IKLECTIK presents:
FAULT/SKIP/BREAK
Wed 27 Feb / Doors 7:30 – Music 8pm | Free for students, £5 for all others. [ Tickets ond only].
FAULT/SKIP/BREAK features undergraduate and masters students from the University of Surrey Creative Music Technology program performing with no-input mixers, semi-modular synths, modified instruments and bespoke software.
Also performing on the night are London improvisors Rachel Musson with Cath Roberts (sax + sax) and Phil Durrant with Phil Maguire (benjolin + benjolin).
DIG is a live electronics ensemble featuring students from the University of Surrey’s Creative Music Technology program improvising with no-input electronics, semi-modular synths, guitar pedals and modified instruments. In the past DIG has performed in the Guildford International Music Festival, at Richmix London and at Guildford’s Intraspect concert series. Current members include Harry Brownfield, Ben Dunkerley, and Will Dunn.
Jamie Crooks is a Masters student at the University of Surrey studying composition. A former CMT undergraduate, Crooks’ current work explores Lofi vocals and live electronics.
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Rachel Musson and Cath Roberts
Rachel Musson
Rachel Musson is a saxophonist, improviser and composer living in London, UK. She is involved with a variety of improvisation projects, including a trio with Hannah Marshall and Julie Kjaer, a duo with vibraphonist Corey Mwamba, and a trio with Mark Sanders and John Edwards. She has released two albums under her own name, one featuring Liam Noble and Mark Sanders (Tatterdemalion, Babel Records), and one featuring her ensemble Skein (Flight Line, F-ire Recorded Music). She also plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra and Alex Ward’s Quintet and Sextet, and has performed with a diverse range of musicians on the fluid European improvising scene, including Alcyona Mick, Han Bennink, Liam Noble, Gail Brand, Eddie Prevost, Olie Brice, Federico Ughi, Mary Halvorson, John Russell, Adam Linson, Sebastian Rochford, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Pat Thomas, among many others.
Cath Roberts
Cath Roberts’ work explores free improvisation, composition and the music at their meeting point. Her primary outlet as a composer and improviser on baritone saxophone is the quintet Sloth Racket, which has toured widely and released several albums. She leads ten piece improvising ensemble Favourite Animals, and has a long-standing duo with guitarist Anton Hunter, Ripsaw Catfish. As bandmate, Cath is a member of Madwort Sax Quartet, Vole, Article XI and Alex Ward’s Item 10 amongst other groups. She co-runs LUME with Dee Byrne, producing concerts, tours and festivals since 2013 and releasing music on an offshoot label, Luminous. Cath is also part of the group of musicians who run BRÅK, an improvised music series taking place in Brockley, South East London.
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Phil Durrant and Phil Maguire
Phil Durrant – Modular Synth
Phil Maguire – Modular Synth
Durrant and Maguire will perform an improvised duo for two Benjolins. The Benjolin has been describes as an ‘Aleatoric Analog Synthesizer’. It is a multifunction synthesizer designed by Rob Hordijk. The module consists of four separate function blocks: two VCOs, a state variable filter and an additional circuit, invented by Hordijk himself, called a rungler. This particular arrangement emerged from Hordijk’s efforts to design a synthesizer that was, as he puts it, “bent by design”. As such, the module functions according to principles of chaos theory, where short to long sputtering patterns spontaneously transform themselves, at times, gradually, at others, quite suddenly, morphing into new pattern doublings and bifurcations.
PHIL DURRANT
Born near London in 1957, Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts.
As a violinist (and member of the Butcher/Russell/Durrant trio), he was one of the key exponents of the “group voice approach” style of improvised music. In the late 90s, his trio with Radu Malfatti and Thomas Lehn represented a shift to a more “reductionist” approach.
Recently, he has been performing solo and duo concerts with Phil Maguire, Bill Thompson, Mark Sanders, Lee Patterson and drone concerts with Mark Wastell, Phi Julian, Rhrodri Davies, Bill Thompson, using an analogue/digital modular synthesizer system. As a mandolinist, he has been performing with guitarist Martin Vishnick and a quartet with Sue Lynch, Hutch Demouilpied and Dave Fowler.
Durrant still performs regularly with the acoustic/electronic group Trio Sowari (with Bertrand Denzler and Burkhard Beins) and Mark Wastell’s The SEEN.
https://www.facebook.com/philsowaridurrant/
https://www.facebook.com/sowarimodular/
PHIL MAGUIRE
Phil Maguire is an experimental musician/improviser/sound artist making reductive music that explores emptiness and malfunction. Simplicity is at the core of his work. He uses cheap electronics, open source software, synthesis, and obsolete audio equipment to create sparse sonic environments for personal reflection. These are often very quiet; very loud; loud made quiet; quiet made loud. Phil runs verz, a label and series presenting quiet music and sound art.
https://verzimprint.wordpress.com/
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University of Surrey, Creative Music Technology:
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/undergraduate/creative-music-technology
