[Toilet & Bowels]

Tomomi and the mighty Nos Philipé (who are making their live début) are playing next week on wednesday at an old church on the Isle of Dogs. It will be history in the making!

[porkmarras]

Originally Posted by porkmarras

This i will be going to for sure.

Friday 15 December: Otomo Yoshihide’s Anode + Roel Meelkop + Tom Chant & Sharif Sehnaoui

Saturday 16 December: Bernard Parmegiani + Tim Barnes & Ishikawa Ko + Andrea Neumann + Texturizer

Sunday 17 December: Ben Patterson & Keith Rowe + Olivia Block + Tomas Korber + Chris Corsano & John Edwards



DAY PASS: £12 /£10 FESTIVAL PASS:£25
DOORS OPEN 7PM
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Box office: +44 (0)20 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
London Musicians' Collective celebrates 30 years at the vanguard with its 15th Annual Festival of Experimental Music. Two dozen of the leading figures from the world of new music world are brought together over three nights of sustained avant-garde intensity. Among them are Japanese turntablist Otomo Yoshihide, who presents the UK premiere of his ground-breaking large ensemble piece Anode; the grand master of French musique concrète, Bernard Parmegiani, showcasing a new multi-channel composition; and, making his UK debut, the legendary Fluxus composer Ben Patterson.
Previous LMC festivals have typically showcased not only Britain’s foremost experimentalists such as Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, AMM, Lol Coxhill, David Toop and the late John Stevens, but have also boasted rare (often unique) performances and special projects by the likes of Pierre Henry, Alvin Lucier, The Smith Quartet, The Scratch Orchestra, Charlemagne Palestine, Philip Corner, Pauline Oliveros, Blechtum From Blechdom, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Marshall Allen (Sun Ra Arkestra), John French (The Magic Band) and Jaki Liebeziet (Can); while LMC’s illustrious history as a promoter has also been significant in its early support of artists such as John Zorn, Jim O’Rourke, Zeena Parkins, Scanner and dozens more - it even hosted the first tentative promotions of Poptones supremo Alan McGee. LMC also produced the legendary Rock Aktion Party concerts by the German group Faust, recently released as the film Faust: Nobody Knows If It Ever Happened (also at the ICA on 1 December). With its apparently casual mix of living legends and complete unknowns, of underground noise and contemporary classical sounds, of the truly weird and the downright beautiful, the Festival has proved widely influential, spawning many imitators across the world (Le Weekend in Stirling, Install in Glasgow, Ether at London’s South Bank Centre). Meantime, rather than rest on its laurels, the Collective has expanded its base of activity in recent years, producing highly successful tours for the Contemporary Music Network (Conduction; Japanorama; Turntable Hell; Feedback: order from noise) and launching its internationally acclaimed arts radio station Resonance 104.4 FM. Now in its third decade of continuous activity, LMC provides the touchstone for indicating where music can - and just might - go.
This year, under the direction of youthful producer Benedict Drew, the Festival boasts some extraordinary coups: Otomo Yoshihide’s ensemble project, Anode, is the biggest he has presented in London since the epochal Japanorama tour of 2001. He’s joined by an all-star line-up including Sachiko M., Ichiraku Yoshimitsu, Masahiro Uemura, Tim Barnes, Mark Sanders, Andrea Neumann, Angharad Davies, Stefano Tedescu and Rhodri Davies. Presented in two versions, quiet and (very) loud, Anode shares the first night with opaque Dutch laptop composer Roel Meelkop and the duo of English saxophonist Tom Chant and Lebanese guitarist Sharif Sehnaoui.
The second night sees France’s foremost living composer Bernard Parmegiani present two multi-channel, multi-speaker works, including the UK premiere of Au gré du souffle le son s'envole; the debut of a duo comprising brilliant US percussionist Tim Barnes (Perfect Partner) and the distinguished Japanese sho-player Ishikawa Ko, along with German instrument inventor Andrea Neumann and the young Greek improvising duo Texturizer.
The final night pulls out the stops still further, kicking off with a intuitive and intense improvised dialogue Chris Corsano (drums) and John Edwards (double bass); a mind-boggling solo by Swiss electronics player Tomas Korber; the UK debut of the extraordinary Chicago-based sound artist Olivia Block; and the meeting of two titans of new music - Ben Patterson, the only African-American member of 1960s’ radical art movement Fluxus (Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik and Lamonte Young are the better known of his collaborators), joined here by the globally influential English guitarist Keith Rowe, acknowledged as an influence on everyone from Pete Townshend and Sonic Youth to the present generation of young improvisers and noise artists.

MAZEN KERBAJ

Anyone going to the Sunday gig?

[porkmarras]

The Plastic People Of The Universe


Venue: Carling Academy Islington
Address: Parkfield Street, London, London N1 0PS
Time: 19:00:00
Price: £10.00
Phone: 020 7288 4400
Date: 25/01/2007

[porkmarras]

CALIFONE @ DINGWALLS

Day: Wednesday
Date: 24/01/07
Time: 19:30
Price Range: £10.00
Internet Onsale: Tue 21/11/2006 at 17:00

[porkmarras]

Adem / Vashti Bunyan / Vetiver / Juana Molina - 0° of Separation

Separated geographically but linked by the timelessness of their song writing, the four corners of twisted folk come together to explore uncharted routes for contemporary acoustic music.

Featuring previously unheard arrangements, collaborations and experiments, 0° of Separation sees Adem's tales of the everyday and the universal intertwine with the unfolding of Vashti Bunyan's beautiful melodies, while Juana Molina's hypnotic beats and lilting voice dance through Vetiver's distilled Americana.

Sat 13
London Roundhouse
0870 389 1846
www.roundhouse.org.uk

[sonicl]

4 Jan 2007
State 51
Birchville Cat Motel

[_slavo_]

Aaaaah birchville!!!!!!!!

why the fuck do I not live in England? I'm missing everything!

[porkmarras]

Bump!So far i know only Toilet is gonna go the gig on Sun.Anyone else?

[sonicl]

Not me. I've had enough live music this last weekend to last me well into next Spring.

(Where's the smiley for "collapses into an exhausted heap"?)

[porkmarras]

this will be the third time i see Corsano live this year.Wooooooooooooooooo!!!

[Katy]

Selfish Cunt playing at 93 Feet East on December 19th.

Wizz Jones is playing at the Walthamstow Folk Club on January 7th.

[porkmarras]

Originally Posted by porkmarras

this will be the third time i see Corsano live this year.Wooooooooooooooooo!!!

Bollocks to that.Can't go now.

[porkmarras]

unluck recs and plan b magazine present...

BLACK EGG
american folk-drone jams from members of jackie-o-motherfucker, sunburned hand of the man and little claw

TOWERING BREAKER
foggy improv action from brighton duo with new release on chocolate monk

CANNONBURY
power-radiophonics from lonely london professor

Tuesday 19th December
4pounds 8pm

the horse and groom, 28 curtain road (old street tube)

[porkmarras]

Immersion
Thursday 01 February 2007.
19:00 - 23:00.
Free entry.

The Flea-Pit
49 Columbia Road
London
E2 –7RG
020 7033 9986
http://www.thefleapit.com/

Immersion is a free-entry experimental music/sound-art event presenting a relaxed soundtrack of ambient journeys, electronic atmospheres, improvised terrain, sonic experiments and tones/drones.

Immersion is an arena for new and established international artists performing live experimental electronic music; using laptops, synthesizers, field recordings, circuit-bent electronics and prepared/processed instruments.

Immersion gives participating artists the opportunity to expand beyond the familiar parameters of their work and to investigate possibilities that they may have previously only touched upon in an informal and relaxed setting.

All sounds are partnered by stimulating projected visuals processed live and tailored for each performance to complete the audio/visual experience.

The Flea-Pit is a unique café-bar/arts venue with comfortable retro furniture - and a gallery/performance area, in the heart of east/central London’s vibrant art scene and is located only five minutes away from Shoreditch High Street. Nearest tube: Old Street (exit 2).


The artists featured in Immersion 01/02 are:

Alex Mein Smith:
‘Alex Mein Smith uses an analogue complex structure to create an extended improvised piece during each live performance. Built from the bare bones of segmented studio recordings, the result is highly dynamic, contrasting aggressive rhythms with gentle pensive guitar.’
http://www.alexmeinsmith.com/

Augustine Leudar:
Augustine Leudar uses cutting edge techniques such as granular synthesis to manipulate field recordings, acoustic instruments and synthesised sounds to create surreal and shifting soundscapes and harmonies. Leudar draws inspiration for rural enviroments and previous works have been inspired by sources such as Celtic Mythology (Goed) Cornish fishing vessels (Astral navigation) and his most recent work installed in the Czech National Gallery "Bosque invisible" which was created entirely from sounds recorded whilst living in the Peruvian Amazon.
http://www.download.com/augustineleudar

krgn:
http://geraeuschfreunde.de/krgn/

Martin Aaserud + André Castro:
‘Improvisations based on abstract sound, through the exploration of textures and timbres driven from Martin's prepared guitar and their mutations sculpted by André's live sampling and processing. The result of this meeting is a sonic landscape, fragile, silent and temperamental as a rusty forest.’
http://www.archive.org/details/martin_aa

power up!
http://www.myspace.com/powerupup

sp:
‘sp started DJ'ing way back in '93. He has promoted his own dontfakethefunk techno/electro nights for the last decade. His own productions often betray his love of sample-based rave tunes but also incorporate elements of lush electronica, ambient melodies and intricate percussion.’
http://www.stuartp.f2s.com/lonehand/

SS_R:
Presents a series of ambient noise/rhythmic feedback and FX loop experiments, originally recorded live onto minidisc. No programming – no overdubs.

pixelpusher:
‘pixelpusher (Evan.Raskob) is a live video performance artist, or "pixelist." After a few years of pixel-pushing across New York City, he now plies his trade on the mean streets of London. pixelpusher generates video out of a controlled chaos of photographic images, simple shapes, animations, sounds, and live video feeds. All software is homemade, all imagery is created live; things may go wrong in beautiful ways, and no performance is ever the same.’
http://www.pixelpusher.flkr.com
http://www.lowfrequency.org

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If you would like to be kept up-to-date with Immersion events, please subscribe to the mailing list:

http://sonomu.net/person/~spencerm/

[pokkeherrie]

Originally Posted by porkmarras

this will be the third time i see Corsano live this year.Wooooooooooooooooo!!!

Originally Posted by porkmarras

Bollocks to that.Can't go now.

if it's just corsano youre after then you can see him again in january.

corsano only Noah Howard - 1/23/07 at The Spitz in London, England. 109 Commercial Street, Spitalfields E1 6BG.
corsano only Chris Corsano Solo - 1/24/07 at The Pool Bar in London, England. 104-108 Curtain Road London EC2A 3AH. Tel: 020 7739 9608. 8pm. £6. With Rothko, Rocketnumbernine.


http://www.yod.com/hatedmusic.html

[porkmarras]

Ah cool,thanks for the info.What is it about Corsano and playing in London?Is he living here now?

[porkmarras]

If you didn't make it to Rational Rec in 2006, turn over a new leaf with:

Rational Review of 2006 , programmed by Cecilia Wee
Tuesday 9th January 2007
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
44 Pollard Row, London E2
(5 mins from Bethnal Green tube)
Doors at 8pm; £5 on the door
FIRST LIVE PERFORMANCE AT 8.30PM
www.rationalrec.org.uk

To kick-start 2007, Rational Rec presents the Rational Review, the annual Rational Rec event of the best film, talk and music from the previous year:

Rational Rec is a monthly inter-art social occasion based at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, incorporating sound, music, text, performance and film into a damn good night out. Come along and be artistically, intellectually and alcoholically stimulated

Witness the first public screening of Hector Castells' 40 min documentary following sculptor Graham Hudson during his residency at the Chelsea College of Art & Design's Parade Grounds (April to Sept 2006).
Graham Hudson is represented by Rokeby Gallery: www.rokebygallery.com

Nominate the cultural thing or event from 2006 you would most like to applaud, damn or question in the Rational Review Panel discussion
With special contributions from:
Jason E Bowman - artist, curator, arts consultant: www.midwest.org.uk
Ken Hollings – writer, broadcaster, lecturer: www.kenhollings.com
Gillian Moore – head of Contemporary Culture, South Bank Centre
Sally O'Reilly – art writer, critic and event organiser
Chaired by Cecilia Wee (Salon or Seminar, Resonance FM): www.ceciliawee.com

We want to know your favourite, most despised or most challenging art work, event or cultural thing of 2006. No media or content excluded. Even if you're unable to make it along on Tuesday 9th January, we'd still love to receive your nominations!

To take part in the debate, email cecilia@rationalrec.org.uk by Monday 8th January 2007 with nominations for:
1) your favourite cultural happening / object of 2006
2) your least favourite cultural happening / object of 2006
3) the most puzzling cultural happening / object of 2006

Listen to some of the most experimental music of 2006 with a DJ set by Juha van 't Zelfde, a Netherlands-based DJ, curator of adventurous music and creative consultant. As DJ he has performed at the Venice Biennale and the Van Gogh Museum. He has curated the Amsterdam Museum Night and events at the Stedelijk Museum, Bimhuis and Lantaren/Venster, with artists including Jacob Kirkegaard, Vladislav Delay and Kode9. www.juha.nl

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RATIONAL REC
is organised by Russell Martin, Cecilia Wee and Matthew Shlomowitz.
First Tuesday of every month at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
www.rationalrec.org.uk
Rational Rec is supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts

[pokkeherrie]

Originally Posted by porkmarras

Ah cool,thanks for the info.What is it about Corsano and playing in London?Is he living here now?

as far as i know (which isn't all that far really) he used to live in manchester until recently but has now relocated to edinburgh.... edinburgh or glasgow, but i think it was edinburgh... or else let's just say some city in scotland.

edit:
his myspace says edinburgh

[porkmarras]

I suspected he was living either here or somewhere in Britain because he plays in London so often and especially at The Spitz(which is cool because it's one of my favourite venues).

[porkmarras]

DJs Garth Cartwright (author Princes Amongst Men: Journeys With Gypsy Musicians) and Leon Parker spin the wildest, weirdest and rarest Gypsy music old and new from Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Albania alongside – maybe – the occasional French or Spanish Roma tune too. Horny horns, sexy chalga and other sounds from Europe’s frayed edges !!


Free CD Christmas gift to all.

The Ritzy Cafe Bar

Brixton, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London SW2 1JG
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