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Darwin College, Cambridge – Sunday 8th November 2009
Jo Davis, Daniel Larwood, David Grundy – flute, xaphoon, recorder, acoustic guitar, voice, piano
01. In What Gaps Are You Found (15:22)
02. In Whose Flaps Are You Drowned (19:43)
03. O Classic Moment Martyr (13:37)
04. Life-Thinner (9:21)
05. Song-Skimmer (16:13)
06. A Hymn of Praise, Part 1 (14:17)
07. A Hymn of Praise, Part 2 (14:16)
Oscar Lomas – soprano sax, piano, drums, percussion, voice
David Curington – oboe, piano, recorder, drums, percussion, voice
David Grundy – piano, laptop, recorder, drums, percussion, voice
The first three tracks were performed as one continuous improvisation, as were the fourth and fifth tracks, and the sixth and seventh tracks.
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Pieces:
1. The Airport of Keith Rowe’s Toilet (30:20)
2. I Don’t Want To Eat Your Bread (37:54)
Performers:
1. Daniel Larwood (electric guitar)
David Grundy (piano, xaphoon, laptop, recorder)
Nathan Bettany (ukulele, oboe)
2. Daniel Lawood (electric guitar, piano, voice)
Nathan Bettany (oboe, piano)
David Grundy (xaphoon, ukulele, piano, voice)
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Mark Anthony Whiteford/ Stuart Chalmers + The Cambridge Free Improvisation Society
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Robinson College Music Room,
Saturday 16th May, 8pm
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This concert saw Mark Anthony Whiteford (saxophone and miscellaneous percussion/electronics), and Stuart Chalmers (kalimba and electronics), performing as a duo and in various combinations with members of the Cambridge Free Improvisation Society. Mark has been active on the Bristol improvised music scene since the 1980s, having been involved in the punk movement inspired by the likes of the Pop Group and Rip Rig and Panic; Stuart, who records solo material under the moniker Skarabee, incorporates elements of ambient music and minimal improv to create unique soundscapes and intense threads of textured quiet and silence.
The Cambridge Free Improvisation Society, a group of student musicians, have performed a number of gigs in recent years, sharing the bill with Styles J. Kauphmann, Eric Chenaux, The Dead Rat Orchestra, and others. Their most recent performance was a recreation of Dantes Hell alongside Jeremy Hardinghams actors group.
On this occasion, members of the society playing were: David Grundy, David Curington, Daniel Larwood, Jo Davis.
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MUSIC:
Set One: Mark Anthony Whiteford/Stuart Chalmers Duo
Set Two: Cambridge Free Improvisation Society
Set Three: Cambridge Free Improvisation Society with Mark Anthony Whiteford/Stuart Chalmers
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VIDEO:
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LINKS:
http://www.myspace.com/markanthonywhiteford
http://www.myspace.com/skarabeemusic
http://www.myspace.com/cambridgeimprovisation
http://cambridgeimprovisation.wordpress.com
http://freeimprov.multiply.com
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Pieces:
- Convergence (22:09)
- Dja-vante Ga-Reinhardt (5:28) Duo: DG, DL
- Webern’s Conversion to Buddhism (7:29) Duo: DC, DL
- The Clangers After Hours (6:54) Duo: DC, DG
- Credit Crunch 3000 (11:51)
- Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (17:25)
Performers:
- Nathan Bettany – xaphoon, percussion, ukulele (track 1 only)
- David Curington – oboe, piano, voice, percussion
- David Grundy – piano, laptop, voice, recorder, percussion, ukulele
- Daniel Larwood – electric guitar
Robinson College, Saturday 9th May 2009
Multiple links:
http://www.mediafire.com/?1iwzzl3eazm
http://www.mediafire.com/?iuzwym1znjn
http://www.mediafire.com/?wmfcymjzvyi
http://www.mediafire.com/?2zvytdinnzj
http://www.mediafire.com/?t4vhq32rdmn
http://www.mediafire.com/?2jg2kjntnnj
Performance 2009
Culvert, Robinson College, Cambridge
Inferno (final section)
Cambridge Free Improvisation Society/ Jeremy Hardingham & Co.
video will be uploaded soon. for the moment, sound at: http://www.mediafire.com/?cmtfdja3ew9 (if you dare)
David Curington - oboe, misc percussion
Nathan Bettany - oboe, xaphoon, misc percussion
Daniel Larwood - electric guitar, potato peeler
David Grundy - laptop, recorder, voice, misc percussion
in conjunction with
Jeremy Hardingham & co. – performative acts, screams
the ‘ideas’ part (from initial workshop discussion)
ideas of space in hell – a confined space, you can’t get out. being trapped inside a body, inside yourself cf. ideas from music therapy about improvisation being about listening to other people, and mental patients are so trapped – trapped inside too much self-expression, unable to get out of their own little world, unable to listen to what other people are playing when improvising with them because so self-absorbed, and the improvisation helps them see that they are that absorbed.
self, empathy – dante as not just ‘I saw this, I saw that, I’m going to tell you about it’, but a more collaborative relation with the reader. the extent to which he cannot express, or understand the torment he witnesses – that he is an outsider (e.g. that when he cries the tears are the right way round, flowing down his face rather than his buttocks, but in the place he’s at, that’s actually not the norm). passages in Canto III about the groaning of sinners. the second tercet revolves round ideas of words and language, and I thought interesting here how would be something where you can tell that
Sighing, sobbing, moans and plaintive wailing
all echoed here through air where no star shone,
and I, as this began, began to weep.
Discordant tongues, harsh accents of horror,
tormented words, the twang of rage, strident
voices, the sound, as well, of smacking hands,
together these all stirred a storm that swirled
for ever in the darkened air where no time was,
as sand swept up in breathing spires of wind.
(Kirkpatrick translation, Canto III, l. 22- 30)
lack of relation and intelligibility – hence the use of the cut-up words. idea of things too horrible (or wonderful) to be expressed in words, but dante tries it anyway. so trading off between on the one hand this excess of expression (the mental patients thing) and a complete lack of expression – or of anything to express. in that sense hell merges with limbo – so it doesn’t just work off one specific text but off various different ideas which coalesce (or contradict) in potentially interesting ways.
those were some initial ideas, anyway. the performance itself, who knows…
Fun Facts about These Videos:
- Jo Davis (flute) David Curington (cor anglais, teacups) Nathan Bettany (oboe, xaphoon) Daniel Larwood (electric guitar) David Grundy (piano).
- Recorded live at The Shop, XVIII Jesus Lane, Cambridge, 16th March 2009.
- Also on the bill were Eric Chenaux and The Dead Rat Orchestra.
David Grundy – piano. Afternoon of 16th March 2009. Robinson College.
1/ piano and cymbal (3:48)
2/ 16th march # 2 (3:54)
3/ 16th march # 3 (0:40)
4/ 16th march # 4 (8:47)
5/ 16th march # 5 (6:52)
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Sounding: An Evening of Music at The Shop, XVIII Jesus Lane, Cambridge (13/03/09)
“sounding, vbl. n. 1.a. The action or process of sounding or ascertaining the depth of water by means of the line and lead or (now usu.) by means of echo; an instance of this.” (OED)
Sounding: Testing the waters; listening to the sonic depths. An informal, though organised occasion: a space to try things out in a relaxed, semi-concert environment.
first half
[1] Benjamin Britten – Six Metamorphoses After Ovid (15:12)
David Curington (oboe)
- Pan
- Phaeton
- Niobe
- Bacchus
- Narcissus
- Arethusa
[2] The Cambridge Free Improvisation Society – Shoplifting (13:24)
Jo Davis (flute) David Curington (oboe, teacups)
Nathan Bettany (oboe, xaphoon) Daniel Larwood (electric guitar, xaphoon) Jacken Waters (electric guitar) Lu Mason (voice) David Grundy (piano)
second half
[3] Daniel Larwood – Ambient Intro (5:04)
[4] Daniel Larwood – Fingerpicking 1 (3:43)
[5] Daniel Larwood – Fingerpicking 2 (8:34)
Daniel Larwood (electric guitar)
[6] Lycanthrope Oboe – Wolf Shop (22:52)
Jacken Waters (electric guitar, pedals)
[7] David Grundy – Closing Time (13:30)
David Grundy (laptop, recorder, piano)
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Robinson College, 22nd February 2009
- Pissing in the Wind (10:44)
- Spring in the Air (3:54)
- Air in the Spring (4:13)
- The Hand (33:09)
- Earth-Black of the Soil (10:29)
- David Grundy (flute, piano, electronics)
- Dan Larwood (acoustic guitar)
- Jo Davis – flute (on ‘The Hand’)
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