Never Come Ashore

Jean-Luc Guionnet Project

2012-01-05T11:52:00.003Z

Never Come Ashore and Arika and Glasgow University Music Department Present:

Investigation 1: Jean-Luc Guionnet

What’s the best way to spend time with a musician when they visit a city to perform? And when the musician in question has a great deal to say, what sort of concert do you organise to do justice to that?

We’ve asked the highly interesting and all round fantastic Jean-Luc Guionnet to come to Glasgow to play, to talk about what he does and to collaborate. There will be two public concerts, a talk and four days of investigative work with musicians, theorists and artists from around Glasgow. There will be a solo organ concert on Sunday the 5th of February and Jean-Luc will be accompanied by his long term colleague Seijiro Murayama for a performance at the Kinning Park Complex on the 9th.

Concert 1: Jean-Luc Guionnet organ solo, University of Glasgow Chapel Sunday 5th February 8pm, free.

Talk : Jean-Luc Guionnet - ‘Propositions for an Inhabited Architecture of Listening’ Wednesday 8th February 5:15pm Room 2, first floor, Music Department.

Concert 2: Duo with Seijiro Murayama + performances of compositions by Jean-Luc Guionnet, Seijiro Murayama and others. Kinning Park Complex Thursday 9th February 8pm, free.

Jean-Luc Guionnet's work is divided into as many parts as he has opportunities to think and act in sound and image. This work is to do with encountering something strong external to himself and is articulated through improvisation, composition, electroacoustic projects, field recording, electronics and theory. His organ performances are about encountering the machine, the mechanism of the organ; part vehicle and part artificial intellegence, taking the breath of the machine and its direction in space and letting that breath vibrate in its own certain way without losing its raw quality; exploring the length of propagation, the magnitude of the reverb. Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.

Seijiro Murayama’s percussion work and compositions are wildly serious. Super focused and tactile whether hovering on the inaudible spectrum or cracking space open. His approach is based on attention to space and place, the energy of the public and especially the quality of silence at different levels, physical, social, ontological. Since 1999 he has lived and worked in France collaborating within other art forms such as dance (Catherine Diverrès), video (Olivier Gallon), painting (Francis Bidault), philosophy (Jean-Luc Nancy, Ray Brassier) and performance (Diego Chamy) etc.. He also works on many purely sonic projects; with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Eric La Casa, Axel Dörner, Tim Blechmann, Seymour Wright, Toshimaru Nakamura, Toshiya Tsunoda.

Review of their recent duo CD.

Untitled Installation - Angharad Davies & Tim Parkinson

2011-12-04T11:35:00.001Z

Untitled Installation was a project conceived by Angharad Davies and Tim Parkinson for the performance space in the basement of Mark Wastell's record shop Sound 323 on Archway Road, London. It was installed there between 20th-26th June 2003 and consisted of a CD of prepared violin, composed by Angharad Davies, and a CD of piano music composed by Tim Parkinson. The two discs were designed to be played simultaneously and repeatedly on two different cd players on random shuffle, so that the tracks of each disc can be heard in any number of unforseen combinations with each other. In Sound 323 the installation ran each day the shop was open. A semi-live non-repeating version was performed once in February 2005 in Ray's Jazz in Foyles bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London with Angharad improvising new material alongside the pre-existing piano CD material.

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Posters

2011-11-14T21:02:00.000Z

A small number of A0 posters of the Wandelweiser documentation project are available. They include texts by Hannah Ellul, Sarah Tripp, Rhodri Davies, Dom Lash. £5 including postage in a stout tube (postage is to the UK only due to the enormous cost of international delivery). Contact nevercomeashore-at-gmail-dot-com to order.

Postface

2011-11-14T18:08:00.012Z

Iain Campbell F-W does really interesting things with himself and sound. We're going to call what he does 'spew step' because sometimes he throws up and it's all about dancing. It's not all about dancing. This release is also available as a goo pack double cdr.

Postface

Iain Campbell FW - Recordings

Read me
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disc 1:

1 - without
2 - customisation
3 - galaxy
4 - The Golden Boy Eats
5 - the message I recorded as
6 - Complete Vision
7 - postface
8 - pop n roll

disc 2:

1 - ___

cdr available from www.iaincampbellfw.blogspot.com or by emailing iainfindlaywalsh-at-gmail-dot-com. (It's free but there may be a postage charge depending on where it's going)

String Quartet

2011-08-29T13:35:00.002+01:00

Liene Rozite - flute
Michael Shearer - clarinet
Nicole McNeilly - trombone
Neil Davidson - acoustic guitar
Composition - Neil Davidson

Score:

play a tone when you are remembering a string quartet
make the tone you play simple and quiet
when not playing, listen

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CDR also available

Balloon & Needle - Hong Chulki / Choi Joonyong

2011-08-24T10:23:00.002+01:00

Electronic music from Korea
Hong Chulki - turntable and other things
Choi Joonyong - cd players and speakers
+ Nick Fells / Neil Davidson

Friday 2:9:11 Club Room (ground floor), Music Department, Glasgow University (14 University Gardens). 8 for 8.30pm (You'll need to get there in time for 8.30pm and ring the bell so we can open the door which will otherwise remain locked). Donation.

Video
Another video
Concert review from last year

Lambs Gamble / Michel Doneda + Jonas Kocher

2011-08-18T11:53:00.002+01:00

Never Come Ashore and Psykick Dancehall Present:

Michel Doneda - saxophones + Jonas Kocher - accordion
Lambs Gamble: Eric Boros - guitarist / unsound modifier , Fritz Welch - thumping and twiddling, George Cremaschi - double bass and electronics from Prague via the Bay Area.

19:30, Thursday 22nd September, Streetlevel Photoworks Gallery,103 Trongate. Donations.

Michel Doneda - saxophone and Jonas Kocher - accordion play with tiny precise envelopes of listening, filling them with blasts of caustic intensity and elusive texture.

Lambs Gamble is what happens when aiming beyond the horizon of free improvisation, both as a practice and as a style, to take a hacksaw to serious music with sound.

The Music of Wandelweiser Documentation

2011-07-26T11:23:00.001+01:00

In January 2011 Dominic Lash and Rhodri Davies performed a seven hour concert of Wandelweiser compositions at Glasgow University. Rather than record the concert for release it was decided that the performance would be documented in writing; by three writers in the audience and by the two performers. Our intention was not to review the concert as such but to give a different kind of access to the event, to try to document listening and its effects rather than the sounds.

Scores played were by Antoine Beuger, Eva-Maria Houben, Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro and Manfred Werder. The writing is by Rhodri Davies, Hannah Ellul, Sarah Tripp, Neil Davidson and Dominic Lash.

There are two documents: an A0 pdf (printable if you have a printer big enough) and an A4 pdf which is desk top printer friendly and which also includes pieces by Manfred Werder and Eva-Maria Houben.

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For Loris

2011-05-29T11:47:00.001+01:00

A realization of the score 'For Loris' written by Jeph Jerman

Stephen Cornford - Amplified Piano
Patrick Farmer - Objects, Contact Microphones
Sarah Hughes - Chorded Zither

Recorded at Oxford Brookes University by Simon Reynell January 29th 2011

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hinwandeln (zwischen himmel und erd)

2011-05-29T11:33:00.001+01:00

Rhodri Davies - pedal harp, Michael Francis Duch - double bass, John Tilbury - organ

hinwandeln (zwischen himmel und erd) composed by Michael Pisaro

Recorded 10th of March 2011 in the University of Glasgow chapel as art of the trio's performance at the exhibition and concert series 'Every Day is a Good Day' featuring the work of John Cage. The concert featured music by Cornelius Cardew, Michael Pisaro, John Cage, Christian Wolff and Morton Feldman.

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Tim Parkinson / Angharad Davies / Muris

2011-05-02T16:07:00.001+01:00

Tim Parkinson / Angharad Davies / Muris concert of composed music at Streetlevel Photoworks Gallery. The program likely to include works by Michael Parsons, Alison Knowles, Alwynne Pritchard / Laura Murray, Tim Parkinson, Christian Wolff, James Sanders and Stefan Thut.

Tim Parkinson is a composer based in London. He has written for various groups and ensembles including Apartment House, Reservoir, London Sinfonietta, [rout], Chroma; and for various instrumentalists including Stephen Altoft, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Julia Eckhardt, Anton Lukoszevieze, Philip Thomas, Stefan Thut

Angharad Davies is a violinist active in contemporary, improvised and experimental music both as a soloist and within ensembles. Since making London her base in 2002 she has developed a specific approach to the violin, extending the sound possibilities of the instrument by attaching and applying objects to the strings or by sounding unexpected parts of the instrument's body.

Muris is a small ensemble of Liene Rozite and Neil Davidson that performs conceptual composed music and improvisation. They've played pieces by George Brecht, Stefan Thut and Michael Pisaro.

Note early start; we'll be finishing in time for closing the gallery at 9pm. The performance will run continuously for around 80 minutes

Saturday 28th May 2011 7-9pm
Streetlevel Photoworks Gallery 103 Trongate, Glasgow. Entry by donation.

http://www.untitledwebsite.com/
http://www.angharaddavies.com/

Contemporary Music Ensemble Glasgow University 2007

2011-02-07T23:20:00.021Z

Sustained C, 7 Minutes mp3

Sustained C & minutes flac

Instructions: Play a unison c for 1 minute. For the next five minutes make tiny adjustments to the intonation of the c. Play a unison c for the final minute.

CME 2007/2008:
Flute - Liene Rozite
Flute - Laura Harkins
Flute - Natalia Franklin Pearce
Flute - Graham Brooks
Trumpet - Jacob Clue
Violin - Francis Direen
Guitar - Alan Govan
Alto Saxophone - Sarah Rennie

John Tilbury, Rhodri Davies, Michael Duch Performance

2011-01-24T21:42:00.011Z

Performance of music by composers with a close connection to the work of John Cage. The programme will feature pieces by Christian Wolff, Michael Pisaro and Cornelius Cardew among others, and explores the relationships between composition and improvisation. Duch, Davies and Tilbury's recent recording of Cardew's music on +3db records was one of the Wire magazine's records of the year and is reviewed here. The concert is part of the University's John Cage season including performances by the Adritti Quartet and John Tilbury playing Cage's sonatas and interludes.

Thursday 10th March 19:30 University Chapel, University of Glasgow, University Avenue G12 8QQ Free admission.

Rhodri Davies & Dom Lash Wandelweiser Event

2010-11-17T10:52:00.004Z

Rhodri Davies - harp and Dominic Lash - double bass

Two deep thinking practitioners of contemporary improvised and composed music engage in a 7 hour performance of music by composers from the Wandelweiser group including Eva-Marie Houben, Radu Malfatti and Michael Pisaro. In a move which seeks to deal with the overabundance of recorded music the performance will be documented in writing. The resulting texts will be published by Never Come Ashore.

Saturday 8th of January, Glasgow University Concert Hall 2-9pm. Free entry.

Map - The concert hall is in the main building, accessible via the main gate on University Avenue up the easternmost staircase (there will be signs).

Program:

eva-maria houben: each day (for rhodri and dominic) [2010] (15’) * first performance

radu malfatti: delancey 1 “to rhodri” [2010] (10’) °

eva-maria houben: fast nichts / presque rien (nearly nothing) [2009] (24’) ^

antoine beuger: little more than a whisper [2010] (25’) *

antoine beuger: cadmiumgelb [2000] (6’) ^ 

michael pisaro: Descending Series (2): An Index of Seconds (for Rhodri Davies) [2010] (28’40’’) ° first performance

michael pisaro: Ample [harmony series no. 2] [2004] (12’) * 

manfred werder: kontrabass 1997 [1998] (28’48’’) ^

michael pisaro: Now [harmony series no. 5] [2005] (10’) * 

manfred werder: 20084 [2008] (29’31’’) ° 

michael pisaro: Flux [harmony series no. 8a] [2005] (3’) *

antoine beuger: sekundenklänge (some sounds, just seconds) for rhodri davies [2007] (23’) ° 

radu malfatti: café oto 1 for contrabass and cd “to dominic lash” [2009] (35’15’’) ^

michael pisaro: Pas [harmony series no. 8c] [2005] (5’)

eva-maria houben: aeolian harp (harp solo) for rhodri davies [2009] (24')° 

michael pisaro: mind is moving (IV) [1996] (15’) ^ first performance

eva-maria houben: each night (for rhodri and dominic) [2010] (15’) * first performance

^ bass

° harp

* duo

Never Come Ashore Launch Event

2010-08-31T11:46:00.001+01:00

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

2010-08-31T11:23:00.001+01:00

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

2010-08-21T17:25:00.001+01:00

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.

Goya

2010-05-03T13:36:00.036+01:00

Nick Fells - laptop and Neil Davidson - acoustic guitars

An old musical tool and a new one, sounding neither as old or as new as each other. Recorded at Glasgow University in June 2006. The three tracks here make up the remainder of a session the first track of which was released on the cdr Próximo on Iorram Records in 2009. See sidebar for some software for dealing with flac files.

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About

2010-02-21T09:54:00.008Z

Never Come Ashore is a problem solving project. We want to distribute our own sound work and the work of our colleagues. We want to do this without the clutter and the barriers that come with traditional CD / vinyl / cassette distribution but without dismissing these formats.

Our audio releases will be available in mp3 and flac format accompanied when possible by art work, scores and texts. There are links on the main page for software that will convert flacc files if you need it. When we feature video a low resolution version will be posted as well as a link to a high resolution file for download.

The files are free to download but are covered by a creative commons licence. So basically you can download them as much as you like but you can't use them for profit or change them unless you contact us to get permission.

As well as dedicated NCA releases and commissioned work we will also feature out of print releases from some CDR and cassette labels along with live recordings from performances in Glasgow and beyond.