UnHeard: [IN]STILL

UNHEARD: [In]Still

Part of Chorlton Arts Festival

Also featuring LOOSE TIME, and BONJOUR CLAUDE!

Free entry, with suggested donation of £7

Full details:

https://www.edgetheatre.co.uk/unheard-instill-featuring-loose-time-and-bonjour-claude/

This will be a live concert featuring electric guitar, saxophone, clarinet and double bass, supported by live electronics.

Our four core UnHeard performers will bring to life the music of six Manchester-based composers, who will weave musical inspiration from the stillness, serenity, activity and atmosphere which they can find through Chorlton, their local areas, and their imaginations. The resulting ambience will [In]Still: a sense of place, and a sense of the spirit of that place, in the audience.

Performers: 

Johanna Leung (clarinet, saxophone) 

Poppy Philligreen (clarinet, saxophone) 

Billy Lancaster (electric guitar) 

Thomas Betts (double bass)

Composers:

Caroline Bordignon

Zakiya Leeming

Heléna Walsh

Kevin Wong

Tywi J H Roberts

Simon Knighton

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Loose Time: 

This is a quartet which explores the possibilities of using spoken word  in improvised music and features the poetry of Manchester-based Fiona  Brehony. Making up the quartet are three fantastic musicians, all well  known on the improvised music circuit, José Diaz, John Pope and Johnny  Hunter. Visual art also provided by Caitlin McIntyre and Fiona Brehony.

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Bonjour Claude!:  

https://chorltonartsfestival.org/user/amyjolly/ 

This is a world premiere performance of a piece for solo cello and  multimedia. The fruits of a long-term collaboration between Amy Jolly  (cellist) and Ellen Sargen (composer), ‘Maps For Claude’ explores  discomfort through performance. Over fifteen minutes, this piece weaves  live music with pre-recorded sounds from inside the cello’s body and  pre-recorded interviews that were captured over three years as the pair  explored ‘resistance’ in performance and technique. Capturing the  discomfort that emerged physically, psychologically and semantically  from this process, this resulting piece subverts ‘gaze’ and ‘beauty’ in  performance and considers positions of vulnerability behind the cello.

Bonjour Claude! formed in 2019 when Amy Jolly and Ellen Sargen  started working together as two composer-performers. Their work melds  live performance with mixed media, and performances are candid, intimate  and aim to provoke. Bonjour Claude! place themselves as the subject in  their works, scrutinising their performing bodies and relationships with  their instruments and the stage.