Konsztrukting Soundz EVENING TWENTY-ONE

Event information

Venue: The Fishermen's Chapel, Leigh-on-Sea (SS9 2EA)
Saturday 13th December 2025
Doors: 7:00 PM | Start: 7:30 PM | Event ends: 10:00 PM

PROGRAMME
7:00PM door opens, arrival of the audience
7:30PM concert start, short intro
7:33PM SET #1 RIE NAKAJIMA & ANGHARAD DAVIES (~25 minutes)
8:05PM short break (~10 minutes)
8:15PM SET #2 MANDHIRA DE SARAM (~25 minutes)
8:40PM short break (~10 minutes)
8:50PM SET #3 SI PATON (~25 minutes)
9:15PM short break (~10 minutes)
9:30PM SET #4 MARTIN HACKETT & BRUNO GUASTALLA (~25 minutes)
~10:05PM concert end, packing and leaving The Fishermen's Chapel before 11:30PM.

RIE NAKAJIMA
Rie Nakajima is a Japanese artist based in the UK. She has exhibited and performed all over the world charming audiences with her inventive works of mechanical bricolage. In 2014 she received the Arts Foundation prize for Experimental Music. She co-curates the event series ‘Sculpture’ with David Toop and has collaborated with Miki Yui, David Cunningham, Phill Niblock, Pierre Berthet and many others.

References
https://www.rienakajima.com/

ANGHARAD DAVIES
Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist based in London working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance. Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation.
Much of her work involves collaboration. She has long standing duos with Tisha Mukarji, Dominic Lash and Lina Lapelyte and plays with Common Objects, Cranc and Skogen. She has been involved in projects with Tarek Atui, Tony Conrad, Richard Dawson, Gwenno, Roberta Jean, Jack McNamara, Rie Nakajima, Tim Parkinson, Eliane Radigue, Georgia Ruth and J.G.Thirlwell.

References
https://www.angharaddavies.com/

MANDHIRA DE SARAM
Mandhira is happiest bringing her playful energy and creativity to a breadth of projects across the less trodden paths of contemporary music, working with the likes of Anna Meredith, Laura Jurd and Shabaka Hutchings, and now increasingly as a solo artist. Having left the Ligeti Quartet (Songbooks Vol. 1, 2021) – the plucky band of musical buccaneers she founded to explore the outer reaches of chamber repertoire – Mandhira’s recent creative ventures include a commission by the Ligeti Quartet, a collaboration with the cross-cultural Australian Art Orchestra (debuting in Melbourne and HCMF) and working with Jasmin Kent Rodgman on the soundtrack to the feature film ‘Bawa’s Garden’. 2019 saw her commissioned to write a site-specific piece for the Barbican’s Sound Unbound. Equally at home leading orchestras in the world’s most prestigious concert venues, recording film soundtracks at Abbey Road and improvising at Cafe Oto, her other projects include improvising duos with Steve Beresford and Benoit Delbecq (Spinneret, 2019) and regular appearances with Riot Ensemble and London Contemporary Orchestra. She currently plays a 1735 Sanctus Seraphin violin kindly loaned to her by Derek Clements-Croome.

References
https://emergentidioms.bandcamp.com/album/the-council-of-two

SI PATON
Si Paton (Simon Paton) is an improviser and experimental musician based in Birmingham, UK. His work is based around improvised music, and he does a lot of shows of solo electric bass blending free jazz, noise, no wave, metal and performance art together. If you're a fan of musicians like Ryosuke Kiyasu, Glenn Branca or John Zorn, one might know what's it like. He does a lot of things involving preparing the bass guitar, exploring feedback, playing it with screwdrivers and drumsticks, and letting chaos unfold onstage. There's a real theatricality in what he does. Often it goes into Andy Kaufman territory with a real sense of absurdism. His stuff has worked well on a bunch of different bills including free jazz, experimental nights, contemporary composition, noise, and punk rock type nights, so it's adaptable to different settings.

References
https://scpaton.bandcamp.com/album/rejection-sensitive-dysphoria
https://youtu.be/VEAmv3nuK-Q?si=YURy1aq5yshTt-EC

MARTING HACKETT
Martin Hackett is part of Oxford Improvisers, the London Improvisers Orchestra, Le Grand Orchestre de Muzzix of Lille, and the on-line ensemble Blank Canvas Octet. Current projects include the trio ‘Tern’ with Emil Karlsen and Philipp Wachsmann, and as yet unnamed trios with John Bissett and Julian Faultless, and with Phil Morton and Nick Branton.

BRUNO GUASTALLA
Bruno Guastalla has been a violin and cello maker/restorer for the past thirty five years, as well as a practising musician. Questions around perception, language and shape-making come up a lot in his work. Bruno plays cello and has collaborated amongst others with Philipp Wachsmann, Dominic Lash and the dancer Macarena Ortuzar. He is a member of the SET ENSEMBLE.