Gesamtkunstwerk Memetics #1

Event information

Each performer can choose to do anything they wish, using any means or materials. The only fixed perimeters being the duration of the piece and the acknowledgement that each 'performance' coexistent concurrently.

Each performer must prepare with concealment and without the assistance or participation of a fellow designated performer.

Elbowroom, amplitude of surroundings and auditory conflict should be considered. The performers are permitted a natural, autogenetic reaction to their fellow performers.

:: There will be three sets/performances on the evening ::

The Performers:-

RACHAEL ALLEN is the co-founder of poetry collective Clinic Presents. She reviews for Ambit magazine and her poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in The Salt Book of Younger Poets 2011, Mercy and Rising.

PHIL MINTON is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.
Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with his own ensemble.

ADAM LARTER is a surreal, absurdist comedian based in London. He performs long story set pieces, 1 man plays, uses music and props. In 2011 he did his first full Edinburgh show at the City Cafe. Adam Larter: The Legend of Bob Geldof and other short stories.

STEVE BERESFORD is a composer, musician and arranger, a veteran of countless bands from the Slits, The Frank Chickens to the Melody Four. He has been a central figure in the British improvising scene for over thirty years working with the likes of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Han Bennink.

JACK GOLDSTEIN is frontman for the psychedelic pop quintet, Fixers. In January, along with fellow bandmate Roo Bhasin and King Of Cats' Max Levy, Goldstein released a recorded version of John Cage's Indeterminacy on the experimental cassette tape label, Fourier Transform. The release coincided with a show, currated by Goldstein, to mark the centennial of Cage's birth.

PAT THOMAS started playing at the age of 8 and studied classical music and played reggae. He began playing jazz at sixteen after seeing Oscar Peterson on television then listened to snatches of jazz on the radio before, in 1979, playing his first serious improvised gigs.Pat Thomas was invited by Derek Bailey to play in Company Week in 1990 and 1991 and he also took part in the Ist International Symposium for Free Improvisation in Bremen with the guitarist.

BEN TARGET is one of the most original and gifted comedians on the UK comedy scene. Known for his unique, inventive style Ben's first solo-show "Discover Ben Target" was the underground hit of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival, earning Ben an Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nomination. To date, he is a core member of the 'Alternative Comedy Memorial Society' - the resident variety show with sell-out runs at the Soho Theatre, London, UK. Ben also co-presents the renegade comedy club 'Weirdos' and regularly collaborates with creative collective 'The Thinking Shower'.

GLORIA LIN is a London based visual artist, studying MA Fine Art at Central St. Martin's. Her work deals with memory glitches and ruptured narrative through moving image, installation and performance.

TIM GOLDSWORTHY is a British record producer, DJ and recording artist. Originally a musician/producer for UNKLE, Goldsworthy co-founded James Lavelle's Mo' Wax label. He later worked with James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and is joint owner of DFA Records.

IAN STAPLES is the guitarist and founding member of 70's Avant-Garde Impov group, Red Square. Staples, fresh from the London underground scene, had been gigging regularly at the legendary Middle Earth Club in London with Ginger Johnson's African Drummers, alongside, amongst others, Pink Floyd and Mark Bolan. He was working with tape multi-tracking, noise, psychedelia and action painting. Staples' electric guitar playing is a blend of Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart, with the sonic palettes of Derek Bailey and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

ADAM HARPER is currently doing a PhD in Musicology at Oxford. He
writes for Wire magazine and blogs at Rouge's Foam. He is the author of Infinite Music: Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making.