KONSZTRUKTING SOUNDZ, Evening #8

Event information

EVENING #8, 19th October 2024, 7PM
Konsztrukting Soundz
an evening of improvised experimental electronic and electroacoustic music

The Fishermen’s Chapel
Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 2EA

(Google Maps link https://maps.app.goo.gl/Bj5a7yzDbsYByp6cA)

Featuring:
1. SET #1 Steve Beresford, Faradena Afifi & Paul Khimasia Morgan
2. SET #2 John Bisset & Olga Ksendzovska
3. SET #3 Chris Hill & Eggblood
4. SET #4 Rorquals & Lev Dudas

ARTIST INFORMATION

STEVE BERESFORD

Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over forty years, freely improvising on the piano, electronics, and other things with people like Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, John Zorn, and Alterations (with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack).
He has written songs, written for large and small ensembles, and scored short films, feature films, TV shows, and commercials. He was part of the editorial teams of Musics and Collusion magazines, writes about music in various contexts, and was a senior lecturer in music at the University of Westminster. With Blanca Regina, he is part of Unpredictable Series, which produces events and sound and video recordings of experimental music and art.

Steve has worked with Christian Marclay on numerous Marclay mixed media pieces. He has also worked with The Slits, Najma Akhtar, Stewart Lee, Ivor Cutler, Prince Far-I, Alan Hacker, Tania Chen, Ray Davies, Mandhira De Saram, The Flying Lizards, Zeena Parkins, The Portsmouth Sinfonia, Ilan Volkov, Rachel Musson, Vic Reeves, Lore Lixenberg and many others.

Beresford has an extensive discography as performer, arranger, free-improviser, composer and producer, and was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012. In 2021, Bloomsbury published a book by Andy Hamilton: ‘Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford’.

FARADENA AFIFI

See artist information here https://konsztruktingsoundz.co.uk/project/faradena-afifi/

PAUL KHIMASIA MORGAN

Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improvisor who uses an amplified acoustic guitar body. He has performed in regular and ad-hoc groupings with Steve Beresford and Blanca Regina, Cristián Alvear, Richard Sanderson, Jason Kahn, Simon Whetham, Seth Cooke, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Ryu Hankil, Charlotte Keefe and Mark Wastell’s THE SEEN. His Aural Detritus imprint released his latest cd; The Phantom Sunrise – a collaboration with Steve Beresford, Blanca Regina and Richard Sanderson and the compilation The Joy Of Isolation – a sonic artefact to accompany the JOY exhibition at The Ceramic House in Brighton – to which he contributed his piece Imaginary Duet.

JOHN BISSET

See artist information here https://konsztruktingsoundz.co.uk/project/john-bisset/

OLGA KSENDZOVSKA

Olga Ksendzovska is a pianist, singer, composer, and performer experienced in various musical styles and genres. These days she prefers improvised music for its flexibility. To her, it’s a window into the decision-making that different people employ to come up with music on the spot.
Christopher Hill

See artist information here https://konsztruktingsoundz.co.uk/project/christopher-hill/

EGGBLOOD

Works with found A/V media, archive, collage, flexible and flammable disc medium, nostalgia, faith, ignorance, and satire… Pushing and pulling at the the arse end of the edit. Knackered and nobbly knees, @ and under the end of the pier. Submerged, sampled, and squeezed into a machine bummed requiem…Some Past/recent works/broadcast:
Radiophrenia (Glasgow), XMTR (LDN), Duuu Radio (Paris), Radio ON (Berlin), Radio Tonka (Den Haag)
Radiospace Borealis (Bergen), KFAI/Echo Chamber (Minneapolis & Saint Paul), Radio Worm (Rotterdam)

http://mouthinfoot.net
https://soundcloud.com/mouth_in_foot

RORQUALS

See artist information here https://konsztruktingsoundz.co.uk/project/rorquals-rob-mells/

Lev Dudas

See artist information here https://konsztruktingsoundz.co.uk/project/lev-dudas/