Description

Featuring Jo Morrison, Nicky Smith, Faradina Afifi, Bettina Schroeder, Lucia H Chung, Georgina Brett, Iris Garrelfs and Tansy Spinks.

Order of performance
Set #1 - Jo Morrison, Nicky Smith, Faradina Afifi, Bettina Schroeder
Short Break
Set #2 - Lucia H Chung
Short Break
Set #3 - Iris Garrelfs & Tansy Spinks
Short Break
Set #4 - Georgina Brett
Concert End (~22:00)

About the artists...

JO MORRISON's deeper interest in extended vocal techniques developed whilst participating in an Experimental Sound Art course at the Mary Ward Centre in 2020. Through lockdown she then joined the Groningen Vocal Exploration Choir online, which lead to introductions & collaborations with the free improv community in the UK. She has taken part in Maggie Nicols' The Gathering, Faradena Afifi's Noisy Peoples Orchestra, Sharon Gals SOUND OUT and co-created WHIP-MA-WHOP-MA-GATE with Milana Sarukhanyan, Iris Garrelfs & Faradena Afifi. She is now a member of The Noisy Women Present, sometimes performs with the London Improvisers Orchestra, occasionally joins the Virtual London Improvisation Workshop & thankfully experienced the open mic sessions at SKRONK (New River Studios) before they ended recently.

NICKY SMITH is a singer/songwriter/poet/dancer and noise maker. Over the years she has found herself in many different musical constellations including an experimental noise band, psychedelic rock, abstract covers, choirs and rap. Given the chance she will try to make interesting sounds out of anything and will dance to everything.

BETTINA SCHROEDER has performed spoken word at various poetry and music events, frequently accompanied by her electric Ukulele or lap steel guitar with FX or/and found objects.
Performances at: 'Paper Tiger Poetry' at Tea House Theatre, 'MOPOMOSO' event at Vortex Jazz Club', CRUNCH' poetry and exhibition events,'Molypolyscriptoscribble' poetry events, , London Improvisers Orchestra, Oooh International Improvisation Festivals, 'BOA-TING' with Steve Beresford, Neil Marsh's Vanishing Point at AMP Studios, Iklectik, international improv music SKRONKFESTS, Anna Göldi Museum, Glarus Switzerland, Intox Extravaganza and more.

LUCIA H CHUNG is a Taiwanese artist based in London, United Kingdom. She performs and releases music under the alias ?en creux? where the sound creation springs from her fascinations in noise generated through no-input feedback mixing board. The volatile nature of the system and the unpredictable glitch from the excessive energy pouring into the equipment becomes her improvisational and compositional strategy.
Lucia?s passion lies in live performance and has regularly performed solo and with collaborators in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America, including Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Krama Festival, Lisboa Soa Festival, Sanatorium of Sound Festival and Festival Electropixel.

GEORGINA BRETT is a composer and event organiser. After studying an MA in Electroacoustic composition under Jonty Harrison she went on to produce cd?s of binaural recordings from eco-festivals. In 2003 she began making vocal live-looping collages/improvisations/compositions and has composed many albums exploring a range of ideas and musical challenges for mono-choir. She began Tuesdays Post : Live Progressive Ambient in 2012 to promote artists creating music on the cusp of electro-acoustic and ambient styles. Having gained a fascination for surround sound spatial music at undergraduate level she has curated a number of multispeaker concerts in London over the years.

IRIS GARRELFS works on the cusp of music, art and technology across improvised performance, multi-channel installation and fixed media projects, often using her voice as raw material. Her work has featured in places such as Iklectik, Café Oto, Tate Britain, Hundred Years Gallery, National Gallery London, Royal Academy of Arts (London), fruityspace (Beijing), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), MC Gallery (New York), Transmedia Borders (Mexico). Residencies have included Grizedale Art, Institute of Modern Art Celje (Slovenia), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens). With a PhD from CRiSAP (UAL), Garrelfs is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London, where she runs the Improvisor Collective and co-heads the Sound Practice Research Unit.

TANSY SPINKS is an artist, photographer, performer, live-improviser, sound and video maker, Tansy Spinks is currently researching means of listening, materiality in sound-making and site-specific sound as a live, performative practice. Her publication Sound Art and Music: Philosophy, Composition, Performance (Dack, Spinks, Stanovic) is published by Cambridge Scholars Press.
Sound projects include The Lab of Sonic Possibility and Whitstable Biennale fringe events for Sounding Shore, with Iris Garrelfs, the Text Scores of Place series, originally commissioned for a solo show at M2 gallery) The Sound Bureau project space in Brixton, investigations into Hearing Narratives in literature, with novelist Adam Lively and live responses to film (at APT gallery, for Anne Robinson?s film, The Hurrier, 2021 and for her current film The Charmers 2023, with Maggie Nichols and Keith Piper?s film Viva Voce for Tate Britain 2024 and to the paintings of Monica Sjoo at Beaconsfield Gallery, 2022. She also devised and led the graphic score ensemble for Tom Phillip?s memorial event at the South London Gallery, 2023, (for electric violin, bassoon, theremin, toy pianos and objects from Tom?s studio). She is currently a member/participant of the London Improvisor?s orchestra and Eddie Prevost?s London Improviser?s Workshop.
With a PhD from LCC, Fine Art degree, MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London and a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music, London, (violin) she is also a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Middlesex University and until recently, PL for MA Fine Art.

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New Road,

Leigh-on-Sea,

Essex,

England,

SS9 2EH.