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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.

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‘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

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Notes & Sounds Uni Arms Monday 29 Jan 2024 8pm

Notes&Sounds presents

@ The University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Sheffield, S3 7GH

Monday 29th January 8pm. Suggested donation £5

DUO ZALDUA COOTE

Alistair Zaldua – electric violin James Coote – drum kit

James Coote and Alistair Zaldua established duet improvisation over the course of 2023 and concentrate on exploring the possibilities hidden in a reduced palette of sounds.

James Coote plays an experimental drum set-up that includes a diverse array of objects, and Alistair Zaldua plays the 5-stringed electric violin.

Plus

JABAW

Gillian Whiteley – viola, accordion, hurdy-gurdy, voice/Geoff Bright – soprano & bass saxophones, voice/John Jasnoch – 12 string& fretless guitars, mandolin

J[a]B[a]W 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.