Saturday the 19th of March. 17.00 – 21.30
dai hall, Unit 29/30, The Piazza, Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield, HD1 2RS
£8 advance / £10 on the door. Buy tickets here.
This is an event to conclude ame’s R&D on DIY culture, sustainability and future. The three months research is compiled as a booklet designed by Anna Bernhardt and will be on the shelf.
Discussions by Sunny Vowles & Kelly Culver(serf / Leeds) Sophie Cooper (Tor / Todmorden) and Sam Weaver (Cuspeditions/Eroteme, Manchester).
Music by Bridget Hayden and Sam Weaver.
Cambodian Food By Y Sok Woodward (Angkor / Manchester).
Doors 17.00.
Talks and discussions 17.15 – 19.00.
Food served 19.00 – 20.00.
Concert by Bridget Hayden and Sam Weaver 20.00 – 21.30.
Bridget Hayden is multi instrumentalist (guitar, piano, flute, cello) and vocalist with over 20 years performance experience on the international DIY circuit. Her output spans a variety of genres including noise, improvisation and folk music, and sometimes touches on blues traditions and heavy metal. She’s had tracks played on 6 Music’s Freakzone and BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction as well as many small independent stations (NTS, Narr Radio, Dynamite Haemorrhage, WFMU, Resonance FM to name a few).
She’s toured Europe multiple times both as a solo artist, supporting artists such as Arthur Doyle, Scout Niblet, Carla Dal Forno & Marisa Anderson. She was was invited by Dr Amy Cutler to play on her piece “Nature’s Nicklodeans” for Dutch international film Festival (2019) and has played Le Guess Who?, Colour Out of Space & Supernormal festivals in recent years both as a soloist and a collaborator (Bong, Marcia Bassett, Roy Claire Potter). Between 1999-2005 she featured on over 25 releases (eg Eclipse Records, Important Records, VHF Records) as part of psyche drone band “Vibracathedral Orchestra”, who played various large scale venues including The Royal Festival Hall & The Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
She’s had various positive reviews in “The Wire” magazine, both for solo works and collaborations and been championed by Julian Cope and Henry Rollins. Collaborations include a project with spoken word artist Roy Claire Potter (“I am Come from a Place” Fort Evil Fruit, 2020), a residency at Kraak Gallery in Brussels with Belgian musician Bram Devens (Ignatz) and a release with “The Telescopes” founder member Stephen Lawrie (“Infinite Suns” Textile Records 2009). She has released 2 solo LP’s to date (“A Siren Blares in an Indifferent Ocean” Kraak Records, 2011 & “Pure Touch Only From Now On, They Said So” Early Music Records, 2018) as well as many CDR’s and small run cassette tapes. CDR’s: “Just Ideas” 2003, “The Night’s Veins” 2006, “Exquisite Falling Dust” 2011, “Shipwrecked” 2016. Cassette tapes: “Incantations From Yin Valley” Fort Evil Fruit 2019, “Soil and Song” Synchronise Witches 2019. She also recently recorded an
instrumental EP for Cafe Oto’s Lockdown label “Taraloku” (2021).
Sam Weaver (Auto-Canibalism) is a sound artist using the studio as a laboratory for sonic investigation, often re-routing instruments into abstraction and deliberately mis-using his equipment: Primarily a custom built Hordijk analogue modular synthesizer. One half of London outfit Hungryghost, Sam has recorded and performed with Charles Hayward, Miki Yui, Clive Bell, Otto Wilberg, Rachel Goodyear, Konstrukt & Kevin Drumm. His performances exist somewhere in between acousmatic music, free improvisation and experimental electronics, seeking to explore the dynamics between harmony and chaos. https://soundcloud.com/flagdayrecordings/various-artists-sam-weaver-auto-cannibalism He runs the electroacoustic imprint Cuspeditions, is the co-curator of a bi-monthly concert series Eroteme and is one of three directors facilitating ‘Sine’s & Squares’ festival in association with NOVARS Research Center, (University of Manchester).
