Exhibition :
6 September 2024 Friday 5pm – 7pm
7 & 8 September Saturday & Sunday 2:30pm – 4pm
Free Entry
Performances :
Set One : 6 September Friday 7pm | Benedict Taylor (viola) and Cath Roberts (baritone saxophone)
Set Two : 7 September Saturday 4:30pm | Barbie Mukoda (solo flutes)
Set Three : 7 September Saturday 6pm | Caroline Kraabel (alto saxophone) and John Edwards (double bass) [FULL]
Set Four : 8 September Sunday 4:30pm | Sue Lynch (solo saxophone)
Set Five : 8 September Sunday 6pm | Kate Carr (electronics) and Cath Roberts (electronics)
Tickets £7 – or £12 for two sets | 8 places available for each set | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets | There are still tickets available for all sessions except Set Three.
Exhibition and live improvised music to celebrate the launch of Setlist zine vol. 4. Setlist is a series of A7 riso-printed mini-zines compiled by Cath Roberts (Ink-Paper-Sound Press), where artists are invited to contribute a tiny provocation/agitation/starting point to be used in improvised performance. The theme for Setlist #1 was micro-texts, Setlist #2 was all about images, Setlist #3 questions and Setlist #4 (miniature) maps.
This exhibition will focus on the two image-based zines, volumes 2 and 4, with work by Sam Andreae, Old Bort, Angela Guyton, Bell Lungs, Kim Macari, Khabat Abas, Sophie Cooper, Hannah McCann, Livia Garcia, Tullis Rennie and Benedict Taylor. To date only seen as tiny pages of an A7 booklet, artists’ zine contributions will be blown up to comparatively huge sizes and projected onto the space. Responding to the visuals with improvised live sets will be members of improvising large ensemble ONe_Orchestra NEw and Setlist artists.
Musicians:
Barbie Mukoda is a London based artist whose practice uses words, textiles and flutes. Music has always been a part of her life, from sparks of wonderment in a first intro to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons or singing along with siblings to retro Afro tunes (the likes of Zaminamina by Zangelewa), to bopping along with video game soundtracks on the Sega Mega Drive. She recently appeared at Allum Hall with the BBC Elstree Concert Band, UCL with The London Video Game Orchestra and The Vortex with ONe_Orchestra New.
Benedict Taylor is a leading figure within contemporary composition, modern string performance and improvised music in the British and European new music world. The central focus of his work is in new composition for live performance, film, theatre, contemporary dance, art installation and electro-acoustic composition. In performance, he predominantly works within improvisation, new composition and 20th/21st century music.
Caroline Kraabel is a London-based improviser, saxophonist, artist, conductor, and composer. In 2022 she founded a large improvising group made up of all sorts of women, non-binary, and transgender improvisers: ONe_Orchestra New. Selected other groups: duo with cellist Khabat Abas; Transitions Trio with Charlotte Hug and Maggie Nicols; Poetry Quintet with Rowland Sutherland, John Edwards and Sofia Vaisman Maturana, with guest poets including Moor Mother; duo with John Edwards.
Cath Roberts is an improviser, composer and artist whose work combines acoustic and electronic improvised music, experimental composition, and DIY publishing/printmaking. As an improvising baritone saxophone player, they have collaborated with a range of artists and ensembles internationally for over a decade. In their composition work they make experimental scores using graphics, notation, text, and booklet/zine formats. The primary outlet for this music is the band Sloth Racket, formed in 2015, which has toured widely and released five studio albums.
John Edwards is a true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke and many others.
Kate Carr’s practice explores the encounters, textures and technologies entangled with field recording using movement, objects and experimental recording techniques. She creates intimate, delicate and hybrid soundworlds which centre the interactions and collectivity which generate soundscapes. She works across composition, performance and installation. Everything from vibrations caused by cars and footfalls, to overheard murmurs, public speeches, music in public space, and the roar of distant sporting events has found its way into her compositions, and live performances.
Sue Lynch is an experimental musician specialising in tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute and composition. Her regular collaborators include Anna Homler, Crystabel Riley, Caroline Kraabel, Sharon Gal and N.O Moore, and she runs The Horse Music Club in South London, with Adam Bohman and Hutch Demouilpied. Sue has performed around the world, appearing with various ensembles at Tate Modern, Womad, Le Guess Who, Tusk Festival and End Of The Road among many others.
Images by Cath Roberts
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