SPIRAL MUTOID TRIBE SOUND WASTE COMPANY

Spiral tribe soundsystem & mutoid waste company have always gone hand in hand. Calling what they did "organising some party's" is an understatement: they started a revolution that made the autorithies shit their pants.

Both renegades from their homecountry after some trials & police violence (or better said: police attacks), all because of what they believe in. Did that stop them? Hell no. They just did the same thing on the mainland. They forwarded the revolution through entire europe. Mutate & survive! Music, party's & art with a REAL message that influenced thousands, even still today.

--WATCH THE MOVIE HERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhH3CvHA9wo

15 September - Z'EV + Katsura Yamauchi + Sylvia Hallett London

Thursday 15 September 2011 Doors: 8pm
Tickets:
£5 advance / £6 on the door

@ Cafe Oto Dalston-London
www.cafeoto.co.uk

Small But Perfectly Formed presents three solos by:

Z'EV (percussions)

Katsura Yamauchi (saxophones)

Sylvia Hallet (hurdy gurdy)

Small but perfectly formed website

Z'EV

Z'EV is an American text-sound artist and mystic who is perhaps best known for his work as a catacoustic (reflected sound-based) percussionist. His work with both text and sound has been influenced by the Middle Eastern mystical system best known as Kabbalah, as well as - but not limited to - African, Afro-Caribbean and Indonesian rhythms, musics and cultures. Z'EV does not consider his performances as solos, but rather as the unique inter-reactions between himself and his instruments; the particular physical space of the performance; the particular time and geographic location of the performance; and the energies of the audience.

While but one of the progenitors of the ‘industrial movement’ in the mid-70’s, he was primarily responsible for delivering the ‘tribal’ impulse and esthetic between the years 1978-1984. Generally most known as a solo performer, since 2003 he has been concentrating on cooperative and collaborative composition and performance, recording and performing with: oren ambarchi, hans joachim irmler [as FAUZ’t], david jackman/organum, jason kahn, kknull, larsen, franciso lopez, merzbow, bj nilsen, stephen o’malley, osso exotico, pita, boyd rice, the.bänd, kasper t.toeplitz, luc van acker, nico vascellari [as Pslayer], chris watson, and john zorn.

Z'EV website
http://www.rhythmajik.com/

--watch Zév video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrXVBIg9kzY&feature=player_embedded


KATSURA YAMAUCHI

Katsura Yamauchi (b. 1954) has been influenced by the new experimental sounds coming from Tokyo, but had developed his own original style, mixing improvisation and minimalism with melodic elements. The music is at the same time challenging and easily accessible, unrecognizable and beautiful.

Katsura Yamauchi has released several solo CDs and recorded with Michel Doneda, Gunter Muller and Norbert Moeslang from Voice Crack. He's performed with Taku Unami, Jason Kahn, Otomo Yoshihide to name just a few.

"It's the first time for me to play in England. Some of my Japanese friends told me "Oto is very nice place and fits for Salmosax." Now, it is realized by many helps, I appreciate it.

Salmosax is a kind of musical exploration, it connect ancient time to today using my memories of body (DNA), air, place, audiences, sounds, etc. As a result Salmosax express future too. I mean I don't know my music.

Is it like Zen?　I don't know." Katsura Yamuchi

Katsura Yamauchi website
http://salmosax.com/

SYLVIA HALLETT

As an improviser or a composer Sylvia Hallett plays an extended variety of instruments (violin, accordion, bicycle wheel, sarangi, klassikkemance, hurdy-gurdy, electronics…) and also works with various theatre and dance companies.

About the hurdy-gurdy Sylvia says: "It used to be almost unavoidable on the streets of London. It is a medieval one-man-band machine, enabling the musician to play melodies over drones and rhythms. Nowadays musicians use electronics to do a similar job. In an unpredictable mix of old and new I will introduce the hurdy-gurdy to some lo-fi electronic effects."

Sylvia Hallett website
http://www.sylviahallett.co.uk/

16 September - Hackney Film Festival & LUX Moving Image presents an experimental performance event

Friday 16 September 2011



Doors: 8pm

Tickets:
£8 adv / £10 door

Expanding on last years debut festival, our events programme branches to experimental film and video works with a special collaborative performance event. HFF and LUX have co-curated a selection of visual and sound artists. Three duo's will perform together for the first time, premiering brand new works celebrating experimentation in live moving image and sound.

The Hackney Film Festival is a not-for-profit organisation and a collective of local filmmakers and artists. Our aim is to create a rich film culture within the London borough of Hackney, by creating a platform for local filmmakers and audio-visual artists to have their work showcased to the community and the wider audience of London. The Hackney Film Festival has been established for the benefit of the public through an annual event of film screenings, Q&As, live audio-visual performances and workshops

www.hackneyfilmfestival.com

4 September - The LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA @ Cafe Oto London

SUNDAY 4th September 2011



Times : 8pm

Tickets : £6 / £4 concs

Ticket on the door Only



Regular meeting of The London Improvisers Orchestra drawing on London's rich pool of improvising musicians. The LIO is part of a long and varied heritage that stretches back to the free-jazz big bands of Chris McGregor and Mike Westbrook, the intuitive ensembles of John Stevens and purely improvising groups such as the Continuous Music Ensemble.

History of The London Improvisers Orchestra



Improvising is normally a small group activity. However, there is often the temptation to explore the possibilities of larger ensemble improvisations. For instance, in London in the 1960s and 1970s, there were the free jazz-type big bands of Mike Westbrook and Chris McGregor, the contemporary composition-oriented ensembles of Barry Guy and Paul Rutherford, and the more intuitive experiments of John Stevens. There were also purely free improvising large groups such as the Continuous Music Ensemble (which became The People Band) and the Alternative Music Orchestra.



The London Improvisers Orchestra is thus part of a long and very varied heritage. An orchestra was put together for a Butch Morris 'London Skyscraper' tour of Britain in the autumn of 1997, which left the participants feeling exuberant with the experience of improvising in a large ensemble. However, some of them felt that there were other possibilities that had not been fully explored on the tour. A group (instigated by Steve Beresford, Evan Parker and Ian Smith, later joined by Caroline Kraabel and Pat Thomas) decided to keep the orchestra together, and see what could be achieved under the direction of some of the participating musicians.



Some of the musicians in the original Skyscraper project didn't continue with the exploration, while other musicians who weren't on the tour subsequently decided to join in. The number of personnel varies somewhat (between 12 and 40) depending on people's availability, but has always embraced a diverse mixture of ages and experience.

For nine years, up until quite recently, the LIO had a first-Sunday-in-the-month residency at the Red Rose in Seven Sisters Road. Meeting early on this Sunday, any LIO member could rehearse and try out new ideas for determining pieces of music that essentially are improvisation-based, and/or simply develop their conduction skills with signals and signs that have been added to over the years and are now well established. These pieces are then mixed in with freely improvised pieces and make up a performance. A recent visitor to one of these sessions was amazed at how the musicians listened to each other, pointing out that such sensitivity was unlikely to happen in any other city.

The members of the Orchestra are a small percentage of the remarkable pool of improvising musicians based in London, which Evan Parker rightly calls "the richest music scene in the world".

http://cafeoto.co.uk/lio-september.shtm

5 September - BOAT-TING NINTH ANNIVERSARY! London

Lol CoxhillSax John EdwardsDouble Bass Steve NobleDrums

Alex WardClarinet Dominic LashDouble Bass

Moshi HonenGuitar Phil MintonVoice Ian McLachlanTrombone Paul ShearsmithTrumpet

SIBYLLINE SISTERS Sibyl MadrigalPoetry Armorel WestonVoice Kay GrantVoice

Boat-ting - 1st & 3rd Monday of every month
@ Bar & Co, Temple Pier, Emabankment
opposite Temple tube
(between Blackfriars and Waterloo Bridges)

£6 / £4 concs | DOORS 8:00pm - START 8:30pm

http://www.boat-ting.co.uk/

23-25 September 2011. - The London Art Book Fair Events

The London Art Book Fair Events

The London Art Book Fair 2011 will take place at the Whitechapel Gallery on the 23-25 September 2011.

The London Art Book Fair is an annual event devoted to international art publishing. Hosted by the Whitechapel Gallery in association with Marcus Campbell Art Books, The London Art Book Fair presents the work of individual artist publishers, galleries, magazines, colleges, arts publishing houses, rare book dealers and distributors alongside a wider associated programme of talks and events.

http://www.marcuscampbell.co.uk/

Please check back on 1 September for details of events.

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/index.php/fuseaction/shop.category/category_id/191?session_id=1314728067787201ba947bc32265da68a1e54ba03a&=

22 September to 20 November 2011-Mathias Poledna / Florian Pumhösl Exhibition @ Raven Row London

Mathias Poledna / Florian Pumhösl
22 September to 20 November 2011

An exhibition of new work by Austrian artists Mathias Poledna (b. 1965) and Florian Pumhösl (b. 1971). Poledna will show a new 35mm film shot on location in LA and Pumhösl will present a new series of 54 glass paintings, designed especially for Raven Row’s panelled galleries.




About Raven Row

'London's jaw-droppingly elegant new space'.

– Adrian Searle, the Guardian

Raven Row is a non-profit contemporary art exhibition centre in Spitalfields that is open free to the public, Wednesdays to Sundays. It has been constructed within eighteenth century domestic rooms, onto which 6a Architects have added two contemporary galleries, and it stands on the part of Artillery Lane that was known as Raven Row until 1895.

Raven Row’s programme is intended to appeal both to a specialist audience and a broader, curious public. It is led by a desire to test art's purpose outside the market place. It will exhibit diverse work of the highest quality, often by established international artists, or those from the recent past, who have somehow escaped London's attention. However, the programme will remain improvisatory and un-dogmatic, and the qualities that might constitute Raven Row’s success, its ‘cultural value’, will remain open to question.


Flats in the building’s upper floors host visiting artists and curators, invited to contribute to the exhibition programme. Four Corners Books, an acclaimed non-profit publisher of artists’ books and books on art are based in the building and will occasionally programme exhibitions and share events.


Raven Row is programmed and funded by its founding director Alex Sainsbury. It is a charitable company with a board currently comprising Alex Farquharson, Director, Nottingham Contemporary; Pablo Lafuente, Managing Editor, Afterall and Associate Curator, Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Jenni Lomax, Director, Camden Arts Centre; Silke Otto-Knapp, artist; as well as Alex Sainsbury.

Raven Row – 56 Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS

is a registered charity number 1114350 and

company limited by guarantee number 5789471

http://www.ravenrow.org/