I’m pleased to announce the next edition of Mercury Over Maps at Hill Station Cafe and Venue!

Please join us!

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-26

Mercury Over Maps #26

STEVE BERESFORD

ADAM BOHMAN

Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of underground music for decades. Working with home-built instruments, found objects, tape cut-ups, collages, ink drawings and graphic scores. Favouring acoustic sounds over electronics, he explores the minute tendrils of sounds coaxed from any number of non-musical instruments and objects. He is a member of British experimental groups, Morphogenesis, The Bohman Brothers, Secluded Bronte, and The London Improvisers Orchestra. Adam’s music is unique and experimental, incorporating musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation.

https://adambohman.bandcamp.com

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I’m pleased to announce the next edition of Mercury Over Maps at Hill Station Cafe and Venue!

Please join us!

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-25

Mercury Over Maps #25

DOMINIC LASH,BILL THOMPSON and COLIN WEBSTER

DOMINIC LASH – Double bass

Dominic Lash is a double bassist and guitarist who the Free Jazz Collective has called an “exceptional creative musician”. He concentrates on improvised and experimental music, performing regularly with musicians such as John Butcher, Angharad Davies, N.O. Moore, Mark Sanders, and Alex Ward. He also performed with the late Tony Conrad and Steve Reid, has had solo double bass pieces written for him by composers including Jürg Frey and Éliane Radigue, and has worked with bands and ensembles including Apartment House, Modern Nature, and the Bozzini Quartet.

 

Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism (2023)

Robert Pippin and Film (2022)

The Cinema of Disorientation (2020)

Spoonhunt record label (CD / download)

http://dominiclash.blogspot.co.uk/

 

ALICE BOYD – Laptop and electronics

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I’m pleased to announce Mercury Over Maps #24 at Hill Station Cafe and Venue!

Please join us!

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-24

Mercury Over Maps #24

BILL THOMPSON – No Input Guitar Pedals 

HARDI KURDA, TILLY COULTON, DOUGLAS BENFORD 

Hardi Kurda – violin / electronics

Hardi Kurda is a sound artist, holding PhD in music at Goldsmiths, University of London, and curator of SPACE21 Sound Gallery in Slemani. He uses radio frequency to explore noises that may have been considered illegal, abandoned, unheard, invisible, broken, distorted, untold, forgotten, or simply noises from nowhere, without a place or destination. He developed the concept of The Found Score to connect noises deeply with audiences to create Urgent Listening where listening became a force of necessity based on his listening’s experience when he illegally moved to Europe. Hardi’s work receive attentions from festivals, Universities and venues across Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa such as PRS New Music Biennial in the UK at South Bank Center, Another Sky Festival, Shubbak Festival, Café OTO,  (London), Sound Argument at Leiden University and Orpheus institute (Ghent), Tarkib (Baghdad) University of Santa Barbara (California), Sonorities Festival (Belfast), Borderline Festival (Athens), and MaerzMusik, Soundings ADK (Berlin), Nomos Museum (Gdansk), Reproduction (Goa), CHR (Cape Town) Irtijal festival (Beirut). He has been granted various residencies and grants including Beyond1932 (London),  LeGuessWho? Festival (Utrecht), Radio Art Residency (Halle, Germany), Swedish Arts Grant Committee, Melos Collective (Vilnius). His recent solo album Radiola Springs. VGR Culture Grant in Sweden described him as… “Hardi bridges diverse musical traditions with socially committed compositions that blend electro-acoustics and chamber music, enriching the classical repertoire for our times.”

https://hardikurda.bandcamp.com/

VIV CORRINGHAM AND LAWRENCE CASSERLY

Viv Corringham (voice, electronics, field recordings) 

A New York based British vocalist and sound-walker, who has been described as “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3). She has been cutting her own distinctive path ranging across free improvisation, Greek Rembetika and soundwalks. 

She is a certified teacher of Deep Listening, having played and studied with composer Pauline Oliveros, Awards include two McKnight Composer Fellowships through the American Composers Forum. 

Her work has received international recognition and been presented in venues in 26 countries, including Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico, Issue Project Room New York, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Onassis Centre Athens, ICA London, Serralves Contemporary Art Museum Portugal and Tempo Reale Festival Florence. 

Articles about her work appear in many books and publications.

Her latest albums “Soundwalkscapes” on Flaming Pines label have been well received; the Wire wrote that “Corringham voices the depth of place.”

She has collaborated with musicians Pauline Oliveros, Elliott Sharp, Pat Thomas, Maggie Nicols, Al Margolis, Charles Hayward, Chris Cochrane, Mia Zabelka, John Edwards, Steve Noble,  Mike Cooper, Dave Mandl and many others over a career of more than four decades.

“a vocalist of stunning virtuosity” (The Wire)

LINKS:

website: http://www.vivcorringham.org/

https://flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/soundwalkscapes-volume-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qINJiN9d_dQ

(Viv Corringham solo at Oxford Improvisers event, UK)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8EPXocso-A  

(Viv Corringham solo improvisation at Iklectik, London)

 http://suelynch.bandcamp.com/album/voices-in-space

(Duo with Sue Lynch at Boat Ting, London)

https://listeningbiennial.net/listen

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/an-audio-introduction-to-viv-corringham

Lawrence Casserley (signal processing)

“…the certainty is that Lawrence Casserley can be more innovative and creative than many of the ringleaders of the young generation of ‘laptoppers’.” Rui Eduardo Paes

Lawrence Casserley (born Essex, England, 1941) has devoted his career to the creation and promotion of live performance electronic music in a wide variety of ways for more than fifty years. In 1967 he became one of the first students of electronic music on the new course at the Royal College of Music, London, taught by Tristram Cary. His career continued at the Royal College of Music, where he became Professor-in-Charge of Studios and Adviser for Electroacoustic Music.

Since taking early retirement from the RCM in 1995 he has worked with many of the leading improvisers, particularly Evan Parker and his Electracoustic Ensemble. While he focuses primarily on the real-time transformation of other musicians’ sounds, he also uses voice, percussion, home-made instruments and found objects as separate sound sources or inputs for his self-designed Signal Processing Instrument.

Casserley’s instrumental approach to live computer sound processing is the hallmark of his work, which is documented on more than forty releases; he has performed and given workshops throughout Europe and in North and South America, Asia and Japan. Current collaborations include Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Philipp Wachsmann, Trevor Taylor, Gianni Mimmo, Martin Mayes, Nicola Baroni, Martin Hackett, Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash, Jeffrey Morgan, Harri Sjöström, Yoko Miura, Mia Zabelka and Viv Corringham. He is a regular member of Oxford Improvisers.

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I’m pleased to announce Mercury Over Maps #23 at Hill Station Cafe and Venue!

The evening features 3 sets –  a solo by Mandhira de Saram, a duo between John McGrath and Benedict Taylor and a trio between Regan Bowering, Rachel Musson and myself.

Please join us!

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-22

Mercury Over Maps #23

MANDHIRA DE SARAM – Violin and Electronics

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.

https://mandhira-desaram.squarespace.com/
https://emergentidioms.bandcamp.com/album/the-council-of-two 

JOHN MCGRATH AND BENEDICT TAYLOR

 

JOHN MACGRATH – Guitar and electronics

 

John McGrath is a Dublin-born guitarist and academic based in London.

 

His music explores the boundaries of the ancient and modern as traditional elements meet improvisation and experimental tendencies. McGrath’s compositions (available from Crooked Stem Recordings) have been featured in The Wire, RTE Radio 1, BBC Radio, aired on several television programmes, and sounded at Tate Modern and FACT. John has performed in ensembles with Dustin Wong, Mark Roberts (PiL), Darren Hayman (Hefner), Simon Stafford (Longpigs), Sharon Gal, Cavalier Song, History of Harry, Black Snow Rodeo, Rhys Chatham, Howard Skempton and the aPAtT Orchestra. Recent session work includes two records with The Unattached (Gare du Nord) and a live improvisation on Cafe Oto’s Otoroku label.

 

McGrath has been commissioned to write for the IMMIX ensemble and performed new music alongside large arrangements of his work with the group. As a solo performer John has performed at various festivals and has supported Richard Dawson, Gwenifer Raymond, Laraaji and Sun Araw. Recent appearances include a solo set at King’s Place, London and improv lineups at Cafe Oto.

 

https://www.johnmcgrathmusic.com/

 

BENEDICT TAYLOR – Viola

 

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I’m pleased to announce a special edition (Mercury Over Maps #22) in collaboration with Paulo Hartmann’s Improfest of my extended residency now at Hill Station Cafe and Venue!

The evening features 3 sets –  a duo between Phil Durrant and Pascal Marzan, a trio between Mandhira de Saram, Paulo Hartmann and myself, and a final group improvisation by all 5 musicians.

Please join us!

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-22

Mercury Over Maps #22

PHIL DURRANT and PASCAL MARZAN

Phil Durrant – electric mandolin and electronics

Born near London in 1957, Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts. As a violinist (and member of the Butcher Russell/Durrant trio), he was one of the key exponents of the ‘group voice approach’ style of improvised music. In the late 90s, his trio with Radu Malfatti and Thomas Lehn represented a shift to a more ‘reductionist’ approach.

In recent years as an acoustic or electric mandolinist, he has been performing duos with guitarists Daniel Thompson, Martin Vishnick and Pascal Marzan, as well as saxophonist Christoph Gallio. He also performs regularly in a trio with Mark Wastell and John Butcher and has many ongoing projects with drummer Emil Karlsen including a trio with Maggie Nicols and another trio with< pianist Laura Cole.

As a semi-modular synthesist, Phil Durrant continues to perform with Bertrand Denzler and Burkhard Beins in Trio Sowari. The group celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2024. He also has a duo with drummer Mark Sanders.

He is also a member of the international electronic ensemble MIMEO with Keith Rowe, Kaffe Matthews, Thomas Lehn, Rafael Toral a.o. With Mark Wastell, Steve Beresford and David Toop, he is also involved in an audio/visual project celebrating the work of the celebrated Scottish artist, Alan Davie.

In addition, Durrant has many ad-hoc groupings with a wide variety of musicians including Dominic Lash, Andrew Lisle, Colin Webster, Tansy Spinks, Khabat Abas, Tim Hodgkinson, Bill Thompson, a.o. Phil Durrant has also collaborated and composed site-specific music for a wide variety of choreographers, including Maxine Doyle, Susanne Thomas, and Gill Clarke.

https://www.facebook.com/philsowaridurrant/
https://www.facebook.com/sowarimodular/

Pascal Marzan – microtonal guitar and electronics

Currently living in London, Pascal Marzan performs on a 10 string microtonal guitar. After studying classical guitar – mainly devoted to the twentieth century repertoire – and teaching guitar in several music schools in Budapest, Hungary and France, Pascal has dedicated himself to free improvisation and the exploration of microtonal tunings of his instrument. His playing has been influenced by his interest in the folk musics of Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa…

He has recorded guitar duets with John Russell, Roger Smith (Emanem records) and a trio with Sabu Toyozumi and Dan Warburton (Improvising Beings records)…

http://preparedguitar.blogspot.com/2015/02/pascal-marzan-13-questions.html

MANDHIRA DE SARAM, PAULO HARTMANN and BILL THOMPSON

https://mandhira-desaram.squarespace.com/
https://emergentidioms.bandcamp.com/album/the-council-of-two 

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I’m pleased to announce the 21st in the series of my extended residency now at Canvas and Cream Gallery in Forest Hill!

The evening features 3 sets – a solo by Khabat Abas, a duo by Thorjn and Genie Tempest, and a trio with Phil Julian, John Macedo and myself.

Please join us (and come early if you want to eat)!

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-21

Mercury Over Maps #21

KHABAT ABAS – Cello and Electronics

Khabat Abas is a cellist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist from Kurdistan-Iraq. Her work explores time, space, and memory through music, everyday sounds, and noises. She delves deeply into how we experience sound, particularly in various geopolitical contexts.

https://khabatabas.com

THORJN AND GENIE TEMPEST

 

Thorjn is the music and arts project of composer and artist Elliott Martin.

 

Rooted in dance and electronic music, Thorjn creates experimental electronic music that fuses glitch, IDM, epic collage, and lo-fi aesthetics. Their 2024 debut album, Full Body Sprain, released on the North American electronic label UPSCALE, marks a convergence of past and present influences. Thorjn is set to release their second album in late 2025, delving into themes of post-internet culture and information overload, followed by a third album in 2026 that explores memory and “low-fidelity psychedelia.”

 

Since 2024, Thorjn has been performing with guitar and laptop processing, shaping immersive, maximalist soundscapes in the spirit of noise and drone. 

 

Link: https://linktr.ee/thorjn.music 

 

 

GENIE TEMPEST – Electronics

Genie Tempest is a vocalist, producer, and performer whose work merges abstract vocal techniques with digital signal processing. Blending Post-New Age aesthetics with noise, ambient, and electroacoustic sound, her music explores the space between emotional quietude and ambiguity. Her forthcoming debut album, Pulmonics, centres the voice as a multifaceted sound object in conjunction with laptop processing.

https://soundcloud.com/genietempest 

https://genietempest.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5auWaKUOktRrvXOWH8Xhx5

 

PHIL JULIAN, JOHN MACEDO AND BILL THOMPSON

PHIL JULIAN – Electronics

Phil Julian is a UK based composer and improviser active since the late 1990s principally working with modular electronic devices and computers.

Audio works by Julian (and under the Cheapmachines alias) have been published on labels including Entr’acte, Superpang, The Tapeworm, Harbinger Sound, fancyyyyy, Conditional Records, Confront Recordings, Banned Production, Beartown Records, Staalplaat’s Open Circuit imprint as well as numerous compilation appearances.

Julian has collaborated on remixes, recordings and live performances with John Macedo, Dale Cornish, Jason Kahn, Andie Brown, Daniel Jones, Kostis Kilymis, Ben Owen, Michael Renkel, Tomas Korber, Angharad Davies, Dominic Lash, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Tom Mudd, Ryan Jordan, Nihilist Assault Group, The New Blockaders, Maurizio Bianchi and GX Jupitter-Larsen of The Haters as well as being a member of the improvised drone ensemble Signals with Mark Beazley and Chris Gowers and performing as part of Mark Wastell’s improvising group THE SEEN.

http://philjulian.com/

 

 

JOHN MACEDO –  Electronics

John Macedo is an artist and performer from London. His work explores the connections and relationships between sounds, people, environments and technologies, often in intimate, immersive and interactive ways. He performs solo and has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians and artists including Phil Julian, John Butcher, Steve Noble, Cath Roberts, Lee Fraser, Sue Lynch, Graham Dunning, Adam Bohman, Yoni Silver, Phil Durrant, John Edwards and many more. He has had recorded works released by The Tapeworm, Infant Tree, Hideous Replica, Sound Holes, and Beartown Records as well as releasing small run and object editions on his own label, The Black Plume Editions. He has performed and presented work in the UK, Europe and US and has led workshops and produced collaborative, educational and community-based projects for Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, Artsadmin and New Contemporaries. 

IG: @johnmacedo_

 

 

BILL THOMPSON – Moog guitar and Electronics

Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in a number of groups including The Seen, zerøspace, and Airfield (with Ian Spink), and duos with Ian Stonehouse, Phil Durrant, and Yoni Silver. Past collaborations include performances with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.

Although originally trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for the better part of 15 years. In recent years he has returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining it with electronics with miscellaneous tabletop devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.

He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award.

www.billthompson.org 
https://burningharpsichordrecords.com

…

Mercury Over Maps is an extended residency by Bill Thompson at Canvas and Cream featuring performances, installations and talks with various collaborators and guest artists.

https://www.facebook.com/mercuryovermaps

 

 

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I’m pleased to announce the 20th in the series of my extended residency now at Canvas and Cream Gallery in Forest Hill!

The evening features 3 sets – a solo by Ian Stonehouse, a duo by Roma Agnihotri and whose body is this, and a trio with Jackie Walduck, Yoni Silver and myself.

Please join us for this special 20th edition – lots planned for this one!

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-20

IAN STONEHOUSE – Magnetic tape, analog synth, spring box

Ian Stonehouse is a currently a researcher and archivist of experimental & electronic music at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has lectured in Sonic Art for the past 20 years and was Head of the Electronic Music Studios at Goldsmiths from 2004-2019. 

He originally trained as a visual artist with experimental filmmaker Guy Sherwin and painter Paresh Chakraborty, and worked freelance for many years in sound, film, video and animation. In the late 1990s he was employed at the Lux Centre for Film, Video and New Media in London, working with artists such as Tacita Dean, Susan Hiller, John Maybury, Thomson & Craighead, Gillian Wearing, and Jane & Louise Wilson.

In recent years he’s performed as a member of noise-improv group Rutger Hauser (their eponymous debut album was released on the ADAADAT label in 2016), and as part of trio zerøspace (with Lucia H. Chung and Bill Thompson). Ian’s solo album, Voyage en Kaléidoscope (originally recorded on tape in 1995) was issued in 2016 thanks to the folks at Lumen Lake label. He was part of the ensemble who performed Bill Thompson’s Gates 2017at Goldsmiths and contributed tape loops to saxophonist Colin Webster’s release vs. Tape Loops on the Fractal Meat label in 2017. Ian’s albums Synthesizer Experiments Volumes 1-3 were self-released on Bandcamp in 2019, alongside several others.

He’s currently writing a biography of artist, performer, composer & sound poet Lily Greenham (1924-2001), whose first major retrospective – Lily Greenham: An Art of Living – ran from March to May this year at the Badischer Kunstverein gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany, for which he was a consultant researcher and tape archivist. 

This summer he has been involved in making four new copies of composer Hugh Davies’ pioneering ‘Shozyg’ experimental instruments using original materials for an upcoming concert series in February 2025 at the Science Museum in London & Bradford, with composers Gavin Bryars, Shiva Feshareki, Sarah Angliss, and the group Icebreaker.

https://ianstonehouse.bandcamp.com

ROMA AGNIHOTRI & WHOSE BODY IS THIS

 

Roma Agnihotri is a visual and sound artist whose work invites audiences to experience themes and imagery in an abstract, sensory way. Sound is central to Roma’s practice, combining with visuals to create immersive, textured compositions that explore the relationship between audio and visual expression. Their early work, a hand-painted, experimental short film series on 8mm film, delved into themes of nostalgia and the tangible nature of film, set to soundscapes from circuit-bent toys and handmade instruments. Roma’s practice has since expanded to include a range of materials and techniques, including stop-motion animation, as they explore new ways to merge analogue and digital elements in their visuals.

 

https://roamermultimedia.com/music-for-film/

WHOSE BODY IS THIS – Laptop

whose body is this is the musical project of Ben Mason, based on the UK’s South Coast.

Working on the fringes of electronic music for some years now, whose has drifted further and further into extreme computer musics, from unstable/digital feedback systems, to more recently Pulsar Synthesis with his PdPG.

Finding common ground between free improv (noise guitar in the duo Ratdanger) and solo algorithmic composition, whose is finds interest in seeing how a system reacts: how the guitar reacts, how the trackpad reacts, how the PdPG reacts. This intention coalesces in bursts of static noise, rhythmic pulses, extreme quiet and thick digital textures.

whose’s last project, Complete Gesture, recently release on electronic label EVEL – a collection of extreme, algorithmic computer trax, all made in the PdPG with machine assistance in the form of a “DIY” control neural network.

https://about.me/whosebodyisthis

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I’m pleased to announce the 19th in the series of my extended residency now at a new location!

Mercury Over Maps has relocated to Canvas and Cream Gallery in Forest Hill.

The evening features 3 sets – a solo by Paul Khimasia Morgan, a duo by Paula García Stone and Sue Lynch, and a trio with Dominic Lash, Mark Wastell and myself.

Please join us for the first performance at our new location!

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-19

My compositions explore aspects of being in a particular space, situation and/or state of mind. I have had the privilege to play these on the diffusion system of The Loudspeaker Orchestra at St Alfege Church, and at the University of Greenwich when I participated in their Sound/Image International Conference 2019. 

Sue Lynch and I have had an ongoing collaboration for some years now and are working on a CD for 2025. For these events I am Using field recordings from my larder of sounds which I process live through software on the iPad.

www.paulagarciastone.com
https://soundcloud.com/cellsonance
https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/node/64218
https://vimeo.com/cellsonance

 

 

Sue Lynch works as an experimental saxophonist, composer and visual artist. She curates The Horse Improvised Music Club with Adam Bohman, Hutch Demouilpied and Adrian Northover. Currently performs with Sudanese musicians The Scorpios, playing at European and UK  Festivals.

 

In 2016 she formed, ‘Paradise Yard’, an electro acoustic ensemble, featuring women improvisers, performing at Iklectik, Cafe Oto and The ICA. In 2018, she performed at 3 Klange Tag Music &Word Festival, Switzerland and Pied Nu Festival in France. Recent releases  ‘Secant/Tangent’ (dxdy recordings) with Crystabel Riley and Nathan Moore, ‘Minaru’ a Blue Tapes release as featured in The Wire magazine, with Anna Homler, Adrian Northover, Dave Tucker and ‘Orbit-Son’  Sophie Sleigh-Johnson and Adam Bohman on Infant Tree label. Recent solo saxophone release on Scatter Archive

 

www.scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/water-drips-clear

suelynch.bandcamp.com

suelynch.wordpress.com

 

 

DOMINIC LASH

Dominic Lash is a double bassist and guitarist who the Free Jazz Collective has called an “exceptional creative musician”. He concentrates on improvised and experimental music, performing regularly with musicians such as John Butcher, Angharad Davies, N.O. Moore, Mark Sanders, and Alex Ward. He also performed with the late Tony Conrad and Steve Reid, has had solo double bass pieces written for him by composers including Jürg Frey and Éliane Radigue, and has worked with bands and ensembles including Apartment House, Modern Nature, and the Bozzini Quartet.

 

Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism (2023)

Robert Pippin and Film (2022)

The Cinema of Disorientation (2020)

Spoonhunt record label (CD / download)

http://dominiclash.blogspot.co.uk/

 

 

 

MARK WASTELL

Mark Wastell is a versatile improvising musician who has played a central role in the British improvised music scene for over a quarter of a century. He has performed and recorded extensively and his varied resume includes projects with Derek Bailey, Phil Durrant, John Butcher, Lasse Marhaug, Rhodri Davies, Simon H. Fell, Burkhard Beins, John Tilbury, Mattin, Mark Sanders, Tony Conrad, Evan Parker, Tim Barnes, Bernhard Günter, Keith Rowe, John Zorn, Peter Kowald, Joachim Nordwall, Otomo Yoshihide, Paul Dunmall, David Toop, Alan Wilkinson, Max Eastley, Hugh Davies, Julie Tippetts, Alan Skidmore, Mike Cooper, Chris Abrahams, Stewart Lee, Clive Bell, Arild Andersen, Jan Bang, Maggie Nicols, Thurston Moore and David Sylvian.

https://www.confrontrecordings.com/

 

BILL THOMPSON

Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in a number of groups including The Seen, zerøspace, and Airfield (with Ian Spink), and duos with Richard Sanderson, Phil Durrant, and Yoni Silver. Past collaborations include performances with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.

Although originally trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for the better part of 15 years. In recent years he has returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining it with electronics with miscellaneous tabletop devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.

He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award.

www.billthompson.org 
https://burningharpsichordrecords.com

…

Mercury Over Maps is an extended residency by Bill Thompson at Canvas and Cream Gallery featuring performances, installations and talks with various collaborators and guest artists.

https://www.facebook.com/mercuryovermaps

 

 

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I’m pleased to announce the 18th in the series of my extended residency at Hundred Years Gallery – Mercury Over Maps.

The evening features 3 sets – a solo by Whose Body Is This, duo by Jasmine Morris and Liam Dougherty, and a trio with Ian Stonehouse, Yoni Silver and Lucia H Chung.

Please join us for the last MOM of the year!

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-18

Mercury Over Maps #18

JASMINE MORRIS – Prepared Violin

LIAM DOUGHERTY –  Laptop

Liam Dougherty (b. 1996) is an American composer and media artist. His output includes electroacoustic concert music, multimedia installation, and experimental film. His music is concerned with elements such as drone, noise, and psychoacoustic phenomena, and often incorporates instrumental design and found-sounds/ objects/footage into his composition practice. Recent projects include: a short chamber opera ensemble about the life of the painter Richard Gerstl and his relationship to the Schönberg family, a series of installations for a deconstructed upright piano and feedback, and a short film and live score utilizing archival footage of American nuclear weapons tests. Recent recognition includes the Elgar Memorial Prize in Composition folloing the completion of his Master’s degree at the Royal College of Music, London where he studied with Jonathan Cole and Catherine Kontz, and the RCM’s Accelerate Award which will support the development of a new large-scale performance and installation at the 2024 Rainy Days Festival in Luxembourg. He previously obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Art History at the University of Michigan, and he was born and raised in Denver, Colorado.

https://www.liamdougherty.net/
https://soundcloud.com/user-913432476
https://vimeo.com/user164759822

WHOSE BODY IS THIS – Laptop

IAN STONEHOUSE – Magnetic tape, analog synth, spring box

Ian Stonehouse is a lecturer in Sonic Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was previously Head of the Electronic Music Studios there from 2004-2020. He originally trained as a visual artist at Wolverhampton College of Art with experimental filmmaker Guy Sherwin and visual artist Paresh Chakraborty. In recent years he’s performed as a member of noise-improv-playback group Rutger Hauser, and their splinter group Rutger Hauser Digest (with Lisa Busby). Rutger Hauser’s eponymous debut album was released on the ADAADAT label in 2016. Ian’s solo album, ‘Voyage en Kaléidoscope’ (made in 1995) finally escaped to the surface in 2016 thanks to the folks at Lumen Lake label. He was part of the ensemble who performed Bill Thompson’s ‘Gates 2017’ at Goldsmiths and contributed tape loops to saxophonist Colin Webster’s release ‘vs. Tape Loops’ on the Fractal Meat label in 2017. Ian’s albums ‘Synthesizer Experiments Volumes 1-3’ were self-released on Bandcamp in 2019, alongside several others.”

https://ianstonehouse.bandcamp.com

LUCIA H CHUNG – Live electronics feedback

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Mercury Over Maps is an extended residency by Bill Thompson at Hundred Years Gallery featuring performances, installations and talks with various collaborators and guest artists.

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I’m pleased to announce the 17th in the series of my extended residency at Hundred Years Gallery – Mercury Over Maps.

The evening features 3 solo sets – Roma Agnihotri and their stunning audio/visual work, the excellent Pete Furniss performing a rare solo set with clarinet and electronics and myself performing new material with Moog guitar and a gluttony of live electronics.

Not to be missed!

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-17

Mercury Over Maps #17

ROMA AGNIHOTRI – Live sound and image

 PETE FURNISS – Clarinet and Live electronics

Pete Furniss is based in London and has performed internationally for 30 years across and between a broad range of genres, including orchestral and chamber music, contemporary, experimental and electronic musics, free improvisation and improvised theatre projects.

BILL THOMPSON – Moog guitar and Live electronics

Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in a number of groups including The Seen, zerøspace, and Airfield (with Ian Spink), and duos with Phil Durrant, Cath Roberts, Richard Sanderson and Yoni Silver. Past collaborations include performances with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.

Although originally trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for the better part of 15 years. In recent years he has returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining it with electronics with miscellaneous table top devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.

He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award.

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Mercury Over Maps is an extended residency by Bill Thompson at Hundred Years Gallery featuring performances, installations and talks with various collaborators and guest artists.

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