Konsztrukting Soundz EVENING EIGHTEEN

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Konsztrukting Soundz EVENING EIGHTEEN

SET #1 - C-Wot...
SET #2 - Stuard Wilding & Pete Robson Duo
SET #3 - Andrea Bolzoni, Barbara Mukoda & Elien De Schryver Trio
SET #4 - Hell0 Spiral & Hardwokring Familier

ANDREA BOLZONI
Andrea has a background as a jazz guitarist, and has been involved with improvised music for the last 15 years. He has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Electroacoustic Composition from the Milan Conservatory, and is currently a PhD student in AI and Music Creativity at The Open University. Andrea was a member and co-founder of Swedish Mobilia and Raw Frame, and performed in clubs and festivals in Italy, France and Eastern Europe. He released a solo album in 2015, ‘amI?’, and more recently ‘Music from the Lounge’, in duo with Francesco Zago, for Creative Sources. Some of his electroacoustic compositions have been performed at the Sound and Music Computing Conference, New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, and Festival Artescienza.

BARBARA MUKODA
Barbie's fantastical voyage to improvisation has pushed her off of her Classical music island, and across the turbulent waters of Development and Discovery to the vast expanse of the Experimental horizons.
Experimenting with silence and lyrical lines across her three instruments, Piccolo Flute, Classical Flute and Alto Flute, she utilises little to no vibrato and a clear tone as an artistic choice in this realm.
Over the recent years, Barbie has played with BBC Elstree Concert Band, Lo-Fi, The London Video Game Orchestra, Orchestra New and Queen Charlotte's Global Orchestra, recording at Abbey Road Studios and BBC Maida Vale Studios and broadcast over Resonance FM as a member of AMM All-Stars.
Today, Barbie's World consists of these once disparate continents as a now great musical Pangaea, joined by Passion, Courage and Imagination, eyes shining bright to the new possibilities and opportunities that await her.

ELIEN DE SCHRYVER
Elien De Schryver is a Belgian musician and violinist based in Cambridge. Playing the electric violin, she weaves loops into intricate textures and atmospheric landscapes. With a keen interest in exploring music and sound on violin, particularly through improvisation, her work spans various genres, including improvised music for performance and installations. Elien is also an HCPC-registered music therapist and an associate lecturer in the Music Therapy training programme at Anglia Ruskin University.

STUART WILDING
Stuart Wilding is an improvising percussionist, playing a mixture of junk percussion, lap harp and cello. He is active in many current collaborations: Ghost Mind, Longstone, Lo-fi Ensemble, Mike Adcock duo, Pete Robson duo, Madrona, the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra, The Men They Couldn’t Dance To, and a new trio with Kaneng Lolang and Charlie Folorunshu. He currently runs the Lo-fi Improvised music Workshops in Camberwell. In the past he set up and ran Xposed Club promoting improvised music in Cheltenham. He has worked in several smaller improvising ensembles and with the Flying Down Trio, Hither Green Drone Orchestra and Makeshift. He played regularly at the LMC and was a performer and musician with the Hand in Glove Performance Group.

https://www.facebook.com/people/Ghost-Mind/100089967740135/
https://stuartwilding.bandcamp.com/
https://thementheycouldntdanceto1.bandcamp.com/
https://longstone.bandcamp.com/
https://madrona-uk.bandcamp.com/
https://xposedclub.wordpress.com/

PETE ROBSON
Pete Robson is an improvising pianist & trumpeter. Trained classically and in brass bands. He was a member of the London Musicians Collective in the 1980s and has followed a path in improvised musics and free jazz ever since. He was a member of The Improvised Music Ensemble in Portsmouth in the 1990s and of the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra in the early 2000s. He is very interested in working across genres. With TIME he composed Temenos a piece to accompany an exhibition of the sculpture of Maurice Owen on a national tour. He was worked closely with poets, actors and dancers exploring the relationship of improvised musics with words, visuals and movement. Recently this included a collaboration with the Butoh Dance collective Posthuman Theatre. He is also an educator, currently co leading the Lo Fi Improvisation workshop at Longfield Hall in Camberwell: working to develop the community and practice of improving musicians across south London. Currently Pete is a key member of the expanding trio Ghostmind who combine improvised music with a found sound soundtrack. And throughout his musical life he has worked in a duo with percussionist Stu Wilding developing an intimate shared language and intuitive understanding of each others music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-WrA9zw1g

C-WOT...
A Sonic Patchwork via the dubwaves, stitched with a bit of experimental Space rock. echoing chaos narratives & pushing out a weird labyrinthine resonance.
C-Wot... are: Charlie Folorunsho - vocals, Mario Guarnieri - Drums/Percussion, Gerhard Boomgaarden- sound maculations/guitar, and Felix X Tigersonic Macintosh - space bass.

CHARLIE FOLORUNSHO
Charlie's journey tarted with the Armenian theatre company getting involved with the plays & techniques of Bertolt Brecht & Athol Fugard.
He went onto study at Rose Bruford college on the community arts course. He studied, issue based theatre, using, Brecht, Boal & physical theatre techniques.
Also used & worked in many theatre with music productions, from schools, community centres, small fringe spaces to mid scale, touring, site specific & iimmersive productions. He's also toured nationally & worked internationally in bands throughout the 90's & 00's, despite a physical change in his life he still creates, performs & collaborates.
He's been involved with the lo fi improvised music workshop group & enjoys the new challenge it brings & the concept of creating, & forging through listening is his passion!

https://metisarts.co.uk/collaborators/charlie-folorunsho

MARIO GUARNIERI
A London-based free-improvisational drummer collaborating and playing live with different combos of musicians. He is part of the Lo Fi Ensemble workshops and attends the London Improvisation Workshop. Mario also releases his solo work of experimental/electronic music on Bandcamp under the moniker of Patasonus. Some of his improvisation recordings, as well as his solo work has been broadcast on Resonance FM and Soho Radio. During the 90’s and 00’s Mario was the drummer with The Positively Testcard, known mainly for their live performances of upbeat and very danceable Kwela tunes. Performances included Glastonbury 2007 (Left Field Stage), and live sessions for BBC Radio programmes such as: Andy Kershaw and (the late) Charlie Gillett, plus appearances on Loose Ends, The Arts Hour, Mel and Sue, Phil Jupitus and more.

https://patasonus.bandcamp.com/

FELIX X TIGERSONIC
Bass Player exploring experimental & improvised music
I make bass heavy music, videos, and art objects.
Releases on Spirit of Gravity, Linear Obsessional, Red Tent. Artmix
Recent gigs include Lewisham arthouse Improvox, Adam Bohman's magic cupboard, Zen Jerk, Fourth Portal
Proud member of Lo-fi ensemble & Richard Sanderson drone orchestra
Day job is recording and producing other artists at my studio in N7 .

www.thecreativeheadspace.com/tigersonjc

GERHARD BOOMGAARDEN
Gerhard Boomgaarden plays guitar, synths, theremin, percussion and generates vocal sounds.He has released material with the landofapples, Werftgarage and inner critic. He recorded recently on the new album by the 46000 fibers, to be released in early 2026. In his spare time he publishes academic books, including books on sound studies, attempts to link video to sound and runs monthly sessions as a sound therapist

HELLO SPIRAL (aka Joe Baldwin)
Hello Spiral's real name is Joe Baldwin. He is a non-musician, (dubious) artist and dirty footed flâneur from North London. He has been practicing his shady form of art for 25 years and has released 'music' on Chocolate Monk, Minimal Resource Manipulation, Memory Glands, Steep Gloss, Sparrow Sound, Tokinogake, Presque Tout and Moonside Tapes. As well as his own bandcamp page found here:

https://salaamhelicoid.bandcamp.com/music

HARDWOKRING FAMILIES (aka Tom Bench)
"Abstracted sauces, performance as code, gristle, electronic manipulation and tape glitch." - Radio Free Midwich.
Hardworking Families is Tom Bench’s solo sound-play interrogation. Working with no-input mixer feedback, tapes, objects, and occasionally instruments, intuitive textural adventures will coax your ears with visceral flavours.

https://hardworkingfamilies.bandcamp.com/