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 . . ."