IKLECTIK presents,
The Horse Improvised Music Club
Tuesday 21 June 2022 | 8pm [7:30pm doors]
Tickets: £8 adv / £10 OTD https://buytickets.at/iklectik/711069
Marjolaine Charbin (solo piano)
Trip-tik: Catherine Pluygers (oboe+cor anglais), Adam Bohman (amplified objects), Adrian Northover
(alto/soprano sax).
Cath Roberts (bari sax), Olie Brice (double bass)
Marjolaine Charbin
Marjolaine Charbin is a pianist. She uses the keyboard, strings, a range of objects, contact microphones, hands and voice. She is interested in how these things interact with each other, and what meaning comes out of it. Recent collaborations include; Dominic Lash, Chris Cundy, Eddie Prevost, Ute Kanngiesser, Angharad Davies, John Butcher, Ken Ikeda, Edward Lucas, Douglas Benford, Grundik Kasiansky.
After completing a masters degree in jazz piano in Brussel’s Koniklijke Konservatorium in 2007, and attending various workshops including at the Banff Centre (Canada), she sharply focused on improvisation. Her interest in indirect ways of thinking about music opened up a period of collaboration with theatre, film and dance. She curated a performance series in Brussels,There Is Still A Body, dedicated to experimental dance and music, before moving to London in 2012.
She has performed in venues and festivals around Europe such as Sound Disobedience Festival (Ljubljana),
Exploratorium (Berlin), Cafe Oto (London), Hurta Cordel festival (Madrid, Barcelone), The Vortex (London),
Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival, Music We’d Like to Hear series (London).
Her work is currently supported by Arts Council England, and she focusses on developing her language for solo performance.
Cath Roberts and Olie Brice Duo
The duo came together over the internet during lockdown in early 2021. Using JackTrip, Cath and Olie played
together remotely in real time and ended up making an album of those sessions, Conduits, released in March 2022 on Relative Pitch Records.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 band Sloth Racket, which has toured widely and released several albums. She also improvises using live electronics and objects. As bandmate, Cath is a member of several groups including Madwort Sax Quartet, Article XI and MoonMot. She has a long-standing duo with guitarist Anton Hunter (Ripsaw Catfish), as well as regular collaborations with Tullis Rennie, Benedict
Taylor, Otto Willberg, Seth Bennett and others. Cath co-runs LUME with Dee Byrne, producing concerts, tours and festivals since 2013 and releasing music on their offshoot label Luminous. With Tom Ward and Colin Webster she organises BRÅK, an improvised music series taking place in Brockley, South East London.Cath’s visual work can be seen on many Luminous releases, Sloth Racket tour flyers and LUME publicity materials, and in 2021 she created a giant, fragmented graphic score for an hcmf// commission, And then the next thing you know.
Olie Brice is a double bassist, improviser and composer. He leads the Olie Brice Quintet, described by Richard
Williams as “one of the most interesting and satisfying bands on the current UK scene”. The Olie Brice Quintet
have released two albums, ‘Immune to Clockwork’ in 2014 and ‘Day After Day’ in 2017. He also leads an
improvising trio, Somersaults, featuring Tobias Delius and Mark Sanders. Brice is also in demand as a
collaborator and band-member. He has appeared with musicians including Paul Dunmall, Evan Parker, Rachel
Musson, Luis Vicente, Tony Malaby, Ingrid Laubrock, Alexander Hawkins, Ken Vandermark, among many
others, and is a member of bands led by Dee Byrne, Alex Ward and Loz Speyer.
Trip-tik
Catherine Pluygers, Adrian Northover, Adam Bohman
The members met through playing with the London Improvisers Orchestra. Each player brings their unique experience from different sound worlds to the group. Adam Bohman has spent many years at the cutting edge of experimental sonic arts, while Catherine Pluygers is a renowned classical oboeist, specialising in performances of contemporary composition.
Adrian Northover has worked with improvisation in a myriad of forms, from jazz to Indian classical music, through to free improvisation.
Since its formation Trip-tik has performed at many venues in and around London, and has also worked in collaboration with other musicians including Eugene Martinec , Alison Blunt,Terry Day, Jaques Foschia, Vanessa Mackness, Barbera Meyer, Caroline Kraabel, John Russell, Roland Ramanan, David Leahy, Vladimir Miller and Sylvia Hallett.
