Description

EVENING #7, 21st September 2024, 7PM
Konsztrukting Soundz
an evening of improvised experimental electronic and electroacoustic music

The Fishermen?s Chapel
Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 2EA

(Google Maps link https://maps.app.goo.gl/Bj5a7yzDbsYByp6cA)

Featuring:
Evening Setup
Set #1 Andrew Ciccione, Pete McPartlan & Robin Bale
Short Break
Set #2 Viv Corringham
Short Break
Set #3 Julia Brüssels
Short Break
Set #4 Leon Michener
Concert End (~22:00)

ARTIST INFORMATION

ANDREW CICCONE
Andrew Ciccone (Omphalopticon) is a multimedia artist and trash collector from New York. Since migrating to London Andrew has doubled down on his artistic output with deep ventures into live improvisation, paper collage, metalwork, abstract videos and prose. His music can be found on Bandcamp - see link below, and he also runs the Navel-Gazers interview series with recording artists (link below) and the No Computers improv event series.

https://omphalopticon.bandcamp.com/
https://blog.navelgazers.co.uk/

PETER MCPARTLAN
Pete McPartlan is a video artist and improviser based in London. He plays with little synthesizers, record players and laptops and is a regular at Skronk free improvised open mic, London Musicians Workshop and etc.

He has various releases on bandcamp: https://reidemeistermoves.bandcamp.com/

He also makes sound-films, animations and live audio/visual performances as well as making live visuals for bands, recently designing and performing hand-made animations for folk band This Is The Kit's tour. He explains science for a living and illustrated the book on quantum physics and heavy metal music.

Probably easier to just have a look at his website than read this stuff: http://petemcpartlan.co.uk/

ROBIN BALE
Robin Bale is an improvising poet, performance and sound artist from London. Live, he uses various drums and his voice. He has been a regular on the live art and noise scenes in the city for more than a decade. Robin has made recorded work utilising sound and poetry for Resonance FM (also performing live on several programmes) and Live Art Development Agency and appeared in several festivals, including TARP audiovisual poetry in Lithuania and Tempting Failure in Croydon.

His new album, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, is available on Bandcamp in late July.

VIV CORRINGHAM
Viv Corringham is a British vocalist and sound artist, active since the late 1970s. Her work includes concerts, soundwalks, radio works and multi-channel installations. She received two Composer Fellowships from McKnight Foundation, through American Composers Forum. She studied and worked with Pauline Oliveros for many years and holds a Certificate to teach Deep Listening. She facilitates workshops in listening and sounding, most recently in Hong Kong, London, Bangalore, New York, Kolkata and Manila. Her work has received international recognition and been presented in twenty five countries on five continents.
Recent work has been presented at Issue Project Room New York Electronic Art Festival, Hong Kong Arts Centre Multichannel Festival, Universities in Bangalore, Calcutta and Delhi, Ftarri Tokyo & Cafe Oto London.

http://www.vivcorringham.org/

JULIA BR?SSELS
Julia Brüssels, who grew up in Cologne, received classical violin lessons from Gudrun Pagel and Sebastian Reimann. In 2003 she won first prize in the solo violin category at Jugend musiziert . From 2013 to her Bachelor's degree in 2018, she studied jazz violin at the local music academy with Michael Gustorff as well as Roger Hanschel and Sebastian Gottschick . [2]
Brüssels is mainly active in the areas of improvisation, electronic music , ambient , as well as jazz and world music . Even during her studies, Brüssels belonged to the large formation The Dorf , with whom several albums were created by 2020; with this formation she received the WDR Jazz Prize (honorary prize) in 2020 . [3] In 2020 she appeared in the quartet hilde at the Moers Festival . She played nationally in her Julia Brussels Quartet, in the duo mikuji with Tim Abramczik and with Cemîl Qoçgiriî & Avian Quartet. She also performed with solo performances, with Stephan Mattner's String Project and withNorbert Stein's 2nd Cologne World Orchestra . She can also be heard on the albums Kölsche Heimat 01: Ahle Schätzje neu lackeet (with Kasalla ) and Berlin by Christian Brückner...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQy7XaaS1ug (Julia Bru?ssel @ BERLIN SOLO IMPRO 2023)

LEON MICHENER
Leon Michener is a London-born pianist whose music spans recordings of 20th-century classical music through to free jazz. Acquiring a small Moog synthesiser at the age of fourteen by saving a year?s worth of pocket money led to his passion for combining acoustic keyboards with live electronics. After graduating from Trinity College of Music he constructed his Klavikon system, a combination of piano, amplification, found objects, feedback and analog processing. Augmenting the 88 keys with his own inventions and found objects - custom-made microphones, toys, vibrators, and lots of blu-tak allowed him to deliver cascading batteries of percussion, sub-basses and dark abstract soundscapes. He has recorded on numerous labels, including a solo Klavikon album on the Nonclassical record label. His latest research has led him to resurrect and explore obsolete keyboard instruments such as the Clavichord, Dulcitone, and the Yamaha CP80 electro-acoustic piano.

For this performance, he will be playing on an amplified portable Clavichord, prepared with found objects, which has also been ?hacked? to include a custom-assembled electro-acoustic-mechanical percussion instrument in its lid.

Description

New Road,

Leigh-on-Sea,

Essex,

England,

SS9 2EH.