KONSZTRUKTING SOUNDZ, Evening #9

Event information

EVENING #9, 16th November 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 Sunfish Starfish (Steve O’Malley + Emma Reed)
2. SET #2 Douglas Benford & Clive Bell
3. SET #3 Chris Hill & Ed Shipsey
4. SET #4 Benedict Taylor

ARTIST INFORMATION

SUNFISH STARFISH (Steve O’Malley + Emma Reed)

Inspired by nature and forged between the walls of a school library, Sunfish Starfish craft very loud soundscapes for supernatural environments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU84Fb_ZDY8
https://anticipatingnowhere.bandcamp.com/album/brimful-of-escher
https://www.instagram.com/sunfish_starfish/

DOUGLAS BENFORD

Douglas Benford, composer and sound artist, has been involved in various audio genres and monikers since the late 1980s, performing at institutions in the UK (Bristol’s Arnolfini, London’s Science Museum, Tate Modern, The Roundhouse, ICA and Glasgow’s CCA), festivals worldwide (Mutek, Synch, Transmediale) and has had installation work in numerous UK galleries (London, Swansea, Stroud and Essex). His pieces and performances have been aired on the radio internationally, and regularly on BBC Radio 3’s Freeness programme and the Ambrosia Rasputin show on Resonance FM. After numerous electronica releases and activity in the 90s and 2000s, he now plays using acoustic sources (eg harmonium, toys, objects) with the London Improvisers Orchestra and Confront Recordings / Mark Wastell’s The Seen collective, as well as being a regular contributor to the Lonely Impulse Collective. His collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Dominic Lash, Blanca Regina, poet Tamar Yoseloff, artist Calum Storrie, Angharad Davies, sculptor Rob Olins, Matt Atkins, Lina Lapelyte, Marjolaine Charbin, Sylvia Hallett, Steve Beresford, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, John Edwards, Jennifer Allum, and Sue Lynch.

https://dbenford.bandcamp.com/music

CLIVE BELL

Clive Bell is a musician, composer and writer with a specialist interest in the shakuhachi, khene (Thai mouth organ) and other East Asian wind instruments. He has travelled extensively in Japan (where he studied shakuhachi with the master Kohachiro Miyata), Thailand, Laos and Bali, researching music and meeting local practitioners. He currently tours with UK-based Japanese drumming group Taiko Meantime, and joins koto and shamisen players to perform the Japanese classical repertoire. He toured for over a decade with Jah Wobble, including shows at Ronnie Scott’s and the Glastonbury Festival. Clive is the shakuhachi player on Karl Jenkins’s album Requiem on EMI Classics, the final two Harry Potter movies, and the Hobbit. His shakuhachi playing has been featured live on Radio 3’s Late Junction and In Tune. In 2013 at the BFI, Sylvia Hallett and Clive Bell performed a live soundtrack for Walk Cheerfully, Yasujiro Ozu’s 1930 comedy gangster movie. Clive Bell has a substantial recording history as both a solo artist (his solo album, Shakuhachi: The Japanese Flute was reissued in 2005 by ARC Records) and as a composer for film, TV and theatrical productions (Complicite, Kazuko Hohki, IOU, Whalley Range Allstars). Jazz pianist Taeko Kunishima, Jaki Liebezeit, David Sylvian, David Toop, Jochen Irmler of Faust and Bill Laswell number among Clive Bell’s collaborators. Based in London, he writes regularly for the music monthly The Wire.

https://soundcloud.com/clivebell
https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/an-account-of-my-hut
https://dbenford.bandcamp.com/album/fragrant-duos

CHRISTOPHER HILL

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

EDWARD SHIPSEY

See more artists information here https://konsztruktingsoundz.co.uk/project/edward-shipsey/

BENEDICT TAYLOR

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. Described as a virtuoso violist, through his performance work there is a focus on solo performance as a creative and investigative process. In 2012 he initiated an ongoing commission series and solo label Subverten (For Viola Solo). The first works premiered in autumn 2013 and continue several times each year. An award winning composer for film, theatre and television, he has composed for over 35 feature films, shorts and television/online series in both the commercial and independent sphere (Netflix, Amazon, Blumhouse, Film London, Ivanhoe) with his work showing at many leading international film festivals and theatre venues worldwide (Rotterdam Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, Palm Springs Film Festival, London Film Festival, Royal Court Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Edinburgh Fringe, Southbank Centre, BFI London, NCPA Mumbai). As an improviser he has performed and recorded closely with many artists through the UK, EU, North America and Asia, including Keith Tippett, Evan Parker, Terry Day, Lauren Kinsella, Lawrence Upton, Alex Ward, Cath Roberts, Tom Jackson, Renee Baker, Paul Dunmall, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Dirk Serries, Steve Beresford, Angharad Davies, Neil Luck, John Edwards, Ivor Kallin, Anton Mobin, Hannah Marshall, David Leahy, Adam de la Cour, Alison Blunt, Chris Cundy, Daniel Thompson, Kit Downes, Yves Charuest, Jost Drasler, Alexander Hawkins, Tom Challenger, Miya, Tetsu Saito, Erika Sofia Sollo, Gianni Mimmo, Stephen Crowe, Marcello Magliocchi amongst others. Notable Festival, venue and radio appearances include; Spontaneous Music Festival Poland, BBC Radio 3, Jazz en Nord Festival France, BBC Radio Late Junction, Cafe Oto, The Vortex, London Contemporary Music Festival, Tete a Tete Opera Festival, Ronnie Scott’s, Aldeburgh Festival, Galway Jazz Festival, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte Montepulciano, Southbank Centre, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Fête de la Musique Berlin, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Manchester International Festival, Royal Court Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Manchester Jazz Festival, Cheltenham Festival, BBC Radio 2, Resonance FM, Radio Libertaire and many others.

https://benedicttaylormusic.com/home