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The GRAIN residency and label for improvised music comes to The Horse Hospital. With four solo sets from Steve Noble, Theodora Laird, Lene De Montaigu, and Caius Williams.

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Steve Noble is London's leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O'Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more. In the early eighties, Noble played with the Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, before going on to work with the pianist Alex Maguire and with Derek Bailey (including Company Weeks 1987, 89 and 90). He was featured in the Bailey's excellent TV series on Improvisation for Channel 4 based on his book Improvisation; its nature and practise. He has toured and performed throughout Europe, Africa and America and currently leads the groups N.E.W (with John Edwards and Alex Ward) and DECOY (with John Edwards and Alexander Hawkins). 

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Theodora Laird is a vocalist and multidisciplinary artist. Releases under her solo project feeo have received critical acclaim. Theodora's practice has involved in tandem with an interest in situating narratives within freely improvised music, specifically through frequent involvement in the GRAIN residency.

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Downgraded is Lene De Montaigu, a French/American artist based in Glasgow. She is a recent graduate in Interaction Design from the GSA. Her work and interest interweaves code and digital technology as a medium for art, playing and conversating between analog and digital media. A lot of her works are sketches, explorations, and experiments that research and investigate aspects of our contemporary sensorial spaces via the hybridity of the mediums at hand. As such, the use of interdisciplinary tools is central to her creative approach, allowing for different languages to emerge side by side, or in conversation. As a digital artist, she is also careful to stay in touch with analog and physical mediums, as she explores the ways in which the borders between the virtual and the ?real? are structured and permeated.

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Caius Williams is a musician from London who plays the double bass, guitar, and bass guitar. He works in collaboration with others, alongside an ongoing solo project, and often works with improvisation.

Some projects include Crosspiece (with Theodora Laird), a duo with guitarist Tara Cunningham, alongside recent performances or collaborations with Lifetones (Charles Bullen of This Heat), Steve Noble, feeo, Daniel O?Sullivan, Mark Sanders, Sachiko M, Tom Challenger, Maggie Nicols, Mark Wastell, amongst others.

Caius has been running the GRAIN series at Avalon Cafe in Bermondsey for the last 3 years, which is focussed on programming new and adventurous music and nurturing a growing community with cross-scene and cross-generational collaboration.

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