BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:62@whiteemotion.com DTSTART:20160613T170000Z DTEND:20160619T233000Z DTSTAMP:20160512T120615Z URL:https://whiteemotion.com/events/alterations-festival/ SUMMARY:Alterations Festival DESCRIPTION:ALTERATIONS FESTIVAL (London 13th to 19th of June\, 2016) prese nts activities around the subject of the group\nAlterations and explores t he related fields of Sound Art and Free Improvisation.\nAlterations - Davi d Toop\, Peter Cusack\, Terry Day and Steve Beresford - is a quartet of ke y thinkers and pioneers in music and visual arts.\nThey played many conce rts in the years 1977 to 1986 and came back together last year for one ve ry successful concert. In the festival they will come together to collabor ate in new contexts.\nSupported by Arts Council England and Sound and Musi c and curated by Blanca Regina and Beresford\, the project engages artist s and audiences in new ways of making and understanding music and art.\nht tps://vimeo.com/163858870\n\nA BRIEF HISTORY OF ALTERATIONS\nThe group exi sted from 1977 to 1986 and played often in festivals and clubs throughout the UK and Europe.\nThe great discovery of Alterations was that musical st yles and idioms are there to be played with.\n                                                                                             (Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen)\nThey mad e three LPs in that time:\nAlterations on Bead in 1978\nUp Your Sleeve on !Quartz in 1980\nMy Favourite Animals on nato (France) in 1984\nTheir work presented new ways of making and understanding music and art.\nIn additio n there were CDs of various live performances - in 2000\, Intuitive Record s in Denmark issued Alterations\nLive and in 2002 Atavistic in the US publ ished Voila Enough!\nIn 2015\, Alterations was put back together for Londo n performances at Cafe Oto (with Max Eastley) and Iklectik.\nThese events were very succesfull and attracted new audiences.\nAlterations Festival is unique opportunity to further enjoy this infuential and highly experience d group.\n                                                                                                                       Photo: Fabio Lugaro\nMEMBERS OF ALTERATIONS\nDAVID TOOP b. 1949 London\nDavid is a musician\, author\, pro fessor and Chair of Audio Culture and Improvisation at\nLondon College of Communication. He has published five books including Ocean\nof Sound\, Rap Attack and Sinister Resonance. His first album\, ‘New and Rediscovered\ nMusical Instruments’\, was released on Brian Eno’s Obscure label in 1 975 and he has\ncollaborated with artists ranging from John Latham\, Bob C obbing\, Carlyle Reedy and Ivor Cutler to Rie Nakajima\, Evan Parker\, Max Eastley and Akio Suzuki. He has recently completed part one of Into the M aelstrom: Music\, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom\, a two-volume wo rk on free improvisation. Exhibitions and events he has curated include M usic/Context Festival of Environmental Music for the LMC (1978)\, Sonic B oom for the Hayward Gallery (2000)\, sound curation for Radical Fashion at the V&\;A (2000-2001)\, Playing John Cage at the Arnolfini (2005) and Blow Up at Flat Time House (2010).\nhttp://davidtoopblog.com/\n \nPETER CUSACK b. 1948 London\nPeter is a field recordist\, musician and sound ar tist with a long interest in the sound\nenvironment. He is currently based in Berlin. He initiated the ‘Favourite Sounds Project’ to discover w hat people find positive about their everyday sound environment and ‘Sou nds From Dangerous Places’ (sonic journalism) that investigates sites of major environmental damage such as the Caspian Sea oil fields and the C hernobyl exclusion zone. He produced ‘Vermilion Sounds’ - the environ mental sound program - for ResonanceFM Radio and is a research fellow at the London College of Communication. As DAAD artist-in-residence in Berlin 2011/12\, he intiated ‘Berlin Sonic Places’\, examining relationship s between soundscapes and urban development. Musical collaborators includ e Kahondo Style\, Clive Bell\, Nic Collins and Viv Corringham.\nhttp://fa vouritesounds.org\nhttp://sounds-from-dangerous-places.org/\nSTEVE BERESFO RD b. Wellington 1950\nSteve has been a central figure in the British impr ovising scene for over thirty years\, working with the likes of Derek Bail ey\, Evan Parker\, Han Bennink\, Christian Marclay and\, of course\, Alter ations. His work with Marclay has included mixed media pieces like ‘Scre en Play’\, ‘Ephemera’\, ‘Graffiti Composition’\, ‘Shuffle’\, ‘Pianorama’ and ‘Everyday’. He has also written songs\, scored fe ature films\, TV shows and commercials. Steve has worked with hundreds of people\, including The Slits\, Stewart Lee\, Ivor Cutler\, Prince Far-I\, Alan Hacker\, Ray Davies\, Ilan Volkov\, The Flying Lizards\, Otomo Yoshih ide\, The Portsmouth Sinfonia and John Zorn. He has an extensive discograp hy as performer\, arranger\, composer and producer\, and was was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012.\nhttp://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk /mberes.html\nTERRY DAY b. 1940 London\nTerry is an improviser\, multi-ins trumentalist\, lyricist\, song writer\, visual artist and poet. He is a ‘first generation’ pioneer improviser from the 1960s. A self-taught mu sician in a family of musicians\, he began improvising on the drums with h is brother in 1955. In the early 1960s he formed the Hardy Holman Day trio focusing on free improvisation. Later he became part of Kilburn &\; th e Highroads\, a band led by Ian Dury. Sharing their interest in visual art and painting\, Terry and Ian both studied at Walthamstow School of Art an d later at the Royal College of Art\, London. As an art student in the 196 0s he was a pioneer of improvisation\, free jazz &\; experimental music . Day also formed a duo with Derek Bailey in the late 1960s and was a reg ular member of The Continuous Music Ensemble\, later known as The People Band. Since then he has collaborated with many musical luminaries\, group s\, dancers\, painters\, poets and performed in theatre\, events\, and roc k &\; roll.\nhttp://www.terryday.co.uk/\n\nALTERATIONS AND OTHER BANDS\ nALTERATIONS members have been incredibly prolific in groups like General Strike\, The Promenaders\, The Flying Lizards\, Frank Chickens\, People B and\, Foxes Fox\, The Melody Four\, The 49 Americans\, and London Improvis ers Orchestra… They have also played with countless sound pioneers inclu ding Evan Parker\, Lol Coxhill\, Derek Bailey\, John Zorn\, Max Eastley\, Hugh Davies\, Dave Douglas\, Han Bennink\, and Christian Marclay.\nALTERAT IONS ON INSTRUMENTATION\nALTERATIONS were never shy about instrumentation: alto saxophone\, animal horn\, balloons\, bass guitar\, bird decoys\, bicy cle bell\, cello\, Chinese reeds\, crackle box\, cymbals\,\ndrums\, electr ic guitar\, electronic bird\, euphonium\, feedback\, fiddle\, flute\, foot clickers\, grand piano\, harmonica\, laughter\, laptop\, lo-grade electro nics\, mandolin\, maracas\, melodica\, nylon\, string guitar\, percussion\ , piano\, pipes\, prepared nylon string guitar\, ratchet\, reeds\, scrapi ng\, siren\, snap-its\, speech\, squeakers\, swizzle stick\, toothbrush\, toys\, trumpet\, upright piano\, violin\, wah wah guitar\, water flute\, w hirled reeds\, and whistles are just some of the improvising devices emplo yed by the quartet.\nFESTIVAL FULL SCHEDULE \nMonday 13th June\n‘Alter ations and Free improvisation’. Talk and short performance by Toop\, Day \, Cusack and Beresford.\nVenue: Portland Hall\, University of Westminster . Time: 6 to 8 pm. Free entry.\nPORTLAND HALL\n4-12 Little Titchfield Stre et.\nLondon W1W 7BY Overground:Oxford Circus\nBooking is essential.\nWedne sday 15th June\nOpening of the Alterations Series at OTO Projects. Time: f rom 6 to 8pm. Free entry.\nOTO Projects Space\n1-7 Ashwin Street London E8 3DL\nOverground: Dalston Kinsgland or Dalston Junction\nThursday 16th Jun e\nOTO Projects\, opening times 1 to 7 pm. Free entry\,\nFilm: ‘Unpredic table: The Art of Terry Day‘- 4 to 5 pm. Free entry.\nBooking is essent ial.\nFriday 17th June\nOTO Projects\, opening times 1 to 7 pm. Free entry \nWorkshop at OTO Projects ‘Making bamboo flutes’ with Terry Day - 5.3 0 to 7.00 pm. Ticketed (£10 per participant)\nBooking is essential.\nLim ited to 10 participants.\nSaturday 18th June\nOTO Projects\, opening times 1 to 7 pm. Free entry\nWorkshop at OTO Projects ‘Field recording’ wit h Peter Cusack. Ticketed- 1 to 5 pm\, (£10 per participant) Limited to 10 participants.\nBooking is essential.\nSupported by Crisap\, UAL.\nConcer ts at Cafe Oto - Doors open 8 - Concerts start 8.30 to 11 pm\nTicketed (£ 10 at the door\, £8 advanced\, £6 members)\nAlterations (Toop\, Day\, Be resford and Cusack)\, Elaine Mitchener\, Satoko Fukuda\, Max Eastley\, Joh n Butcher\, Lee Patterson and Blanca Regina.\nCAFE OTO\n18-22 Ashwin Stre et\, London E8 3DL\nOverground: Dalston Kinsgland or Dalston Junction\nSun day 19th June\nOTO Projects\, opening times 1 to 7 pm\nPresentation of the reprint of Musics magazine published by Ecstatic Peace Library - 3 to 5 p m. Free event\nConcerts at Cafe Oto - Doors open 8 pm - Concerts start 8.3 0 to 11 pm\nTicketed (£10 at the door\, £8 advanced\, £6 members)\nAlte rations\, Rie Nakajima\, Evan Parker\, Thurston Moore\, Rhodri Davies\, Ha nnah Marshall. Gina Southgate and Blanca Regina.\nºººººººººººº ººººººººººººººººººººººººº\nFor any queries and re gistration at the workshops please mail to:\nunpredictable@whiteemotion.co m\nSupported by\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:Art,Concert LOCATION:Cafe Oto Project Space\, 1-7 Ashwin Street\, London\, E8 3DL\, Uni ted Kingdom GEO:51.54682640000001;-0.07461269999998876 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1-7 Ashwin Street\, London\ , E8 3DL\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Cafe Oto Project Spac e:geo:51.54682640000001,-0.07461269999998876 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR