Konsztrukting Soundz EVENING #15

Event information

Door open: 19:00
Concert start: 19:30
Concert end: 22:00

Tickets:
£10 online here
and/or
£15 OTD

Featuring: RM23, NOISY WOMEN PRESENTS.

Evening Setup
Set #1 RM23
Short Break
Set #2 NOISY WOMEN PRESENTS, Part 1
Short Break
Set #3 NOISY WOMEN PRESENTS, Part 2
Short Break
Set #4 NOISY WOMEN PRESENTS, Part 3
Concert End (~22:00)

ARTIST INFORMATION

NOISY WOMEN PRESENTS
The Noisy Women Present is a multi-disciplinary creative hub championing diversity and collective virtuosity. We provide an inclusive, supportive space for women/non-binary performers across all disciplines.
Our concerts, workshops and events embrace improvised and experimental music, dancing, art and poetry. We believe in individual expression as part of a collaborative, liberating experience. Our associated ensemble, the Noisy People’s Improvising Orchestra, explores these ideals on a grander scale, and welcomes performers with neuro-diversity and learning differences.

https://www.noisywomenpresent.co.uk/

Full list of the members of the ensemble:
FARADINA AFIFI - voice, viola, percussion
Nungui Liu aka Akira - filming, spoken word, objects
Constance Cooper - piano, organ & voice
Aurelie Freoua - live art, poetry
Gwendolyn Kassenaar - live art, voice, movement
Jo Morrison - costume, voice, objects
Bettina Schroeder - electric ukulele, spoken word
Nicky Smith - vocals, movement
Maham Suhail - voice, electronics,
Julian Woods - guitar, bass, voice
Chris Holley - visual artist, live art

FARADINA AFIFI is the founder of The Noisy Women Present, and The Noisy People’s Improvising Orchestra, Fara is also an initiator, connector and performer. Faradena is a person with neurodiversity who has mixed Afghan/British heritage. She is a T’ai Chi Chuan practitioner/instructor, folk singer and improvising community musician who plays bowed string instruments, piano and percussion.
She also specialises in healing music and T’ai Chi-based exercises for people with learning differences and brain injuries/conditions.
During lockdown 2020, through jamming online with Maggie Nicols, Fara joined the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (GIO) and the Improvising Ensemble (IE). This led to performing with the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO), and with Maggie Nicol’s Creative Liberation Orchestra in Stockholm 2021 and various musicians since. She co-leads the International Online Improvising Workshop with Tony Hardie Bick, the online sister of The London Improvising Workshop, originally started by Eddie Prevost.
When not teaching or performing on stage, she is out busking with Cambridge musician Banjo Nick.
References
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NUNGUI LIU (AKIRA) is a transmedia artist working in and across the creative fields of film, music, performance, dance and spoken word. Originally from Shanghai, China, she was awarded an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art in London. Her work ranges from feature films and documentary to interdisciplinary art forms, including set design and storytelling, in collaboration with experimental composers, musicians, and choreographers. She explores the frameworks and fictions we create to make sense of the world by fusing aspects of philosophy, science, and the occult.
Currently, Akira is collaborating with Noisy Women Presents, crafting visuals for live performances and pushing the boundaries of immersive, interdisciplinary art. Increasingly Akira is using her creative experience to develop her own performance, music and spoken word skills.
References
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CONSTANCE COOPER does not like a day to go by without music improvisation, which, however, came her way late. She spent the first half of her life as a microtonal composer, freelance classical pianist, and singer of Gregorian chant, Renaissance works. and contemporary works, thirty written for her. While completing her PhD in composition at Princeton University, she wrote microtonal pieces that include improvisation. One of these won the Gustav Mahler Prize (Klagenfurt, Austria). Another was supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, and recorded live in concert for the Cadence/Quixotic label.
She improvises weekly via internet with her quartet Nice Guys Without Borders, as the Cooper Kinzer Duo, and as a member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. She will improvise live this spring and summer in Memmingen, Ljubljana, and Zagreb as well as joining The Noisy Women in Wales and at Leigh on Sea, UK. She lives in New York City and Ljubljana.
References
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AURELIE FREOUA is a French artist and performer living and working in London. Her paintings have been exhibited widely in group and solo shows. Aurelie is collaborating with jazz clubs performing improvised live painting with musicians and has illustrated several album covers. Aurelie curates and performs in multidisciplinary live performances called 'Résonances' merging visual art, musical performances, poetry and dance. Alongside her painting performances, Aurelie has recently written a theatre play and is currently developing more multidisciplinary projects.
Through her work, Aurelie aims to explore and transcend such notions as the invisible, movement, ephemerality and the intangibility of emotion through vivid colours and harmonious compositions of form, line and light. Throughout her practice, she values authentic representation and intensity in a process of 'making visible'.
References
https://aureliefreoua.com/

GWENDOLYN KASSENAAR is a London-based, Dutch visual artist and performer, Gwendolyn is a curator of visual art. A graduate of Chelsea College of Art, her work is based on rhythm, music and dance, and captures the intangible poetry of the ephemeral moment. She is an established participant in the improvised music scene, regularly painting live improvised at the Vortex, Café Oto, Iklectik and Hundred Years Gallery. She collaborates with highly regarded musicians including celebrated Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang, Orphy Robinson MBE and legendary improviser Maggie Nicols. She co-founded new collective Noisy Women, whose launch featured in iconic magazine The Wire, and was recently interviewed on Soho Radio.
Gwendolyn’s vivacious artworks are instantly recognisable for their distinct use of colour. Her work has featured at the prestigious Menuhin Concert Hall, Toulouse Lautrec, Vortex Jazz Club, album covers and in private art collections in the UK and abroad. She has just held her first solo show and launched Limited Edition Prints.
References
http://www.gwendolynkassenaar.com
@GwendolynKassenaar
https://www.instagram.com/gwendolynkassenaar/
https://www.facebook.com/gwendolynkassenaar/
https://www.youtube.com/@gwendolynkassenaar

JO MORRISON has a deeper interest in extended vocal techniques developed whilst participating in an Experimental Sound Art course at the Mary Ward Centre in 2020. Through lockdown she then joined the Groningen Vocal Exploration Choir online, which lead to introductions & collaborations with the free improv community in the UK. She has taken part in Maggie Nicols' The Gathering, Faradena Afifi's Noisy Peoples Orchestra, Sharon Gals SOUND OUT and co-created WHIP-MA-WHOP-MA-GATE with Milana Sarukhanyan, Iris Garrelfs & Faradena Afifi. She is now a member of The Noisy Women Present, sometimes performs with the London Improvisers Orchestra, occasionally joins the Virtual London Improvisation Workshop & thankfully experienced the open mic sessions at SKRONK (New River Studios) before they ended recently.
References
https://www.facebook.com/grgnvocalx/
https://www.londonimprovisersorchestra.co.uk/index.html
https://maggienicolscreations.com/the-gathering/
www.instagram.com/joannemorrison72/

BETTINA SCHROEDER has performed spoken word at various poetry and music events, frequently accompanied by her electric Ukulele or lap steel guitar with FX or/and found objects. Performances at: ‘Paper Tiger Poetry’ at Tea House Theatre, ‘MOPOMOSO’ event at Vortex Jazz Club’, CRUNCH’ poetry and exhibition events,’Molypolyscriptoscribble’ poetry events, , London Improvisers Orchestra, Oooh International Improvisation Festivals, ‘BOA-TING’ with Steve Beresford, Neil Marsh’s Vanishing Point at AMP Studios, Iklectik, international improv music SKRONKFESTS, Anna Göldi Museum, Glarus Switzerland, Intox Extravaganza and more.
For album releases with air play at BBC3, BBC Introducing, WFMU New York, 2BOB Radio, Australia, Resonance Radio and others, see in references below.
- Album UP BEAT by Bettina Schroeder & Xqui – release on Wormhole World label (Featured on BBC introducing)
Video sampler: https://youtu.be/3QpcVk5JYpo
- Album release on Wormhole world records: VERSUS by Jude Cowan Montague & Bettina Schroeder.
Video sampler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4ZVIdgNalU
- Album SHATTER RESISTANT by Bettina Schroeder & Tony Irving – original release on Linear Obsessional label (Featured on BBC Radio3, FREENESS, Vision Festival, programme by Corey Mwamba.
References
https://www.bettinaschroeder.net/
https://open.spotify.com/album/1u3i1MJCujW1DwpPsP8nrR
https://bettinaschroeder.bandcamp.com/
NICKY SMITH is a singer/songwriter/poet/ dancer and noise maker. Over the years she has found herself in many different musical constellations including an experimental noise band, psychedelic rock, abstract covers, choirs and rap. Given the chance she will try to make interesting sounds out of anything and will dance to everything.
Reference
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MAHAM SUHAIL is a performer and composer/sound artist. She has a multi-lingual live and recorded repertoire, with sample-based, textural and hybrid arrangements. Whereas her recently released project, “Mitti”, entails alternative cross-genre fusion, her older and current words embody more digitally processed samples, and looping and beat-programming on Ableton.
Maham has worked and collaborated extensively, internationally, as a performer, composer and producer. She has also curated some live acts and events internationally. Maham has multiple awards and honours to her credit, including the International Songwriting Competition 2021 Honorable Mentions winner; female vocals winner at the Stars of Tomorrow music contest, India, 2022; she was also one of 10 global artists to receive the Geothe Talents’ Scholarship residency in Germany 2017. She has media presence on radio, blogs and in publications across 10 countries and currently lives and works in London, England.
References
http://www.maham-suhail.com

JULIAN WOODS is a guitarist, bassist and composer based in London, currently studying a postgraduate degree at the Guildhall School of Music. Julian is interested in exploring new and unusual musical colours by making use of microtonality and polystylism in the context of improvised music. A graduate of Oxford University, he was highly active during his time as a student, leading the University Jazz Society house band, and playing in everything from a jazz orchestra to a classical guitar quartet. He has studied with pioneer Philipp Gerschlauer and other microtonal theorists/composers, and is a current student of the Julian Joseph Jazz Academy. Current projects include adapting Arabic and Turkish traditional music and Ives quartertone piano works onto modified guitars, and performing with the London Improvisers Orchestra.
References
https://linktr.ee/julian_woods

CHRIS HOLLEY is a graduate visual artist/painter whose art practice always tries to squeeze into the spaces between the other arts, especially – due to DNA and a dance/choreographic background – the vibrant and abstract arts of dance and music.
Proactive and involved in many projects bringing together artists and musicians, she regularly delivers illustrated talks on the flow of inspiration between the arts - in 2025 for The Guildford Institute.
You'll also find her writings on the huge impact of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes on 20th century visual art in the National Library of Art at London's Victoria and Albert Museum and in other major art archives.
Reference
www.chrisholleyart.com
www.instagram.com/chrisholleyart/

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RM23
We are an experimental sound collective that uses live mixing and an array of unconventional techniques to create improvised soundscapes. Crafted with field recordings, guitars, percussion, gongs, synths, and voice, each set is an unrepeatable dialogue between sounds that we collect and manipulate and the spaces and places in which we find ourselves.
RM23 are: Alicia Mâ Ri Atu Mâ, Shaun Malone, Lee Coxon and Patricia McGahan.

https://soundcloud.com/rm23-uk

ALICIA MÂ RI ATU MÂ was given her unusual second name during a spiritual induction ceremony by Mauta Taki, a Maōri shaman. A musician, writer, and artist, Alicia has spent decades exploring the energetic and sensual nature of sound with world-class West African musicians and through 12 years of therapeutic sound practice with gongs and other healing instruments. In 1978, she met Bob Marley, and toured the BBC's Radiophonics workshop for her BA thesis on special effects. Now, she mixes acoustic instruments with manipulated samples and live loops.

PATRICIA MCGAHAN is a dual-national English-Irish sound artist with a background in photography and fine art. Drawing inspiration from her past visual practice, she explores noise, texture, and deep listening to craft immersive sonic soundscapes combining synth sounds with manipulated field recordings. She is interested in capturing the essence of a place or setting using layered textures to evoke a sense of presence. She continues to explore, experiment, and develop her practice in new and unexpected ways.

SHAUN MALONE is a sound artist and experimental musician exploring the intersections of field recording, musique concrète, and live sonic manipulation. He uses prepared objects, found sounds, and sampling to shape and manipulate sound in real time. His setup and techniques reflect an intentional focus on accessibility and creativity over complexity. Shaun also contributes to collaborative sound projects and experimental radio broadcasts. You can find his works online at https://thesoundplays.com/.

LEE COXON is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and sonic artist. He came to the world of experimental sound art due to his passion for noise and industrial soundscapes. Since hearing The Beatles' foray into musique concrète on the chaotic Revolution 9, he has explored other left-field genres such as minimalsim, harsh noise, avant-garde, and industrial music; in particular the seminal English band Throbbing Gristle. All of this informs his use of synths, guitar, audio feedback, and digitally treated acoustic elements to produce the sounds he creates.