David W Stockard (snare drum), Joshua Weitzel (shamisen), Mirei Yazawa (dance), Massimo Magee (clarinet, saxophone), Ross Lambert (guitar), Tom Wheatley (double bass)
Mirei Yazawa is an experienced improvising dancer and an artist who explores memory within body and the movement. She has studied fine art at Goldsmiths college and trained Butoh and BodyWeather. She has worked as duo Glasseye Daisy Killer with Chris Dowding and collaborated with some musicians including Charles Hayward and Eddie Prevost.
Ross Lambert – Northern Irish (and London-based) guitarist and ‘magnetic and vibrating sources’ player Ross Lambert, has in his own words, the following fundamental and simultaneous approaches to live performance: to play as though it was both the first time and also the last; and to able to differentiate between what is good and worth conserving and what is not. Ross has been involved in, initiated and been a connector between a very wide variety of improvisatory music since his first exposure and (immediate) commitment to it, in Sheffield via Derek Bailey during the mid-1980s. Although under-recorded (he claims ‘by choice’), Ross has worked with a huge number of musicians from around the world, including Tetuzi Akiyama, Ami Yoshida, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Paul Hession, Rhodri Davies, John Butcher and Evan Parker, as well as his close friends Eddie Prevost, Seymour Wright, and Sebastian Lexer.
Joshua R. Weitzel is an improviser from Kassel, Germany: He plays guitar, shamisen, and live electronics – sometimes simultaneously.
Tom Wheatley is a double bass and electric bass player based in, and native to, London. He plays to open the bass – sonically and physically, musically and surgically. He is actively involved in new music communities of London and elsewhere, playing with Seymour Wright, Hebronix, Eddie Prévost, John Edwards, Cynthia, Paal Nilssen-Love, Guillaume Viltard and many others.
Massimo Magee is a writer, artist and musician based in London, UK. His work is wide-ranging, including fiction, text art, combined text, sound and image digital art pieces, experimental music (improvised, composed and everything in between), free jazz, obsessive and repetitive drawing pieces, radically extended saxophony, electronics, data manipulation and much more. He has performed internationally and had recordings released in the USA, France, Poland and Australia with musicians such as Hankil Ryu, Sangtae Jin, Keith Rowe, Tony Irving (Ascension), Christian Munthe, Lee Noyes, Matt Earle, Adam Sussmann, David W. Stockard, Elliott Dalgleish, Michael Pisaro, Jim Denley, Dale Gorfinkel, Barre Phillips and many more, on labels such as Homophoni, Copy For Your Records, Kendra Steiner Editions, Ilse, Sleeping Giant Glossolalia, Ideal State, Audiotong, Factor Vac and others. Ensembles have included Cyclone Trio, the Magee/Green/Fowler-Roy Trio, MTJAM and many ad hoc groups. The third novel in his new trilogy, In Three Parts, has just been published through [Array] Press.
David W. Stockard is a person from Carrickfergus [ni] currently living in London [eng].
