Monday 21 August 2023, 7.30pm
Ryosuke Kiyasu has been performing as a solo snare drummer since 2003 and has toured 58 countries. He is also known as the drummer of his own leader band "SETE STAR SEPT" and "Kiyasu Orchestra". and has been working as a drummer for Keiji Haino's "Fushitsusha" over 10 years.
His 2018 performance video in Berlin was viewed 23 million times and created a huge buzz around the world.
"The antics on display by Kiyasu aren't merely for entertainment, they serve as an in-your-face reminder that music is not about complexity or the number of instruments used; it's about the connection between the artist and the audience." – Lambgoat
Breathing Heavy is the saxophone and sampler duo of Sam Andreae and Ciaran Mackle.
Ciaran Mackle is one half of long-running South London improv duo Ashcircle. Specialising in micro feral concrète and music to soundtrack the grinding and repetitive feeling of endless Tory rule. He explores a restricted sound palette, and what happens when language and discourse are squeezed so that all meaning and context is lost.
https://ashcircle.bandcamp.com/
Sam Andreae has been active across Europe over the last decade as a saxophonist, composer and organiser. Through improvisation and composition he explores a music of colliding sound gestures and aural detritus, built up from an intentionally fractured instrumental language and playful spontaneity. His compositions place a focus on gestural processes which in their unraveling reveal a trail of sound artefacts to be picked through.
https://samandreae.com/
“what Sam Andreae does is liminal music, he shows you the clicks, the noises, the breaths, the rattle and hum” – John Doran, Quietus, 2017 on BBC 3 Late Junction
Zheng Hao and Ren Shang are two artists from China, currently-based in London, UK. Their music as Oishi is a playful, joyful, and at points absurdist exploration through musique concrete, diaristic field recordings and digitally augmented realities.
On their debut album, ‘once upon a time there was a mountain’ released by Bezirk, Oishi use warped tape loops, field recordings and digital manipulation to explore how everyday sounds can carry unexpected paths of expression and meaning. Evoking fictional vocabularies and car radios via motorbike rides down imagined mountains.
"Zheng Hao, on walking and recording duties, gave the tape to Oishi’s other half Ren Shang to manipulate, with Hao herself continuing this process via laptop. Side two is higher-key, the sound of mangling cassette tape (Hao is responsible this time, with Shang on laptop duty) battling for dominance with deep-toned generative noise effects and the smoothest country & western croons. The intent here was to achieve a ‘car radio out in the sticks’ effect, specifically the moments when it can’t pick it up properly, and if this preceding description doesn’t strike you as preposterous – or, even better, you’ve got time for sound art goofballs like Graham Lambkin or Gabi Losoncy – then Oishi might be for you." The Quietus
