EVENING TWENTY-FIVE

The Fishermen’s Chapel
Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 2EA
(Google Maps link https://maps.app.goo.gl/Bj5a7yzDbsYByp6cA)

Tickets:
£15 OTD (cash/card) or
£10 in advance & online [WeGotTickets Link TBA]

Evening setup:
SET #1 – Isidora Edwards & Luigi Marino
Short break
SET #2 – Rhodri Davies
Short break
SET #3 – Khabat Abas & Ivor Kallin
Short break
SET #4 – Mike Cooper

ARTIST INFORMATION

LUIGI MARINO
Luigi Marino is a Bristol-based musician, composer, and improviser whose work explores emergent phenomena involving people, objects, and the spaces between them. He performs on electronic media and percussion, with a focus on the Persian zarb, computer-mediated improvisation, and custom cymbals played with bows and DIY portable circuits. He holds an MFA in electronic music from Mills College (where he assisted John Bischoff and Chris Brown) and a joint PhD in composition from the University of Birmingham and De Montfort University. His teachers include Roscoe Mitchell, James Fei, and William Winant; he studied zarb with Mohssen Kasirossafar. His music has been presented at international venues and festivals including Café Oto (London), San Francisco Tape Music Festival, Intonal Festival (Malmö), and Exploratorium (Berlin).

References
https://luigimarino.net/
https://emergentidioms.bandcamp.com/album/for-cymbals

ISIDORA EDWARDS
Isidora Edwards is a London-based cellist, improviser, and composer originally from Chile. Her practice investigates hidden sounds of the acoustic cello through amplification, analogue synthesizers, vocals, texts, and objects, transforming the instrument into a poetic body of friction, harmonics, and stories. She is currently a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, and holds an MMus in Creative Practice from Goldsmiths plus a Music Performance degree from P. Universidad Católica de Chile. She has performed at festivals worldwide (Ende Tymes New York, Mopomoso London, DARA String Festival Berlin) and collaborated with the London Experimental Ensemble and Chilean groups. She also composes for dance and theatre and is developing experimental songs blending cello, voice, and electronics.

References:
https://www.isidoraedwards.com/
https://soundcloud.com/isidoraedwards

IVOR KALLIN
Ivor Kallin is a London-based improviser, violist, bassist, poet, and filmmaker with Scottish roots. He plays viola in Barrel and the London Improvisers Orchestra, bass and vocals in Glowering Figs and Ya Basta, and contributes to numerous UK improv projects. He creates improvised poetry drawing on Scots and Yiddish (sometimes under the name Ambrosia Rasputin) and co-makes over 100 short films with John Bisset as 213tv. He has hosted a freewheeling music show on Resonance FM and released collaborative albums and poetry recordings. His work spans music, spoken word, and visual art within the experimental underground scene.

References:
[TBA]

KHABAT ABAS
Khabat Abas is a cellist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist from Iraqi Kurdistan. Her work explores time, space, memory, and geopolitics through extended cello techniques, everyday sounds, noise, video, sound installations, and body-integrated performances. She has played with the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, London Improvisation Orchestra, and international ensembles, and co-founded Duo Moment with Hardi Kurda (releasing Broken Resonance and Illegal Performance). She has performed at festivals across Kurdistan, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East, and held residencies including one at AME Huddersfield. She recently received the DAAD Artists Fellowship for 2026 in Berlin.

References:
https://khabatabas.com/
https://khabatabas.bandcamp.com/

RHODRI DAVIES
Rhodri Davies is a Welsh harpist, improviser, composer, and multidisciplinary artist. He plays pedal harp, bray harp, horsehair harp, electric harp, and constructs wind, water, ice, dry ice, and fire harp installations. He has released eight solo albums and works regularly with HEN OGLEDD, Common Objects, and in a duo with John Butcher. Long-term collaborators include Derek Bailey, Éliane Radigue (who composed OCCAM I for him), and many others across improvisation and contemporary music. He has received awards including the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant and Creative Wales Award, and co-organises the NAWR concert series in Swansea.

References:
https://rhodridavies.com/
https://rhodridavies.bandcamp.com/music

MIKE COOPER
Mike Cooper (born 1942 in Reading, UK) is a guitarist, singer-songwriter, and musical explorer now based in Rome. He began as a country-blues performer in the 1960s, releasing early albums like Trout Steel (1971), before expanding into jazz, Polynesian, ambient, electronic, and free improvisation. He has appeared on over 60 records, formed long-running groups like The Recedents (with Lol Coxhill and Roger Turner), and created live scores for silent films, radio art, and sound installations. A visual artist, filmmaker, and Pacific music journalist, he continues solo lap-steel improvisations and global collaborations.

References:
https://www.cooparia.com