Broken/Makeshift exhibition Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Leeds 11 Oct-24 Dec 2025
Exhibition celebrating breaks, tears, fractures and revaluing of scrap ‘broken’ materials – my handmade, printed pocket pamphlets made from salvaged stuff Ten Women Anarchists are in the zine library (and on sale) as part of the exhibition.
[J]a[B]a[W] at Uni Arms Sheffield Monday 27 October 2025
YOWL!! at University Arms Sheffield Monday 30th June 7.45pm
YOWL!!
Gill Whiteley – piano, viola, Geoff Bright – saxes, found rants, Walt Shaw – percussion, electronics, voice, Lyn Hodnett – voice, cello, flugelhorn, objects
Yowl!! cook up sonic intensities across an accelerating space from whispered zero to full on improv disintegration. Expect a beautifully, ugly car crash of reeds, brass, voices, strings, electronics and percussion.
SEPPINGS
Peter Rophone – voice Nick Robinson – guitar John Jasnoch – bass guitar
Appropriately named after Aunt Dahlia’s butler, this reasonably well established trio will once again construct a concept album before your very eyes and ears during this 40 minute set. If audience members have any ideas about subject matter they would like to have incorporated into the concept album then please write a note and submit it to Mr Rophone on the night.
Curious Ear Orchestra Saturday 28th 3pm June St Margaret’s Church Whalley Range Manchester
Les Petroleuses at Matriarchal Mopomoso – Vortex London Sunday 16th March 2pm-5pm
Join Les Petroleuses and Noisy Women at the Vortex, playing at the Matriarchal Mopomoso event on Sunday 16th March – 2pm-5pm
SONIDO POLIFONICO presents at
Bishops’ House, Norton Lees Lane, Sheffield S8 9BE
Friday 24th January 7:30 (doors 7pm) Limited tickets at We Got Tickets
KALLIN/BECK
Ivor Kallin – viola, voice/Mick Beck – tenor sax, bassoon
Ivor Kallin exploits his heritage through by deploying Scots and Yiddish as the basis for improvised poetry, with occasional English. He plays in numerous London-based ensembles including the London Improvisers’ Orchestra. His beard is legendary and has sparked an outbreak of copycat hipsterism in Hackney amongst the Orthodox Jewish community. Mick Beck has been a fixture on the free scene since 1980. His activities range from improvising big band leader to solo performer. He is known for his energy and originality. His playing covers the full emotional gamut from heartbreaking to mischievous, and from abstracts to compelling swing
JABAW
Gillian Whiteley – viola, accordion, hurdy-gurdy, voice /Geoff Bright – soprano & bass saxophones, voice/John Jasnoch – 12 string & fretless guitars, mandolin
Jabaw is a free improvisation outfit featuring eclectic, hybrid instrumentation and vocalisation, creating an organic mash-up veering from delicate abstraction through insistent sonic curiosity to insistent rhythmic material. Gillian and Geoff have performed widely in performance art and multi-media activity. John Jasnoch has been a member of many ad hoc and more permanent groups and is also a retired country musician.
Shirley’s House Experiment – Bandcamp release December 2024
Newly released on Bandcamp!
Reconvening after 15 years of hands-off meditative fermentation, yeasty anglo-french improvising trio Primal Chimique (Gill Whiteley, Hervé Perez and Geoff Bright) open the doors of their various alchemical rooms on Shirley’s House Experiment... catch it on Bandcamp…
Christmas Open Studios at Eagle Works Attercliffe Sheffield Friday 6th December 2024 4pm-8pm
‘Calling-in’ les petroleuses – an improvised performance by Polimprov July 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
This multimedia performance by collaborative artist-improvisers, Gillian Whiteley and Geoff Bright, forms the final phase of the current exhibition at MayDay Rooms. It reactivates the names of women activists in the 1871 Paris Commune – les petroleuses – in an entanglement of instrumental invention, field recordings and exhibition audio materials. It will also include an optional element of audience participation, co-producing a dynamic performance ‘re-sonating’ and ‘re-verb-orating’ the political significance of these women’s lives. As the event will launch Gillian and Geoff’s latest project Polimprov, a discussion will follow on the possibilities of deep political listening and experimental improvisation as an inherently anti-capitalist practice.
Free event – drinks and nibbles – all welcome!
Sign up here: https://events.maydayrooms.org/e/29/calling-in-les-petroleuses-an-improvised-performance-by-polimprov