BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:173@whiteemotion.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220316T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220316T230000 DTSTAMP:20220306T125212Z URL:https://whiteemotion.com/events/pianos-toys-music-and-noise-book-prese ntation-and-performances-evening/ SUMMARY:PIANOS\, TOYS\, MUSIC\, AND NOISE – BOOK PRESENTATION AND PERFORM ANCES EVENING DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nPIANOS\, TOYS\, MUSIC\, AND NOISE – BOOK PRESENTATI ON AND PERFORMANCES EVENING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n£14 £12 ADVANCE £7 MEM BERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAround a year ago\, Bloomsbury published ‘Pian os\, Toys\, Music and Noise’ by Andy Hamilton. Based on a series of conv ersations with Steve Beresford\, it also included notes putting the chats in context and contributions from many of Steve’s collaborators. There w as also a section of very good photographs. The cover photo and title (use d for the three days at Café Oto on Steve’s 70th birthday) were supplie d by Unpredictable’s Blanca Regina.\n\nAs Bloomsbury classified the book as academic\, its price was quite high. But now there’s a paperback ed ition at a much lower price.\n\nNow\, Unpredictable presents Pianos\, Toy s\, Music\, and Noise: an evening that includes a 30-minute conversation w ith Steve Beresford and author Andy Hamilton and performances by Steve Ber esford\, Angharad Davis\, Pat Thomas\, Terry Day\, Blanca Regina\, and vis uals by Pierre Bouvier Patron.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTEV E BERESFORD\nSteve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over forty years\, freely impro vising on the piano\, electronics\, and other things with people like Dere k Bailey\, Evan Parker\, Han Bennink\, John Zorn\, and Alterations (with D avid Toop\, Terry Day and Peter Cusack).\n\nHe has written songs\, written for large and small ensembles\, and scored short films\, feature films\, TV shows\, and commercials. He was part of the editorial teams of Musics a nd Collusion magazines\, writes about music in various contexts\, and was a senior lecturer in music at the University of Westminster. With Blanca R egina\, he is part of Unpredictable Series\, which produces events and sou nd and video recordings of experimental music and art.\n\nSteve has worked with Christian Marclay on numerous Marclay mixed media pieces. He has als o worked with The Slits\, Najma Akhtar\, Stewart Lee\, Ivor Cutler\, Princ e Far-I\, Alan Hacker\, Tania Chen\, Ray Davies\, Mandhira De Saram\, The Flying Lizards\, Zeena Parkins\, The Portsmouth Sinfonia\, Ilan Volkov\, R achel Musson\, Vic Reeves\, Lore Lixenberg and many others.\n\nBeresford h as an extensive discography as performer\, arranger\, free-improviser\, co mposer and producer\, and was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012. In 2021\, Bloomsbury published a book by Andy Hamilton: ‘Pianos\, Toys\, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford’.\n\nhttp:// www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mberes.html\n\nANGHARAD DAVIES\nAngharad Davies i s a Welsh violinist based in London working with free-improvisation\, comp ositions and performance.\n\nHer approach to sound involves attentive list ening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument\, her clas sical training and performance expectation.\n\nMuch of her work involves c ollaboration. She has long standing duos with Tisha Mukarji\, Dominic Lash and Lina Lapelyte and plays with Common Objects\, Cranc and Skogen. She h as been involved in projects with Tarek Atui\, Tony Conrad\, Richard Dawso n\, Gwenno\, Roberta Jean\, Jack McNamara\, Rie Nakajima\, Tim Parkinson\, Eliane Radigue\, Georgia Ruth and J.G.Thirlwell.\n\nMost of her records a re released on Another Timbre but she also has releases on Absinth Records \, Confrontrecords\, Emanem\, Potlatch and winds measure recordings.Her fi rst orchestral piece was commissioned by LCMF in 2019.\n\n\n\nPAT THOMAS\n Pat Thomas studied classical piano from aged 8 and started playing Jazz fr om the age of 16. He has since gone on to develop an utterly unique style - embracing improvisation\, jazz and new music. He has played with Derek B ailey in Company Week (1990/91) and in the trio AND (with Noble) – with Tony Oxley’s Quartet and Celebration Orchestra and in Duo with Lol Coxhi ll.\n\n"Sartorially shabby as Thomas may be\, and on first impression even rather stolid\, he has a somewhat imperious charisma that’s immediately amplified when he starts to play. Unlike other pianists whose virtuosity seems to be racing ahead of their thought processes Thomas always seems su premely in command of his gift\, and his playing\, no matter how free and ready to tangle with abstraction\, always carries a charge of authoritativ e exactitude." - The Jazzmann\n\n\n\n\n\nTERRY DAY\nTerry Day is a first generation pioneer improviser from the 1960s: an improviser\, multi-instru mentalist\, lyricist\, songwriter\, visual artist and poet.\n\nA self-taug ht musician in a family of musicians\, he began improvising on the drums w ith his brother in 1955. In the early ‘60s he formed the Hardy Holman Da y trio\, focusing on free improvisation. Later he became part of the band Kilburn &\; the Highroads\, with Ian Dury. Sharing their interest in vi sual art and painting they both studied at Walthamstow School of Art and l ater at the Royal College of Art\, London. As an art student in the ‘60s he was also a pioneer of free improvisation\, free jazz &\; experiment al music.\n\nHe formed a duo with guitarist Derek Bailey in the late ´60s and was a regular member of The Continuous Music Ensemble\,The People Ban d and\, later on\, Alterations with David Toop\, Steve Beresford &\; Pe ter Cusack.\n\nTerry has collaborated with many musical luminaries\, group s\, dancers\, painters\, poets and performed in theatre. He now plays bamb oo reed flutes\, drums\, recorders\, balloons &\; improvises with his l yrics\, prose and verse. Since 2000 he has been part of London Improvisers Orchestra. In recent years he has toured twice in both Japan and Brazil\, and has performed with improvising orchestras in Malaga\, Tokyo and Madri d.\n\nhttp://www.terryday.co.uk/\n\n\n\n\n\nBLANCA REGINA\nBlanca Regina i s an interdisciplinary artist\, independent curator\, and educator based i n London currently involved in creating audio-visual performances\, sound works\, installations\, films\, and book arts.\n\nShe is co-founder of Unp redictable Series focused on spontaneous music and experimentation\, visua l arts\, and archives. With Steve Beresford\, she has produced three album s\, mixed and mastered by Dave Hunt in London. ‘What Blue’ (2020) Duet s with Beresford\; ‘Duets with Blanca Regina\, Spontaneous Music’ feat uring duets with Leafcutter John\, Jack Goldstein\, John Butcher\, Benedic t Taylor\, Matthias Kispert\, Aneek Thapar\, Steve Beresford\, Sharon Gal\ , and Hyelim Kim and ‘Art of Improvisers’ (2017) a collection album wi th several artists concentrating on women improvisers. With long-time coll aborator and artist Leafcutter John capturing their live performances in 2 017\, they created ‘Miga’ limited-edition pen drive and digital releas e. Other collaborations include performances and projects with Matthias Ki spert\, David Toop\, Matt Black (Coldcut)\, Art Terry\, and Peter Cusack.\ n\nShe is currently working on Terry Day's archives and finishing a docume ntary film about him.\n\nwww.blancaregina.com\nTravelling / Untravelling\n \n\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:Event LOCATION:Cafe Oto\, 22 Ashwin Street\, Dalson\, London\, e8 3DL\, United Ki ngdom GEO:51.546843;-0.07488979999993717 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=22 Ashwin Street\, Dalson\, London\, e8 3DL\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Cafe Oto:geo: 51.546843,-0.07488979999993717 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211031T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR