September 08
Playing with Walking Wounded at the Gypsy Arts Festival
6th and 7th September @Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, Kent
Saturday 6th: We play 11am (!) - 11.45am and 1pm-1.45pm and Sunday 7th: two sets between 3pm and 5pm
Ensemble Progresivo (free improv and graphic scores)
Ricardo Tejero, Javier Carmona, Marcio Mattos, Adrian Northover and Alison Blunt
plus
Malcolm Bruce (guitar), Jim Lebaigue (drums) and Graham Painting (guitar)
9pm, 9th September @Jazz Rumours at Cross Kings, 126 York Way, London N1 0A
Screening of short: ‘ARAK NED: APEX OF ZOMBIES’ (by Bonnie Hart, Sally Goulding, Alison Blunt)
8.30pm (2nd out of 21 short films to be screened so best arrive early!)
11th September @Collisions Festival at Area 10 Project Space, Peckham, London, SE15 5JT
Bruce and Blunt improvise
16th September @Klinker at Maggie’s Bar, Stoke Newington, London, N16 0AP
BARREL
Ivor Kallin, Hannah Marshall and Alison Blunt
Malcolm Bruce and Alison Blunt participate in “1002 Nights” with music and storytelling
(British Council guest artists)
30th September @Netherlands European Storytelling Marathon, Amsterdam (EUNIC event)
October 08
Rikki Jodelko and Alison Blunt (improvised songs with and without words)
Thursday 2nd October @Klinker at Cross Kings
London Improvisers Orchestra
5th October @Cafe Oto, Dalston, N1
Rikki Jodelko and Alison Blunt (improvise songs with and without words)
Tuesday 7th October @Jazz Rumours at Cross Kings 126 York Way, London N1 0AX
Ensemble Progresivo (graphic score improv ensemble) Ricardo Tejero, Javier Carmona, Marcio Mattos, Adrian Northover and Alison Blunt
19th October @Mopomoso, The Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London N16 8JH
Late Noon Sun (Hope you enjoy the sound track!)
Ear Cinema Production and Installation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
29th October - 1st November (check various showing times)
Visit http://www.earcinema.co.uk/ and http://www.ica.org.uk/Ear%20Cinema%3A%20Late%20Noon%20Sun+18142.twl
November 08
London Improvisers Orchestra
2nd November @Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
Rikki Jodelko and Alison Blunt (improvise songs with and without words)
4th November @Klinker at Maggie’s Bar, Stoke Newington, London, N16 0AP
BARREL performing at LONDON NEW WIND FESTIVAL
7.30pm on Wednesday November 5th - New Improvised Music - 'Small Improvisation Groups/Soloists' on H.M.S President (big boat on Thames), Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0HJ
BARREL: Ivor Kallin, Hannah Marshall and Alison Blunt (promise to blow on their instruments)
Ensemble Trip-Tik: Catherine Pluygers (Oboes) Adrian Northove (Saxes) Adam Bohman (Found Objects)
Jacques Foschia - Clarinet and Eugene Martynec - Laptop
Jeff Cloke - Reson8, Caroline Kraabel and Max Reed (dancer
Alison Blunt and Ivor Kallin (improvised, violin, violin/viola and voices)
11th November at 8pm at Camden People’s Theatre (near Warren Street tube)
Apocryphal Festival PDF for more info
Alison Blunt (improvised, solo voice, movement and violin)
12th November at 8pm at Camden People’s Theatre
Apocryphal Festival PDF for more info
Apocryphal Theatre present The Jesus Guy, Written/Directed: Julia Lee Barclay
13th November at 8pm at Camden People’s Theatre
Created and Performed by Bill Aitchison, Lukas Angelini, Lucy Avery, Zoë Bouras, Rachel Ellis, Birthe Jorgensen and Alison Blunt
Originally presented in 2006, Apocryphal bring The Jesus Guy back for one night only.
Seven performers create a show, improvising with written and improvised text, scores, ideas and visual materials accumulated during rehearsals and performance.
Alison Blunt and Ivor Kallin (violin, violin/ viola)
Saturday 15TH NOVEMBER @Tale of What! night at Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6PD
‘Bantu Blues’ - Jo N’Gala, Ansuman Biswas and Alison Blunt on Resonance 104.4FM
19th November, 6-7pm (you can listen on the internet too!)
BARREL (stringy trio: Alison, Ivor Kallin and Hannah Marshall) at the 2:13 Festival
8pm 29th November @2:13 Festival @Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£5.00 (or weekend pass for 28/29/30th £11.00)
LINK TO FESTIVAL PROGRAMME HERE
Alison plays in the RELAY GIG in 2:13 FESTIVAL
8.30pm 30th November, Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
LINK TO FESTIVAL PROGRAMME HERE
December 08
London Improvisers Orchestra (10th anniversary gig)
8pm, 7th December in the Ballroom on HMS President (big boat on Thames), London EC4Y 0HJ. Between Temple and Blackfriars tube stations
Alison (solo improv with violin and voice)
7pm ish, Sunday 14th December @Magic Piano club night in Kings Cross area, London
The Harrison, 28 Harrison Street Kings Cross London WC1 8JF
FREE ENTRY!
Ensemble Progresivo (graphic scores and improv)
(Ricardo Tejero, Dominic Lash, Adrian Northover and Alison Blunt)
(Ricardo Tejero, Dominic Lash, Adrian Northover and Alison Blunt)
16th December @Klinker at Maggie’s Bar, Stoke Newington, London, N16 0AP
Alison with WALKING WOUNDED
20th December, The Gypsy Hotel Xmas Special at Bardon’s Boudoir, 36 Stoke Newington Rd, London N16
loads of acts, bands, burlesque, 9-2am, £6
Alison in BARREL (string trio) and hundreds of others perform at the MOPOMOSO XMAS SPECIAL
22nd December @ The Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London N16 8JH
Doors open at 6.00pm and admission is £10 / £7 concessions
January 2009
Ensemble Progresivo (graphic score improv ensemble)
Ricardo Tejero, Javier Carmona, Marcio Mattos, Adrian Northover and Alison Blunt VIEW MYSPACE PAGE
PLAY
13th, 8.30pm @Jazz Rumours, Cross Kings, 126 York Way, London N1 0AX
19th, 8.30pm @Boat-ting (on a big boat on the Thames) DETAILS HERE
29th @ Hurta Cordel Festival in Madrid, LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
February
1st, London Improvisers Orchestra
8.30pm @Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
2nd, BARREL (Hannah Marshall, Ivor Kallin and Alison) at Bohman Brothers Concerts at the BAC
NB CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW!!
4th, BARREL (Hannah Marshall, Ivor Kallin and Alison) and Eugene Martynec perform together
9-10pm on Resonance 104.04FM (listen online, in iTunes!)
View BARREL pages
Sat 7th, guest fiddling with Walking Wounded (rock, ska, Gypsy, punk...you name it)
@The Hemingford Arms, Hemingford Rd. Offord Rd, N1, 9-11pm FREE!
19th, Rikki Jodelko (guitar and voice) and Alison Blunt (violin and voice)
8.30pm -11pm @ ’Klinker Kings Cross’, Cross Kings, 126 York Way, N1 OAX
21st & 22nd, violinist accompanying ‘Hooray for Hollywood’
Presented by Puppet (R)Evolution
Performed by Tinka Slavicek, Raven Kaliana, Andy Jones, Clara Giraud, and Mel Scott
Puppet design by Raven Kaliana, Lighting design by Valentina Tamiolaki
8pm @Little Angel Theatre, 14 Dagmar Passage, London N1 2DN
Little Angel Theatre website eflyer HoorayforHollywood.jpg
A fractured tale set within the exploitative child pornography industry. The story is revealed in flashes and glimpses from a child’s vantage point, through tabletop puppetry and shadow puppetry.
Based on a true story, the child puppets expressively convey both the sense of entrapment and the potential to transcend these circumstances.
A post-show discussion with the woman who survived these experiences follows the 45 minute show, after a short interval.
£10 / £8 conc - Little Angel Theatre will donate £2 from every ticket to NSPCC to help end these crimes against children.
27th, Alison performs songs (solo and in ensemble) in
‘Music of Pino Frumiento’ tribute acts, main stage
8pm Main stage @Beautiful Octopus Club (7-12 midnight), Albany Theatre, Deptford
Further Info and MAP
Fri 13th, Sun 15th, Fri 20th and Saturday 28th, guest performer in run of
‘Besides, You Lose Your Soul Or The History Of Western Civilisation’
presented by Apocryphal Theatre @Camden People’s Theatre
8pm, Wed 11 Feb - Sun 1 Mar (no performances Mondays or Tuesdays, Wednesday’s are ‘pay what you can’ nights)
BESIDES, eflier.jpg
March
1st, London Improvisers Orchestra
8.30pm @Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
Thursday 12th, 6pm @BFI Southbank (NFT3) - Alison with Hannah Marshall and Javier Carmona accompany ‘ALRAUNE’
in ‘Vamps, Vixens and Femmes Fatales’ (Sound and Silents) film festival
Produced by Birds Eye View and British Film Institute
Made in 1928 starring Brigitte Helm, a “Forgotten gem which mixes folk legend with a whiff of science fiction.”
SOLD OUT
NB 7.30 start @Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
20th, Guest solo improvised performance (voice, movement and violin)
within this 1 performance in Fluxx production run: “Night, London - Adventures in a Splintered City”
7.30pm starts, 2nd -21st @Tristan Bates Theatre, London WC1
Ricardo Tejero, Javier Carmona, Adrian Northover and Alison Blunt (sadly minus Marcio Mattos this gig)
8.30pm @Luna Lounge, Leyton
April
23rd, “Besides, You Lose Your Soul...” with Apocryphal Theatre
Guest Company performance at Rose Bruford College
“An eclectic selection of live bands and musicians performs as an alternative to the Camden Crawl”
176 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3PT. Tel: +44(0)20 7428 8940
29th, Ensemble Progresivo (graphic score improvising quintet) Ricardo Tejero, Javier Carmona, Adrian Northover, Marcio Mattos and Alison Blunt
8pm @The Open House, 146 Springfield Road, Brighton, BN1 6BZ. Tel: (01273) 880 102
May
3rd, 2pm (1st on!) Tony Marsh, Ray Warleigh, Hannah Marshall and Alison Blunt perform
25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
3rd, 4pm Playing with and conducting the London Improvisers Orchestra @Freedom of the City Festival
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
6th, ‘BLEU’ First performance, Colchester Arts Centre
Director Luke Dixon, Choreographer Jane Turner, Musician Alison Blunt
An event that is part re-creation, part stimulation and part live art event, inspired by the ground breaking Paris performances of Yves Klein in 1960 where naked bodies were daubed in paint and used to print impressions on canvas.
Klein’s Anthropométries of the Blue Epoch revolutionised painting and performance.
With giant sheets of paper, plenty of blue paint, live music and improvised choreography, this performance will see artists making images from the human body,
With giant sheets of paper, plenty of blue paint, live music and improvised choreography, this performance will see artists making images from the human body,
performers moving with those images, and an installation created as the audience looks on. For more information: luke@theatrenomad.com
21st, Rikki Jodleko (guitar and voice) and Alison Blunt (violin and voice) improvise
at Klinker Cross Kings www.klinkerzoundz.com
June
3rd, 8pm Alison at The Gathering Summer Performance Night @St Pancras Church
7th, 8.30pm London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
20th, in the afternoon, performing with Jazztronics
July
5th, London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
18th, Anna Kaluza, Noel and another Noel perform @Epicenter
Leytonstone Festival
24th, Performing with Heart n Soul band
@Beautiful Octopus Club, The Albany, Deptford
August
2nd, London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
September
14th, The London Improvisers Orchestra perform ‘DIRECTED and UNDIRECTED’
@KINGS PLACE
25th, Quartet perform at City University
Anna Kaluza’s MA recital (Anna, Dominic, Sam et moi)
October 09
4th, 8.30pm London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
perform ‘The Jesus Guy’ by Julia Lee Barclay
@Northampton University
@Vortex Jazz Club
November
1st, 8.30pm London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
4th, 8.30pm SOMEDECTET perform @Vortex Jazz Club
St Leonards, Shoreditch Church, London E1 6JN
(at the junction where Kingsland Rd, Shoreditch High Street, Hackney Rd and Old St all meet)
21st, 6.30pm, Ocean Orchestra celebrate the anniversary of Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet
by performing specially written music of Ozan Toprak (Turkish composer living in Hackney) to accompany a poetry recital
@Ocean, 270 Mare Street, Hackney, London, E8 1HE
29th, 8.30pm London Improvisers Orchestra on HMS President
December
@Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
1: Screening and performing solo with new short film “ALL IN ONE” co-created with documentary maker Georgina Aldana
3 Performing with Thirsty Fish Ensemble for ‘Blacked Up’
(followed by HnS’ Xmas party)
WOLFGANG is: Sylvia Hallett (viola), Sue Ferrar (violin), Hannah Marshall (cello) and Alison (violin)
399 High Road, N17 6QN, Nearest tubes: Tott Hale or Seven Sisters
399 High Road, N17 6QN, Nearest tubes: Tott Hale or Seven Sisters
£5/£3 entry
9th, SOMEDECTET perform at ‘The Others’
SomeDectet: Nick Malcolm, Alex Bonney, Gail Brand, Ntshuks Bonga, Mark Hanslip, Alex Ward, Shabaka Hutchings, Alison Blunt, Hannah Marshall, Alexander Hawkins, Olie Brice, Dominic Lash and Javier Carmona
6 Manor Road, Stoke Newington, London N16 5SA
£7/£5 entry
16th, Ivor Kallin, John Bissett and Alison Blunt @ FLIM FLAM
Ryan's Bar , 181 Stoke Newington Church St, N16. Entrance £6/4.00. Doors 8.30pm
17th, 8.30ish, Improvised Songs with Rikki Jodelko (blues/ jazz guitar and vocals) and Alison (violin and vocals)
20th, Christmas Mopomoso @ The Vortex
6pm-ish kick-off - the best of free improvised music with a cast of thousands!
It’s that time of year again and Mopomoso celebrate all things improvisatory with their annual party.
A great way to see some of the best improvisers around in an informal setting, the Mopomoso end of year concert has become something of an institution.
Last year’s event had over fifty musicians, playing around thirty short sets and showcasing the wide variety of music to be found in the free improvisation world.
Among those confirmed as of today for this year are Chris Burn, Lol Coxhill, Phil Minton, Hannah Marshall, Henry Lowther, Steve Beresford, Tania Chen, Leila Adu, Satoko Fukuda, Maggie Nicols, Dave Fowler, Sylvia Hallett, Susanna Ferrar, Alison Blunt,
Roger Turner, John Russell, Tony Marsh, Leila Adu, Kay Grant, Dave Solomon, Ian Diplock, Matt Hutchinson, Viv Corringham, Will Connor, Dominic Lash, Terry Day, Eugene Martynec, Olie Brice, Neil Metcalf, Marcio Mattos, Gina Southgate, Alan Wilkinson,
Rodrigo Montoya, Ricardo Tejero, Marillza Gouvea, Dave Tucker with many more...
There is also a FREE BUFFET and a raffle. Booking advised.
11 Gillett Square, London N16 8AZ (August 16/17/18), very close to Dalston Kingsland station
Admission £10/£7 concessions
January 2010
22nd, 8.30pm BARREL (Hannah Marshall, Ivor Kallin et moi) plus guest (violist Benedict Taylor) @BAC
plus other wondrously interesting sounds
Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5TN
(nearest rail station, Clapham Junction) £5/£3
28th, 8.30pm, BARREL @Luna Lounge, Leytonstone
30 seconds walk from Leytonstone tube stn, 8 minutes walk from Leytonstone High Road rail station
30th, London Improvisers Orchestra at Bimhuis, Amsterdam
February
7th, 8.30pm London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4 (no ID needed)
23rd, 7pm, premier performance of composer Sarah Collin’s ‘Winter Hare’ for violin and piano
‘CITY LIGHTS’ details HERE
Performance Space, College Building, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 4PB
March
2nd, BARREL (Ivor and Alison plus Benedict Taylor, sadly Hannah can’t make this one)
and other wond’rous sounds perform @ Pushkin House
5A Bloomsbury Square , London WC1A 2TA
JPG FLIER HERE facebook page here
7th, 8.30pm London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4 (no conc id needed)
13th, Perform with the Magnitude String Quartet, Tania Chen, Steve Beresford and the iPhone Ensemble
Shoreditch (further details here on facebook)
15th, 7pm, Organising and performing at Concert Celebrating Female Artists’ Contribution to Improvised Music
HMS President, Victoria Embankment
PDF FLIER HERE! , link to WOMEN IN MUSIC and the FACEBOOK PAGE
31st, solo artist and ensemble player in ‘Heart n Soul Now’ Concert
the Albany Theatre, Douglas Way, Deptford
APRIL
4th, 8.30pm, London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4 (no conc id needed)
17th, 2 performances of ‘All in One’ (solo piece for voice and film)
3.30pm and 6pm (each 7 minutes in duration)
@Jenny Gallego’s Exhibition Opening
198 at 45 Collective, Unit 45, 2nd Avenue, Brixton Village Market (Granville Arcade)
2 minutes walk from Brixton tube
FACEBOOK PAGE
20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd, performing music puppet theatre show “Apple” for families with 2-5 yr olds in Hackney
May
2nd, 3pm afternoon performance, London Improvisers Orchestra
@ Freedom of the City Festival
25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL
3rd, Wolfgang (Sylvia Hallett, Sue Ferrar, Hannah Marshall et moi) @Boat Ting
solo pieces with voice and violin in “Without Planning Permission”
13th, Accompanying silent films with Hannah Marshall
@ 198 at 45 Collective, Unit 45, 2nd Avenue, Brixton Village Market (Granville Arcade)
2 minutes walk from Brixton tube
June
6th, London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4 (no conc id needed)
11th, 7.30pm Music of Michael Parsons
Finnish vocal ensemble FIORI, Post String Trio, Alison Blunt and Tania Chen
St. Anne & St. Agnes Church, Gresham Street, London EC2
Concert showcasing small ensemble and solo works by Michael Parsons
All tickets £5 at the door from 7.00pm
Nearest tube: St. Paul’s, Central Line
FLIER HERE
19th, lunchtime ‘til late, performing with Heart n Soul band, KDNA and Open Mic Band
@Paradise Gardens Festival, Victoria Park (Hackney)
MORE INFO
20th 9.30pm, playing with Anna Kaluza (sax) and Clayton Thomas (bass) in Berlin
wendel, schlesische straße 42, 10997 berlin
Tel: 030 61 07 40 29
24th, 8pm, playing with and conducting Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, Berlin
Wendel, Schlesische Strasse 42, Berlin-Kreuzberg, 8pm
26th, 7.30pm, playing wih Anna Kaluza, Ricardo Tejero, Dominic Lash and Javier Carmona
@ MIss Hecker (coolest venue in Berlin, magical) www.nstp.de
27th, 7.30pm, playing wih Anna Kaluza, Ricardo Tejero, Dominic Lash and Javier Carmona
Café Niesen, Korsörer Strasse 13, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg www.nstp.de
July
3rd, sometime between 2-5pm, Unwhitstable - a day of improvised music and art
performing with Hannah Marshall (cello), Tony Marsh (drums) and Neil Metcalfe (flute)
@All Saints Church, Whitstable, Kent
FACEBOOK PAGE
4th, London Improvisers Orchestra
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4 (no conc id needed)
FACEBOOK PAGE
13th, 12.45pm, Perform at the Oval with Heart n Soul’s K:DNA at the Children’s and Young People’s Services Conference
Brit Oval Cricket Ground, Kennington, SE11 5SS
19th, London Improvisers Orchestra perform at O’Neills
in Leytonstone Festival
762 High Road, Leytonstone, E11 3AW
(very close to the Green Man roundabout)
23rd, K:DNA perform @ The Beautiful Octopus Club
The Albany, Deptford
August
1st, London Improvisers Orchestra
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4 (no conc id needed)
10th, London Improvisers Orchestra @ Ronnie Scott’s BRITJAZZ performance
Ronnie’s LIO webpage here
LIO Facebook page here
September 2010
Friday 3rd, 8.30pm London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto
£6/£4 conc (no id necessary)
Saturday 4th, 4pm Performing with K:DNA @Liberty Festival
@St Barnabas Church, Shacklewell Lane, Hackney, E8 2EA
26th, 8pm Performing at Alpenglow Festival, all invited artists together conducted by Steve Beresford
@Cafe Oto, Ashwin Street, Dalston
28th, 8.30pm Wolfgang (Sylvia Hallett, Hannah Marshall, Sue Ferrar and moi)
performing at Sibyl’s birthday concert at Boating
@ Bar&Co, Temple Pier, Emabankment
opposite Temple tube (between Blackfriars and Waterloo Bridges)
£6 / £4 concs (no ID necessary : )
October
Sunday 3rd, 8.30pm, London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4 (no concession id needed : )
25th and 28th, performances of Chinese stories with music in Lewisham libraries
Recommended for families with children between the ages of 6-10 years old
Free Entry
Monday 25 October, 11-11.45am, Crofton Park Library
375 Brockley Road, Brockley, London
SE4 2AG
Monday 25 October, 2.30-3.15pm, Manor House Library
34 Old Road, London
SE13 5SY
Thursday 28 October, 11-11.45am, New Cross Library
283-285 New Cross Road, London
SE14 6AS
Thursday 28 October, 2.30-3.15pm, Wavelengths Library
Giffin Street, Deptford, London
SE8 4RJ
November
3rd, 7.30pm, Women’s Films, Women’s Music event
October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL
7th, 8.30pm London Improvisers Orchestra with special guest dancer Florencia Guerberof
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4 (no concession id needed : )
A Concert of Improvised Music in the London New Wind Festival 2010 (yes, I know, but we promise to be windy)
17th, 8.30pm, Ensemble Progresivo @Flim Flam
181 Stoke Newington Church Street N16 0UL
20th, 8.30pm Violin (Alison Blunt) and Viola (Bendedict Taylor)
Shh Boom event @The Knave, Islington, London
Daniel Thompson - guitar, Ian Smith - trumpet, Olie Brice - double bass
and
Barrel + 1
Ivor Kallin - violin/ viola, Alison Blunt - violin, Hannah Marshall - cello
with Benedict Taylor - viola
2 ensembles will perform separately followed by a set from 6 strings and a trumpet
8PM start £6/£4
St Leonards Shoreditch Church, Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6JN
December 2010
5th, London Improvisers Orchestra’s final concert of 2010
on the Thames (on board HMS President)
10th, 7.30pm for 8pm start, Apocryphal Theatre presents
It’s not a cul de sac, it’s a conduit
Open lab showing and post lab discussion
Pay What You Can
@the Peoples Show Studios
19th, Barrel will perform at Mopomoso Christmas Party: ”Cast of thousands”
THE BEST OF FREE IMPROVISED MUSIC.
London's longest running free improvisation night
Last year saw 52 musicians play 23 sets! Free refreshments and raffle
THE VORTEX, 11 GILLETT SQUARE, LONDON N16 8AZ
DOORS OPEN 6.30PM FOR 7PM START
NEAR DALSTON KINGSLAND STATION
Admission £10/£6 concessions Booking tel: 020 7254 4097
January 2011
19th, 9pm, Shabaka Hutchings/Pat Thomas/Olie Brice/Javier Carmona
+
Alison Blunt/Javier Carmona
At Flimflam @ Ryan's Bar, 181 Stoke Newington Church St, N16.
Entrance £6/4.00. Doors 8.30pm
facebook event page
21st, Friday, 7pm for 7.30 start, Live accompaniment to 1929 silent film ‘Piccadilly’ (E.A.Dupont)
The band:
keys (Vladimir Miller)
drums (Steve Noble)
flute/ clarinet (Sue Lynch)
bass (John Edwards)
violin (Alison Blunt)
sax (Adrian Northover)
Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre 108 Stamford Street, South Bank, SE1 9NH
£4, BOOKING ESSENTIAL, pay on arrival!
To book! Tel: 0207 021 1600/ email: helpdesk@coinstreet.org
facebook event page
February 2011
6th, London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4 (no conc id needed)
facebook event page
19th, 7pm ‘til late, The Dead Can Dance, Typewriters Collective @Sssh Boom 19.2.11.jpg
Alison Blunt (violin) with Benedict Taylor (viola) in collaboration with Typewriters Collective @Sssh Boom
The Nave Performing Arts Centre, Islington, London
BOOK TICKETS HERE
Facebook event page
20th, Mopomoso at the Vortex, performing with Elisabeth Harnik (piano) and Annette Gisriegl (voice)
THE VORTEX, 11 GILLETT SQUARE, LONDON N16 8AZ, NEAR DALSTON KINGSLAND STATION
DOORS OPEN 8PM FOR 8.30PM START
Booking tel: 020 7254 4097 On-line booking - WWW.VORTEXJAZZ.CO.UK
facebook event page
Alex Ehlers – bass-g, oboe
Anna Kaluza – alto sax
Alison Blunt - violin
Iku Sakan – steelpan, electronics
Kostja Usenko – violoncello, electronics
Thomas Zunk – Theremin, Waterphone, hand drums, flute, Kraakdoos, electronics
March
1st, 9pm start, performing with and conducting BERIO (Berlin Improvisers Orchestra)
Rosenthaler Strasse 13, Berlin
6th, London Improvisers Orchestra perform free and conducted improvisations at Cafe Oto
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4
7th, Alison Blunt, Benedict Taylor (viola) and David Leahy (doublebass) perform at Boat Ting
@ Bar & Co, Temple Pier, Emabankment
opposite Temple tube (between Blackfriars and Waterloo Bridges)
£6 / £4 concs DOORS 8:00pm - START 8:30pm
15th, Solo set and set with The Wolf Gang (Sylvia Hallett, Sue Ferrar, Hannah Marshall et moi) performing at
International Women’s Day Festival Concert on board HMS President, Victoria Embankment, London
April
3rd, London Improvisers Orchestra perform at Cafe Oto
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4
facebook event here
9th and 10th, performing at Alpenglow International Festival of Improvisation in Graz, Austria
9th @3pm, Mariahilferkirche
Annette Giesriegl – voice
Veryan Weston - organ
Alison Blunt – violin
Franz Schmuck - percussion
9th @10pm, Stockwerk
Alison Blunt - violin
Heimo Puschnigg – piano
Manfred Stern – flute
10th @7pm, Theater im Bahnhof
with Anglo-Austrian festival ensemble for conducted and free improvisations
30th, 3pm, Freedom of the City Festival 2011 @Cecil Sharp House, London.
Performing with quartet Veryan Weston, Hannah Marshall, James Dunn and Alison Blunt
May
1st, Freedom of the City Festival 2011 @Cecil Sharp House, London
Performing and conducting with London Improvisers Orchestra and Phil Minton and the Feral Singers
20th, Performing at the Squids Club, The Albany, Deptford http://www.heartnsoul.co.uk/squidznext.html
22nd, Playing at Underscore event with David Leahy, Moving Arts Base
26th Duo set with Viv Corringham at Luna Fringe, Luna Lounge, Church Lane, Leytonstone
June
5th, Performing with the London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
£6/£4
21st, Demonic String Duo: Blunt & Taylor in Fete de la Musique @Wendel, Berlin
Wendel Fete de la Musique page
22nd @ 7-8pm, Performing with Magical Theatre at the Heimat Festival in Potsdam
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23rd Performing and conducting with Ber.I.O. (Berlin Improvisers Orchestra) at Altes Finanzamt, Berlin
BerIO at Altes Finanzamt 23.6.11.pdf
25th Performing with Meeting of Spirits at Avantgarde Festival, Schiphorst, Germany
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27th Performing with Anna Kaluza, Manuel Miethe, Niko Meinhold at Fincan, Berlin
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30th, Performing with BARCODE QUARTET (Annette Giesriegl, Elisabeth Harnik, Joseph Klammer et moi) at Stockwerk, Graz, Austria
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July 2011
1st, Performing and recording with BARCODE QUARTET (Elisabeth Harnik, Josef Klammer, Annette Giesriegl et moi) and guest Deno Kaufmann
at a house concert in Graz, Austria
By Invitation (and request)
3rd, Performing with the London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL £6/£4
5th, BARREL perform @The Others, 6-8 Manor Rd, Stoke Newington, N16 supporting Ntshuks and Dave Draper’s album launch, hurrah!
9th, Performing with Sharon Gal in The Long Drone @Raven Row Gallery
2pm-4pm (UK time, you can listen online!)
Sunday 31st July, 8.30 start @Servant Jazz Quarters, 10a Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
An amazing £4 entry for 2 great bands! flyer postcard.pdf
DAVE DRAPER (guitar, processing, live sampling & looping, synthesizer) and NTSHUKS BONGA (alto & soprano saxophones)
LODE: ALISON BLUNT (violin, voice, tenor horn and other sound-making materials) and DAVID LEAHY (double bass, live sampling & looping, trumpet, trombone, voice and other sound-making materials)
16th, Radio interview on Brighton and Hove Community Radio listen to the archived show here
September 2011
4th, 8.30pm Playing with the London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto, including conducting an improvised violin concerto with soloist Sue Ferrar
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL £6/£4
16th, HAMAN Quintet performs at the Lumen URC (nearest tubes Russell Square and Kings X, further details soon)
HAMAN Quintet: Anna Kaluza (sax), Manuel Miethe (sax), Niko Meinhold (piano and toy piano) and Alison Blunt (vln)
opposite Sixteen: Alison (vln), Noura Sanatian (vln), Benedict Taylor (vla) and David Leahy (dble bass)
18th, 8.30pm HAMAN Quintet performs at Mopomoso, The Vortex, Gillett Square, Dalston
HAMAN Quintet: Anna Kaluza (sax), Manuel Miethe (sax), Niko Meinhold (piano and toy piano), Horst Nonnemacher (dble bass) and Alison Blunt (vln)
Also playing: Sylvia Hallett (solo set) and Illi Adato/ Portia Winters/ Oren Marshall Trio
19th, 8.30pm AMAN Quartet performs at Servant Jazz Quarters, 10a Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
opposite Splatter: Anna Kaluza, alto sax, Noel Taylor, clarinet, Pedro Velasco, guitar and Tom Greenhalgh, drums
Sept 30th, Kay Grant and Alison @Scaledown
October
2nd, playing with the London Improvisers Orchestra @Cafe Oto, including conducting an improvised violin concerto with soloist Sue Ferrar
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL £6/£4
24th and 27th, performing songs and poems from Chinese and Asian cultures for family audiences in Lewisham libraries (free admission)
November 2011
1st, 7pm, Anna Piva and Edward George aka Flow Motion latest science and music investigation “Explorations in Eleven Dimensions” performance with
Mark Saunders, Chris Cullen, Graham Painting and myself
Science Museum’s Dana Centre
5th and 6th, 7.30pm, Anna Piva and Edward George aka Flow Motion latest science and music investigation “Explorations in Eleven Dimensions”
with Mark Saunders, Chris Cullen, Graham Painting and myself
The Octagon Room, Queen Mary University of London
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL £6/£4
19th Alison (violin and voice) and Rikki Jodelko (guitar and voice) on Cita Ciega, Aculco Radio (www.aculcoradio.com)
Bar/ doors open 7.30, music starts 8.30, tickets £5.00
6 and 8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington, London N16 5SA
26th, Playing with the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra (BerIO)...
...and conducting an improvised concerto for voice performed by Ute Wassermann
30th, Playing with Haman and guests Ricardo Tejero and Matthias Müller @ the lovely Cafe A&S, Neukölln, Berlin
December
Dec 2nd, with Restharrow (Elisabeth Harnik on piano, Pete Flood on drums/perc, David Leahy on doublebass et moi on fiddle)
19th, Pierrette Ensemble first concert of first performances
Julie Kjaer, Signe Bisgaard, Pernille Bevort, Lisbeth Diers, Hannah Marshall et moi
January 2012
13th, Barrel play @Club Integral
£5/£3, opens 8.30 ‘til late, @The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Rd SW9
very near Stockwell tube
15th, Alison, David Leahy and Tony Marsh play Mopomoso @The Vortex
Gillett Square, Dalston, £6/£4, 8.30 start
“Dead Can Dance”
25th, playing with Illi Adato and Moshi Honen @The New Year Gathering, Tottenham Chances, London
February
5th, London Improvisers Orchestra concert, residency @Cafe Oto, Dalston
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL £6/£4
6th, BARREL @Boat-Ting, on a boat, on the Thames : )
19th, concert of experimental scored and unscored music with David Ryan (clarinets), Joe Zeitlin (cello) and Ian Mitchell (clarinet)
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
24th, Lode premiere of “Staying Ashore.”A commissioned audio-visual performance (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London) of 1 hr long.
8pm start in the Great Hall in the Queen’s House, NMM, Greenwich. STAYING ASHORE Lode at the NMM 24.2.12.jpg flyer
Watch you tube promo movie
March
3rd, Music theatre performance with Elisabeth Harnik and Gina Mattiello celebrating International Women’s Day, Austria
further details soon...
5th, playing with Kay Grant (vocals) and Ian Smith (trumpet) @Boat-Ting, on a boat, on the Thames
7th, with Barcode Quartet in Klagenfurt, Austria
9th, performing with BARREL @Stockwerk Jazz Club Graz, Austria
10th, performing with BARREL at Artacts ‘12 St. Johann in Tirol, Austria
23rd Sage in Atelier Alain Hérard, Berlin
25th, Sage @ Great Heisenberg, Berlin
27th Berlin Improvisers Orchestra @ B-Flat, Berlin
29th Hanam concert and recording @Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Past Performance Diary