Alan Tomlinson Trio
Alan Tomlinson trombone
Dave Tucker guitar and laptop
Phillip Marks drums

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Mick Beck t/sax and bassoon

An unstoppable trio meets Mick Beck's own energetic and humorous approach to improvising. Alan Tomlinson is one of the world's great trombonists. His mixtureof astounding virtuosity, unstoppable energy and sense of humour makehim one of the great sights and sounds of improvised music. Activesince the early seventies, he has played with Tony Oxley's AngularApron, Barry Guy's London Jazz Composers Orchestra and the BalletRambert Orchestra.Dave Tucker started performing in the Punk movement of the late 70'sin Manchester. In the early 80's he was a member of "The Fall"touring as well as recording "Slates".Phillip Marks has been playing and organizing in Manchester since themid eighties and is a founder member of the band Bark! and long-timecollaborator with pianist Stephen Grew, most recently in a trio withEvan Parker.Mick Beck continues his longterm project of bassoon bullying as well as making love to the saxophone.The interactions should be interesting.

WEDNESDAY 7th OCTOBER, 8pm
Over The Top,
78 Kingfield Road, Nether Edge,
Sheffield S11 9AU
£5/3.00

ROB BROWN : alto sax
DANIEL LEVIN : cello

From New York City and in this country to perform at On The Outside Festival of Improvised Music in Gateshead. As well as leading their own groups they have worked with such figures as William Parker, Mathew Shipp, Joe Morris and Matt Maneri.The late Richard Cook said, " Not since David Darling and Hank Roberts has there been a more exciting jazz prospect on the cello," and of Rob Brown, "Combines a freedom and radicallism of purpose with a more melodic and expressive idiom."

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MICK BECK (tenor sax, bassoon, whistles) & CHARLIE COLLINS (drumset).

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A quartet set!

WEDNESDAY 14th OCTOBER, 8pm
The Red Deer, Pitt Street, S1
£3.00

PAT THOMAS
&
JOHN JASNOCH

A welcome return for jazz/improv giant Thomas, who should need no introduction - his recent collaborations include a tour with Roy Campbell, playing Ornette Coleman’s Meltdown and appearing on Leo Smith’s latest release.

For this visit his melodica and stylophone will be joined by Jasnoch’s ud and ukelele, as they play Notes and Sounds on the Sheffield leg of their Jazz Services supported tour.

A fascinating and unique sound-world is to be expected.

www.myspace.com/johnjasnoch

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DEREK SAW
CHARLIE COLLINS
DUO

What can be said about this classic combination? Having played together now for more years than either would care to remember their trumpet and drums duet just gets better and better.

“Their duo improvisations have the intuitive cohesion of players who have worked together a lot. Not to say that they rely on established formulas: on the contrary, their playing if anything becomes more unpredictable”

The Improvisor www.myspace.com/charlievibe

THURSDAY 12th NOVEMBER, 8.30 for 8.45 start

Bar Abbey, The Abbeydale Picture
House, 383 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield S7 1FS
£6/5.00

DUOLOGY + 2

Jazz legends Ted Daniel and Michael Marcus, regular collaborators with a virtual who's who on the New York scene, including Sonny Simmons, Billy Bang, Jameel Moondoc, Henry Threadgill, Jaki Byard and Andrew Cyrille, bring their Duology project to Sheffield.Duology will be touring the United Kingdom performing in five cities, culminating at the London Jazz Festival. For this tour, Duology is very pleased to be joined by two of England’s very special and seasoned music veterans, Charlie Collins on percussion and John Jasnoch on guitar. This promises to be an exciting and musically rewarding collaboration.

TED DANIEL : trumpet & assorted brass
MICHAEL MARCUS : Bb Clarinet
CHARLIE COLLINS ; drums
JOHN JASNOCH : guitar, oud

The concept of performing as a duet with trumpet and clarinet is exceptionally challenging and rare. Duology was not an impulsive idea, but one that developed naturally through Marcus’ and Daniel’s friendship and mutual musical aspirations. Since the beginning of Jazz, the presence of clarinet and trumpet have been in the frontline and an integral part of the music. Duology is continuing that tradition.

Thursday 3 July:
Notes and Sounds present at 78 Kingfield Road, Sheffield S11 9AU:
Philip Thomas (piano),
John Jasnoch (strings),
Mick Beck (t/sax, bassoon);
Plus Neil Carver solo (machines and out of the cupboard assistants). 8PM, £5 waged, £3 concessions.

Philip Thomas is one of the nation's leading modernist pianists, majoring on pieces written by challenging off-beam composers from UK, North America, and beyond. This calls for great strength and breadth of vision in improvising, so not surprising to find him linking with two of Sheffield's most experienced free players in Beck and Jasnoch. Meanwhile, Carver's anti-tempered keyboard approach to music will provide an ideal foil.

After appearing separately on the same recent Singing Knives bill both of these unique professionals were impressed by each other's work and agreed to this heads off which is set to be historic. Barely needing any introductions... If you haven't yet had the privilege of encountering Mick Beck's technically blinding, highly colourful yet blazing anarchy on tenor, rest assured he gives that distinct but rare impression he could have been born wearing it.. - worked with Derek Bailey, Simon Fell, Phil Marks and hundreds more. Chris Corsano (Flaherty, Thurston Moore, Joe McPhee Sunburned etc. etc.), possibly the most energetic free-percussionist in the West, is also becoming a bit of a household name currently as Bjork's chosen drummer, constantly excelling himself live with a growing number of collaborators, burning up the kit with hair-raising polyrhythms and highly original experimentation. Promised to be a mesmeric and spine tingling, highly memorable show.

A couple of the obligatory Wire Quotes:
'Beck plays tenor with conviction that can border on lawlessness.'
'Corsano is arguably the most riotously energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz.'

Black Serama vs. Ward Fernadez / Collins Duo.
Backing up with another first-time ever collaboration - Sheffield's Black Serama (eccentric sibling runaways Jonny & Bel Drury in Acid / Tolkienesque guitar-vox journeying) battle for sensible interpretation of nether-worlds (and Nether Edge) with long established improv artisans Charlie Collins (free percussion) and Ward-Fernandez (electric violin and theremin). Wow..!

NOTE: Very limited tickets http://www.wegottickets.com/event/32318
Beck's own private Sheffield venue 'Over the Top' holds just 40 people, making this concert an even more intense yet intimate experience. BRING YOUR OWN REFRESHMENTS.

SWIFT ARE THE WINDS OF LIFE

This Leeds/Sheffield trio's first Notes & Sounds of 2008 following their show stopping recent gigs for Singing Knives and Freenoise. As Singing Knives Records so succinctly put it " the most mesmerising intuitive playing on strings and percussion we've heard in a long time." Which we think just about sums up their righteous free improv.

Yvonna Magda : violin
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez : violin
Charlie Collins : waterphone, percussion

www.myspace.com/beatrixwardfernandez
www.myspace.com/charlievibe

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MICK BECK / STEVE CHASE

Sheffield legend Beck (bassoon, tenor sax & whistles), in duet with composer/improvisor Chase (guitar, melodica, etc.). This duo's first appearance at The Red Deer following their sterling work with Gated Community and a startling performance supporting Grew/Marks earlier in the year.

FREENOISE
Fri 20th June, 8 - 12pm.
The Abbeydale, Sheffield, S7 1FS. £4

Knalpot

"Nu-generator tractor music...lo-fi stumblin' groove alarm!'

KNALPOT hail from the fertile music pastures of Amsterdam. Without a doubt it is a refreshing and original experience. One minute there may be low and dirty fuzz-rock riffs, the next stumbling grooves that stutter like a rusty old engine. After that, the music might morph into hazy clouds of chirps and swirls, a moment of tranquility right before sonic noise improv comes crashing down around your ears. Soon after, there might be some low frequency rumbles to fill your stomach. Their self-proclaimed rascal style has a modernizing combo sound that is reminiscent of 1980's Commodore 64 computer game aesthetics.“ (Klaus Grinsky).
You can quickly tell they are reputable musicians experienced in many musical genres. On drums - the energetic and extroverted Gerri Jäger, known from extensively touring avant-funk band Brown vs Brown. Jäger is the motor of this tractor and is responsible for all the potholes during KNALPOT’s ongoing off-road trips. On guitar/casio/electronics Raphael Vanoli, a multi-style guitarist operating in the fields of jazz, rock, improv, experimental and contemporary classical music. Vanoli uses a unique setup of FX boxes, loop machines, handyman tools and whatever else may fall into his hands. Even though there’s only two people on stage you don’t miss any other instrument or a singer and despite all the technological trickery, every KNALPOT tune is performed 100% live without backing tracks. www.myspace.com/knalpot

John Hackett

World-renowned flautist (that's flute player to you and me) begain improvising many years ago at Sheffield Uni Music College. Since then undertaken countless world tours with his famous brother's group (yep that's guitar virtuoso Steve Hackett from the original Genesis). The pair have released superb and succesful modern rock and classical recordings with a wide range of some of the most skilled musicians in the business and still tour (with Roger King on keys) as the Steve Hackett Trio. John is a local boy and a great supporter of all things improv. Recently having a stint with his own rock band which met to a rapturous reception at the city's Boardwalk as well as London gigs, John always maintains his connection to the flute (now also teaches privately), since the time as a youngster he witnessed Ian McDonald in King Crimson live.
www.johnhackett.com

Graham Clark / Stephen Grew

Graham Clark has been playing jazz on violin professionally since 1982.He has played with Keith Tippett, Andy Sheppard, Paz, Gong, Daevid Allen,Graham Massey, TOOLSHED, Lamb, Elbow, Salsa Pa'Gozar, La Timbala, Liz Fletcher, Kora Colours, and Jah wobble, amongst many others.
Stephen Grew has been freely improvising for twenty years, carving out his own musical language through day to day work and intensive gigging for the last twelve years. What constitutes his main body of work is Grew trio, a mixture of acoustic piano inventions, tenor sax/bassoon Mick Beck, and Phillip Marks drummer Bark member and longstanding collaborator of eleven years. He has also worked in an electronic music setting grutronic, with brother Nick, harmonica, airfx, thumb piano, Richard Scott, movement controlled synthesizer, David Ross, handsonic, moog pedals and effects, and solo piano playing. Other musical groupings have included Graham Clark, Pianoforte tour, Keith Tippett, Howard Riley and Pat Thomas, also toured nationally with John Jasnoch, Charlie Collins, Paul Hession, Pat Thomas and dancers. Highlights of national and international festivals have been in The London Jazz festival, Manchester Jazz festival, Nickelsdorf, Austria and Ulrichsberg, with extensive touring in Germany.
www.grahamviolin.com
www.myspace.com/stephengrew

FREENOISE
Sun 8th June 2008. 8pm.Fri 8th June 2008. 8pm. The Abbeydale, Sheffield, S7 1FS. £5

MoHa!

On UK tour which includes the cool and reputable Venn Festival, this young, crazily energetic and established pair go from strength to strength and are ready to bring the house down again with their nuclear barrage of ultra-tight instrument and PA slaughter. You get it, be there.
Run away pop kids, crazy free improv noiseniks Moha! are back! Thank the lord… Taking it upon themselves to resurrect the true spirit of out-there extemporising, this is, like their last masterpiece, Raus Aus Stavanger, a wonderfully refreshing blast of high-density electronic squall, explosive drumming and mind-bogglingly cosmic guitar strangling, courtesy of fret wizard, Anders Hana and drummer Morton Olsen. The trick to making this stuff so engaging (that’s right pop kids, I said engaging) is to create some kind of dialogue between the extremities. These bouts of Supercollider-minced sound rarely take a strictly abstract course. If you stick with it, there emerges a fascinating anti-pattern, filled with snatches of straight-ahead jazz and bubbling digits. Most importantly it’s delivered with a clarity of production that shows how much CARE actually goes into creating something that, on the surface, seems so chaotic. - Chris Jone BBC Music
http://www.myspace.com/themoha

Eaten By Children

Another triumphant return in the shape of Londoner (now Edinburgh based) solo sound modeller Rob Hart. Last seen in these parts at the Grapes back in '06 where he blew the crowd away with his improvised table-top sale of home baked analogue electronics and consumer goods. Not just another pedal-pusher, EBC is a stylistic (can I say old school for such a young guy?) rare type of noise artist, with a really keen ear for interesting, outer limits spontaneous magic. Also bringing new work in the shape of additional home-made Super 8 visual treats.
http://www.statesanctioned.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xib17HHT650

Forest Creatures

They make stupefied rocking motions, like chained bears. They conjure a shifting storm of toxic buzz, swaying and growing. One of them shoots pulses of overdriven synth through the mix, looping, distorting, setting of samples; the other screams through a Fisher Price karaoke deck, but it makes no difference. Syllables are melted, swelling the noxious cloud that starts to spins between the two of them more quickly, noticeably, mutating into something like a rhythm. Limbs twitch, like nerves stabbed. No anger here, just anxiety without any recognizable source, Krautrock's alien motion refracted through the hollering of the dammed. I want more. - Plan B
http://www.myspace.com/forestcreaturesofdoom

NOTES & SOUNDS
TUESDAY 20th MAY
The Red Deer, Pitt Street
8.00pm £3.00

BEATRIX WARD-FERNANDEZ: electric violin
MARTIN ARCHER: laptop, violin

A return for this fascinating duo in which electro-acoustic maverick Archer duets with the electric violin of Ward-Fernandez. After thirty years of playing violin Archer still hasn’t been persuaded by Ward-Fernandez that he should put his own violin under his chin!

www.myspace.com/beatrixwardfernandez
www.myspace.com/martinarchermusic

JOHN JASNOCH : guitar
JONNY DRURY: performance

A performance duo first seen at Live Art Week at Psalter Lane. It features Drury’s intense performance against Jasnoch’s improvised 12 string guitar pyrotechnics.

www.myspace.com/johnjasnoch

NOTES & SOUNDS
TUESDAY 22nd APRIL
The Red Deer, Pitt Street
8.00pm £3.00

D'SILVA / COLLINS DUO

The U.K.'s rising new woodwind star makes a welcome return to Notes & Sounds in this encounter with long term collaborator Collins. Expect sparks to fly and planets fall! Most likely some tight, sensitive improv from these two masters of the art.

KARL D'SILVA : alto sax, clarinet
CHARLIE COLLINS : drums, waterphone
www.myspace.com/charlievibe

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PETER WHITE ; voice
DEREK SAW : trumpet, tuba
JOHN JASNOCH : ud, banjo-uke, frame drum

Also a return encounter for these mainstays of the legendary Gated Community. Their sensitive interaction is marked by a sustained lyricism.
www.myspace.com/johnjasnoch

FREENOISE
18th April 2008 8 - 12pm
Bar Abbey, Sheffield S7 1FS
£5 / 4
Snorkel
Snorkel are a six-strong South-London based collective whose members come from different corners of the alternative scene, bringing together the tactics of improvisation, electronica, and sound art. The fantastic album 'Glass Darkly' has not left the Freenoise CD drive for 2 weeks and has featured on The Wire office playlist recently, a track appears on the March '08 'Wiretapper' CD. Get it and see this awesome posse LIVE!!
"Debut album by improv collective captures the spirit of the band's spontaneous performances and the rough-edged guerilla tactics of a band addicted to the dark side of the groove..." (Slowfoot)
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Transient v Resident
Founded in 1993 by Martin Archer & Chris Bywater as improvising synth duo. Two CDs and many concerts. Dormant since 1997, as group members have concentrated instead on watching Magma DVDs. Now reformed as improvising laptop duo. "You can almost hear the machines think".
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Sub-Merged
Free-percussion / guitar duo Collins & Drury invite Ward-Fernadez' electric / processed violin and the awesome trumpet of Derek Saw. Expect the unexpected.

http://www.freenoise.co.uk/features/event/2008/18.4.08-snorkel-transcient-sub-merged.htm

Notes and Sounds
Thursday 3 April
8pm start
£5 waged, £3 unwaged.
Contact details Mick Beck on 0114 258 499
Over the Top, 78 Kingfield Road, Nether Edge
Stephen Grew (piano) and Phil Marks (percussion);
Plus Mick Beck (t/sax, bassoon) and Stephen Chase (guitar, ukelele and melodica)
Improvisations to get the blood moving.

NOTES & SOUNDS
MONDAY 31st MARCH
The Red Deer, Pitt Street
8.00 pm £3.00

ARCHER/JASNOCH/COLLINS

Three of Sheffield's master composer/improvisers combine in this outstanding trio. After nearly three decades of playing in various combinations, both live and on numerous recordings, this is, amazingly, their first performance as a trio! Expect a free ranging but intense folk/jazz/improv onslaught.

MARTIN ARCHER : saxes,clarinets,recorders
JOHN JASNOCH : 12 string guitar, mandolin, ud
CHARLIE COLLINS : drums, mbiras, waterphone

FREENOISE
21st March 2008
Bar Abbey, Abbeydale Cinema. Sheffield. S7 1FS
£4
The Geordie Approach
THE GEORDIE APPROACH is an exciting new collaboration between the two Norwegian musicians Petter Frost Fadnes and Ståle Birkeland, teamed up with guitarist Chris Sharkey, a Geordie born and bred (hence the approach...). This uncompromising and experimental trio pursues music within loose improvisational structures, adding a surprisingly broad range of flavours and catalysing their creative ideas (sometimes getting lost) within a sizeable musical space. In their untiring quest for brilliant and unusual musical goals - Birkeland, Fadnes and Sharkey produce musical elements that often are contradictory in shape, moving between melody and noise, ambient grooves and abstract textures. THE GEORDIE APPROACH has already performed at various venues across the UK, and last year completed a successful tour of Norway. This summer´s album launch was followed up with gigs in Norway – playing with distinguished Norwegian organist/composer Nils Henrik Asheim. The trio just completed a Jazz Services funded UK tour. Website

+ Swift are the Winds of Life Accomplished free improv trio; fiery, twisting violins and skins for metaphysical sonic journeying.

+ Sunshine Panic The return of the extreme neu-industrials / bad boys of adrenalist improv. Named by Genesis P-Orridge.

+ J.Fox and L.Calow Duo Art school racketeers (drums and electronics).

http://www.freenoise.co.uk/

NOTES & SOUNDS
MONDAY 25th FEBRUARY
The Red Deer, Pitt Street
8.00pm £3.00

presents two highly contrasting trios

ANGELA ROSENFELD: cello
PAUL SCHATZBERGER: accordion
JOHN JASNOCH: mandolin
This wonderful folk/classical sounding trio made it's debut last year at The Lantern Theatre. It comprises musicians from the Gated Community who also make up one half of ASK. www.discus-music.co.uk

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DEREK SAW: trumpet, flugelhorn
BEATRIX WARD- FERNANDEZ: violin, percussion
CHARLIE COLLINS: percussion
In total contrast we present a trio which is in fact the Beatrix Ward-Fernandez Trio playing completly different instruments to their usual line-up! Expect deep jazz/improv.
www.myspace.com/beatrixwardfernandez

Over The Top
Saturday 23rd Feb
OTT, 78 Kingfield Road, Nether Edge
8.00 pm

PARKINGSIDE
Alex Hawkings - piano
Dominic Lash - bass
Paul May - drums
Alex Ward - clarinet
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Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon

Friday 15th Feb
Bar Abbey, Abbeydale Road
8.00 pm £5.00

Theo Travis
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Mahood
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Raagnagrok
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Martin Archer

Freenoise
Sunday 10th Feb
Bar Abbey, Abbeydale Road
8.00 pm £5.00

MV & EE with THe Golden Road
Alternative Americana
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The Doozer
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Black Serama

Freenoise
NOTES & SOUNDS

WEDNESDAY 30th JANUARY
The Red Deer, Pitt Street
8.00 pm £3.00
The BALKH TRIO
with
PAT THOMAS

Make disappear that "low sensual ear which stuffs like cotton your conscience and makes death your inward ear" Renowned interpreters of the poetry of 13th century poet and mystic Jalalluddin Rumi, The BALKH TRIO, team up with legendary improviser PAT THOMAS on this JAZZ SERVICES supported tour.

PETER WHITE : voice
PAT THOMAS : melodica
JOHN JASNOCH : ud, ukelele, kanjira
CHARLIE COLLINS : waterphone, mbiras, darbuka, frame drums

A beautiful blend of acoustic instrumental improv with song/recitation. "If Rumi is now America's no.1 selling poet, this owes nothing to the Balkh Trio's singular and unpredictable renditions."
www.foundpropertyrecordings.co.uk

Freenoise
Friday 18th Jan
Bar Abbey, Abbeydale Road
8.00 pm £5.00

Mick Beck (reeds) & Phil Marks (drums)
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The Tajalli Vortex
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Jesus is angry
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GEN 26

Freenoise Midwinter Festival of Peace
Friday Dec 21st
Bar Abbey
Abbeydale Rd, S7 1FS
4 - 12pm

SONNY SIMMONS - alto sax, cor anglais
DEREK SAW : trumpet, valve trombone
JOHN JASNOCH : electric guitar, ud
CHARLIE COLLINS : drums, cajon

Huey "Sonny" Simmons grew up in Oakland, California and is one of the key figures to come out of the 1960s free jazz scene. He has worked with John Coltrane’s rhythm section, McCoy Tyner, Gary Peacock, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Anthony Braxton, Frank Lowe, Sunny Murray, Don Cherry and Prince Lasha, even Jimi Hendrix... before recording his own stunning LPs for ESP-Disk, home of Alber Ayler and Sun Ra. Simmons was emblematic of how the free-jazz improviser could wed the sophisticated composer. Often reminiscent of John Coltrane but also inherently more complex, if a bit less emotional. He remains a brilliant composer and no matter what the setting, Simmons always managed to carve out a unique place in the history of jazz improvisation and composition. Flying over from his home in New York especially for F'reaction, Sonny will be accompanied by the UK's finest drummer Paul Hession and the superb Dave Kane on double bass.

ALSO

Z'EV!
AUFGEHOBEN!
THE OTHER ORCHESTRA!
KREEPA!
BLACK CARROT!
JESUS IS ANGRY!
PROF. ADRIAN MOORE!
HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT!
FILTHY TURD!
IRON FIST OF THE SUN!
+ Film Launch & Screening: 'Freenoise - The Sound of Sheffield'!
Hi-end Live Visuals from ANTIMONY / DJ / surprise acts / giveaways..
You will not do a better gig this Xmas fer sure!!
The Abbeydale. A621, Sheffield. The North's favorite new venue!
Friday Dec 21st. 2 - 12pm. Big bar! Big PA! Excellent speakeasy vibe. Secure car park. Bus stop right outside (75 / 76 / 25 / 97 etc.)

£10 / £9 adv. £12 door.
TICKETS SELLING FAST NOW!
On foot - Rare and Racy, Division St. Sheffield.
On line - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/23240
NOTES AND SOUNDS
MONDAY 10th DECEMBER
The Red Deer, Pitt Street
8.00 pm £3.00

THE NAVIGATORS
featuring
BEATRIX WARD-FERNANDEZ : violin, theremin, castanets, wood
JOHN JASNOCH : 12 string guitar, ud, ukelele, frame drum
CHARLIE COLLINS : vibraphone, waterphone, mbiras, metal

It's that time of the year again and Sheffield's very own cross genre improvisors take a break from recording their new studio album to play their traditional pre-season concert. Three of the countries top rank improvisors incorporating contemporary/world/jazz instrumentation into a music that is as beautiful as it is fascinating. Expect mince pies and other surprises.
www.foundpropertyrecordings.co.uk
www.myspace.com/beatrixwardfernandez
www.discus-music.co.uk
NOTES & SOUNDS
MONDAY 19th NOVEMBER
The Red Deer, Pitt Street
8.00 pm £3.00

HELMUT LEMKE : long strings
JOHN JASNOCH : ud, ukelele, frame drum

A return visit for renowned musician/sound artist Lemke. His amazing use of the whole room as a resonating space for his "long strings" is simply a must see, and coupled with long term collaborator Jasnoch (check out their album "The Long and the Short of it") the whole room will be buzzing (and more). www.sound-art.de

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DEREK SAW : trumpet, tuba
CHARLIE COLLINS : percussion

A rare perfomance by Sheffield's longest running improvising duo. Together since the early '70s they have played and/or recorded with almost everyone of note to have emerged from Sheffield in the last 30 years. An event not to be missed. www.discus-music.co.uk

Freenoise
15th Nov
Bar Abbey
8pm
£6 / 5
Damo Suzuki w/ Gated Community + The Tajalli Vortex
Freenoise monthly brings ex-Can-man Damo back for more seriously outer limits mayhem with some of the UK's finest improvisers including Mick Beck, Martin Archer, John Jasnoch, Charlie Collins and literally many more. Not to be missed! This event will be professionally recorded for CD.
www.damosuzuki.de
www.thetajallivortex.com
www.freenoise.co.uk

Notes and Sounds
Sunday 28th October
Lantern Theatre
Kenwood Park Road (off Montgomery Road)
8pm
£5 / £3
ASK
The only Sheffield appearance this year for the city's premier and widely travelled chamber improv ensemble. Folk, jazz and abstract elements combine to make this a highly accessible group for audiences who are unsure about improvised music.

MARTIN ARCHER : woodwind
CHARLIE COLLINS : vibraphone, percussion
JOHN JASNOCH : 12 string guitar, mandolin
ANGELA ROSENFELD : cello
PAUL SCHATZBERGER : accordian
BEATRIX WARD-FERNANDEZ : violin

As a contrast the first half of the concert will consist of the acoustic trio of JASNOCH/ROSENFELD/SCHATZBERGER plus the unusual electro-acoustics of ARCHER : laptop, WARD-FERNANDEZ : theremin and COLLINS : waterphone and gong.

Notes and Sounds
FRIDAY 19 October
Over The Top, 78 Kingfield Road, Nether Edge
Bark, in partnership with Mick Beck (bassoon)
8.00 for 8:30,
£5 waged, £3 unwaged
Phillip Marks' tear-jerking stop-start percussion/ meets space oddysey group and also meets Mick Beck's interpretation of the grand-daddy bassoon as an organo-electronic spider. Don't miss this unusual encounter, which is part of the Bark Autumn 2007 international bonanza tour!
Contact information: Mick Beck on 0114 258 4999, or Phillip Marks at 0161 370 1113.

Freenoise
THURS 18th Oct
Bar Abbey
Abbeydale Rd, S7 1FS
8.00pm
£5
PAT THOMAS QUARTET w/ Mick Beck, John Jasnoch and Rob Dainton. - Pianist since age 8rs, Thomas has played with Fred Frith, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Phil Minton and many more. His conspirators for this occasion are all renowned and accomplished musicians in their own right.
RAAGNAGROK London electronic mystical raga rock team.
GLYNN HEPPENSTALL (The Anti Group / ClockDVA / The Tajalli Vortex) solo debut for electronic experimental fantastique!
+ DJ Kosmische!
http://www.freenoise.co.uk
http://www.wegottickets.com/location/1037

Notes and Sounds
4th October
Nether Edge Club
8pm
£5 / £3
IN SAND
Richard Padley - electric guitar
Danny Kingshill - cello
Gus Garside - double bass
Also
VARISPEED
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon
Martin Archer - laptop, woodwind

Freenoise
THURS 20TH SEPT
Bar Abbey
Abbeydale Rd, S7 1FS
8.00pm
£4 / 3
PAUL HESSION & HANS PETER-HIBY
"His torrential polyrhythmic style and his ability to raise the stakes in formidable company establish him as a prime mover in the attempt to inject excitement and power back into total improvisation" - The Guinness Encyclopeadia. of Popular Music. Percussionist Hession (pronounced as in 'session') has collaborated with Brotzmann, Parker, Bailey, Tom 'Squarepusher' Jenkinson, Mick Beck and many more. Reborn exhilerating duo with Utah based full on multi sax player Peter-Hiby. Check out the pending re-release of their acclaimed 1988 LP 'The Real Case' on Atavistic Unheard!
ARMY OF BRIARS - Folk prog in the classic British tradition. Martin Archer, Julie Cole, Tim Cole, Keith Jafrate.
PARAMUSIC ENSEMBLE - Experimental folk quartet; An intellectual and emotional roller coaster.
http://www.freenoise.co.uk
http://www.wegottickets.com/location/1037

Notes & Sounds
MONDAY 10th SEPT
The Red Deer
Pitt Street
8:00pm
£3.00
SEDAYNE / CARVER / ARCHER
Sedayne, ethno-pagan genius from the north, tells tales from the past and future using crwth (bowed welsh harp), pocket cornet a la Don Cherry, and surprising instruments. Here making a trio with Sheffield's own music archaeologists on zither, stones, laptop etc. This will not be like anything else.

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JOHN JASNOCH
ud, ukelele
Renowned plucked string specialist playing a rare solo set. Incorporating both angularity and stillness (in the form of simultaneous string drones) his improvising extracts endless possibilities from even the most obscure instruments.
www.foundpropertyrecordings.co.uk

Notes & Sounds
MONDAY 20th AUGUST
The Red Deer
Pitt Street
8:00pm
£3.00
PAT THOMAS: melodica
JOHN JASNOCH: 'ud, banjo-uke, frame drums
DEREK SAW: trumpet, tuba
Pat Thomas, a frequent visitor to Sheffield, arrives here this time having recently played with the legendary pianist Bobby Few in Marseilles and the Cholmondeleys in Glastonbury. He restricts himself to melodica on this occasion and forms part of an intriguing line-up with plucked string/frame drum specialist Jasnoch and multi brass player Saw. www.discus-music.co.uk
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BEATRIX WARD-FERNANDEZ: violin
CHARLIE COLLINS: percussion
Two of the leading lights of the Sheffield experimental scene (they are one half of Hornweb, one third of ASK and two thirds of The Navigators as well as playing in the legendary Gated Community) in a rare local duo outing. Expect fireworks and lyricism in equal measure. www.myspace.com/beatrixwardfernandez
After a set from both groups the concert will conclude with a QUINTET PIECE

Freenoise
THURS 16TH AUG
Bar Abbey Abbeydale Rd, S7 1FS
8.00pm
£4 / 3
ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB - Psychedelic whiteout guitar from original Vibracathedral Orchestra man Neil Campbell.
MARTIN ARCHER - Eccentric, profound modern improvisations with reeds, recorders and live electronics.
THE TAJALLI VORTEX - Soundtracks for the disenfranchised. The Freenoise house collective.
ELIZABETH WHEELBARROW - Guitar / sax duo featuring artist Andy Abbot (That F****g Tank / Black Dog)
http://www.freenoise.co.uk
http://www.wegottickets.com/location/1037

Notes & Sounds
MONDAY 23rd JULY
The Red Deer, Pitt Street
8.00 pm
£3.00

DECKSLAPS

Martin Archer: laptop
Chris Bywater: laptop
UTT: Turntables
Modern primatives Deckslaps combine the cutting edge electronic/DSP capabilities of the laptop with what was for an entire generation of experimentalists their entry into the world of sound - the Dansette record player.
The added visual element as UTT wrestles his vast collection of decks into submission is only topped by the fact that as often as not they are recordless!
www.discus-music.co.uk

plus

JASNOCH/COLLINS DUO

The 12 string guitar/mandolin and waterphone/percussion of John Jasnoch and Charlie Collins make an all too rare duo appearance. Their recent playing together has been confined to their myriad larger projects (ASK, The Navigators, The Balkh Trio, The Para-Music Ensemble) but tonight sees them revert back to the format that first gained them prominence. Expect powerful and hypnotic acoustic improv.
foundpropertyrecordings@hotmail.co.uk

Freenoise
19th July
Bar Abbey
8pm
£4 / £3
Graham Clark (Gong / Jah Wobble violinist) with Black Galaxy + Martin Archer + The Tajalli Vortex "Listen to Clark wind polyrhythms around the beat with bursts I would describe as Ornetteish except for the fact that this man can really play violin" - All About Jazz Joined by Black Galaxy (members of Sand (Soul Jazz) and Napalm Death and North England's musical gatekeepers Martin Archer plus The Tajalli Vortex (space-punk-improv collective).

http://www.grahamviolin.com
http://www.monium.org.uk
http://www.thetajallivortex.com

Notes & Sounds
Friday 6 July
Over The Top, 78 Kingfield Road, Nether Edge
8 for 8:30 start
£5 waged, £3 unwaged.
Mike Hurley (piano) and Mick Beck (t/sax, bassoon)
Plus
John Jasnoch (ukelele and ud)

First visit to Sheffield by Mike Hurley, founder and organizer of the Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra (BIO), and West Mids free music club FIZZLe. He loves mountaineering and has no favourite colour. His duo with Sheffield's Mick Beck was formed after Mick played a concerto with BIO in April - a collaboration which tickled the rafters of the CBSO rehearsal space.

John Jasnoch continues his exploration of some of the less commonly used string instruments in an improv setting. Apparently he has now reached letter U!

Notes & Sounds
SUNDAY 1st JULY
The Lantern Theatre
8:00 PM
£5.00

7 HERTZ
On their first visit to Sheffield. 2 violins, clarinet and double bass in a classical/folk/jazz melange, the result of which is "7 Hertz Music" - beautiful, refined and thought provoking. " Their melodies recall the haunting sound of Vashti Bunyan but their sound is more earthy, organic and brooding with jazz and blues overtones." Think Bela Bartok meets Charlie Haden in a Balkan folk club. www.myspace.com/the7hertzband

plus

The NAVIGATORS

Besides violin and guitar a whole raft of folk instruments (ud, ukelele, mbiras) and 20th century inventions (theremin, waterphone, vibes) are thrown into their music. " Although totally improvised it resonates with their varied backgrounds and years of shared experience" The Incredible String Band plays Albert Ayler anyone? www.myspace.com/beatrixwardfernandez

Notes & Sounds
MONDAY 25th JUNE
The Red Deer
Pitt Street
8:00pm
£3.00

BEATRIX WARD-FERNANDEZ: violin
CHARLIE COLLINS: percussion

Two of the leading lights of the Sheffield experimental scene (they are half of Hornweb, a third of ASK and two thirds of The Navigators as well as playing in the legendary Gated Community) in a rare local duo outing. Expect fireworks and lyricism in equal measure. www.myspace.com/beatrixwardfernandez

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PETER WHITE: voice
DEREK SAW: trumpet, tuba
JOHN JASNOCH: ud, banjo-uke, frame drums

Second Sheffield gig in a year for this outstanding trio. White tries to get in a word edgeways between Jasnoch and Saw's intense conversation. Expect a sublime musical dialogue, but who will have the last word?
www.discus-music.co.uk

Freenoise
21st June
Bar Abbey
8pm
£4 / 3
Tatsuya Nakatani & Neil Davidson + Jez Riley & Martin Archer + Charlie Collins & Jonny Drury Japanese master drummer / percussionist Nakatani and Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra's Davidson on UK tour, a must see event. Support from a host of established artistes presenting vital new works for discerning and new listeners alike.
www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html

Notes & Sounds
MONDAY 21st MAY
The Red Deer
Pitt Street
Sheffield
8:00 pm
£3.00

NEIL CARVER: small reeds, amplified objects, percussion, water
JOHN JASNOCH: ukelele, ud, frame drums

The original guitarists with jazz-punk pell-mell Bass Tone Trap re-convene in an acoustic context - and without a guitar in sight! Carver's use of everyday objects and amplified natural sounds (as demonstrated on the recent Discus album "Artefacts") contrasts with Jasnoch's unique aproach to the more obscure members of the string family (and his powerful frame drumming).
www.discus-music.co.uk

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KARL D'SILVA: alto sax, clarinet
CHARLIE COLLINS: percussion

Beauty and the Beast? Fresh faced York based sax god (currently a member of The Gated Community) goes head to head with local improv. monster Charlie Collins. Think Anthony Braxton and Albert Ayler in a tag match with Sunny Murray and Han Bennink.
www.myspace.com/karldsilva

Mon Apr 30th
Red Deer
Pitt Street
Sheffield
8.00 p.m.
£3
DUO
Charlie Collins - percussion
Martin Archer - woodwind
Sheffield stalwarts Martin Archer (Bass Tone Trap, Naked Pygmy Voles, Hornweb and Discus Records) and Charlie Collins (ClockDVA, The Box, The Bone Orchestra and Left Hand Right Hand) rekindle a 25+ year relationship in this rare duo outing. Are they mellowing with age or growing old disgracefully?
Also
solo
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon

Thu Apr 26th
Nether Edge Social Club
2 Moncrieffe Road
Sheffield S7 1HR
8.00 p.m.
£6
DAMO SUZUKI with
Gated Community
The Tajalli Vortex
Damo has been in Sheffield a couple of times fairly recently, and for this gig we'll be maybe moving out of the comfort zone.

Thu Apr 19th
Nether Edge Social Club
2 Moncrieffe Road
Sheffield S7 1HR
8.00 p.m.
£5 / £3
ASK
Martin Archer - woodwind
Charlie Collins - vibraphone
John Jasnoch - acoustic 12 string guitar, mandolin
Angela Rosenfeld - cello
Paul Schatzberger - accordian
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez - violin
Also
WEAVELS
Mick Beck - bassoon
Chris Cundy - bass clarinet
Alex Ward - guitar

Mon Mar 26th
Red Deer
Pitt Street
Sheffield
8.00 p.m.
£3 / £2
LEEDS to SHEFFIELD
Chris Sharkey - electric guitar
John Jasnoch - electric guitar
Renowned Leeds based experimental guitarist, member of countless bands including Points System and Trio VD, has enticed Sheffield legend to dust off his electric guitar once more for a series of duets
www.myspace.com/chrissharkey
Also
Yvonne Magda - violin
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez - violin
Charlie Collins - percussion
Violinist with the astonishing classical/folk/jazz/improv group 7Hertz, recently finished a tour with Rose Kemp. Tonight will be powerful but lyrical fre jazz/improv. Swift are the Winds of Life.
www.myspace.com/the7hertzband

Wed Mar 7th
Red Deer
Pitt Street
Sheffield
8.00 p.m.
£3 / £2
A CONCERT OF UNCOMMON MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
"Music for one"
Stark but beautiful guitar motifs emerge as skeletons of songs
One woman band (Sherry Ostopovitch) from Canada via London.
This national tour has her performing on acoustic steel resonator guitar.
"After years of listening to various guitarists demolish and fragment their instruments, it's a joy to hear someone unafraid to allow tunes to filter through the rubble"- The Wire
www.musicforone.com
Also
BEATRIX WARD-FERNANDEZ TRIO
Theremin star with her regular trio of Derek Saw (valve trombone) and Charlie Collins (waterphone, kalimbas, darbuka, tammorra, rico-rico etc) They're leaving their vibraphone and tuba behind tonight!
www.myspace.com/beatrixwardfernandez
Also
JOHN JASNOCH
Ud Solo - Sheffield legend gets back to basics

Mon Feb 19th
Red Deer
Pitt Street
Sheffield
8.00 p.m.
£3 / £2
Martin Archer - zither, laptop
UTT/Foster - Dansette record players
Chris Bywater - laptop
Minimal improv and textures.
Plus
John Jasnoch - acoustic guitar, ud
Charlie Collins - vibraphone, percussion

Thu Feb 15th
Over The Top
78 Kingfield Road
Sheffield
8.00 p.m.
£5 / £3
GREW TRIO
Stephen Grew - piano
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon
Philip Marks - percussion
Dominic Lash - double bass
Also
Cyril Epinat - acoustic and electric guitar, skateboard
Mathias Forge - trombone, radios
Stephen Grew's regular trio is embellished by Dominic Lash, a double bassist working from Oxford. This is part of a Jazz Services tour.
The French duo of Mathias Forge and Cyril Epinat is fresh in England. Not sure whether we'll get the skateboard, but you never know.

Thu Jan 25th
Nether Edge Club
2 Moncrieffe Road
Sheffield S7 1RH
8.00 p.m.
£5 / £3
GATED COMMUNITY
First live gig for a while from Mick Beck's 14 headed behemoth improv ensemble.

Sun Dec 17th
St Peters Centre
Empire Rd (Abbeydale Rd end)
Sheffield
6.00 p.m.
Free admission
THE BALKH TRIO
Peter White: voice
Charlie Collins: waterphone, mbiras, darbuka and mazhar
John Jasnoch: ud, ukulele and kanjira
In honour of Persian poet, mystic and lover Jelaluddin Rumi, whose life and work are traditionally remembered on 17th December, Notes and Sounds and the Naqshbandi Sufi Centre combined to present the Sheffield-based Balkh Trio. Long-term stalwarts of the improvised music scene Charlie Collins and John Jasnoch team up again with singer Peter White for Sheffield's sagacious usurpation of the Rumi inheritance. If Rumi is now America's number one selling poet, this owes nothing to The Balkh Trio's singular and unpredictable renditions. So make disappear that 'low sensual ear which stuffs like cotton your conscience and makes death your inward ear'.

Mon Nov 27th
The Red Deer
Pitt Street
Sheffield
8.00 p.m.
£3 / £2
THE NAVIGATORS
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez: violin, theremin, wood
Charlie Collins: vibes, waterphone, metal
John Jasnoch: 12 string guitar, ud, ukulele, frame drum

Since they sailed into view a little over a year ago,The Navigators have continued to explore their unique sound world. The combination of acoustic string and percussion instruments which have been around for centuries (or more) with instruments developed in the 20th century results in music which suggests all sorts of folk origins together with contemporary composed music and free jazz.

Sheffield date on the trio's Jazz Services tour.

Fri Oct 20th
Nether Edge Social Club
2 Moncrieffe Road
Sheffield S7 1HR
8.00 p.m.
£5 / £3
OUTWARD SOUND ENSEMBLE - INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
Chris Meloche - electroacoustic guitar
Herb Bayley - trombone
with guests
Martin Archer - woodwind
Nick Robinson - guitar, loops
Charlie Collins - percussion
Chris Bywater - synth
Mick Beck - bassoon
A whole festival dedicated to the Canada based duo which has 2 Discus releases to it's name! Somewhere between lower case improv and krautrock influenced dronescapes, peppered with tiny details from Bayley plus different guests on each date. The Outward Sound International Festival continues at:
22 Oct - Hull
23 Oct - Huddersfield
24 Oct - Leeds
25 Oct - Liverpool
Contact N&S for venue details of other dates

Mon Sep 25th
The Red Deer
Pitt Street
Sheffield
8.00 p.m.
£3 / £2
Peter White - voice
Derek Saw - trumpet, tenor horn, tuba
John Jasnoch - 12 string guitar, mandolin, banjo-ukes, frame drum
Saw and Jasnoch have been recently been rehearsing a kind of Loius Armstrong meets Lonnie Johnson set, and elements of this may emerge during tonight's performance - and who better to interpret this than Gated Community improv vocalist White?

Thu Aug 31st
Nether Edge Social Club
2 Moncrieffe Road
Sheffield S7 1HR
8.00 p.m.
£5 / £3
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon
Paul Hession - drumset
Paul Hubweber - trombone
Improvisations to raise the hackles and pull up the curtain on the bank holiday weekend. Hession and Beck are respected as a leading high energy duo who draw the most exciting qualities out of their musical accomplices. Hubweber comes with a long and distinguished run of pan-european musical partners and will be a stimulating blast of brass!

Mon Aug 21st
The Red Deer
Pitt Street
Sheffield
8.00 p.m.
£3 / £2
TWO TRIOS
Martin Archer - STEIM crackleboxes
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez - theremin
Charlie Collins - waterphone
ALSO
Hornweb
Derek Saw - trumpet, tenor horn, tuba
Charlie Collins - vibraphone, Arabic percussion
Martin Archer - sopranino, alto & baritone saxophones, clarinets
A perverse trio of handheld electronics (everyone knows what a theremin is but the legendary crackleboxes are from an even more distant planet) plus Collins strange water filled metal object - expect some far out space age improvisation.
The new trio version of Hornweb is just completing a new CD of compositions, but will play a completely improvised set tonight. Truly ancient to the future.

Tue Jul 4th
Nether Edge Social Club
8.00 p.m.
The Tree Fellers:
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon
Paul Hession - drumset
Matt Wand - electronics

Irreverant and disruptive maverick Wand (ex Stock, Hausen & Walkman) joins the free jazz powerhouse duo.

Mon Jul 3rd
The Red Deer
8.00 p.m. £3 / £2
Helmut Lemke: long strings
Neil Carver: talking books & other toys, odds & ends
Charlie Collins: lamellaphones, waterphone, metal
John Jasnoch: 12 string guitar, ud, ukulele, frame drums

It is some time ago that Helmut last attached himself to the other side of a room in Sheffield with shark-strength fishing lines and produced an astonishing variety of sounds from them. In the confines of the Red Deer upstairs room there will be an opportunity to become intimately involved with these sounds. Neil Carver continues to dig deep into his children's abandoned toy cupboard and unleashes all manner of engaging and interesting emanations from the artefacts found therein. These 2 will be joined by Red Deer residents Collins & Jasnoch in a variety of combos.

Sat 27 May 2006
Over The Top
8.00 pm - £5 / £3
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon
Oren Marshall - tuba
Chris Cundy - bass clarinet
Also
John Jasnoch - guitars, ud, frame drum
Rob Dainton - drums

Oren Marshall is an outstanding tuba player in demand in classical and experimental settings. This is his first visit to Notes and Sounds. Chris Cundy is a bass clarinetist now well established on the London scene. Mick Beck is the jolly local, also "Europe's leading free jazz bassoonist".
This trio will be supported by the formidable Jasnoch-Dainton duo. We welcome them back to public appearances.

Tue Jun 20th
Nether Edge Social Club
2 Moncrieffe Road
Sheffield S7 1HR
8.00 p.m.
£5 / £3
SHKRANG!
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon
Paul Hession - drumset
Dave Tucker - electric guitar, soft synths

Plus
Herve Perez and Martin Archer (laptops etc)

About Shkrang: their recently issued Discus CD "Some Thoughts About" is creating a bit of a stir. The online magazine All About Jazz review heralds it as "Not for the faint of heart, but an inspiring endeavor where multiplicity and ingenuity attain a triumphant coexistence. A top avant garde pick for 2006." Shkrang are also performing next week in Leeds and London.

About Martin Archer and Herve Perez: love and technos. Bowed stone. Scraped steel and scrambled laptop chips.

Mon 22 May 2006
Red Deer
8.00 pm - £3 / £2
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez - violin, theremin, wood
Peter White - voice
Charlie Collins - vibes, lamellophones, waterphone, metal
John Jasnoch - 12 string guitar, ud, ukelele, frame drums
The Navigators trio is joined by Pete for an evening of improvisations based on the sung / spoken Rumi poems plus other combinations of the four players.

Mon 24 Apr 2006
Red Deer
8.00 pm - £3 / £2
Martin Archer / Beatrix Ward-Fernandez DUO
New piece for violin duo and software instruments
Also
John Jasnoch - oud
Charlie Collins - percussion

Sunday 2 Apr 2006
Corporation
Time and price not yet known
DAMO SUZUKI
Also
MARTIN ARCHER
Solo concert with woodwind and software instruments

Friday 31 Mar 2006
Lantern Theatre
8.00 pm - £5 / £3
GATED COMMUNITY
Mick Beck's 14 (?) piece improv based band
Also
CHORA
Tribal improv-based rhythm & electronics

Saturday 25 Mar 2006
Over The Top
8.00 pm - £5 / £3
VARISPEED
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon
Martin Archer - software instruments
UTT/Foster - turntables
Also
SIN RED
Spanish poetry + improv ensemble

Mon 27 Feb 2006
Red Deer
8.00 pm - £3 / £2
The Navigators:
John Jasnoch - guitars, ud. Charlie Collins - vibraphone, lamellophones, metal.
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez - violin, theremin, wood.
With
Pat Thomas - melodica

Mon 30 Jan 2006
Red Deer
8.00 pm - £3 / £2
John Jasnoch - guitars, ud. Charlie Collins - vibraphone, lamellophones, metal.
Martin Archer - reeds. Angie Rosenfeld - cello.

Thu 19 Jan 2006
The Grapes, Trippet Lane, Sheffield
£6 on the door
FREENOISE PRESENTS various artists including
Martin Archer - software instruments
Chora
For more info visit www.freenoise.co.uk

Mon 30 Jan 2005
Red Deer
8.00 pm - £3 / £2
John Jasnoch - guitars, ud. Charlie Collins - vibraphone, lamellophones, metal.
Martin Archer - reeds. Angie Rosenfeld - cello.

Thu 19 Jan 2005
The Grapes, Trippet Lane, Sheffield
£6 on the door
FREENOISE PRESENTS various artists including
Martin Archer - software instruments
Chora
For more info visit www.freenoise.co.uk

MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2005
Neil Carver - small reeds & percussion, balloon, guitar, water
Charlie Collins - vibraphone, lamellophones, metal
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez - violin, theremin, wood
John Jasnoch - 12 string guitar, ud, ukelele, frame drum
Final N&S concert of the 2005 season features Carver's intimate array of small sounds
8.00 pm - £3 / £2
THE RED DEER, PITT STREET, SHEFFIELD

MONDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2005
Jeffrey Morgan - reeds and piano
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon
John Jasnoch - strings
Charlie Collins - vibes
Cologne based Morgan has worked with Don Cherry, Keith Rowe, Peter Kowald Alan Silva, Paul Lytton. Joined here for duo, trio and quartet improvisations. 8.00 pm - £5 / £3
OVER THE TOP, 78 KINGFIELD ROAD, NETHER EDGE, SHEFFIELD

FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER
VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA
CHORA
GATED COMMUNITY
Great double bill with the increasingly impressive Chora (a modern day This Heat to these ears) and Mick's improv big band in a listener friendly environment.
LANTERN THEATRE
KENWOOD PARK ROAD, NETHER EDGE, SHEFFIELD
NB - Use no. 22 bus from Church Street 12 & 42 past the hour

MONDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2005
TRIO:
Charlie Collins - vibraphone, lamellophones, metal
John Jasnoch - 12 string guitar, ud, ukelele
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon
SOLO:
Martin Archer - software instruments
8.00 pm - £3 / £2
THE RED DEER, PITT STREET, SHEFFIELD

TUESDAY 11 OCTOBER 2005
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon
Phil Minton - voice
Roger Turner - percussion
8.00 pm - £5 / £3
OVER THE TOP, 78 KINGFIELD ROAD, NETHER EDGE, SHEFFIELD

MONDAY 3 OCTOBER 2005
TWO TRIOS
Charlie Collins - vibraphone, lamellophones, metal
John Jasnoch - 12 string guitar, ud, ukelele
Playing one set with
Derek Saw - trumpet, tenor horn
and a further set with
Peter White - voice
8.00 pm - £3 / £2
THE RED DEER, PITT STREET, SHEFFIELD

SATURDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2005
Not a Notes & Sounds gig, but of outstanding interest:
CHORA
GATED COMMUNITY (the artists formerly known as Mick Beck workshop band)
Double bill (and more) featuring leading edge tribal improv /rock alongside Mick's large group who's who of Sheffield improv.
LESCAR, SHARROW VALE ROAD, SHEFFIELD

WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2005
THE NAVIGATORS
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez - violin, theremin, wood
Charlie Collins - vibraphone, glockenspiel, kalimba, metal
John Jasnoch - 12 string guitar, ud, ukelele
John & Charlie's long standing duo now expanded to a trio whise music covers a very wide territory which needs to be felt as much as heard
8.00 pm - £3 / £2
THE RED DEER, PITT STREET, SHEFFIELD

FRIDAY 12 AUGUST 2005
Dominick Lash - double bass
Paul May - drums
plus
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon
Dom & Paul are touring with some Jazz Services support, and the concert will comprise a numbr of duos and trios
8.00 pm - £5 / £3
OVER THE TOP, 78 KINGFIELD ROAD, NETHER EDGE, SHEFFIELD

FRIDAY 8 JUL 2005
MICK BECK WORKSHOP BAND
Mick has been rehearsing a large workshop band this year. Final lineup of 10 - 12 pieces tba, but expect both familiar and some new faces.
8.00 pm £5 / £3
SHEFFIELD INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND
MAPPIN STREET

SUNDAY 3 JUL 2005
Chris Meloche - electroacoustic guitar
Martin Archer - software instruments
Nick Robinson - guitar
Mick Beck - bassoon
Charlie Collins - vibraphone
Chris is a Canada based electroacoustic composer with many releases and broadcasts to his name including the recent Outward Sound Ensemble release on Discus. Expect minimal soundscapes going toward improv with Krautrock overtones.
8.00 pm - £5 / £3
OVER THE TOP, 78 KINGFIELD ROAD, NETHER EDGE

FRIDAY 3 JUN 2005
Blaise Siwula - alto sax
Mick Beck - tenor sax, bassoon, whistles
Paul Hession - drums
Paul Moore - double bass
Blaise is based in Detroit and has worked with Cecil Taylor, William Parker, Peter Kowald and others
8.00 pm - £5 / £3
OVER THE TOP, 78 KINGFIELD ROAD, NETHER EDGE

SUNDAY 29 MAY 2005
Wally Shoup - alto sax
Charlie Collins - vibraphone, percussion
John Jasnoch - guitar, ud, mandolin
8.00 PM - £4 / £2 LANTERN THEATRE
KENWOOD PARK ROAD, NETHER EDGE, SHEFFIELD
NB - Use no. 22 bus from Church Street 12 & 42 past the hour

MONDAY 2 MAY 2005
Peter Wright - voice
Pat Thomas - melodica
Charlie Collins - vibraphone, percussion, oboe
Martin Archer - consort of recorders
Joh Jasnoch - ud. guitar
8.45 PM - No charge, but contributions welcome -
THE SUFI CENTRE
CORNER OF SOUTHVIEW RD / VINCENT RD, NETHER EDGE, SHEFFIELD

MONDAY 4 APRIL 2005
NOTES & SOUNDS PRESENTS:
Martin Archer - software instruments
John Jasnoch - guitar, ud and mandoli
Also
Mick Beck - tenor saxophone, bassoon
Chalie Collins - vibraphone
8.00 PM - £4/£2 -
OVER THE TOP
78 KINGFIELD ROAD, NETHER EDGE, SHEFFIELD

MONDAY 7 MARCH 2005
NOTES & SOUNDS PRESENTS:
Martin Archer - software instruments
Neil Carver - music boxes, little instruments
Also
John Jasnoch - guitar, ud and mandolin
Chalie Collins - vibraphone, oboe, flute
8.00 PM - £4/£2 - SIMUNYE
229 London Road, Sheffield S2 5NF

MONDAY 31 JANUARY 2005
NOTES & SOUNDS PRESENTS:
Helmut Lemke - long strings
John Jasnoch - guitar, ud and mandolin
Chalie Collins - vibraphone
Plus
Martin Archer - software instruments
8.00 PM - £4/£2 - SIMUNYE
229 London Road, Sheffield S2 5NF

SATURDAY 15 JANUARY 2005
Martin Archer - software instruments
Also:
CHORA - Improv / rock / electronics group
The Grapes, Trippett Lane, Sheffield

WEDNESDAY 15 DECEMBER 2004
NOTES & SOUNDS PRESENTS:
Martin Archer - sopranino and alto saxophones, bass clarinet
John Jasnoch - guitar, ud and mandolin
Philip Thomas - prepared piano
OVER THE TOP
78 Kingfield Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S11 9AU