Konsztrukting Soundz EVENING TWENTY-THREE

Event information

ARTIST INFORMATION

STEPHAN BARRETT
Stephan Barrett is a musician and improviser whose work often involves a focus on the production of site-sensitive works utilising materials gleaned on walks conducted in London’s peri-urban landscapes, the sonic resonance of objects and the maritime imaginary.
He performs as a duo with Helen Frosi under the moniker Postcards from the Volcano, with Adam Kinsey as Littoral Transmissions and with Dan Strange as Georges Kaplan Presents as well as part of larger ensembles including the London Improvisers’ Orchestra and Apocalypse Jazz Unit.
As an improviser Stephan has performed at Full of Noises Festival, Fort Process, Hundred Years Gallery, Harts Lane Gallery, Iklectik, A.P.T. Gallery, Café Oto, New River Studios, the Vortex and Arch1. He has created radio works for Radiophrenia, SonicaFM and Wandsworth radio amongst others and currently produces regular shows as part of Littoral Transmissions for Resonance Extra and Threads Radio. He has released two albums with saxophonist Dan Strange under the name Georges Kaplan Presents… and his solo album ‘sea . forest . wind’ is available on Visible Near Midnight records.

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ANDREW CICCONE
Andrew Ciccone (Omphalopticon) is a multimedia artist and trash collector from New York. Since migrating to London Andrew has doubled down on his artistic output with deep ventures into live improvisation, paper collage, metalwork, abstract videos and prose. His music can be found on Bandcamp – see link below, and he also runs the Navel-Gazers interview series with recording artists (link below) and the No Computers improv event series.

References
https://omphalopticon.bandcamp.com/
https://blog.navelgazers.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/@omphalopticon2947


ADAM KINSEY

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EDWARD SHIPSEY
Edward Shipsey is an improvising musician based in London. He works often collaboratively using a myriad of different instruments and voice. He has been increasingly developing more composed approaches. He has also curated the event series Hard Work (with Paul Ingram) and different people doing different things together. Both of these try to bring different artistic mediums (music, poetry and performance) together.

References
https://religiouseducation.bandcamp.com/album/light-cargo-relaxing-long-music-from-across-the-last-few-years
https://mrmrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/tesserae
https://www.youtube.com/@edshipsey


CHRISTOPHER HILL
Christopher Hill is an improvising musician and sound artist. Based in London he regularly plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Eddie Prévost’s workshop group and promotes performances under the name of Babble&Squeak and DiscountGnostic. Recent collaborations and releases have been with Phil Morton (Project 50:50), Matt Atkins (Map & Territory; Moonside Tapes, 2023), Stephan Barrett (Dawn and Soil Bound: MRM 75, 2023), Microtonal Music (Moonside Tapes, 2023) and Ed Shipsey with whom he records as Egg & Crisp (Suckle Time; Astral Sewage, 2023). Some recent work has been aired on The Ambrosia Rasputin Show (Resonance FM) and Radiophrenia (Glasgow).

References
https://discountgnostic.bandcamp.com/


TONY JAMES MORTON
Tony James Morton is a computational artist, creative technologist, musician, and educator whose practice explores real-time systems aesthetics, data, and human interaction. His recent musical work focuses on evolving, textural soundscapes through the use of improvisation, asynchronous loops, ambient recordings, and found sound.

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JAMES MALONE
James Malone is a sound designer and improviser interested in synthesis, generative systems and feedback.

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VIV CORRINGHAM
Viv Corringham (voice, electronics, field recordings) is a US based British vocalist and sound artist, who has been described as “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3) and “a vocalist of stunning virtuosity” (Louise Gray, The Wire). She makes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and installations. Her practice explores relations between voice, place and walking, responding with sung improvisations to both natural and urban soundscapes. Corringham has received international recognition and awards including two McKnight Composer Fellowships through the American Composers Forum. She is a certified facilitator of Deep Listening, having played and studied with composer Pauline Oliveros. In 2024 this practice took her to Mexico, Spain, Germany and the Listening Academy in Hong Kong. Notable live performances have occurred in festivals at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico, Issue Project Room New York and Tempo Reale Florence. Her recent album “Soundwalkscapes” (Vol. 1: January to June) on Flaming Pines label (Bandcamp’s Best Field Recordings 2024) has been well received. The Wire wrote that “Corringham voices the depth of place.” Her definitive contribution to sound art practice is the 20 year ongoing “Shadow-walks”, which create layers of time and space, combining recordings from shared and solo walks along the same path with her improvised sung response. They have occurred in 18 countries, are taught in many sound art classes and have been the focus of articles in books and publications.

References
https://www.vivcorringham.org/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/@vivcorringham3449


MASSIMO MAGEE
Massimo Magee is a writer, artist and musician based in London. His work is wide-ranging, including multimedia fiction, text art, sound and image audiovisual digital art pieces, digital visual art, experimental music (improvised, composed and everything in between), free jazz, radically extended saxophony, electronics, data manipulation and much more. He is the creator of a form of art he calls Audiovisual Digital Abstraction. In improvised music, he has worked with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Marc Edwards, Eddie Prévost, Tony Irving, Ken Ikeda, and many more.

References
https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/the-contemporary-jazz-clarinet-of-massimo-magee-and-his-rhythm
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/toneflower
https://massimomagee.bandcamp.com/album/trio