I think it was a feeling is a performance experiment about self voyeurism, shame and sensation. It’s also about pissing yourself: what it feels like when you can’t control it, and when you can. Elana will instruct you until you’re hyper aware of your body + bodies around you. You’ll be taught how to rub your fingers together, swallow + hide a wet patch. I think it was a feeling is brash, noisy + tender. It asks you to let go of control—because maybe pissing yourself actually feels good.
Writer and performer, Elana Binysh, will be experimenting live on stage with sound designer Naycha Somko.
Bill Hawkes has played viola and violin with Michael Nyman, the Balanescu String Quartet, the Nigel Kennedy String Quartet, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. In this solo set he plays a piece written for him by the composer Gavin Bryars and his own arrangement of Pink Moon by Nick Drake.
Doors for this event open at 7pm. The events begins at 8pm. A wide range of refreshment are available throughout the evening from the cafe.
Right Here, Right Now is a stunning free jazz quartet led by the prodigiously gifted trumpeter Charlotte Keeffe aided by Ashley Long (double bass), Ben Handysides (drums) and Moss Freed (guitar).
The radical spirit of offhand precarity which radiates throughout this session frequently bubbles over into an effervescent sense of the imperative to explore. In a word? Fearless. (PRESTO MUSIC)
A messy emporium of raw, raucous realness. Alive. Keeffe and her quartet nailed it. (FREE JAZZ BLOG)
Nutters Corner are a vaguely groove based improvising duo comprising Nick Wyver on various saxophones and Les Wilson on drums. They formed the duo during the second lockdown, taking advantage of the "support bubble" idea at that time because "our bands couldn't play, and we saw this an opportunity to learn about improvising together and see what was possible - also to explore ideas that could not happen in our respective bands.
Doors for this event open at 7pm. The events begins at 8pm. A wide range of refreshment are available throughout the evening from the cafe.
Peter Manson lives in Glasgow. His books include Poems of Frank Rupture, Adjunct: an Undigest and Between Cup and Lip, and his translations include Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse. His most recent booklets are a collaboration with Mendoza, WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths, and a solo pamphlet, self-avoiding space-filling curve. For more info, and samples, visit petermanson.wordpress.com
Rachel Musson is a saxophonist, composer and improviser renowned for her bold, fluid playing. She is currently a recipient of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Composer award. Recent recordings include I Went This Way (577 Records) for 9-piece improvising ensemble including speech and various trio albums with Mark Sanders, Pat Thomas and John Edwards (577 Records).
'A free-improviser sensitive to melody-like narrative and dramatic pacing'. (John Fordham, The Guardian)
Doors for this event open at 7pm. The events begins at 8pm. A wide range of refreshment are available throughout the evening from the cafe.
We invite YOU to bring US your GLUTS (from allotments, gardens, orchard walks, foragings, even fridges...) and your GUTS (bellies to feed, lungs to sing, hearts to quake, stories and butts to shake). We will cook up a storm, sup and break bread together. What happens if we put care and community at the centre of our climate crisis response? What small, creative acts of repair can we enact locally and daily? What does food security mean and how do we support its emergence? We will harvest thoughts and dreams this evening; Cinderbiter lies near the embers of the communal fire for eons, dreaming and waiting for her moment to wake up. The time is now and we are here to call her into action.
Warning: may contain nuts, puppetry, organ(ic) hymns, foraged fables, humming and mumming. Curated by performance maker, Kristin Fredricksson.
Doors for this event open at 7pm. The events begins at 8pm. A wide range of refreshment are available throughout the evening from the cafe.
Safe Operating Space is about the beauty of unrepeatable moments. Composer, electronic musician, improviser and field recordist Tullis Rennie with mixes recorded and live music with the extraordinary line-up of Tara Franks (cello), Cath Roberts (baritone sax) and Dee Byrne (alto sax).
Their recent self titled album explores new aspects of Rennie’s practice while reflecting thoughts on themes such as global heating, AI-generated deepfakes, family life, and Kate Bush. Working live with the album as a departure point, the ensemble play alongside, against and around fragments of the recordings, Rennie using analogue drum machines and synthesisers.
"Blending string improvisations and outré brass with expertly deployed electronics and samples...equal parts tender and affronting, slaloming gracefully around conventional approaches to rhythm, melody and harmony with a lexicon that’s unmistakably his own" – Electronic Sound
"Free improv sessions get warped into booming, boundary-pushing electronica... as if we were listening to an intergalactic visitor’s attempt at appropriating the dancefloor" – the Quietus
Listen here: https://efpirecords.bandcamp.com/album/safe-operating-space
Doors for this event open at 7pm. Music begins at 8pm. A wide range of refreshment are available throughout the evening from the cafe.
A cult 70’s sci-fi novel set in a post-apocalyptic East Kent is used to bring together hoddening, puppetry, foraging and primitive music. This unique event is part of an exploration of the possibility of a stage adaptation of Russell Hoban's novel, Riddley Walker. The theatre maker Greg McClaren is collaborating with a community of artists to create a daytime walk (more details of this announced on social media) and an evening event.
We can't tell you anymore because we don't know what this one will it be until it happens! It may involve reimagining culture after a collapse and it will involve Sarah Trillo (artist), Kristin Fredricksson (puppetry, movement), Kat Peddie (text), Thomas Gavriel (Seadog books), Billie M Vigne (artist, metalsmith), Miles Irving (forager), Tim Fletcher (hoodener, archivist).
Doors for this event open at 7pm. Music begins at 8pm. A wide range of refreshment are available throughout the evening from the cafe.
Steered by William Burroughs, The Faversham Motorway Intersection Enthusiasts Club is an ongoing multimedia rhythm band formed in 2018. Rooted in repetition, the act draws from the rhythms of both motorway travel and dance music, finding a shared pulse between mechanical monotony and the endless flow of traffic.
Through live performance and visual extensions, it examines the overlooked mundanity, the rigid structures of concrete landscapes, and the spaces in between. The band has taken on various forms over the years, shifting and evolving while always maintaining a sense of curiosity. The club invites listeners and viewers to engage with their surroundings in new ways, encouraging a practice of contemplation, questioning, and interaction with the familiar yet unnoticed.
Casbah is a film that attempts to reconstruct – from memory – an experimental film noir monster movie that was never made.
Doors for this event open at 7pm. Music begins at 8pm. A wide range of refreshment are available throughout the evening from the cafe.
Matt Wright’s ‘Spheric Totemic’ brings DJ culture and free improv together with splintered beats and immersive sound design. with Alexander Hawkins (keyboards), Neil Charles (bass), Mandhira de Saram (violin/fx), Stephen Davis (drums) and Matt Wright (turntables and live sampling).
Spheric Totemic is the project of Matt Wright a composer, producer and sound designer based in Kent, UK. is diverse output across improvised music, chamber composition and collaborations with dance, theatre and film.
He has collaborated with some of the most dynamic artists in the contemporary sphere, including Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Ikue Mori, Claron McFadden, B’Rock Orchestra, Spring Heel Jack, Ensemble Klang, Neil Charles, Alexander Hawkins and Elaine Mitchener.
Preview: https://www.matt-wright.co.uk/spheric-totemic
Doors for this event open at 7pm. Music begins at 8pm. A wide range of refreshment are available throughout the evening from the cafe.
When you’ve lived such a rich musical life as 80-year old saxophone legend Evan Parker the stories pour out. But what happens if you blur the boundary between anecdote and musical improvisation?
Evan Parker and Matthew Wright (Trance Map) join forces with long-time collaborator and sonic storyteller Filipe Gomes. Evan and Matt have recently released ‘Transatlantic Trance Map’ with False Walls and ‘Horizons Held Close’ with Relative Pitch. Evan and Filipe (Arco Barco, Ramsgate Radio) have recently collaborated on Daniel Blumberg’s Oscar-winning score for the hit film The Brutalist.
Doors for this event open at 7pm. Music begins at 8pm. A wide range of refreshment are available throughout the evening from the cafe.
In advance of Earth Day (22nd April) Free Range has teamed up with Extinction Rebellion Canterbury for an experiment in art activism. Local environmental groups have been invited to work with artists from the Free Range community to try new ways of communicating their messages and values.
Award winning podcaster Ben Horner, has been working with artist and Friends of the Earth activist Amanda Thesiger on a series of interviews with environmental campaigners about their visions of a better world. This will be performed with live sound design at Free Range and the Lovely World event in Faversham on 24-25th June.
Puppeteer, theatre maker, part-time shepherdess and Feldenkrais practitioner, Kristin Fredricksson, has been working with Canterbury Repair Cafe to create puppets and theatre from objects that have come through the cafe.
Opening the evening we will hear from Esme Bone and Anna Presilia, an artist duo currently in their second year of the Fine Art Masters, 'Art, Society, Nature', at The Margate School. They work with natural materials to produce sustainable work which explores growth, decay and time.
This is a celebration of local environmental activism and adventurous culture.
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