Event details
Join us for Ealing Extranormal Volume 35. It is a monthly showcase for sonically adventurous experimental music in West London in association with OPEN Ealing.
Saturday 15 March
7.30 – 10pm
Tickets: Click this Link
Advance Ticket Fee = £12*
Ticket Fee on the door = £15
* We have a number of free guest passes for those unable to pay the price of admission (no questions asked). Please contact the organisers directly through the ticketing page, one per applicant.
There is no bar, so please bring your own refreshments.
The Programme
In this edition we feature sets from:
Zaldua/Birchall Duet
Birchall and Zaldua create a poetry of sound and noise, drawn from multiple vocabularies of free improvisation that mixes drones with rapid entanglements of plucked and bowed strings, and hybrid sounds built from layers of textures and distortion. These knots of sound constellations explore the multiple ways that strings can work with and against each other.
David Birchall is a guitarist, free improviser, composer and organiser living in Manchester, UK. He organises the Curious Ear concert series for improvised music in Manchester which he co-founded with Andrew Cheetham in 2017. He also works as part of sound art duo Noise Orchestra with Vicky Clarke developing light to sound electronics for performance and installation.
Alistair Zaldua is a composer of contemporary, experimental, and improvised music, and is an improviser on the e-violin, and based in Manchester, UK. Since moving to Manchester (2020), Alistair helps organise The Noise Upstairs concert series in Withington, Manchester with Mike Tyldesley.
http://www.alistair-zaldua.de/
https://davidbirchall.neocities.org/
The Oneirologist
The Oneirologist is the electro-acoustic/Audio-visual project of Rick Jensen (Apocalypse Jazz Unit, The Jonny Halifax Invocation, SKRONK, Romance of Baba Loco, Animals from Hell and much more) typically solo but also does collaborative work, he uses saxes, clarinets, electronics and anything that can be found to create soundscapes from noise to understated and quiet.
https://theoneirologist.bandcamp.com/
Captain Miki & Psychiceyeclix
Panos Ghikas is Captain Miki, plays in The Chap and improvises using the electric viola and computer software. His output encompasses concert music, free improvisation, interdisciplinary collaborations in digital media, film music and pop production. He plays in The Chap and runs Migro Records.
Damian Lintell-Smith is Psychiceyeclix making a living building unique instruments & circuit bent devices, using sitar, hacked games consoles/toys, diy electronics to create anything from drone, glitch, noise to drum & bass.Psychiceyeclix has made 30 + albums & ep’s, 2000 + circuit bent device videos & tours including Europe, USA, Japan, Scandinavia.
https://www.instagram.com/panosghikas/
http://www.psychiceyeclix.wordpress.com/
Snidefinder
Snidefinder is the latest alias of Simon Williams which covers either a set up ranging from Orcutt/Jandek/Dead C-ish ragged, shouty guitar songs, often bunging the guitar through a looper to turn it into a noise sequencer, or, instrumental or more abstract sets mixing in field recordings and other FX for soundscapes and rhythmic blips n squeaks. The set up at its most complex includes guitar and/or mobile phones or more obsolescent devices like tapes /mini disc via effects pedals and a mixer. A second vocal mic can be fed through the FX also. The set up is low tech, partly through budgetary constraints but also its more fun to play with boxes strung together by cables than twiddling a laptop. For this performance the intention is (at the time of writing), to leave both guitar and gob at home and do a soundscape piece. This will based around some of many field recordings accumulated commuting to and from London for the day job. The selection tonight will be linked by the tenuous connection they all occurred on or en route to St Mary Cray.
Unless he’s changed his mind by then…
We look forward to seeing you at Ealing Extranormal Volume 35
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, 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