Recorded in the Great Hall, Goldsmiths’ College, London, on February 9th 2010. 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 of the Butcher/Russell/Durrant trio), he was one of the key exponents of the “group voice approach” style of [...]

Recorded at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, on August 8th  2010. 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 1960s while taking lessons on the tabla from P.R. Desai. In 1969 he began experimenting with free [...]

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, music or whatever you might like to call it that exists as an artefact in [...]

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 the world. He lived most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Visiting Artistic [...]

Recorded in Wilton’s Music Hall, London, 4th November, 2010. Keith Rowe (b. 1940 in Plymouth, England) is a free improvising guitarist and painter. He is a founding member of both the influential improvisation group AMM in the mid-1960s (he left the group in 2004) and M.I.M.E.O. In a career spanning more than fifty years, Rowe [...]

Recorded in January 2008 and April 2011. Zbigniew Karkowski was born in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After completing his studies in Sweden, he studied sonology for a [...]

Recorded in April 2011. Influenced as much by primitive rockabilly as electronic noise, Meat Sweats are a London- based improvising power-trio.Their explosive and baffling improvised performances involve screaming 8-bit Elvis vocals, masks, hacked children’s toys, keyrings, telephone pick-ups, circuit-bent electronic keyboards, electronic drums and brain-triggered samples. Meat Sweats are: Elbow Deep – vocals; Dr Atkins [...]

Recorded in London on 17th February 2011. American minimalist composer Phill Niblock has been active in his multimedia endeavors since the mid-’60s. His shows usually incorporate film footage (generally are long takes of non-Western people working), or other visual elements such as slides, video, and photography, often presenting more than one of these simultaneously with his [...]

Recorded on June 30th 2009 in  Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K. Lydia Kavina is currently one of the leading performing musicians on the theremin. Born in Moscow, Lydia began studying the theremin at the age of 9 under the direction of  Léon Theremin, who was the cousin of her grandfather.  Five years later she gave her first [...]

Recorded on 7th August, 2010 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. Ikue Mori moved from Tokyo to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon formed the seminal NO WAVE band DNA, with fellow noise pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. In the mid 80’s Ikue began using drum machines in the [...]