present, including Annie Gardiner, EP/64, Yoke and Viridian Ensemble.
Luigi Marino is a Bristol-based musician whose work explores emergent phenomena involving people, objects, and whatever lies in between their shifting definitions. An active improviser, he performs on electronic media and percussion, focusing on the zarb, the computer as an instrument mediating human decision-making, and custom cymbals played with bows and extended through DIY portable circuits.
“The trio with Butcher explores how the Butcher’s ethereal sound waves and his extended breathing techniques, with their short and fragmented percussive sounds, correspond and stimulate Marino and Wastell’s resonant surfaces of the percussive instruments, and create atmospheric, constantly shifting and shaping, larger resonant spaces… The four resonant spaces of Parallel Streams, and especially the 29-minute, third one, invite the listeners to immerse themselves in their deep and delicate, mysterious and imaginative resonances.”
(Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts)
