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Mopomoso at the Vortex - Sunday 21st December.The Best of Free Improvised Music.  Doors open at 6.00pm and admission is £10 / £7 concessions.  ‘A Galaxy of Stars - Another Good Year!’  from, Mopomoso the longest running free improv music night in

London.With around fifty musicians expected to play in various permutations at Mopomoso’s more informal end of year event celebrating the strength and diversity of all things improvised.Musicians so far confirmed include - Lol Coxhill, Phil Minton, Veryan Weston, John Coxon, Steve Beresford, Tony Marsh, Roger Turner, Pat Thomas, Viv Corringham, Hannah Marshall, Kay Grant, Dave Solomon, Marj McDaid, Meat Xylophone, John Russell, Will Connors, Marcio Mattos, Marillsa, Alexander Hawkins, Alan Tomlinson, Dominic Lash, Chris Burn, , Sybil Madrigal, Bob Peachey, Gabriel Keen, Dave Fowler, Rick Jensen, Adam Bohman, Dave Tucker, Alison Blunt, Ian Diplock, Daniel Thompson, Ivor Kallin, Charlie Collins, Yvonna Magda, Harry Gilonis, Beatrix Ward Fernandez, Rodrigo Montoya, Ute Kanngiesser, Guillaume Viltard, Andrea Caputo, Terry Day, Max Reed, Jeff Cloke, Noel Taylor, Karl D’Silva, Fabrizio Spera, Jez Parfett, Ian McLoughlin. 

Free refreshments. You are welcome to bring a cake!

More info see website below - The Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Street, London

N16 8JH

See videos of past concerts    See videoshttp://www.mopomoso.com

 
 

8-12 dec : Winlab Festival 2008

Improvisation research lab for dancers and musicians with Kirstie Simson and

Lê Quan Ninh :

with Ute Kanngiesser, Wen Chin Fu, John Russell, Jules Maxwell, Sylvia Hallett, Roger Turner, Guillaume Viltard - music / Christos Strinopoulou, Xenia Themeli, Kathy Crick, Lucia Walker, Seke Chimutergurende, Monique Kroepfli, Gaby Agis, Cindy Cummings, Jia-Yu Chang, Vangelis Legakis, Robert Anderson, Tali Zavilevich, Angharad Harrop, Jayne Lee - dance / Helen Petts – film

+informal evening performances each evening during this week from Tuesday to Friday, 6.30-7.15pm

 

Performance on saturday 13 at 7pm with Ute Kanngiesser & Wen Chin Fu, John Russell, Roger Turner, Guillaume Viltard, Rodrigo Montoya, Kirstie Simson and Lê Quan Ninh.

 

videos now available on http://www.youtube.com/helentonic

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Lyonel Trouillot

« Le bruit est la chose la mieux partagée, mais le silence, là où ça se noue à l’intérieur de toi, là où tu saignes du dedans comme un arbre qui ne donne pas à voir le travail du temps, le vide intérieur qui le fait soudain s’écrouler alors que tous le croyaient debout pour l’éternité ! »

 Lyonel Trouillot Bicentenaire éd. Actes Sud 2004 p 93
 

« Free music can be a musical form that is playing without pe-worked structure, without written music or chord changes. However, for free music to succeed, it must grow into free spiritual music which is not… a musical form ; it should be based off of a life form. It is not about just picking up an instrument and playing guided by math principles or emotion. It is emptying oneself and being, without a label on the music… »

 

William Parker Document Humanum 1975

 

 

 
 

Wednesday the 26th of november

with Paul Shearsmith (trumpet) , Graham (double-bass), Mike Sullivan & Mike Walter (saxes), Stephen Flyn (drums), Ivor Kallin (violin)

at The Foundry

84-86 great eastern street London EC2

Tel 020 7739 6900 (Old street tube)

7 pm
 

Tuesday the 25th of november

with Jerry Wigens (clarinet) & Philip Somervell (piano)

 

Klinker at Maggie’s Bar
£5/£3
Maggie’s
100 Church St N16 0AP
Stoke Newington

 

8.30pm
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