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Frakture Case Notes Monthly Newsletter Contents *News: Concerts Schedule: CD News; Workshops: SWIM News; Publicity; Web sites : Members; Recruitment & Support ; get in touch* ; Contacts & Terms:**
News & Future's July 2008 Hi, Lots of news . in fact there is too much to cram in this newsletter which is now well past its deadline! Funding : good news read the press release [here ] Splash #23, the gig were creative forces meet.... Frakture Big Band : what happens next... New release from Frakture big band Whizz-go to Manchester and John Edwards with Adrian Northover two gigs from the Listening Room On-line publicity material.
Splash #23 where creative forces meet [GO] An evening of two and threes! a departure from the normal evening of performing groups we present an evening of small trios, duos from those present. A few new faces and some new sounds Early runners for the set list Splash 23 presented by Frakture Thursday 22nd May 2008 @ 8.00pm, mello mello jazz bar, 42 Slater Street Liverpool L1 4BX door tax: donations Starting Line Up Phil Morton, Accidents & Treatments Adam Webster, Cello Ian Simpson, Lapsteel Guitar, radio Chris Mcgugan, Acoustic Guitar Simon Jones, strings and laptop Peter Dover, Drumset Russel Grant, Guitar Reinhard Fuchs, Electronics Musician? wish to participate: that's easy, fill in the easy-gig page to help the team in the office...! we know you hate forms....but that's the plan:...that's the deal: the list will shut when it gets to ten musicians... Frakass July Sunday July 27th The story continues... Join Fonic, DJ + Visuals at Magnet Bar and Live Music Venue, 45 Hardman Street Liverpool, Merseyside, L1 9AS web link more info shortly in our case note bulletin nearer the time Two session from the Listening Room The Listening Room presents i:Object, a sound with objects spectacular ! 25th July 1.00pm - 3.00pm free Mello Mello: jazz bar, Slater Street, Liverpool Eric Wilson: found objects play found human. Simon Jones: "This is the materialist dialectic in action at the heart of musical development" Eric Wilson is The Listening Room's resident card carrying, fully subscribed sound-artist . Two more gig from i:Object as part of their on-going residency @ the mello mello. Simon Jones: speaks for himself The Listening Room present Canopy #1 Canopy #1 Sunday July 20th, 10:00am - 11:00 am Free event St James Mount Garden off Upper Parliament Street Liverpool L1 Artists lined up: Phil Morton, accidents and treatments; Adam Webster Cello; Simon Jones, Violin; Phil Lucking, Trumpets. The Show, 10.00am to 10:15 approx, The peel of the Anglican Cathedral bells, 10:15 to 10;30 approx, The Ringing of Great George, 10:30 - 11:00 am, Canopy #1 performance The first in a series of events under the Canopy name presented by Phil Morton's Listening Room. Canopy's brief is a series of outdoor performances within the reach of a tree which provides the room, the resonance and shade. Further Canopy sessions are planned exploring the regions's trees including other artists and artforms. Canopy #1 is a special show when we are joined by the ringing of the Anglican Cathedral bells including the 14 tonne Great George. A double whammy of a show, merging bells, static soundwalks and a performance all into one! and maybe some hot black coffer! TASTE IT Northover-Edwards Manchester: Join us! Adrian Northover - saxophone, John Edwards - double bass, Phillip Marks - percussion, Dave Jackson - saxophone Thursday 17th July at The King's Arms, 11 Bloom St. - off Chapel St., Salford, M3 6AN 8pm - 10:45pm Sadly we could not put this act on in Liverpool, but Frakture and Whizz-go have three free seats on offer, you pay admisison which I think is £6.00: call us now 0151 709 6123 / 079995 185 82 if you wish to go.......
Frakture Records CD Label and associated audio news. Frakture Records The Frakture Big Band double CD issue is now at The Office and will be available shortly. Meanwhile at YouTube you can now view the Frakture Big Band in the Picton Reading Room: view our youtube files here FCD 001 : Funfezhen , The Frakture Big Band with Carlos Zingaro, studio sessions Price FCD 001 £10.00, Visit our catalogue page to buy: Pay Pal facility now available FCD 002 : Cornerstone, The Frakture Big Band with Carlos Zingaro, live recording Price FCD 002 £10.00, Visit our catalogue page to buy: Pay Pal facility now available FCD 003 Double CD £15.00 Visit our catalogue page to buy: Pay Pal facility now available CD 1 : Track 1: Angel of the resurrection Personnel: accidents adam can cello clarinet dickaty downey electric garfield guitar hamlet john jones keyboard leibl lucking marion matt mole morton murphy neil percussions phil ray saxophone simon southall tim tin treatments trumpet viola violin voice webster whittington Recorded at the Oratory, the Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool by Chris Trent on 19 March 2006, Photographs by John Whittington, cd design by Adam Webster CD 2: Track 1, Birds of America , The Picton Reading Rooms, Liverpool. Live recording Personnel: adam andrea bass can cello clarinet dave dickaty double downey electric garfield guitar hamlet jackson john jones keyboard lucking martin matt mole morton murphy neil percussions phil piano ray saxophone simon southall tim tin trumpet viola violin voice webster whittington Recorded Liver At The Picton Reading Room, Liverpool Central Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EW by Garfield Southall The Frakture Records Team is currently looking for, recruit a third new member: INTERESTED, contact frakture.records@frakture.org or tel 0151 709 6123
Workshops: News VOCAL PLAY Next session new format August 2008: slight delays due ill health of session leader sorry! good news is more funding has arrived for those intersted in new adventures with the voise! more news shortly http://www.frakture.org/workshops/vocalplay.htm SNAP: out of it! Next session August 4th at The Cornsertone, Haigh Street/Shaw Street, more info [here] A review of the May 2008 snap session is [here] SNAP sessions feature a Grand Piano, Marimbas, Yamaha powered speakers and we can supply a drumset (with prior request! and the i:Object table. Session are recorded and mp3 made available to the participants.
Notes For Musicians Loads of stuff to do and more to come: meanwhile observe the following. Frakture Big Band: 2008: The story so far, we have played 2 gig plus 4 rehearsals. The first as support for the Eddie Prévost / Alexander von Schlippenbach, quartet with Alan Wilkinson & Joe Williamson, in the newly re-opened Bluecoat Arts Centre. The second at The Warrington Festival of experimental music at The Pyramid Arts Cente, Warrington. Date 21st June 2008, After a period of silence the almost new Frakture Big Band has re-appeared with different line-ups and a sense of change ...more shortly...and there is an upgrade to the web-presence [here] meanwhile what happens next Maybe a gig in October 2008 Strong possibilities of a gig with the Frode Gjerstad trio in December featuring Paal Nilssen-Love, drums;Øyvind Storesund, bass Frode Gjerstad, clarinets, alto sax. Plus we have received a proposal from Stephen Grew. If you have ambitions, ideas or even composition to work with a large ensemble of free improvisors visit the web presence, complete the proposal form , give the office a call.. Interested in playing? wish to be informed of future session of the Frakture Big Band, want to play free improvised music in a large scale format? drop the Frakture Big Band a line at concerts@frakture.org or call 0151 709 6123 and leave you contact details Praxis: Musicians meeting wednesay 16th July. 7.30 Praxis: the process of putting theoretical knowledge into practice, the practice of faith Praxis: @ Frakture.org: Converting ideas into action, action into events, events into funding & income. You maybe one of the lucky ones and missed out on the Frakture two organisational review! Well we wont bore you with the down side of that process but the upside is that Frakture and associated musicians are in a better position to move forward. Praxis will look at new ways of working together, new souces of finance and paying ourselves etc. Currently 5 musicians will be attending. Interested: Contact Frakture 0151 709 6123; email admin@frakture.org Short term objectives. Increase the range of funding sources Frakture.org accesses Invert: most ideas and content within Frakture come from the top down, Praxis will look to invert this process by uncovering ideas and projects latent within the network of Frakture musicians that can realistically be delivered. Develop regional touring Deliver Frakture Concerts on a regional basis and not solely in Liverpool. Look at funded projects (i.e. musicians income) for The Frakture Big Band Funding: read the press release [here] “ This is good news indeed following two hard years reviewing our work and activities. Free improvisation in music remains a difficult genre of music to play and promote, this funding support will open up opportunities for Frakture and artists associated with its work.” Phil Morton: Co-director, Frakture
Publicity Musicians and supporters of frakture.org may support our events by distributing the publicity material to be found on the media page on our website, where you will find, flyers, posters, images, press releases and mypace tool kits For concerts, gigs etc go here: http://www.frakture.org/year/2008/mediapage_08.htm Workshops, go here : http://www.frakture.org/workshops/2008/mediapage.htm :
Web Site(s) News Two features to be brought to your attention: The regularly update listing page [here] has been upgraded to utlilise the highly effective google calendars, take a look here [http://www.frakture.org/gigs.htm and be informed of events in the region. meanwhile dont forget the notice board [GO]. The notice board has quick notes on recent news with the relevant links, a sample follows. Meanwhile here is a clip from the notice board. July 2008 Funding good news, read the press release [here] Frakture at Bluestocking pictures & review [look] i:Object team up with Dance Group Conscious Theatre [info] i:Splash Gig: Date, venue here [GO] Canopy performance series from the Listening Room [view] Praxis meeting 16th July, more info shortly 17th July Frakture trip to Manchester/freeform event see listings Movers & Shakers Garfield & Helen Southall announce time-off Frakture due to pressures of academic work & study. We wish them well and thanks for their input to Frakture during recent years
Members News Membership of Frakture, is aimed at participants and musicians within the "frakture neighbourhood" .Go here to view the current "members" area of the Frakture Website: including the on-line application form! Currently the deal is £5.00 till March 31st 2009: beyond that, benefits and charges will be reviewed. the current benefits is access to resources, equipment and media and office support! here is what is available: EQUIPMENT: 2 x Sure SM58 vocal microphones, 1 x Mixing desk: Spirit Folio, Tascam DA-P1 professional portable DAT machine, 2 x Genelec 1029a Speakers, 2 x Octava microphone sets, SONY MZ-R55 minidisk recorder, SERVICES: Library & Archives: Books, CDs, DVD, PDP's: personal development plans, access to office space. [terms and conditions NEW: Funding support: Frakture is close to have a range of templates that make funding applications simpler and easier. Members may consult with Frakture staff for during the procedure of writing funding-applications. This support maybe be offered for your private applications or joint ventures with Frakture. Membership is still in its beta phase .
Recruitment & Support Following Frakture's successful re-organisation it is currently looking for active individuals in the following areas NEW:SWIM: is looking to recruit a new team member preferably a vocal coach/workshop leader: Frakture front of house : volunteers needed on concert nights to cover basic duties [INFO] Interested: contact Frakture via the contact details below.
Frakture Freecycle Freecycle / Donations i:Object: Unwanted "objects" that make a sound of interest or distiction! Anything considered and can be used in one our sessions, call us and we will be around We provide a good home for "Broken Bows" or "unwanted Bows" . Contact: 0151 709 6123: email swim@frakture.org Instruments! following on from the above item we will collect instruments too, currently we are particularly interested in percussion instruments of any and all varieties. Contact: 0151 709 6123: email swim@frakture.org Magazines: donations invited for written material covering the general area of free improvised music, experemental music,acoustic ecology and sonic art, to add to our developing archive / library: suggested items include; The Wire, Music Works, Noise Gate, etc Contact: 0151 709 6123: email office@frakture.org

SWIM: Sound workshops in music is part of *Frakture.org*
Frakture: PO Box 1147, Liverpool L69 8WH UK - Tel 0151 709 6123 - skype fraktureoffice
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Frakture Case Notes Monthly Newsletter
Contents
News: Concerts Schedule: CD News; Workshops: SWIM News; Publicity; Web sites : Members; Recruitment & Support ; get in touch ; Contacts & Terms:

News & Future's

July 2008
Hi, Lots of news . in fact there is too much to cram in this newsletter which is now well past its deadline!

Funding : good news read the press release [here ]
Splash #23, the gig were creative forces meet....
Frakture Big Band : what happens next...
New release from Frakture big band
Whizz-go to Manchester and John Edwards with Adrian Northover
two gigs from the Listening Room
On-line publicity material.

Splash #23 where creative forces meet [GO]

An evening of two and threes! a departure from the normal evening of performing groups we present an evening of small trios, duos from those present. A few new faces and some new sounds

Early runners for the set list
Splash 23 presented by Frakture
Thursday 22nd May 2008 @ 8.00pm, mello mello jazz bar, 42 Slater Street
Liverpool L1 4BX
door tax: donations

Starting Line Up
Phil Morton, Accidents & Treatments
Adam Webster, Cello
Ian Simpson, Lapsteel Guitar, radio
Chris Mcgugan, Acoustic Guitar
Simon Jones, strings and laptop
Peter Dover, Drumset
Russel Grant, Guitar
Reinhard Fuchs, Electronics

Musician? wish to participate: that's easy, fill in the easy-gig page to help the team in the office...! we know you hate forms....but that's the plan:...that's the deal: the list will shut when it gets to ten musicians...

Frakass July Sunday July 27th

The story continues...
Join Fonic, DJ + Visuals at Magnet Bar and Live Music Venue, 45 Hardman Street
Liverpool, Merseyside, L1 9AS
web link
more info shortly in our case note bulletin nearer the time

Two session from the Listening Room

The Listening Room presents
i:Object, a sound with objects spectacular !
25th July 1.00pm - 3.00pm free
Mello Mello: jazz bar, Slater Street, Liverpool

Eric Wilson: found objects play found human.
Simon Jones: "This is the materialist dialectic in action at the heart of musical development"

Eric Wilson is The Listening Room's resident card carrying, fully subscribed sound-artist . Two more gig from i:Object as part of their on-going residency @ the mello mello. Simon Jones: speaks for himself

The Listening Room present Canopy #1

Canopy #1 Sunday July 20th, 10:00am - 11:00 am Free event
St James Mount Garden
off Upper Parliament Street
Liverpool L1

Artists lined up: Phil Morton, accidents and treatments; Adam Webster Cello; Simon Jones, Violin; Phil Lucking, Trumpets.

The Show,
10.00am to 10:15 approx, The peel of the Anglican Cathedral bells,
10:15 to 10;30 approx, The Ringing of Great George,
10:30 - 11:00 am, Canopy #1 performance

The first in a series of events under the Canopy name presented by Phil Morton's Listening Room.
Canopy's brief is a series of outdoor performances within the reach of a tree which provides the room, the resonance and shade. Further Canopy sessions are planned exploring the regions's trees including other artists and artforms.

Canopy #1 is a special show when we are joined by the ringing of the Anglican Cathedral bells including the 14 tonne Great George. A double whammy of a show, merging bells, static soundwalks and a performance all into one! and maybe some hot black coffer! TASTE IT

Northover-Edwards Manchester: Join us!

Adrian Northover - saxophone, John Edwards - double bass, Phillip Marks - percussion, Dave Jackson - saxophone Thursday 17th July at The King's Arms, 11 Bloom St. - off Chapel St., Salford, M3 6AN
8pm - 10:45pm

Sadly we could not put this act on in Liverpool, but Frakture and Whizz-go have three free seats on offer, you pay admisison which I think is £6.00: call us now 0151 709 6123 / 079995 185 82 if you wish to go.......

Frakture Records CD Label and associated audio news.

Frakture Records
The Frakture Big Band double CD issue is now at The Office and will be available shortly. Meanwhile at YouTube you can now view the Frakture Big Band in the Picton Reading Room: view our youtube files here

FCD 001 : Funfezhen , The Frakture Big Band with Carlos Zingaro, studio sessions
Price FCD 001 £10.00, Visit our catalogue page to buy: Pay Pal facility now available
FCD 002 : Cornerstone, The Frakture Big Band with Carlos Zingaro, live recording
Price FCD 002 £10.00, Visit our catalogue page to buy: Pay Pal facility now available
FCD 003 Double CD £15.00
Visit our catalogue page to buy: Pay Pal facility now available
CD 1 : Track 1: Angel of the resurrection
Personnel: accidents adam can cello clarinet dickaty downey electric garfield guitar hamlet john jones keyboard leibl lucking marion matt mole morton murphy neil percussions phil ray saxophone simon southall tim tin treatments trumpet viola violin voice webster whittington
Recorded at the Oratory, the Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool by Chris Trent on 19 March 2006,
Photographs by John Whittington, cd design by Adam Webster
CD 2: Track 1, Birds of America , The Picton Reading Rooms, Liverpool. Live recording
Personnel: adam andrea bass can cello clarinet dave dickaty double downey electric garfield guitar hamlet jackson john jones keyboard lucking martin matt mole morton murphy neil percussions phil piano ray saxophone simon southall tim tin trumpet viola violin voice webster whittington
Recorded Liver At The Picton Reading Room, Liverpool Central Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EW by Garfield Southall
The Frakture Records Team is currently looking for, recruit a third new member: INTERESTED, contact frakture.records@frakture.org or tel 0151 709 6123

Workshops: News

VOCAL PLAY
- Next session new format August 2008: slight delays due ill health of session leader sorry! good news is more funding has arrived for those intersted in new adventures with the voise!
  more news shortly
- http://www.frakture.org/workshops/vocalplay.htm
SNAP: out of it!
- Next session August 4th at The Cornsertone, Haigh Street/Shaw Street, more info [here]
- A review of the May 2008 snap session is [here]
- SNAP sessions feature a Grand Piano, Marimbas, Yamaha powered speakers and we can supply a drumset (with prior request! and the i:Object table. Session are recorded and mp3 made available to the participants.

Notes For Musicians

Loads of stuff to do and more to come: meanwhile observe the following.

Frakture Big Band:

2008: The story so far, we have played 2 gig plus 4 rehearsals. The first as support for the Eddie Prévost / Alexander von Schlippenbach, quartet with Alan Wilkinson & Joe Williamson, in the newly re-opened Bluecoat Arts Centre. The second at The Warrington Festival of experimental music at The Pyramid Arts Cente, Warrington. Date 21st June 2008,

After a period of silence the almost new Frakture Big Band has re-appeared with different line-ups and a sense of change ...more shortly...and there is an upgrade to the web-presence [here]

meanwhile what happens next

Maybe a gig in October 2008
Strong possibilities of a gig with the Frode Gjerstad trio in December featuring Paal Nilssen-Love, drums;Øyvind Storesund, bass Frode Gjerstad, clarinets, alto sax. Plus we have received a proposal from Stephen Grew. If you have ambitions, ideas or even composition to work with a large ensemble of free improvisors visit the web presence, complete the proposal form , give the office a call..

Interested in playing? wish to be informed of future session of the Frakture Big Band, want to play free improvised music in a large scale format? drop the Frakture Big Band a line at concerts@frakture.org or call 0151 709 6123 and leave you contact details

Praxis: Musicians meeting wednesay 16th July. 7.30

Praxis: the process of putting theoretical knowledge into practice, the practice of faith
Praxis: @ Frakture.org: Converting ideas into action, action into events, events into funding & income.

You maybe one of the lucky ones and missed out on the Frakture two organisational review! Well we wont bore you with the down side of that process but the upside is that Frakture and associated musicians are in a better position to move forward. Praxis will look at new ways of working together, new souces of finance and paying ourselves etc. Currently 5 musicians will be attending.

Interested: Contact Frakture 0151 709 6123; email admin@frakture.org

Short term objectives.

Increase the range of funding sources Frakture.org accesses
Invert: most ideas and content within Frakture come from the top down, Praxis will look to invert this process by uncovering ideas and projects latent within the network of Frakture musicians that can realistically be delivered.
Develop regional touring
Deliver Frakture Concerts on a regional basis and not solely in Liverpool.
Look at funded projects (i.e. musicians income) for The Frakture Big Band

Funding: read the press release [here]

“ This is good news indeed following two hard years reviewing our work and activities. Free improvisation in music remains a difficult genre of music to play and promote, this funding support will open up opportunities for Frakture and artists associated with its work.”
Phil Morton: Co-director, Frakture

Publicity

Musicians and supporters of frakture.org may support our events by distributing the publicity material to be found on the media page on our website, where you will find, flyers, posters, images, press releases and mypace tool kits

For concerts, gigs etc go here: http://www.frakture.org/year/2008/mediapage_08.htm

Workshops, go here : http://www.frakture.org/workshops/2008/mediapage.htm

Web Site(s) News

Two features to be brought to your attention:

The regularly update listing page [here] has been upgraded to utlilise the highly effective google calendars, take a look here [http://www.frakture.org/gigs.htm and be informed of events in the region.

meanwhile dont forget the notice board [GO]. The notice board has quick notes on recent news with the relevant links, a sample follows. Meanwhile here is a clip from the notice board.

July 2008
Funding good news, read the press release [here]
Frakture at Bluestocking pictures & review [look]
i:Object team up with Dance Group Conscious Theatre [info]
i:Splash Gig: Date, venue here [GO]
Canopy performance series from the Listening Room [view]
Praxis meeting 16th July, more info shortly
17th July Frakture trip to Manchester/freeform event see listings
Movers & Shakers
Garfield & Helen Southall announce time-off Frakture due to pressures of academic work & study. We wish them well and thanks for their input to Frakture during recent years

Members News

Membership of Frakture, is aimed at participants and musicians within the "frakture neighbourhood" .Go here to view the current "members" area of the Frakture Website: including the on-line application form!

Currently the deal is £5.00 till March 31st 2009: beyond that, benefits and charges will be reviewed. the current benefits is access to resources, equipment and media and office support!

here is what is available:

EQUIPMENT:

2 x Sure SM58 vocal microphones,
1 x Mixing desk: Spirit Folio,
Tascam DA-P1 professional portable DAT machine,
2 x Genelec 1029a Speakers,
2 x Octava microphone sets,
SONY MZ-R55 minidisk recorder,
SERVICES: Library & Archives: Books, CDs, DVD, PDP's: personal development plans, access to office space. [terms and conditions
NEW: Funding support: Frakture is close to have a range of templates that make funding applications simpler and easier. Members may consult with Frakture staff for during the procedure of writing funding-applications. This support maybe be offered for your private applications or joint ventures with Frakture.

Membership is still in its beta phase .

Recruitment & Support

Following Frakture's successful re-organisation it is currently looking for active individuals in the following areas

NEW:SWIM: is looking to recruit a new team member preferably a vocal coach/workshop leader:
Frakture front of house : volunteers needed on concert nights to cover basic duties [INFO]

Interested: contact Frakture via the contact details below.

Frakture Freecycle

Freecycle / Donations

i:Object: Unwanted "objects" that make a sound of interest or distiction! Anything considered and can be used in one our sessions, call us and we will be around
We provide a good home for "Broken Bows" or "unwanted Bows" .
Contact: 0151 709 6123: email swim@frakture.org

Instruments! following on from the above item we will collect instruments too, currently we are particularly interested in percussion instruments of any and all varieties.
Contact: 0151 709 6123: email swim@frakture.org

Magazines: donations invited for written material covering the general area of free improvised music, experemental music,acoustic ecology and sonic art, to add to our developing archive / library: suggested items include; The Wire, Music Works, Noise Gate, etc
Contact: 0151 709 6123: email office@frakture.org

SWIM: Sound workshops in music is part of Frakture.org

Frakture: PO Box 1147, Liverpool L69 8WH UK - Tel 0151 709 6123 - skype fraktureoffice

you have received this information because, by hook or crook you have been added to our database to receive information about events delivered by Frakture. Frakture does not accept responsibility for the content of web sites re: external links.
To unsubscribe send an email to mailinglists@frakture.org