UPCOMING! Les Petroleuses event at Unstone Grange 7pm Fri 19 Nov 2021
Improvisation at dai hall Huddersfield FRIDAY 15th October 2021
Celebratory concert to mark the arrival of Mick Beck’s wonderful Bechstein piano at dai hall. A big thank you to everyone who helped with donations towards the move. We’d love to see you there.
Complete details, and tickets, are here…..
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Improvisation night; Lyn Hodnett, Charlie Collins, Mick Beck & Gillian Whiteley
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Les Petroleuses performance! Monday 11th October 2021
Monday 11th October 2021 at Cupola Gallery, Sheffield – doors open 7.30pm for 8pm start – watch it live streamed online – link to be posted here shortly!
J[a]B[a]W – latest performance Sunday 10th October 2021
J[a]B[a]W & Emergence Collective
Free improvisation at On the Brink in conjunction with Over the Top. A courtyard gig featuring two improvising ensembles.
J[a]B[a]W (Geoff Bright/John Jasnoch/Gill Whiteley) 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 strident rhythmic statement.
Date and time Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Tickets from Eventbrite
Emergence Collective Emergence Collective is an acoustic improvisatory ensemble based in Sheffield, UK. https://www.facebook.com/EmergenceCollectiveMusic/
Playing with precarity, conjuring up common ground: my review of Material Voice’s Matter Out of Place exhibition
Go and see Material Voice’s Matter Out of Place exhibition at Persistence Works, Yorkshire Artspace! Catch it before it ends 10 July 2021.
Read my review here
‘…there is even a stage of darkness, but with an intensive propensity to clear…’
[the gathering…the chewing] Geoff, Gill plus Walt Shaw are showing our latest 10 mins film with freely improvised soundtrack and performance drawing
‘…there is even a stage of darkness, but with an intensive propensity to clear…’
in a 12 hours live-streamed multimedia performance and video screening this Saturday – organised by two DIY artspaces run out of Orlando and Philadelphia – ours is on at 9pm (BST London time)
See www.herethere.art. Note : times on the website are in EAST US time which is five hours behind BST
Daily into the Blue – [the gathering…the chewing] + Walt Shaw premiere AC Institute New York
New audio-visual production – Daily into the Blue – from Geoff Bright and Gill Whiteley [the gathering…the chewing] plus our long-time collaborator, Walt Shaw – freely improvised soundscape produced under lockdown conditions and at a distance. Premiered on Saturday 27 March 2021 in Here, There, Everywhere at AC Institute, New York. See here….
Looking back to Pan-demonium in 2009
Just looking back to this project – Pan-demonium – created in 2009, first staged at the AC Institute in New York…consisting of a multimedia exhibition and accompanying publication exploring the notion of ‘pan-demons’, ‘pan-demics’ and all things ‘pan’ in the light of the global political, ecological and economic situation and viral forces of ‘contagion’ at the time….the notion of the pandemic was merely metaphorical then… how prescient it seems now…
Matriarchal Mopomoso Sunday 21 March 2pm
This Sunday’s Mopomoso online TV Channel improvisation session – Matriarchal Mopomoso – is dedicated to women in improvisation – and it will include the third lockdown video from Les Petroleuses ( Lyn Hodnett and Gill Whiteley) – as it happens, celebrating 150 years since the 1871 Paris Commune!
Join us ‘unruly women’ improvisers on the barricades….
Also see bricolagekitchen’s Resonating Women of the Paris Commune project – follow it over the next ten weeks, naming and honouring ten women communards…
The Improviser’s Experience: Knowledge, Methodology, Communication – online at University of Huddersfield 18/19 March 2021
Geoff Bright, Anton Hunter and Gill Whiteley performed and presented at this two-day online event exploring the improviser’s experience. Our intention was to problematise, through performance, how ‘power’ in different forms – in this case ‘instructions’ – might influence knowledge produced in improvised performance, and how that process may differ between structured or ‘free’ improvisation settings. ( For full abstracts of presentations at the event see here)
Following the 10 mins performance (5 mins with instructions not known to the other players + 5 mins free improv), we then conducted an in-depth reflective discussion of the subjectively experienced differences in power relations between the two performance phases. Time restrictions at the event meant we were unable to include the discussion in our presentation at the workshop but its available here below.