Never Come Ashore Launch Event

Live at the CCA Glasgow on Wednesday the 29th September 2010 at 8pm


The Ames Room - Maximal Minimalist Terror Jazz. Will Guthrie - drums, Jean-Luc Guionnet - saxophone, Clayton Thomas - double bass. A lean free jazz trio blending punk angularity with the conceptual clout of the AACM.

Fritz Welch - mouth / percussion undercrunk from NY/Texas/Glasgow With his NYC trio Peeesseye Fritz Welch plunged head-first into uncharted avant-garde murk producing a humid mix of back porch minimalism, sound poetry and rubble. Solo his vocal/ percussion workouts are situated between heavy-thinking improv, low-brow noise and situationist glee.

Solipstink - Ash Reid, one half of Edinburgh based duo Scrim goes it alone: Pankhurstian drones, squeals and ravings.

£5 (on the door)

Fritz Welch The Science Fiction Residue

Fritz Welch The Science Fiction Residue : Six experiments using the voice. Performances and recordings from Jerusalem, Berlin, New York and for Glasgow's Transmission Gallery.

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Insects - Armin Sturm / Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

INSECTS by Armin Sturm
Performed by the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra at Glasgow Jazz Festival June 2010.

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This piece is not really about insects but about development in improvisation. It examines some aspects of musical form and the development of musical material with the aid of biological metaphors. The players work autonomously within periods of activity that are mapped onto the developmental cycles of insects. There are two cycles: Development 1 for moth type insects and Development 2 for grasshopper type insects.  In the concert the orchestra performed both versions, Insects 1 and Insects 2. An annual development cycle was taken to last 9 minutes with each player dividing up their time into three three minute seasons. In each piece the orchestra plays through two annual cycles.

Christopher Barclay – trombone, Stuart Brown - drums, George Burt - guitar, Aileen Campbell - voice Neil Davidson – guitar, Chris Heinrich - violin, Robert Henderson - trumpet, George Lyle - double bass, Nicola MacDonald - melodica / voice, Raymond MacDonald - saxophones, Una MacGlone - double Bass, George Murray – trombone, Peter Nicholson - cello, Emma Roche - flute, Liene Rozite – flute, Michael Shearer - clarinet, Armin Sturm - double bass, Fritz Welch - drums and percussion

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jim McEwan. Insect drawing by Nadfly.