| 1998 | June12th | (1) sound adventure,Harry Partch & Tony Bevan |
| 1998 | july 3rd | (2) vocalist night ; cd playlist available |
| 1998 | August 28th | (3) The First Soundwalk |
| 1998 | October 2nd | (4) Scrape Rattle and Roll ; percussion night/CD playlist |
| 1998 | November 13th | (5) Shunt. Mixed Media show on the soundscapes of trains |
| 1998 | December | (6) Emanem night; CD show reflecting on 20+ years of emanem records |
| 1999 | JANUARY 15TH | (7) IT TAKES TWO, live music and CD show of improvising duo's |
| 1999 | February 19t | (8) the unknowns, a CD show of rarely heard talents |
| 1999 | 26th march | (9) Lifts. A soundscape led mix media show about elevators |
| 1999 | April 26th | (10) The Dead Hand, of the composer is felt on the musicians shoulder |
| 1999 | May 20th | |
| 1999 | June 11th | (11) Carry On Camping, the audience finds itself in a tent |
| 1999 | July 15th | (12) Both Hands Free |
| 1999 | July 18th | (13) The Great George |
| 1999 | August 26th | (14) Connections |
| 1999 | September 15th | (15) Mersey Tunnel Soundwalk, down into the depths |
| 1999 | October 18th | (16) Lowlands, the music -improvised- of the Lowlands |
| 1999 | November 19th | (17) WYHIWYG, what you hear is what you get. |
| 2000 | January 21st | (18) Just a Minute, an evening of 1 minute pieces, haiku and acoustic archeology |
| 2000 | February | No presentation |
| 2000 | March | (19) Made in japan, an audio visual tour of improvised music from Japan |
| 2000 | April | (20) Notations, Neil Murphy of Jose Fish explores the area of Graphic Notation in improvised and composed music |
| 2000 | May 19th | (21) Take A Bow, A night of Bowed Music featuring the Double bass, Cello, Viola and a drummer |
| 2000 | June 2nd | (22) The American Free-Improvised Music Scene |
| 2000 | July 13th | (23) FANFARE with Bonehouse, special feature on the trumpet featuring Bonehouse and minidisk show from Roger Parry |
| 2000 | July 14th | (24) Soundwalk - re visit of the LR classic route 1. Walk recorded and videod for Xmas show. |
| 2000 | October | (25) Shunt and Lifts, multi-media show as part of the Frakture Festival |
| Novermber 17th | (26) The Electro Acoustic End, mini-disk presentation of improvisations within the electro-acoustic milleu | |
| 2000 | December 15th | (27) The Soundwalk Re-union, soundwalk followed by audio performance using the recordings from three soundwalks |
| December 25th | (28) The Great George, 14 tonnes of heavy metal at The Anglican Cathedral 10.30am approx | |
Notes
for June 12th 1998
Menu as follows
1) Sound adventures
tape from the Goethe institute Seattle USA; sound memories and soundscapes
2) CD tracks from
twisters by Tony Bevan
3) Selected CD tracks
of the music of Harry Partch
Notes and playlist for July 3rdVocals in improvised music evening
(c)Neography: Roger Parry/ Friday, July 3 1998 Bluecoat/ Liverpool
'We are all members of a sort of sentimental touring club' - Andre Breton.
Retrospective Voices Improvising Only! With, (if you want to know, but what do these surnames mean to you?)
Palmer, Stagner
(the Chattanooga pair); Blonk (Dutchman), Gustafsson ('Gush',
the Swede, to his friends),
Zerang, (friend of Vandermark);
Dresser
(ubiquitous
bassist), Hemingway(drums not bulls), Minton (once a trumpeter),
Osterhag,
the chopper!; Koichi, a Japanese who keeps good Company; Minton
(again), Butcher - 'Acta'-man, Hirt, the German; Patton,
no General but American;
Ward, young and brilliant Englishman,
Switch
(electronician),
Denley,
far-flung fluter;
Butcher (again), Mackness, a lady of charm;
Achiary
the
Basque, Carter, our man who came in from the cold (turkey), Holmes
without Watson; Newton, another lady of charm,
Tuchmann,
woman of Austria; J. Bauer (Connie's brother bonist),
Nozati,
a formidable lady, Van Hove (Fred the WIMproviser of Antwerp); Kowald
(the Wuppertaler, Peter),
Ludi
(Werner),
Morris
(Butch of
conduction), Namtchylak, two-voiced Tuvan; Leandre, Joelle,
a notable diabolique!; Taylor, (the poet, dancer, pianist)
W.
Parker (bass, rising), Bendian (precision percussion); Mengelberg,
master musician, no chicken!; Michihiro, a classical Nipponese,
Tenko,
an unclassical Nipponese;
Moss, rolling with Minton (3rd
time)/ Moss, sparring with
Zorn, the ubiquitous; Han Bennink,
a best friend!
These performers are from America, Holland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Australia, Pays Basques, France, Belgium and Tuva. What has nationality to do with it?
All tracks selected are free improvisations - but how do you know that? Is it important to know?
Menu
Sunday July 19th,
9.30-10.30 am ,free
the ringing of Great
George at the Anglican Cathredral. The second largest bell in the
UK, and is only rung three times a year and this day is one of them. Just
turn up! Bring your earplugs! Hear those overtones!
Friday August 28th,free
Sound walk in Liverpool city centre, which will also be recorded on video and played back after the walk at the Neptune Room. Well it actually happened, my first soundwalk and what a great event it was......hard to imagine it could be but all five people left the event with broad smiles.
Here is the list one
day we'll supply the sounds tooo
Listninroom: Seedydrums
(*) = Ikue Mori, d,
pc; Luli Shioi, b, voc.
cd ref
hat ART 6015
10. - ditto - Track
1; (no title)
DEPTH OF FIELD 44683
13. - ditto -
Track 8
Gone Zwichen
cd ref
EMANEM 4010
cd title
Anatomy of a Meeting:
Track 8
Obstinate/ Geneurie
cd ref
BIMHUIS 004
November 13th, 1998
7.30 to 9.30 Neptune room,
Bluecoat Chambers , school lane
Another Adventure
in ear cleaning from the listening room. A mixed media foray into the soundscape
of the railways. The sound of steam, the resonance of the sheds, tickety
tackaty and the signals of departure make this a
HOOT
not to miss.
Video footage, soundscape recordings, CD's and live improvised music, and
remember, you dont need no ticket just get on board !!
SHUNT 1 Performed
By Phil Morton
Departure Friday
13th at 7.45 . 15 minutes late !
| INTRO | The passage way leading
to the Neptune Room greats the audience with CD Track RADV Whistle from
`The Train Dreams The Tracks`
installation audio By Jeremiah Lyman Moore . This track is on a repeated loop until gig starts |
| Track 1 | Announcements and
apologies for late departure
Train Dream (7.28)
|
| track 2 | Once Upon A Time
In the West 22 mins
Sound Design not credited : music sequences Ennio Morricone Opening sequence sets the scene for the movie. There is no theme tune or opening music and very little dialogue but a series of sound episodes as The Cowboys await the arrival of a train. Great use of soundscapes and the use of silence to convey meaning. Last 4 minutes when we view a second train arriving at a remote station has a recording of Liverpool Limestreet Station replace the film soundtrack. |
| Track 3 | Limestreet Station DAT recording, and cassette copies. 2/3 soundtracks running out of phase. Un-processed recording. 10 minutes |
| Track 4 | SHUNT.
20 minutes of mainly steam trains doing what they do best, moving, shunting and making a racket. Steals the show .tape allowed to run on past its deadline. |
| Track 5 | Limestreet Station Recordings. 3 tapes running together with some processing via a lexicon sampler. Also 15 minutes of video footage of Limestreet showing on monitor . 15 minutes |
| Track 6 | Brief playing of Diesal Trains Tape which does not get the time it deserves |
| Track 7 | Shunt tape
again but played on a LO-FI system. Attempt to process
the sound via 2 toy walkie-talkies creating a feedback loop un-realized due to flat batteries !! Followed by The impersonation of a train by a pair of scissors cutting through paper |
| Track 8 | Tor Sphere / A very
Wet Belgium Day
Video footage (Roger Parry)of a flooded Belgium countryside shot through wet windows which distort the scenery matched with Tor sphere from The Train Dreams The Tracks (Jeremiah Lyman Moore).Finishing the Show with an effective & evocative Dreamlike ending |
| Phil Morton | Conception and performance
Equipment hi-fi (CD and cassette);lo-fi,dat player,video machine, lexicon Jamman sampler. Box of plates. Smoke detector, assorted bits. 2 sets of stereo speakers |
| Roger Parry | Tactical support and video footage |
| Jeremiah Lyman Moore | Denver USA on-line
support & CD-R material
Web site www.babyjane.com/timeweb E-mail jmoore@nyx.net |
You don't' need no ticket Just get on board
Special feature Friday 4th December. CD presentation
Emanem- a British
label started some 20 years ago by Martin Davidson and his wife another
"M" (hence the name!). He has recorded many performances, generally of
free, improvised music, here and in Australia where he spent a few years.
Since returning to the UK he has established himself with a good catalogue
of CD's, currently up to number 23,new material as well as re-issues and
the first re-lease of "historical " recordings. He represents his product
as "compact discs of unadulterated new music for people who like their
new music unadulterated! players include Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton,
Steve lacy, Evan Parker, The Late John Stevens and Kenny Wheeler.
Listninroom: EMANEM Vinyl Voyage; The Playlist
Start w. SL 301 (three
tracks) plus SOPS re-issue
SME 303 plus EP/
Stevens
Rutherford 1973 and
a recent release of new material
Recent Minton solo
voice
Coombes/ Beresford
1997
Roger Smith 1996
solo
9 releases.
Steve Lacy ....a popular musician with Emanem Records
The Cover of the First ever vinyl release on Emanem Records
try http://members.aol.com/EmanemDisc
Suggested reading
SEE SOUND PROJECTOR 3 for Martin
Davidson piece!
List'nin' room: pairs list/ Won howwa phorphilm on Friday 15 january 1999
Compiled by roger parry
Here we have DUO material on fifteen
tracks selected from a dozen releases. The material has been recorded as
recently as last year (1998) and as far back as 1978, although it is mainly
of more recent vintage. All except the final track are free improvisations.
1.
lol coxhill, sop sax/
veryan
weston, piano
Track 1, School Test (01:37)
Track 6, C's Major Demand (01:38)
EMANEM 4021 Boundless:
Recorded: 980129
2.
derek bailey, guitar/
min
xiao fen, pipa
Track 1, Bai Hua She (02:57)
AVAN 050 Viper:
Recorded: 9771216
5.
barry guy, bass/
mats
gustafsson, tenor sax
Track 9, Chorophilus ocularis (04:32)
MAYA 9702
Frogging:
Recorded: 970619
6.
cecil taylor, piano/
gunter sommer, percussion
Track 2, Riobec 4 (05:08)
FMP MJ 02 Concrete
Recorded: 880617
7.
cecil taylor, piano/
tony oxley, drums
Track 5, The Old Canal (02:08)
FMP MJ 02
Concrete:
Recorded: 891102
george e. lewis, trombone/
bertram
turetzky, bass
Track 1, North Country Diatribe
(03:25)
Track 9, The Ecumenical Blues (04:12)
INCUS 32 Conversations:
Recorded: 971126
8.
steve lacy, soprano sax/
masahiko
togashi, drums
Track 9, Why Not? (05:06)
TKOJ-1 Eternal
Duo:
Recorded: 950908
9.
steve lacy, sop sax/
mal
waldron, piano
Track 11, Communique (03:56)
SOULNOTE 121298-2 Communique:
Recorded 940308/09
10.
steve lacy, sop sax/
maarten
altena, bass
Track 2, Off-hand (04:30)
hat ART 6069 High, Low
and Order:
Recorded 781209/10
11.
henry kaiser, guitar
/
john oswald, alto sax, voice
Track 4, Acouverstic (02:17)
INCUS CD26
Improvised:
Recorded 960506
A
LISTENING ROOM RECORD !!! 1 CUSTOMER LEFT AFTER 1 MINUTE; HE HAD HEARD
ENOUGH !!!
List'nin' Room 26 August 1999
CONNECTIONS:
As made!
[1: Duo - CD SLAM 501 Recorded 930516 in Oxford "Let's Call This.Esteem"
Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron: Track 1 Intro by Lol Coxhill and 'Let's call this.'
by Monk (07:03) and Track 4, 'Snake Out' by Waldron (14:00)]
Connection: On 15 August (1999) in Brecon we heard Mal Waldron and
Steve Lacy duo and solo. It was one of those exquisite occasions when two
players with years of playing together click and everyone feels it. The
next day was Mal's birthday; he says he is 74. At one point in a solo from
Mal, I could almost see and hear Billie Holiday, with whom Mal worked from
April 1957 until her death in July, 1959.
[2: Billie - Jazz Door 2xCD 1215 Billie Holiday. Recorded 5905-'mid'
in Storyville Jazz Club in Boston, Mass. Tracks 1 - 3: "Nice Work If You
Can Get It"; "Willow Weep For Me"; "When Your Lover Has Gone"].
Connection: The first time I ever heard Steve Lacy playing live was
in Liverpool in 1976. He was a member of Derek Bailey's "COMPANY" that
toured extensively that year in the United Kingdom.
[3: COMPANY - Incus CD07 Recorded 770525-27 in ICA, London (during
the first "Company Week"). Tracks 1 (Leo Smith / Tristan Honsinger/ Anthony
Braxton/ Steve Lacy/ Maarten Van Regteren Altena) (14:22)]
Connection: The next time I heard Steve live was in early 1980
when he was on a world tour with the Globe Unity Orchestra. This was in
Hong Kong and it was at this time that I started to get to know him. The
Orchestra was under the direction of Alexander Von Schlippenbach.
[4: GUO - FMP Musica Jazz (It) 01 This track recorded 750331 in Berlin.
Track 3: 'Evidence' by Monk. Kenny Wheeler, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Gerd
Dudek, Albert Mangelsdorff, Paul Rutherford, Alexander Von Schlippenbach
(arr), Peter Kowald, Paul Lovens (06:01)]
Connection: On 14 August (1999) in Brecon we heard Alexander Von Schlippenbach
play duos with Tony Oxley. This was an entirely extemporised session and
a fine example of interpersonal communication through instrumental playing.
The 'understanding' these two have developed over years of playing together
is very high. We had most recently heard them in Berlin late last year
at a regular FMP Total Music Meeting and hope that they will release some
of this material soon. In 1988, Tony Oxley was one of a number of musicians
who worked with Cecil Taylor for some weeks. I was there for one week of
this cornucopia! FMP later released a box set of 12 CDs covering much of
this activity, from which this track derives.
[5: Tony Oxley and Cecil Taylor on FMP CD6 recorded live during "Improvised Music II/88" on 880717 at the 'Kongresshalle', Berlin. Track 1: 'Stylobate 1' (17:26)]
LOWLANDS - List'nin' Room, Friday, 15October 1999
On the hot Friday, 6 August 1999 I went over from London, England with an old Hong Kong friend of mine - whose surname happens to be Spain - to what I consider the heart of the LOWLANDS, Belgium and Antwerp, to be precise. Lady Diana Princess of Wales took us there. An old friend and Antwerp resident, Hugo, met us and eventually drove us up to the Zuid Poel/ South Pole for the first sweltering night of Fred Van Hove's FREE MUSIC XXVI.
01. Pijp/ WIMprovier Track 4: ballade voor honger en onrecht/ FvH at the organ of St Marien Stadtkirche, Torgau, Germany in April 1997. 09:05
We paid our entrance fee and got, amongst others -
Highlanders, Irene Schweitzer and Pierre Favre; here, she is with 'a
different drummer'* -
02. Irene + Han Bennink/ Intakt CD 010/1995 Track 1: Gnash 07:54
(17)
En passant, this was the first time in over twenty years that I saw
Pierre Favre. The previous occasion was in Hong Kong during the tour of
'Solo Now', with Gunther Hampel, Albert Mangelsdorff and Joachim Kuhn.
I remember him 'doing' Baby Dodds with knitting needles. The concert lasted
for some four hours, but that's another story.
The André Goudbeek Quartet with Phil Minton, and, as luck would
have it, they had there a hot-off-the-press, new CD -
03. Andre Goudbeek 4/ WIMprovijf Track 7: Kras 07:00
(24)
AG, as, bclt, bandoneon; Dirk Wauters, pc; Peter Jacquemyn, b; Bert
Maris, t, flhn.
04. AG4+Phil Minton Track 2: How do you like your tornado, sir? 06:34
(31)
Next evening, we paid again and got our dose of Free Music, Night 2.
This time, it was, amongst others, -
'Lokomotiv Konkret' that ran by us first, three Swedes-
05. LK/ Leo Lab CD 011 Track 1: Our Lokomotive 07:05
(38)
Dror Feiler, reeds, pc; Soren Runolf, g, co, pc; Tommy Bjork, d, pc.
The little fest ended with 'Open End', (Fred Van Hove, Ivo Vander Borght,
Luk Mishalle and Paul Vlamink).
Here's Fred with IVB -
06. Lust/ WIMprotwee Track 8: Orde en rust op aarde 07:35
(46)
They opened, then ended with various combinations into which were injected at various points the likes of the four Swedes, Mr Goudbeek and Peter Jacquemyn (bass). They called this final fling, 'These Poolish Things'! You'll have to imagine them.
The following day (Sunday) Eric Spain and I visited Brugge/ Bruges then
Loppem and the Heidelberg Inn. It was around 1730 when we slid in through
the back gate in a break in the rain and the garden party was in full swing.
Host and hostess, more old friends of mine, Tony and Marleen were very
surprised to see us. There it was that on 4th May this year I heard a solo
session by Joe McPhee. He gave me a disc then and here's something from
it -
07. The Brass City/ okkadisk 12025 Track 10: The Roswell Incident
(for Roswell Rudd) w. Jeb Bishop, tb. 08:00
(54)
But really, that was another story, too! As is how Roswell has found new breath and is playing so well these days.especially in the LOWLANDS!
I'll finish where I started, with -
08. Fred Van Hove Pijp/ WIMprovier Track 3: les strapontins 08:30
(63)
The organ of St Marien Stadtkirche, Torgau, Germany in April 1997.
[Next week, we're off to Amsterdam for DB w. HB and youngster Tristan
H (who achieved 50 this year) at the BIM and possibly the current Sun Ra
Arkestra and possibly something over at Eindhoven. but that's going - perhaps,
as Holderlin used to say - to be another story!]
January 21st 2000
Just a
minute
1 minute improvisation, haiku,
and acoustic archeology
Playlist for Listening Room on Friday, 21 January 2000: JUST A MINUTE
Approx. one minute from the commencement of tracks each of about one minute or longer - as follows:
Bum, Davies, Durrant, Wastell. Track 8 (Mwnt)
2 Incus CD271 Short in the UK
Beresford, Palmer, Stagner, Turner. T3 (Our ~
3 Matchless CDMR2 1/ Intavenous
Conspiracy (Bobman, Couldry, Hammond, Telfer). T5 (Unfurled)
4 Tailpoppies CDOO5/ Totally Prepared Frampton (solo). T5 (Continuation)
5 Incus CD33/ Registered Finn
Hession, Wilkinson, Fell, Morris. T6 (If I've Offended...)
6 Tzadik CD72OS/ Kuchinoha
Makigami Koichi (solo). T4 (Mukuge)
7 Soul Note CD121284-2/ The Enchanted Messenger Tony Oxley Celebration Orcheastra. Section 8
8 [)epth of Field CD?/ Euclid~s Nightmare Zorn, Previte. T12 (-)
9 Naimol CD/ Vinyl Tranquilizer Otomo Yoshihide. T60
10 (Ditto)TI
11 FMP CD94/Cuts
Kowald + ORT Ensemble Wuppertal. TI 3
12 OGUN CDl2/Do Kay LaVi-A
Luce, Parker, Deppa, Rutherford. TI 1 (Rencontres)
13 Victo CD065/ Aventure Quebecoise
Doppeimoppel (J + K Bauer, Kropinski, Sachsc). T5 (AQ V)
14 Victo CD 067/ Quartet Noir
Leimgruber, Crispell, Leandre, Hauser. T?
15 ~A CDO13/ Angelica 97
Stock, Hausen & Walkman. T4 (Unrepresentative Editing Policy)
MAY 2000 LISTEN IN GROOM/ TAKE A BOUGH/ BOW/ BOW/ BO’
Barry Guy/ Fizzles/ 10. Toujours Rouge/ MAYA 9301 01:46
[I’ve been hearing much from BG recently: Dublin in March, Glasgow in April and again this month. In the latter period, he did a version of his ‘Witch Gong Games’, the ‘score’ for a version of which I showed at the recent LR ‘Notations’ session lead by Neil Murphy. BG is a virtuoso player and a fine composer, too!]
Peter Kowald/ Was Da Ist/ 12 (untitled track)/ FMP 62 01:06
[Peter Kowald is a leading exponent of free bass playing. He hails from the relatively small German town of Wuppertal, a great and active centre of creativity. In New York on a musical assignment some years ago he ‘discovered’ the great free saxophonist, Charles Gayle, then a street musician.]
Frances-Marie Uitti/ 2 Bows/ 7. Flight/ BVHAAST 9305 01:30
[This material came to me, English, in the back of a taxi in Belgium when I was accompanying an American musician from Antwerp to Brussels for a flight to Berlin. A Dutchman presented the musician with it a little earlier in the day. I took a train back to London. The improvisation is done using two bows at once in the right hand so you could call it, ‘Double Dutch’!]
Gunther Christmann-Th. Lehn/ Temps Duree/ 5. (TD)/ EXPLICO 10 02:37
[Thomas Lehn was one of the KONK PACK Trio that recently played at Liverpool Art College. Gunther Christmann is another of the original German Free Improv scene and plays trombone as well as cello. His groupings under the title ‘VARIO’ have produced a number of excellent performances and recordings over many years.]
Jöelle Léandre/ Urban Bass/ 5. Part 2/ ADDA 581254 03:55
Ms. Léandre is a Parisienne with a phenomenal capacity on bass and can use her voice simultaneously in a manner unrelated to what’s happening on the instrument! She has played with many of the leading improvisers around the world. She works with other women such as Maggie Nichols and Irene Schweizer. That trio goes under the name, ‘Les Diaboliques’!]
(J. Zorn)/ The String 4s/ Dead Man/ 2.Meditation/ TZADIK 7407 00:53
[Zorn is the composer here. One of the many strings to his bow!]
European String 4 + Johannes Bauer [TROM-BOW-N]/
Linien/ 2. Siedemnascie/ For 4 Ears 718 05:16
[A German string quartet, new to me, with an old friend on trombone. The title of this track I cannot pronounce; ‘tis Polish, I think…]
John Russell-Maarten Altena-Terry Day/ The Fairly Young Bean/
5.Heave A Brick/ EMANEN 4036 01:03
[Maarten Altena is a Dutchman long associated with improvisation though more recently he had devoted himself to composition. This material was recorded in 1981.]
Eddie Prevost-John Edwards-(Caroline Kraabel)-Maggie Nichols/Relay III, Random Play/ 33. A Bit More (Obviously immediately after taking a bow)
2.13 001 01:47+a bit more from the final track (34) ------------------------------------
(ca. 20mins. I phulfil 4fil)
| Great George
The Cathedral Church of Christ, Liverpool, contains the heaviest and highest ringing peal of bells in the world. They were cast by The Whitechapel Bellfoundry in the 1930's. The tenor weighs 82-0-11 ( just over 4 tons, or 4100kgs.) and is in the note of A flat. They are hung in a radial reinforced concrete frame, the only one of its kind. The ring includes a sharp 2nd. In the centre of the ring is the bourdon bell, Great George. This was cast by John Taylor and Son's Ltd, weighs 295 cwt, and is the second heaviest bell in Great Britain. It is rung by a counter weighted clapper and is sounded on special occasions. Its sounding is usually listed in the gigs section and notified via
Case Notes
See http://www.moorhey.demon.co.uk for the bellringers web site |