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Phil Durrant

Recorded in the Great Hall, Goldsmiths’ College, London, on February 9th 2010 Computer Generated Music Born near London in 1957, Phil Durrant is an improviser/composer/sound artist who devises his own virtual performance instruments using Reaktor. As a violinist (and member…

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John Wynne & Denise Hawrysio

Recorded at Wilton’s Music Hall, London, November 5th 2010 Beating Tones and Flapping Wings  John Wynne is an award-winning sound artist whose practice includes installations and ‘composed documentaries’ for radio which hover on the boundary between documentation and abstraction. His…

Paul Lytton

Paul Lytton

Recorded at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, on August 8th  2010 Electro-Acoustic Percussion Paul Lytton (b.1947, London) is a free jazz percussionist based in Aachen. He began on drums at age 16. He played jazz in London in the late…

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Peter van Bergen

Recorded at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, on August 7th 2010 Piccolo Clarinet Solo Peter van Bergen (tenor, sax, (contra) bass clarinet), studied at the Royal Music Conservatory in The Hague from 1980-1985, and studied extended saxophone technique with Evan…

Sean Williams

Sean Williams

Recorded in London on April 6th, 2011 Three Way Conversation by Sean Williams This is not a recording of a performance nor is it a composition with some notional unmediated existence. It is a piece of sound design, sound art,…

Sabu Toyozumi

Sabu Toyozumi

Recorded at the Vortex Jazz Club, London, 16th August, 2010. Erhu Sabu Toyozumi (b. Yokohama, 1944) is a Japanese free improvising percussionist and multi-instrumentalist. He began his career in the 1960s as a drummer with the legendary Japanese progressive rock…

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Alan Tomlinson

Photo: © Tony Bartholomew. Recorded in London on February 4th,  2010. Trombone Improvisation Alan Tomlinson was born in Manchester and studied trombone at the City of Leeds College of Music. He has been actively improvising since the early 1970s and…

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Evan Parker

  Recorded at St Peter’s Church, Whitstable, on June 2nd 2009 Soprano Saxophone Solo Evan Parker (b. Bristol, 1944) is one of the world’s most innovative saxophonists, his solos and playing style are distinguished by his creative use of circular…

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Fiona Curran

  Recorded at Resonance 104.4FM, London on March 24th, 2011. Fiona Reads her poem The Object of Affection . . . . . everything is at sixes and sevens – ladies in love with buggers and buggers in love with…

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Nicolas Collins

Recorded at Wilton’s Music hall, London, November 4th, 2010. New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins studied composition with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University, worked for many years with David Tudor, and has collaborated with numerous soloist and ensembles around…