Event details
Join us for Ealing Extranormal Volume 45. It is a monthly showcase for sonically adventurous experimental music in West London in association with OPEN Ealing.
Saturday 21 March
7.30 – 10pm
Ticket Price : £14 in advance (non refundable) * / £18 on the door
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*If you are unable to pay the cover price, pay what you can at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds.
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There is no bar, so please bring your own refreshments.
The Programme
In this edition we feature sets from:
Cleaver Boi & The Hungry Ghost
Experimental sound-art performance trio, Cleaver Boi & The Hungry Ghost find inspiration delving into mythology, the natural world and supernatural phenomena to explore themes of belonging, displacement and womxnhood with processed vocals, electroacoustic instruments, field recordings and digital effects.
https://cleaverboiandthehungryghost.bandcamp.com/
Petra Haller & Mark Wastell
A rare meeting of rhythm, texture and radical listening, this performance brings together two distinctive voices in improvised music as a percussion duo.
Petra Haller uses tap dance as a percussion instrument within contemporary jazz and improvised music. Dissolving the line between dancer and musician, she places tap at the centre of the ensemble as a driving, responsive rhythmic force. Drawing on traditional jazz, avant-garde practice and interdisciplinary performance, she transforms the floor into a resonant soundboard — shaping intricate dialogues of pulse, space and momentum.
Joining her is Mark Wastell, a pivotal figure in British free improvisation. During the 1990s he was an originator of the New London Silence, a strand of improvisation devoted to softness, microscopic detail and low volume. Since 1996 he has run Confront Recordings, widely regarded as one of the most original and intelligent labels in contemporary avant and improvised music. He also founded Sound 323 (2001–2010), described in The Wire as “an epicentre of much of London’s improvised music,” hosting artists such as Keith Rowe, Derek Bailey, David Toop and Taku Sugimoto.
Together as a percussion duo, Haller and Wastell explore the fragile edges of sound — where footwork meets texture, resonance meets restraint, and silence becomes as charged as impact. Expect a performance of acute listening and fearless spontaneity, unfolding in real time at the threshold between movement and sound.
https://www.instagram.com/petrahallerdancer
https://www.instagram.com/markwastell
Sylvia Hallett
Sylvia Hallett is a multi-instrumentalist and composer moving between violin, bowed bicycle wheel, saw, hurdy-gurdy, electronics and found objects. She currently plays solo, with Colourscape, and with Chris Dowding in the duo Sylvia & I. Other recent collaborators include Betamax (aka Maxwell Hallett), Anthony Haddon, Mike Cooper, David Toop, Ansuman Biswas, Jah Wobble, Anna Homler, The Heliocentrics, Clive Bell, Delphine Dora, LaXula, Opera North, Miranda Tufnell, h2dance, Jacky Lansley, Eva Karczag, Wonderful Beast, and The Royal Shakespeare Company. She has released six solo albums. She was commissioned by the Livio Felluga Wine Company to create and perform a solo site-specific work on a hill in an Italian vineyard. In the summer 2025 she collaborated with the Korean daegeum player, Hyelim Kim performing in Colourscape, and has recently completed the score for a short film by Takako Nakasu.
Sylvia is a member of the Mopomoso team who put on a monthly free improv gig at the Vortex. http://sylviahallett.co.uk/
Partial Wave Child
Stillness Moving Mountain is Partial Wave Child’s second improvised composition. Featuring a new incarnation of the augmented flute, the symbiosis of the acoustic instrument and a purpose built digital software environment. It is a work that explores the tension that exists within Stillness. Where microtonal and micro-textural changes that occur from the variety of extended flute technics: of air sounds, whisper-tones, harmonics, vocalisations and multi-phonics; are drawn out and gently manipulated by the digital sampler. This reductionism in form allows for an exploration of the imperfection of sound. Where the subtlest of gestures in acoustic delivery are digitally expanded upon allowing them to exist and grow within their own right. Where the smallest microtonal shift can develop into new harmonic landscapes. And where seemingly static pulses break apart and reform into a terrain of ever-changing Movement and fluidity. A minute change creates friction, friction builds tension, tension amplifies the smallest of gesture into a shining monolith within the flow of music. Nothing goes unnoticed, everything stands out. https://www.instagram.com/partialwavechild
We look forward to seeing you at Ealing Extranormal Volume 45.
There is no bar, so please bring your own refreshments.
Please be considerate of others who may be more concerned than you regarding social distancing etc. Some participants are at increased risk from Covid and other illnesses; so if you are unwell on the day, rather than struggling to attend please contact the organisers for a replacement ticket for a future date.
Curated by Martin Lau www.martinlau.net