music is theatre is dance is music is theatre is dance is music is theatre is dance is music is theatre is dance is music is theatre is dance is music is theatre is dance is mu All in One for film and voice by Alison Blunt. Photo credit Jenny Gallego 2010
Ray Warleigh, Tony Marsh, Hannah Marshall and Alison Blunt - Freedom of the City Festival. Photo credit: Andrew Newcombe, 2009
Upcoming... Jan 24th, improvised, devised violin accompaniment with contemporary dance company Typewriters Collective in Resolutions! 2012 The Dead Can Dance Choreography: Raquel Claudino Drawing upon the extraordinary events of the 1518 Dance Plague, in which 400 people were afflicted by uncontrollable movement, this is a frenetic dance of rebellion revealing the everyday issues we try to hide. Dancers: Anne-Maarit Kinnunen and Marianna Mouaimi Musician/ composer: Alison Blunt www.thetypewriters.co.uk www.facebook.com/events/250136818383562/ See facebook page for details of the other 2 performances Starts at 8:00 pm prompt Robin Howard Dance Theatre @The Place (London School of Contemporary Dance) 17 Dukes Road, WC1H 9AB London Price: £14 (£11 conc) To book: www.theplace.org.uk/11671/whats-on/raquel-claudino-subtle-kraft-co-rosie-whitneyfish-company.html Wednesday 25th, 8pm - The Gathering presents... Annual New Year Variety Night 2012 @Tottenham Chances, 399 High Road, London N17 6QN Doors 7:30pm for prompt 8pm start Improvised music, poetry, film and more. Featuring, in various combinations: Maggie Nicols, Matt Randle, Agnes Hay, Noel Taylor, Frank Charlton, Moshi Honen, Alison Blunt, Shellbell, Illi Adato, Steve Moyes, Jerry Wigens, Craig Bell, Ophir Ilzetzki, Phil Minton, Veryan Weston, Liz Bentley, Dave Fowler Entrance £6/£4                      Bar Buses stop outside Chances, coming down from Stoke Newington, they are 123, 149, 259, 341, 471, 243, 279. Tube: Seven Sisters,and Tottenham Hale. From either, walk up road to High Cross Tottenham, catch a 41 or a 73 bus and walk up about 200 yards. Main line trains: from Liverpool St stop at Seven Sisters as well as Bruce Grove. Both of these stations are nearer than the Hale. 5th February, London Improvisers Orchestra (monthly residency) @Cafe Oto 8.30 prompt start 6th Feb, Barrel perform @Boat Ting, Bar&Co boat on the Thameshttp://www.thetypewriters.co.ukhttps://www.facebook.com/events/250136818383562/http://www.theplace.org.uk/11671/whats-on/raquel-claudino-subtle-kraft-co-rosie-whitneyfish-company.htmlhttp://www.facebook.com/londonimprovisersorchestraBARREL.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4
Upcoming Performances Current and Upcoming Projects
...Recent News
 
Barcode Quartet album ‘You’re It’ to be released with SLAM
 
‘Gratuitous Abuse’ - Barrel album released 20th  October ’11 with EMANEM - many kind and surreal reviews and even one in the Sunday Times 21.11.11
 Lode - audio visual commissioned by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, 1st performance 24th February 2012, other dates to be announced soon
 
‘Quartet Improvisations’ - Psi release with Tony Marsh Quartet (Aug ‘11) All About Jazz review and radio interview promoting ‘Quartet Improvisations’ album on Coastal Waters - Brighton and Hove Community Radio (listen here). September 2011 on BBC Jazz on 3, Steve Beresford played a track from Quartet Improvisations, thank you Steve!
 
‘Lio Leo Leon’ - London Improvisers Orchestra live at FOTC ‘10 released May ‘11 with EMANEM includes Wire Tapping track conducted by A Blunt. All About Jazz review
 
V:NM ‘11 improvised conducting by Alison Blunt on you tube
 
Freedom of the City Festival ‘11
Veryan Weston, Hannah Marshall, James Dunn and Alison Blunt
 
REVIEW OF BLUNT AND TAYLOR DUO SET
Expanding her sound developed through a classical violin training, Alison Blunt has since been performing and recording experimental and improvised music throughout the British Isles, Europe and Australia.
 
 
International festival engagements include Freedom of the City (London), V:NM (Graz), Liquid Architecture (Melbourne), Horta Cordel International Festival of Improvisation (Madrid), Spontaneous (Lyon) and SHIFTI International Festival of Mixed Art Form Improvisation (Warwick).
 
Commissioned improvised performances within the fields of theatre, contemporary dance and film include the British Council theatre showcase at Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Edinburgh), Birds Eye View Sound and Silents Festival at the British Film Institute (London), Nottdance Festival (Nottingham), Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne), St Magnus Festival (Orkney) and Thirsty Fish Festival (London).
 
Performing regularly with London Improvisers Orchestra, Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, Barrel, Ensemble Progresivo, Lode, Barcode Quartet, Haman and many ad hoc improvising ensembles, Alison has also collaborated with international improvising artists including Steve Beresford, John Bisset, Adam Bohman, Gail Brand, Javier Carmona, Viv Corringham, Guy Dartnell, Lisbeth Diers, John Edwards, Sue Ferrar, Pete Flood, Lewis Gibson, Annette Giesriegl, Sylvia Hallett, Elisabeth Harnik, Tristan Holinger, Ivor Kallin, Anna Kaluza, Josef Klammer, Dominic Lash, David Leahy, Tony Marsh, Hannah Marshall, Marcio Mattos, Neil Metcalfe, Niko Meinhold, Manuel Miethe, Miya, Horst Nonnenmacher, Adrian Northover, Noura Sanatian, Mark Saunders, Franz Schmuck, Joel Stern, Benedict Taylor, Noel Taylor, Ricardo Tejero, Dave Tucker, Jackie Walduck, Ray Warleigh, Veryan Weston and Thomas Zunk.
Performance Gallery Recording Barrel Performing Biography Barcode Quartet London Improvisers Orchestra
Improvisation
Haman Quintet
Alison with Haman, Mopomoso @The Vortex Sept ’11
photo credit Andy Newcombe
Lode Berlin Improvisers Orchestra