Live quartet improvisations:
Teresa Hackel – bass recorder
Tilly Coulton – flute
Chris Hill – clarinet / objects
Douglas Benford – tenor recorder/objects
Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash
Teresa Hackel
The recorder player Teresa Hackel was born in Berlin and has lived and worked in Switzerland since 2005. Her focus is free improvisation, a non-idiomatic music which is invented in the moment. She is keen to search for strange and unconventional sounds on the different types of the recorder and she is inspired by contemporary compositions for this wonderful and often underestimated instrument. In her playing she values listening – there is no unnecessary sound, just the music that comes by itself. Teresa was awarded the 3rd Prize at the Concours Nicati for interpreters of contemporary music in Bern and she took part in different Swiss premieres. In 2018 the CD Solare was released with pieces of Fausto Romitelli, in 2022 she released the CD Zustandsformen with the guitar player Karin Rüdt. She has played in several projects and ensembles, currently she is a member of the Insubordination Meta Orchestra. Regularly she plays the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach with the “J.S.Bach-Stiftung”, conducted by Rudolf Lutz.
www.teresa-hackel.com
Tilly Coulton
Tilly, a versatile flautist, improviser, and educator from Devon, England, is deeply immersed in the world of contemporary and experimental music. She honed her skills during her undergraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is now coming to the end of her master’s degree at the Royal College of Music. Tilly has played alongside orchestras such as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as well as winning first prize in the RCS Concerto Competition and Recital Prize for Woodwind. Driven by a love for Avant Garde and the unusual, Tilly actively engages with contemporary and experimental works. She has collaborated with composers to premiere pieces such Erin Thomson’s “Infinite Kaleidoscope” for flute and electronics, and Oliver Hawker’s “Good News Behind Closed Eyes” for flute and upright saw. Tilly plays regularly with London Improvisers Orchestra, is a member of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s NEXT Programme and serves as principal flute in the contemporary ensemble Standard Issue.
youtu.be/tilly
Christopher Hill
Chris Hill is an improvisor, sound, and visual artist who performs under his own name and also as DiscountGnostic, a loosely structured collaborative experimental vehicle. He has a specific interest in the use of ritual mannerism in the creation of sound, the idea of shifting sonic states – liminality – and the use of sound to reinscribe memory. His practice is an ongoing exploration of presence, absence and occulted information. A regular player at Eddie Prevost’s workshop and John Russell’s Mopomoso initiative, he has contributed to the radio festival Radiophrenia 2019 and to the ongoing Institute for Alien Research compilation project. He has material released on Mouth In Foot records and continues to promote events under the Babble&Squeak and DiscountGnostic banners.
discountgnostic.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 having been a regular contributor to the Lonely Impulse Collective. His collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Dominic Lash, 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.
dbenford.bandcamp.com
