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Neil Carver

Since being a founder member and principal composer for electronic jazz group Bass Tone Trap, Carver has maintained a steady relationship with improvised music by occassionally suprising audiences with his unique soundworld of adapted toys, home made instruments, junk and natural materials alongside his idiosyncratic acoustic and electric guitars.

Guitar projects include endless variations of the trio Wire Assembly with John Jasnoch, the rarely heard guitar quartet Six by Four and a duo with Herve Perez.

Work with Helmut Lemke has focussed on the use of childrens electric toys sometimes in the Sleepers Trio (featuring up to six fully functioning amplified train sets) with fellow guitarist and points operator Jasnoch.

More recent projects involve the use of acoustic or amplified small percussion, often in the duo Play with John Jasnoch. In recent live and studio performances with Martin Archer these sound sources have been subjected to software manipulation. The reemergence of this latter duo has given new impetus to a compositional collaboration which extends back to 1980.

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