BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:176@whiteemotion.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T230000 DTSTAMP:20220512T163353Z URL:https://whiteemotion.com/events/unpredictable-series-at-cafe-oto/ SUMMARY:Unpredictable series at Cafe OTO\, June 1st DESCRIPTION:Unpredictable Series presents an evening with 3 sets\, June 1st 2022\n- Terry Day\, Blanca Regina\, Art Terry and visuals by Pierre Bouvi er Patron ( drums\, voice and electronics\, voice and piano)\n- Xenada - R osey Chan &\; Gregg Wilson ( piano\, guitar\, electronics and visuals ) \n- Steve Beresford and Wade Matthews ( piano\, electronics and laptop )\n \nTickets https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/unpredictable-series-june-2022/ \n\nTERRY DAY\nTerry Day is a first-generation pioneer improviser from the 1960s: an improviser\, multi-instrumentalist\, lyricist\, songwriter\, vi sual artist and poet.\nA self-taught musician in a family of musicians\, h e began improvising on the drums with his brother in 1955. In the early ‘60s he formed the Hardy Holman Day trio\, focusing on free improvisatio n. Later he became part of the band Kilburn &\; the Highroads\, with Ia n Dury. Sharing their interest in visual art and painting they both studie d at Walthamstow School of Art and later at the Royal College of Art\, Lon don. As an art student in the ‘60s he was also a pioneer of free improvi sation\, free jazz &\; experimental music.\nHe formed a duo with guitar ist Derek Bailey in the late ´60s and was a regular member of The Continu ous Music Ensemble\,The People Band and\, later on\, Alterations with Davi d Toop\, Steve Beresford &\; Peter Cusack.\nTerry has collaborated with many musical luminaries\, groups\, dancers\, painters\, poets and perform ed in theatre. He now plays bamboo reed flutes\, drums\, recorders\, ballo ons &\; improvises with his lyrics\, 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 orches tras in Malaga\, Tokyo and Madrid.\nhttp://www.terryday.co.uk/\n\nBLANCA R EGINA\nBlanca Regina is an interdisciplinary artist\, independent curator\ , and educator based in London currently involved in creating audio-visual performances\, sound works\, installations\, films\, and book arts.\nShe is co-founder of Unpredictable Series focused on spontaneous music and exp erimentation\, visual arts\, and archives. With Steve Beresford\, she has produced three albums\, mixed and mastered by Dave Hunt in London. ‘What Blue’ (2020) Duets with Beresford\; ‘Duets with Blanca Regina\, Spont aneous Music’ featuring duets with Leafcutter John\, Jack Goldstein\, Jo hn Butcher\, Benedict Taylor\, Matthias Kispert\, Aneek Thapar\, Steve Ber esford\, Sharon Gal\, and Hyelim Kim and ‘Art of Improvisers’ (2017) a collection album with several artists concentrating on women improvisers. With long-time collaborator and artist Leafcutter John capturing their li ve performances in 2017\, they created ‘Miga’ limited-edition pen driv e and digital release. Other collaborations include performances and proje cts with Matthias Kispert\, David Toop\, Matt Black (Coldcut)\, Art Terry\ , and Peter Cusack.\nShe is currently working on Terry Day's archives and finishing a documentary film about him.\nwww.blancaregina.art\n\nPIERRE BO UVIER PATRON\nPierre Bouvier Patron is a filmmaker and visual artist based in London. He is currently working with different media\, such as digital video and film\, exploring the boundaries between them and creating movin g image works\, performances and installations. He has developed various p ractices and skills in experimental and expanded cinema\, documentary film s\, music videos\, etc.\nHe is involved in video screenings and video perf ormances\, solo or in collaboration\, with musicians such as Syd Kemp\, St eve Beresford\, Neil Charles and artist Blanca Regina\, among others. His work has been shown in France\, Spain\, the United Kingdom\, Mexico\, Germ any\, etc.\nHe is currently developing a light installation and a number o f light-based videos. Some of his latest works include Unpredictable: Conv ersations with Improvisers\, a series of 12 videos about improvisers in th e UK\, and music videos for Ben Marc. His work also includes extensive par ticipation with collectives such as Unpredictable Series\, Strange Umbrell as\, and several festivals such as Sonic Waterloo\, Art of Improvisers\, a nd Alterations Festivals.\nhttps://www.studiopierre.art/\n\nART TERRY\nArt Terry is a conceptual Black artist from Los Angeles. His primary practice is as a composer/musician. His songs explore Black politics\, sexuality a nd religion\, through a lyrical fusion [gumbo] of African American folklor e and avant garde orchestrated funk. A singer and pianist\, Art underpins deeply personal lyrics with dense melodic textures to create conceptual Bl ack music.\nBrought up in the gospel tradition\, Art evokes the sacred fig ure of the robed and commanding preacher alongside the profane swagger and bravado of the street-hustling savant in his live performances. Whether p laying solo or with his ensemble of talented musicians\, The Black Bohemia ns\, Art’s live performances are theatrical and compelling.\nArt collabo rates with Stew\, who created the musical Passing Strange\, exploring his and Art’s youthful experiences on the seamy streets of downtown Los Ange les and in Europe\, living in squats and art collectives and surviving on a diet of shoplifted food\, hashish and freaky music. Passing Strange was made into a film by Spike Lee. Art has been a keyboardist with Stew &\; the Negro Problem at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC\, Redcat in Los Angeles\, the Harlem Stage and many other venues. The New York Times descr ibed Art’s playing as ‘terrific’.\nhttps://www.artterry.co.uk/\n\nXE NADA is a collaboration between pianist/ composer Rosey Chan and filmmaker / electronic musician Gregg Wilson. Weaving together classical instrument ation with lush ambient sound design\, their immersive soundscapes transpo rt you to epic cinematic otherworlds.\nThe Classical-Electronic Duo will p remiere a new Sound Installation at Apple Music\, Milan\, in collaboration with Piano City Milano and to celebrate World Meditation Day (21 May)\nht tp://platoon.lnk.to/XENADA\n\nROSEY CHAN\nRosey Chan is a multimedia artis t\, pianist and composer who’s solo concerts often incorporate cinematic visuals and cutting edge audio technologies.\nHer music is an amalgamatio n of her own compositions\, musical improvisations and selected classical repertoire along with electronic and genre-bending sonic influences.\nShe has collaborated with architects\, designers and fashion brands to create products\, performances and sonic installations.\nEarlier this year\, she launched Sonic Apothecary (a space for well-being) which develops Audio an d Multimedia concepts for live events.\nEarly on in her own self-isolation experience\, Rosey began Mindful Piano Music\, a playlist\, including new piano compositions\, designed to audibly stimulate creativity\, work and study while confined in the home or studio. Initially created for family a nd friends\, the playlist is now available to the public.\nwww.roseychan.c om\n\nGREGG WILSON\nGregg Wilson is an electronic musician\, composer\, an d film producer. He first met Rosey when they were Juniors at the Royal Ac ademy of Music where he studied Classical Guitar. He went on to study phys ics and music composition at Stanford before embarking on a career in the film industry. He worked as a composer’s assistant and independent sound designer for films and videogames before focusing on producing. Most rece ntly\, he was Associate Producer on the James Bond film No Time to Die. As an electronic musician he is most known for his video performances on lar ge and elaborate modular synths in his studio. Recently he has been creati ng AI-assisted art and interactive visuals for live performances.\nModular Synth performances: https://vimeo.com/user12209688\nFilm Credits: https ://www.imdb.com/name/nm1921196/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\n\nSTEVE BERESFORD\nSteve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spont aneous music scenes for over forty years\, freely improvising on the piano \, electronics and other things with people like Derek Bailey\, Evan Parke r\, Han Bennink\, John Zorn and Alterations (with David Toop\, Terry Day a nd Peter Cusack).\nHe has written songs\, written for large and small ense mbles\, and scored short films\, feature films\, TV shows and commercials. He was part of the editorial teams of Musics and Collusion magazines\, wr ites about music in various contexts and was a senior lecturer in music at the University of Westminster. With Blanca Regina\, he is part of Unpredi ctable Series\, which produces events and sound and video recordings of ex perimental music and art.\nSteve has worked with Christian Marclay on nume rous Marclay mixed media pieces. He has also worked with The Slits\, Najma Akhtar\, Stewart Lee\, Ivor Cutler\, Prince Far-I\, Alan Hacker\, Tania C hen\, Ray Davies\, Mandhira De Saram\, The Flying Lizards\, Zeena Parkins\ , The Portsmouth Sinfonia\, Ilan Volkov\, Rachel Musson\, Vic Reeves\, Lor e Lixenberg and many others.\nBeresford has an extensive discography as pe rformer\, arranger\, free-improviser\, composer and producer\, and was awa rded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012.\nIn 2021\, Bloomsbury publ ished a book by Andy Hamilton: ‘Pianos\, Toys\, Music and Noise: Convers ations with Steve Beresford’.\nIn 2022\, Siglio published the book ‘Ca ll and Response’\, which partnered photographs by Christian Marclay with notated improvisations by Beresford.\n\nWADE MATTHEWS\nSpanish and U.S. m usician and sound artist Wade Matthews was born in France to U.S. parents\ , He moved from New York to Madrid thirty years ago after completing a doc torate in composition at Columbia University\, where he wrote his thesis o n electro-acoustic improvisation at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Musi c Center\,\nSince then\, Matthews dedicates his available time to musical creation\, including free improvisation and sound portraits as well as wri ting.\nHe travels constantly\, reads everything he can and collaborates wi th other musicians\, dancers\, visual artists and sonic explorers. Matthew s has presented his work in festivals and concert series in twenty countri es\, recorded for national radios such as the BBC\, France Culture\, RTVE\ , Sodre\, and various international record labels.\nBesides his concerts\, Matthews is interested in sharing ideas about music and his activity as a lecturer and visiting professor has taken him to the Paris Conservatory\, the University of California\, San Diego\; the California Art Institute\, Columbia University\, the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla\, Mexico\ ; the American University of Beirut\, Limerick University in Ireland\, and many\, many other institutions\, as well as artists’ collectives and ot her less-official organizations. He has published essays in numerous magaz ines specialized in aesthetics and music\, as well as Improvisando. La lib re creación musical\, the leading Spanish-language book on free improvisa tion.\nhttp://wadematthews.info/\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://whiteemotion.com/web/wp-content/uploads/ 2022/05/june1st.jpeg CATEGORIES:Concert,curating,performance,Videoart END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR