IKLECTIK presents,
LIO | LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA
Sunday 3 October 2021 | 8.30pm (doors 8pm)
Tickets: Advance £6 / General Admission £8 | https://buytickets.at/iklectik/562794
On this occasion the London Improvisers Orchestra will be joined in their monthly rehearsals and performance by ten improvising musicians from Norway’s Bergen ImproStorband (BIS).
For 23 years of monthly rehearsals and concerts the London Improvisers Orchestra has been dedicated to free, devised and conducted large-group improvisation. It draws on a large and shifting pool of improvising musicians from London and beyond on the first Sunday of each month.https://www.londonimprovisersorchestra.co.uk/
https://londonimprovisersorchestra.bandcamp.com/
Guest musicians from BergenImproStorband:
Ole Andre Farstad – guitarJohn Hegre – guitarErik Halvorsen – keys
Guro Kverndokk – vocalsEline Rafteseth – bassMartin Hjetland – drumsBjørn Ognøy – guitarEspen Lund – trumpetOlav Tveitane – bassLars Nordtveit – drums
About BIS:
Bergen ImproStorband is an open collective of musicians and artists in Bergen with an interest in experimenting with and exploring improvisation in a large group setting. Our work is project based and we realize around 5-10 projects a year. We are of today around 130 artists on our mailinglist, an average of 10-15 people participate in each project. BIS celebrates 10 years running this fall, founding member Ole Andre Farstad spent two years in London studying at Guildhall School of Music & Drama and during that time saw LIO in concert several times, this inspired him to start something similar back in Bergen, he allied with colleague John Hegre and started BIS. And here we are, 10 years after, the circle is closing, in a way. We are so much looking forward to playing with our colleagues in LIO in London after having Caroline and Steve from LIO visiting and leading BIS in January 2020, just before Covid19 hit the world.
see webpage for more info: https://bergenimprostorband.com
“The kind of intensity, excitement, and invention that this ensemble creates via spontaneous means is unique in New Music circles.”
Art Lange, Fanfare
In 1997, Evan Parker, Ian Smith and Steve Beresford put together a 24-piece orchestra to tour the UK for the Contemporary Music Network, under the baton of Butch Morris. Butch, sadly no longer with us, was a New York-based African-American cornet player, arranger and exponent of the improvised conducting technique known as ‘conduction’.
About a year after that, we put together the London Improvisers Orchestra to carry that process on. All members of the orchestra were encouraged to conduct pieces. Since our first gig, at the Red Rose in Finsbury Park, we have played pretty well every month at various venues.
http://www.londonimprovisersorchestra.co.uk
