Thursday 19th of January, 13:00 – 21:00
Dai 大 hall, the Piazza, unit 29/30, Victoria Ln, Huddersfield HD1 2QF
Huddersfield-based artists and colleagues from around the UK, Europe, and the world (!) present a celebration of musical improvisation and community across the afternoon and evening of January 19th 2023. Curated by Henry McPherson, ‘many people felt present when they were there #2′ is the second event in a series of community-centred open improvisation sessions, first presented in 2022 in Glasgow. The event brings together acts such as Brutalust, the Glasgow Improvisers’ Orchestra, the Noisy Women, the Noisebringers, along with contributions from Canadian Piainist-Poet Stanford Cheung, emerging improvising artists from Huddersfield, and many more! Performances will be running across the afternoon, and will be livestreamed.
Set List:
14:00 – 15:00 – Open Group Improvisations #1 (come and play!)
15:00 – 16:00 – Performance #1 – Huddersfield Improvisers + Guests
16:15 – 17:00 – The Noisy Women and Friends.
17:00 – 17:30 – Huddersfield young improvisers
17:30 – 18:00 – Open Group Improvisations #2 (come and play!)
18:00 – 19:00 – Brutalust / Sylvain Pohu and PA Tremblay
19:00 – 20:00 – Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (+ digital guests), and Huddersfield Improvisers
20:00 – 21:00 – Open Group Improvisations #3 (come and play!)
Line-up:
Stanford Cheung
Canadian artist working across a variety of creative hubs as a classical concert pianist, sonic artist, improvisor, recording artist, and multi-disciplinary poet.
@stanfordcheung
Henry McPherson
Artist, composer, improviser, performer, educator and researcher from the United Kingdom. His creative practice draws widely across the visual, sonic, and kinetic, and his work has been shown internationally across diverse settings – from concert halls to galleries, from bathrooms to dance studios, from parks and warehouses to cafes, virtual halls and radio.
@HenryDMcPherson
Maria Sappho
Maria Sappho is a Puerto Rican American, originally from Brooklyn, NY currently working as an improviser, artist and researcher in the UK.
Currently Maria’s work is deeply involved in experimental AI where she has an ongoing collaboration with the world’s only multi-modal creative AI named Chimere.
@k33sia
Colin Frank
Coming from Ottawa (CA), Colin Frank experiments with sound, electronics, theatre, installation art, and percussion; investigating excess, bodily extremes, barely controllable instruments, and rich raw noises.
@colinfrankperc
Anthony Stillabower
Anthony’s music focuses on an intermingling of his practice as an improviser with the voice, his explorations of transducers for feedback/spatialization, and his interests as a composer making scores of various kinds (text, audio, interactive code, etc…). These ideas are put into tension to articulate ways of sharing intention and problematizing imagination.
Linda Jankowska
Linda Jankowska (Poland/UK) is a musician whose artistic practice orbits around long-term collaborations and multifaceted modes of working with sound that stretch her limitations.
Primarily a violinist, she works at an intersection of contemporary instrumental performance, improvisation and composition.
She is also an active concert producer, contemporary performance researcher and educator.
Alessia Anastassopulos
@audiovisualmetaphors1245
The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (online!)
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra is a large improvising ensemble of around 20 musicians from diverse artistic backgrounds ranging from free improvisation, jazz, classical, folk, pop and experimental musics to performance art.
www.glasgowimprovisersorchestra.com
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Montréal, 1975) is a composer and a performer on bass guitar and sound processing devices, in solo and within various ensembles. He is a member of the London-based collective Loop, and his music is released on Empreintes DIGITALes and Ora.
www.pierrealexandretremblay.com
Sylvain Pohu
For more than 20 years, Sylvain Pohu has been active on the Montreal and international music scene as a composer, improviser, guitarist, teacher, director and producer of concerts and records.
https://soundcloud.com/sylvain-pohu
Florijan Lörnitzo
@florijanlornitzo7974
The Noisy Women
Brice Catherin
Amelia Fisher
Tom Hawkins
@tomhawkins_music
Naomi Hill
@naomihillmusic7720
And more!
