Freedom of the City

Sunday 2 May 2010 : 2pm

Peter Evans
"a solo cavalcade of furious blowing, madcap bebopping and careful breathing"

Okkyung Lee/Paul Lytton
"super fluid and organic yet driven with inner pulses"

Tania Chen/Lol Coxhill/Dominic Lash
"still think surprise sounds"

London Improvisers Orchestra
"intensity, excitement, and invention"

Sunday 2 May 2010 : 7pm

Quaqua (Chris Burn/Satoko Fukuda/Matthew Hutchinson/Stefan Keune/Henry Lowther/John Russell/Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg)
"pulling together of previously divergent musical partners"

Louis Moholo-Moholo/Steve Noble/Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
"capable of great swing and power, but also has a uniquely sensitive micro-temporal side"

SUM (Ross Lambert/Eddie Prévost/Seymour Wright)
"nuances of texture and transforming hybrids of instrumental timbre"

Peter Evans/Okkyung Lee/Evan Parker
"revealing new sonic possibilities and future directions"

Monday 3 May 2010 : 2pm

John Butcher/Mark Sanders
"sound beyond description"

Jennifer Allum/Grundik Kasyansky/David O'Connor/Eddie Prévost
"investigations of violin, electricity, saxophone and percussion"

Adam Bohman/FURT (Richard Barrett/Paul Obermayer)/Ute Wassermann
"the acoustic/electronic boundary may be crossed in both directions"

Jean-Luc Guionnet/Ross Lambert/Philip Somervell
"a strong connection with jazz and an intimate knowledge of philosophy"

Monday 3 May 2010 : 7pm

Stellari String Quartet (John Edwards/Charlotte Hug/Marcio Mattos/Philipp Wachsmann)
"overlap both in time and in frequency, creating a whole greater than any of its parts"

Paul Abbott/Frédéric Blondy/Ute Kanngiesser
"sonic practice rooted in improvisation and very different approaches to physicality"

Pascal Battus/Jamie Coleman/Sebastian Lexer
"friction, calculation, vibration, tension, transmission and pressure into and onto invention"

John Coxon/Paul Lytton/Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith/Pat Thomas/Alex Ward
"should prove interesting . . ."

Conway Hall
Red Lion Square
London WC1R 4RL (map)

Tickets
Festival pass: £35 (£30adv)
Day pass: £20 (£17adv)
Single concert: £12 (£10adv)

Freedom of the City is curated by Trevor Brent, John Coxon, Evan Parker and Eddie Prévost.

Freedom of the City gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the PRS for Music Foundation.

Freedom of the City is only made possible by the co-operation and solidarity of all the musicians involved, past and present.

Bar by Cafe Oto.

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