The Ames Room

The Ames Room
Maximal Minimal Terror Jazz

Jean-Luc Guionnet - saxophone
Will Guthrie - drums
Clayton Thomas - double bass

Glasgow Jazz Festival 
Saturday 29th June 6:30PM
Recital Room, City Halls, Glasgow

A co-production between Never Come Ashore & Glasgow Jazz Festival

Kate Burton & Nick Fells - Sonemics

Kate Burton and Nick Fells will be performing a new work, Sonemics,  at the Tramway, Glasgow on Saturday 13th April. Following their initial collaboration last year at City Halls, this new piece has been commissioned by the Tramway to mark the 25th anniversary of its opening as a theatre.
The film portion of the work explores the unsettling interiors of the tenement flats awaiting demolition in Hamiltonhill, Glasgow. Kate Burton - film / Nick Fells - sound.

Jean-Luc Guionnet Project

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.

Balloon & Needle - Hong Chulki / Choi Joonyong

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

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.

Tim Parkinson / Angharad Davies / Muris

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/

John Tilbury, Rhodri Davies, Michael Duch Performance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 







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

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

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)