‘[Saxophonist Evan Parker] is the greatest living exponent of free jazz … if you’ve ever been tempted by free improvisation, Parker is your gateway drug’ (Stewart Lee, The Guardian)
From very early on in his musical investigations, Evan Parker has always been interested in electronic music. The music to Forbidden Planet was one of his childhood inspirations.
From his earliest days with Paul Lytton's contact microphones on all available surfaces, through to recent projects with Matt Wright playing a laptop via VCs3, FM synthesis and all technologies in between, electronic music has been an essential part of his collaborations. He now plans to combine his virtuosity on the saxophone with the 'retrophonic' technology of Henry Dagg.
The musician/instrument maker Henry Dagg is a veteran composer of electronic music specialising in tape-based musique concrete techniques and electro-acoustic instrument development who has collaborated with various artists including Matthew Herbert, Hannah Peel and Bjork. He will be using a range of vintage electronic sound sources and modifiers to improvise a dialogue with Evan parker's saxophone performances, while using techniques such as variable tape delays and speeds, ring modulation and frequency shifting effects to expand the soundscape of the instrument.
Opening this evening is Filter Feeder aka composer, percussionist and DJ, Julian Doyle.
Filter Feeder encompasses experiments with analogue electronics, home made electro-acoustic devices, political sample/field recording sound collages, a kind of driving abstract dub and DJ mixes blending traditional music from around the world with contemporary electronic tracks. These sounds are then processed and manipulated, looped and filtered to create a rhythmic soundscape heavily informed by the space and abstraction of dub.
Evan Parker
https://evanparker.com/index.php
Henry Dagg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dagg
Henry Dagg’s ‘Catastrophony’
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1328423647243236
Henry Dagg’s ‘Sharpsicord’ or pin-barrel harp
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=971739156245022
Filter Feeder / Julian Doyle
https://www/soundcloud.com/filter-feeder
The Visual Communication courses at the University for the Creative Arts Canterbury present immersive visual storytelling through short animated films and improvised interventions from all year groups.
University for the Creative Arts
The works of Andrew Kötting have a connection with an English tradition of visionary curiosity and hybrid art-practices exemplified in the work of William Blake or Derek Jarman.
The eponymous Whalebone Box is found entangled in a fisherman’s net, washed up on a remote beach in the Outer Hebrides. This object has the anonymity and moral authority of tribal art, of a fetish, a relic or an accidental survivor. It is dangerous. In 2018 the box was taken on an 800 mile reverse pilgrimage from London back to the Isle of Harris. Kötting’s daughter, Eden, narrates the story, working as both muse and soothsayer. It is finally buried in the sand on the very beach from which it came BUT something happens at the very end of the film after the credits have finished rolling, something extraordinary and miraculous.
’You can feel the ghost of Derek Jarman in Kötting’s work: the use of collage; the investigation of memory; the allusions to Shakespeare’s The Tempest; the deconstruction of cinema itself. Yet, The Whalebone Box has something even more personal in its subtle exploration of the bond between father and daughter, an expression of love that had me laughing one moment and crying the next. With such a tender, beating heart, this is in some ways Kötting’s most unexpectedly accessible work’ (Mark Kermode in The Guardian)
Watch trailer for The Whalebone Box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqNQqDLwhhU
Andrew Kötting
Rocío Bolaños will perform the premiere of "Classic Escalation of Commitment" by Panos Ghikas, a real-time composition for bass clarinet and fixed audio. Rocío will also perform "multicounterspeechless" by Sivan Cohen-Elias (commissioned by Distractfold), followed by an improvised duo with Panos featuring drums and electronics with bass clarinet.
Rocío is a member of award-winning contemporary music ensemble Distractfold.
Panos is a composer-improviser whose output spans surrealist post-pop to post-complexity free-improvisation strategies with collaborators such as the composer/singer Jennifer Walshe. He runs Micro Records, has released 60 albums, played over 400 concerts with his band The Chap, released remixes of Beck and Bloc Party and has had music premiered in 5 countries with distinguished contemporary classical ensembles.
Rocío Bolaños
distractfold.co.uk/rocio-bolaos
Panos Ghikas
panosghikas.com/unrealtime/#Hello_Video
Helga and Megan present research-in-progress into disappearance and vanishing through film and recorded audio merged with live performance. From their different practices in moving image and performance/spoken word they will use ‘vanishing’ as a jumping off point to explore the formulation of women’s experiences and feminine identity - critiquing the convenient disappearances surrounding subjects marginalised by the capitalist patriarchy, and reclaiming vanishing as a subversive, resistant, albeit historically problematic act.
They are interested in magic, in un-vanishing personal stories and fantasies, and maybe something about cowgirls.
Helga's website:
https://www.helgadorothea.com/
Extinction Rebellion Canterbury present a powerful story of climate activism woven together through fragments of music, poetry, dance, videos, briefings, individual stories and spectacle.
This event features: The Red Rebels Kent Chapter, The Grim Reapers, Richard Navarro, Nicholas Thurston, Mel Dawkins, Henry Sparkes, Rebel poets Sam and Lewis plus Canterbury and East Kent Rebels.
Extinction Rebellion Canterbury
https://www.facebook.com/XRCanterbury/
Moonseed started life as one of Free Range’s Incubate commissions but it has taken on a life of its own. Thanks to further funding from Odela Arts and Electric Medway, Moonseed has become an installation-style performance involving improvised sound, dance, projections and live visual art focussed on our moon.
The initial creative partnership between Anna Braithwaite (composer, singer) and Daisy Thompson (dance artist) has expanded to become the MOONSEED collective with Olivia C Davis (dance artist), Helen Lindon (visual artist) and Luke Birch (dance artist).
With two of the performers in Canada, this event mixes live streamed, live, pre-recorded, improvised and digital elements with sound, movement and projections.
Moonseed Collective:
https://electricmedway.co.uk/artists/moonseed-collective/
www.instagram.com/moonseedproject/
Anna Braithwaite
www.annabraithwaite.co.uk/
www.instagram.com/annabraithwaitemusic/
https://twitter.com/annamerriel
Daisy Thompson
https://thompsondaisykaren.wixsite.com/daisythompson/biograpghy
Helen Lindon
www.helenlindon.co.uk/
Luke Birch
http://lukedoesdances.com/
Olivia C Davis
www.oliviacdavies.ca/wishing-well-2/