IMPROVISED MUSIC
Featuring members of the South Wales Improvisers (SWI) alongside guest artists from the UK’s improvised music scene. Each concert will showcase individual performances, culminating in a collaborative group session.
This series of performances at The Turner House is supported by a Ty Cerdd Engage Lottery funded grant and in-kind support from The Turner House gallery, Penarth.
October 17th: 7pm-9:30pm TICKET LINK
SWI: (FONTS) Martin Chitty & Rob Smith Duo
Michael Thieke & Luigi Marino
Matthew Grigg & Robin Foster Duo
November 22nd: 6:30pm-9pm TICKET LINK
Rachel Musson Solo
SWI: Jake A Griffiths Solo + Jon Ruddick & Chris Parfitt Duo
December 13th: 6:30pm-9pm TICKET LINK
Angharad Davies Solo
SWI: Richard McReynolds Solo + Liz Exell solo.
Artists:
(FONTS) Martin Chitty & Rob Smith
Improvised music duo based in Cardiff, made up of Rob Smith (woodwinds, percussion) and Martin Chitty (synthesizers, electronics).
Michael Thieke & Luigi Marino
Keeping the music completely open or introducing collectively composed elements, the dialogue between Michael Thieke and Luigi Marino stems from improvisation and the most hidden details of sound: subtle metal resonances, breath before it turns into a note inside a clarinet, electronic sounds generated by a 9v battery and projected by the vibrations of the instruments themselves. Sounds barely audible emerge from the background to take a predominant role, depicting abstract suspended landscapes, or turning into simple melodies and rhythms. Quietly, nothing is out of reach.
https://emergentidioms.bandcamp.com
Matthew Grigg & Robin Foster
Robin Foster
I’m a musician and performer based in Bristol, UK. My work encompasses ideas relating to performance art, improvisation, physicality, sound art and noise music.
Through the performance practice Rummaging, I use found objects to explore ideas relating to viscerality in performance, and the relationship of humans to the things we surround ourselves with.
Matthew Grigg
Matthew Grigg – guitar, amplifier. Bristol UK based musician, dealing predominantly with improvised musics.
Some of the bands I play with/have played with include: Yoke, Pigeon, Consorts, Clarkson / Grigg / Hill, South West Improvisers Group, Initiative Improvisierte Musik and others. I also perform in less stable/ad hoc configurations, and occasionally solo, under my own name.
https://matthewgrigg.wordpress.com/
Jake A Griffiths
Jake A Griffiths is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer who has been realising music since 2010. Their work falls between ambient, noise and alternative and this is primarily due to an obsession with sound. Their practice involves adapting and remixing found sound and archival material into new work, this was born because of a deep love of the rhythm of the world and the texture of speech.
https://jakeagriffiths.bandcamp.com/music
Liz Exell
Liz is a drummer and percussionist who has studied and taught all styles of jazz from 1920s to 2020s. She studied with improvising drummer Dave Wickins and Graham Fox and with them, explored jazz traditions and improvising drummers Milford Graves, Elvin Jones and Tony Oxley. Liz writes her own music using morse code to generate unstable rhythmic patterns and has studied polyrhythmic Ghanaian gyil (xylophone) music too. Expect a spectrum of percussion sounds from free noise to geometric kaleidoscopes.
https://hello8528.wixsite.com/lizexell/sallix
Chris Parfitt
Improvising musician, South Wales Improvisers. Noteherder & McCloud, PSANCK, Nil, New Interpretations Orchestra, IE Improvisers Ensemble. https://noteherder.bandcamp.com
Rachel Musson
A UK-based saxophonist, improviser and composer UK, Rachelhas spent over a decade immersed in improvised music, and isnow gradually introducing composed elements into her work,drawing on text,field recordings and processing sounds. Rachel isinvolved with a variety of improvisation projects, featuring onseveral releases (577 Records, Babel Label, Two Rivers Records),performing with musicians such as Pat Thomas and Mark Sanders,and a recent improvised collaboration with the BBC ScottishSymphony Orchestra.
Her recent album,AshesandDustEarthandSky, blends compositions, improvisations andfield recordings, andher solo performances have evolved to incorporate these sounds ina live setting. Rachel is a current (2024-2027) recipient of theprestigious Paul Hamlyn Composer award.
Richard McReynolds
Richard McReynolds is a Belfast-born composer and multimedia artist living in Cardiff. His current interest is how technology can blur artistic mediums. Recent projects include: visualising sound, generating still images from sonic input, creating electronic instruments to track physical movement and designing light-tracking installations. His performances engage on a visual and sonic level. His installation works invite the audience to play with sound, movement and digital control in active and embodied ways.
Jon Ruddick
Jon Ruddick is a sound artist & sound designer, arts facilitator, curator & A/V technician based in Cardiff, Wales. Jon is a director of SHIFT Cardiff CIC, and a member of the South Wales improvisors, WEMA (Welsh Experimental Music Alliance). Jon has performed live as a solo artist and in various configurations, including Thrumm with Sound artist Leona Jones, Slow/Archive with Slow Murder & Jon Ruddick & Kevin Jansen (SVARTVIT). Jon has been active within the Cardiff & Welsh arts scene for twenty years, performing across the UK
Angharad Davies
Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist based in London working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance. Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation.
Much of her work involves collaboration. She has long standing duos with Tisha Mukarji, Dominic Lash and Lina Lapelyte and plays with Common Objects, Cranc and Skogen. She has been involved in projects with Tarek Atui, Tony Conrad, Richard Dawson, Gwenno, Roberta Jean, Jack McNamara, Rie Nakajima, Tim Parkinson, Eliane Radigue, Georgia Ruth and J.G.Thirlwell.
https://www.angharaddavies.com
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