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13/07/08
Please note, Nic Bullen's guest show for Active Cancellation on Sunday 13th July was cancelled (again) due to circumstances beyond our control. The show will now be broadcast on Resonancefm at 16.00 hrs GMT on Sunday 27th July.
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09/07/08
Active Cancellation will be now be repeated every Wednesday from 2200-2300 hrs GMT on Resonance 104.4fm.
Live web streaming from:
www.resonancefm.com
For archived mp3s of the shows click here
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06/07/08
Please note, Marcus Schmickler's guest show for Active Cancellation on Sunday 29th June was cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. The show will now be broadcast on Resonancefm at 16.00 hrs GMT on Sunday 6th July.
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10/07/08
Lee Gamble @ The Sonic Arts Expo Festival
Saturday 5th July 2008, Brighton
Lee Gamble will perform re-workings of his forthcoming Entr'acte 3" cd '80mm O!I!O pt2' as part of the festivals Saturday afternoons performances & installations.
SET TIME : 12.20am 05/07/08
The Basement, The Space [multichannel system],
Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
expofestival.org
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17/05/05
-Upcoming on Active Cancellation:
18/05/08 : John Butcher & Adam Bohman
"In the hands of London improvisor John Butcher, the saxophone can sound like anything, from a piece of hollowed out brass baubled with pads and valves to a hermetically sealed feedback system, a minature sound enviroment teeming with ever-evolving note forms, or a huge echo chamber inflicting dub scale damage on every breath."
"As a free improviser Adam Bohman has pretty much everything required for the job. He weilds an armoury of soundmaking devices - a disassembled violin, springs, lightbulbs, a barbecue grill, a wire record rack, a wooden box with wires stretched across - and creates a post-serial slipstream of variegated events, where more detail is pressed into a split second than ought to be allowed."
15/06/08 : GX Jupitter Larsen
"Some of my broadcasts have consisted of me slowly pushing live microphones into power grinders"
During the 1990s Larsen was the sound designer for the performances of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories. His best known work is as the founder of the noise act The Haters, who have performed all over the world, and appear on over 300 CD & record releases.
06/07/08 : Marcus Schmickler
Marcus Schmickler will present a new version of his latest algorithmic piece 'Altars of Science' (Editions Mego), utilizing various applications of granular-synthesis onto microtonal pitch material. He is closely associated with the a-Musik label and over the last years he has worked in the fields of electronic, improvised, experimental and new music as well as doing scores, radioplays and leftfield pop music projects. Possibly best known for his work as Pluramon, he has worked alongside Julee Cruise, Kevin Drumm, Keith Rowe, Jacki Liebezeit and Jan St. Werner. Other collaborators have included Thomas Lehn, John Tilbury, Peter Rehberg and Thomas Brinkmann. He is also member of MIMEO.
13/07/08 : Nic Bullen
Nic Bullen is one of the founders of the legendary Napalm Death, as well as a past member of Scorn with Mick Harris and Final with Justin Broadrick. Bullen currently runs the electronic imprint Monium and records and performs solo and as member of Black Galaxy and Photon Hex.
20/07/08 : William Bennett
William Bennett, animal response technician: founding member of Whitehouse in 1980 and pioneer of power electronics will play a solo Afronoise DJ set.
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15/05/08
New work by Dave Gaskarth at the Paper Market touring exhibit,
Thursday 15th May - onward 2008,
First stops:
Jibbering Gallery, Alcester Road, Moseley, Birmingham
Woom Gallery, 91a Vittoria St, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
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03/11/07
THE WIRE AND ELECTRA IN ASSOCIATION WITH CONTEMPORARY MUSIC NETWORK PRESENTS...
JOHN WALL & LEE GAMBLE live
w/ CHARLES LINEHAN DANCE COMPANY & HARLASSEN, UNKNOWN DEVICES
LONDON FINSBURY TOWN HALL, SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER, 7PM, £8
'A rare live performance by digital composer John Wall with Lee Gamble, plus a special performance from the acclaimed UK choreographer Charles Linehan and his company in collaboration with a group led by UK sound artist Richard Skelton (aka Harlassen), and David Toop's new digital Improv orchestra.'
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02/10/07
Debut recordings of solo guitarist Tom James Scott.
'Tom is a young classically trained guitarist, a mainstay of the improvising collective CYRK. Tom's influences stretch far and wide, touching upon aspects of traditional music, improvisation, vocal music, composition, and field recording to name but a few. These 5 slices of acoustic alchemy are well formed compositions for acoustic guitar, where the wealth of folk guitar has been distilled through a minimalist mind set to create some of the most beautiful elemental melodic lines that take the listener on a journey of meditative contemplation'.
Hard card mini gatefold sleeve lmited to 500. For Pre-Orders click here...
www.boweavilrecordings.com
Solo gigs!!!:
19/10/07
@ The Whitechapel Gallery,
Angel Alley Entrance,
80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1
w/Alan Wilkinson, John Edwards and Steve Noble Trio
Presented by Plan B magazine. £6/5 concessions
29/10/07
@ The Gramaphone,
60- 62 Commercial Street, E1 6LT
20.00
w/SIMON FINN and MICAH BLUE SMALDONE
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18/09/07
Lgamble @ Soho Arts Theatre
w / Family Battle Snake + Filter Feeder.
Tuesday 18th September
7pm
50 Frith St. London W1
Free !!!
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17/08/07
Whitechapel Gallery & The Wire presents -
Below The Radar: An Evening of Outsider Sounds
John Wall + Lgamble - live
W/ John Butcher + Leafcutter John The Wire Sound System DJ's
+ more TBC
Friday 17th August
7pm
Whitechapel Gallery
Angel Alley Entrance
80-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1
£6/5 concs
£3 members
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09/07/07
Gas will exhibit new work based on Black Metal alongside Savage Pencil, Mark Titchner, Lucy Mclauchlan and French at this years Supersonic Festival. Friday 13th - Saturday 14th July @ the Supersonic Festival, Custard Factory,  _ssmix4 voxel:version by Lgamble will be broadcast twice on London arts radio station Resonance 104.4 FM on Tuesday 12 September 2006. The piece was created as a direct response to the Space Soon: Art and Human spaceflight project. Check the resonance fm site for broadcast times... www.resonancefm.com Space Soon is an ambitious project and possibly the biggest longform radio art composition to be broadcast on British airwaves. Space Soon examines space travel as cultural / socio-economic / scientific phenomena. Space Soon, somewhat paradoxically, is also an attempt to create space for listeners whilst providing a veritable constellation of facts and speculation about the black stuff that surrounds us. www.artscatalyst.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- 11/07/06 Rodaidh McDonald has completed a commission by the Inverleith House Gallery to compose a soundtrack for a DVD accompanying their recent exhibition 'Evergreen', the theme of which was centralized around the laws of nature and the shapes and patterns found in natural phenomena. The 20 minute audio piece accompanies images from new and well known works by artists included in the show. These include Douglas Gordon, Cy Twombly, Ruth Vollmer, Carl Andre, Franz West and Richard Wright. Details to follow... ----------------------------------------------------------------         ----------------------------------------------------------------        Hi I have just despatched 2CDRs - they represent 'work in progress' and so would be grateful for any feedback - they were both made from samples from site recordings and in away i think represent ideas or themes in my earlier electronic work - but using actual events. - live in resonance studios http://www.artnotcrime.net/r+g ---------------------------------------------------------------- 30/04/06 Lgamble live solo computer o!i!o (four studies in paratelic audio)  Presentation and real time adjustments of perpetual computer music... info _ http://www.reversaltheory.org/_Archive/MotivPres_rt4.htm also _ http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/ where_ http://www.thewarehouselondon.co.uk/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- 04/04/2006 Starting Tuesday 4th April 2006:  www.resonancefm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- 27/03/2006 Music and Film by Phill Niblock with support from Lied Music PR... Inverleith House and Cyrk are proud to present a very special UK performance of music and film by New York drone god Phill Niblock, who is currently gracing the cover of The Wire magazine. Niblock's music comprises layers of recorded instruments that gradually unfold through shifting overtones and timbres, ever fluctuating between harmony and discordance. This remarkable music, which appears to be minimal on a surface level, is revealed to be rich and complex. Seemingly static clouds of sound drift imperceptibly, shimmering within a dense and rapturous stream of intensities. This is best experienced at the extreme dynamic of a live performance. However, Niblock is no stranger to the recorded medium, with an impressive array of releases on labels including Touch, Blast First, Extreme, Mokai and his own XI. For several decades Niblock has been regarded as a highly influential interdisciplinary figure in the worlds of experimental film and music, and has worked with such luminaries as Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Sun Ra and Arthur Russell amongst many. Niblock will perform alongside multiple projections of his highly acclaimed "The Movement of People Working" film series. This is a rare opportunity to experience his work in the UK. This is Niblock's second visit to Edinburgh, following an incredible performance at Edinburgh College of Art in February 2001. This was organised by Inverleith House,renowned for its award-winning exhibitions programme which commissions new work by leading minimalist artists. The reviews speak for themselves: "The performance attained such grandeur it was nothing less than magnificent" Keith Bruce, The Herald, Wed 7th Feb, 2001 "The evening became a sort of Zen experience... it was something akin to an aural massage..." Thom Dibdin, The Edinburgh Evening News, Wed 7th Feb, 2001 "For a minute it felt like we were all somewhere else, somewhere primal" David Keenan, The Sunday Herald, Sat 11th Feb, 2001 Main support comes from Lied Music consisting of Luke Fowler (Rude Pravo, Beck's Future's nominee) on Harper Kenchington and Saw Cellos (homemade instruments) and John Fail on Israj and violin. What unites these distinct approaches is the duos incorporation of live and pre-recorded tape loops on three cheap reel to reels which they use to compress, distort and decimate any natural fidelity their instruments may have possessed. Lied Music create compelling improvisation and song and have forthcoming LP's on Cenotaph (US) and Ultra Eczema (Belgium). Sunday 27th March 2006 Reid Concert Hall Bristo Square Edinburgh 7pm-9.30pm £6 / £4 Tickets available on site Enquiries - 0132 248 2983 ihouse@rbge.org.uk Arrive Early. View Poster ihouse@rbge.org.uk www.phillniblock.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- 20/12/05 Lgamble presents a 1 hour 'chronologically ordered count-up' of artists who have performed at a cyrk event to date. Utter-Radio-Neevs 1 (cyrkacts.feb05>nov05) will be broadcast live on Tuesday 20th December on Resonance 104.4fm 19:00hrs(GMT)for ogg vorbis,mp3,real audio streaming on the web go here: http://www.resonancefm.com or copy and paste this into your audio players 'open url/open stream' facility: http://relay.exequo.org/resonanceFM leg ---------------------------------------------------------------- 08/12/05 Rodaidh McDonald warm-up dj set for Jackson (warp) at Cocodisco... Details are: The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London, W1, 020 7636 4992; nearest tube: Oxford Circus. Cocadisco runs from 7pm-1am. Lgamble live set @ Tone Debris - curated by Mark Schreiber 20.00 Whitechapel Art Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7Q, ---------------------------------------------------------------- 11/11/05 19:30pm - 01:00am Bardens,38-44 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 £3.£5 after 11. Acts: Justice Yeldham aka Lucas Abella "It was louder than anything that had preceded it, and it had an organic quality that demanded my attention - so I took a look. The Australian stood in the middle of a semi-circle of onlookers, the DJ and a hospital gurney behind him. He wore a belt of effects peddles about his waste which were wired to a contact microphone affixed to a three foot long triangular piece of plate glass that was balanced on one shoulder and pressed wickedly against his face with both hands. It was like some perverse facial ham press. He blew into the glass like a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe, sliding the glass back and forth across his face to change the pitch, vibrating and adjusting pressure to alter the tambour. The sound was a combination of the vibrations created by his manipulations and the feedback from the amplification, and he truly played it like an instrument. In totality, it was kind of like a cross between a dental vacuum and a jet engine - two of my favorite sounds. The first cuts I noticed were on his shoulder where he was supporting most of the weight of the glass. His tee shirt had been sliced in two or three places, and a little bit of blood was starting to show. It was evident that this was going to be more than anyone had expected, and to drive that point home, he stuck the narrow end of the triangle as far into his mouth as he could fit it - and bit down. Breathing through barred, clenched teeth, a whole new sound appeared and then the glass gave way, shattering in his mouth. Quickly spitting out what he could, the larger, unbroken section of glass was again up against his face - smaller now, higher in pitch and somehow more urgent. His mouth was bleeding, and the distorted image of his face took on a new aspect of horror as the blood formed an organic liquid gasket between man and instrument. The intensity of the noise had not let up one bit, and with a few quick twists of the knobs on his belt any sense of waning was replaced by a new level of sound and violence. He bit the glass again, removing another big chunk, and then returned to the "first position," now with a piece of glass less than half it's original size. Again, the sound advanced to a new intensity, and at this point his entire face was red with blood that was mixing with his saliva and mucus to drip in tendrils from his hands, chin, and of course the glass. By this point, he was completely unable to stand still. The focus and control of is initial stance was replaced by a twisting, stomping, arching tangle of odd dance moves clearly inspired by the drive to continue the performance to it's conclusion. The final moments of the performance are hard to describe - suffice it to say that there was no piece of glass remaining that was larger that two inches in size. I was definitely left with an awareness that I had seen something that was totally for real - and I know that I've been a better person for it in the three days since." Micheal Smith on los angeles 05/03/05 + Sakada Mattin & Eddie Prevost's shifting ensemble play a 'more powerful' set with " " [sic] Goldie. Mattin - Guitar / Eddie Prevost - Drums / " " [sic] Goldie - Drums www.forcedexposure.com/artists/sakada.html www.mattin.org/recordings/reviewsundistilled.html Lgamble grunT.computer.o!!i!!O : performing a grunT audio decomposition. www.kippengrabbelton.be/daypicture.htm Murmer After a recent tour of the U.S, American 'murmer' performs phonography & sound objects. www.murmerings.com Clive Graham Djing experimental & electronic rarities. www.stalk.net/paradigm Paddy Collins plays back the recordings. www.noisegate.org.uk Richard Thomas regular Cyrk master of ceremonies presents his voice as introductory tool. www.lorecordings.com/richardthomas/richard5.html 'caitiff' cyrk dj's ---------------------------------------------------------------- 03/07/05 19:30pm - 01:00am Bardens, 38-44 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 £3. Acts Paul Hood turntables, amplified objects. Paul has been performing music since the late 1970's, originally working in numerous post-punk/rock bands. Paul started working with vintage record players in the early 1990s and has since continued to use turntables as his primary instrument. Paul's collaborators over the years have included a wide range of musicians from the improvising world. He was recently part of the touring "Turntable Hell" group which included Martin Tetrault, Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Ng, Janek Schaefer and others. www.twothousandand.com Mark Schreiber Orientation was obscured by night clouds and their confused journeys resembled star-like patterns. (live electronics) Jamka sequencer, synthesizer, sampler, self-built instrument In Slovak, "jamka" could mean dimple or it could mean pothole. Befitting their name, the duo pushes their live performance over rough territory with a cheeky smile. Electro beats to stride into Jamka's landscape of crunchy clicks and jagged breakdowns, only to be stretched and segmented themselves, sacrificed to the duo's digital-analogue dialogue. The mutant electronic offspring of Bratislava, Slovakia's punk scene, they formed in 2001. http://urbsounds.sk Richard Thomas Compere Cyrk Dj's ---------------------------------------------------------------- 29/05/05 19:30pm - 01:00am Bardens, 38-44 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 £3.£5 after 11. Acts: Eddie Prevost, Graham Halliwell and Mark Wastell trio Drums, Saxaphone feedback, Amplified textures. Matt Davies and Ben Drew Computers, Austerity Milche Grand Improvisation, Chaos Sculpture Tape machines, THC Ashley Wales (Spring Heel Jack) djset interview Clive Graham Guest Dj Richard Thomas Compere Cyrk Dj's ---------------------------------------------------------------- 19/04/05 19:30pm - 01:00am Bardens, 38-44 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 £3 Acts SLUB live audio/visual performance. Slub sound emerges from slub software; melodic and chordal studies, generative experiments and beat processes; process-based sonic improvisations; live generative music using hand-crafted Macintosh and Unix applications (in networked synchrony). With roots in UK electronica and tech culture, Slub build their own software environments for creating music in realtime. Only custom composition and DSP software is used. Everything you hear is formed by human minds. Slub have performed throughout Europe and the U.K and have released their music through the fals.ch label 8bitrecs.com www.fallt.com www.slub.org Count (cyrk) Hand made modular synthesis, purring broken techno, gaussian drones, arpeggiated arrhythms, next generation computer music, live sound-organization. Edinburgh based Count will play self built live audio processing software. Matthew Abrey Microtonal drones, phase interference & ?70s bicycles. From a background in cassette tape manipulation, circuit bending, delay lines and feedback, Matt has since used spectralism as a process by which to explore the basic nature of environmental and instrumental sound. "Spectralism provides a means by which I can explore the properties of a sound source without being necessarily bound to its physical origin". DJ Wrongspeed (Resonancefm) Richard Thomas Compere Cyrk djs ---------------------------------------------------------------- 24/03/05 19:30pm - 01:00am Bardens, 38-44 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 £3.£5 after 11. Acts The Bohman Brothers The Bohman Brothers are the creators of a unique and impure experimental music. Traces of Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation can be detected, yet ultimately the whole is greater and more arcane than the sum of its parts. podcasts Mattin Mattin is a Basque artist working with noise and improvisation. His work seeks to address the social and economic structures of experimental music production through live performance, recordings and writing. Using a conceptual approach, he aims to question the nature and parameters of improvisation, specifically the relationship between the idea of ''freedom''and constant innovation that it traditionally implies, and the established conventions of improvisation as a genre. Mattin considers improvisation not only as an interaction between musicians and instruments, but as a situation involving all the elements that constitute a concert, including the audience and the social and architectural space. He tries to expose the stereotypical relation between active performer and passive audience, producing a sense of strangeness and alienation that disturbs this relationship. www.mattin.org Clive Graham Guest Dj Richard Thomas Compere Cyrk djs ---------------------------------------------------------------- 23/02/05 19:30pm - 01:00am Bardens, 38-44 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 £3.£5 after 11. Acts Richard Thomas lorecordings.greedbag.com/richardthomas Brown Sierra www.brownsierra.org.uk LGamble ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
