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Mercury Over Maps 19

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I’m pleased to announce the 19th in the series of my extended residency now at a new location!

Mercury Over Maps has relocated to Canvas and Cream Gallery in Forest Hill.

The evening features 3 sets – a solo by Paul Khimasia Morgan, a duo by Paula García Stone and Sue Lynch, and a trio with Dominic Lash, Mark Wastell and myself.

Please join us for the first performance at our new location!

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-19

 
Mercury Over Maps 19
18 London Road
Forest Hill, SE23 3HF, London
Thursday, Oct 24th
Doors 730/Music 8pm
£10 Cash at the Door

 

Mercury Over Maps #19

PAUL KHIMASIA MORGAN

Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improvising musician, recording engineer and visual artist.  As well as being a third of Bee Reiki Trio with Faradena Afifi and Steve Beresford, he has worked creatively with Blanca Regina, Richard Sanderson, Jason Kahn, Charlotte Keefe, Cristiàn Alvear, Klaus Janek, Ryu Hankil, Simon Whetham, and Gus Garside; is a participant in the groups TIDES (with Paul May, Peter Marsh and Daniel Spicer) and Mark Wastell’s THE SEEN.  He currently has a duo with Adam Bushell which “…continue their explorations in dialogue between vibraphone and acoustic guitar body and electronics…”  Paul also plays electronics with ambient/dub-influenced Rubber Bus and Somnambulance, and is part of the team that run Brighton Ambients Open Sessions.
 
He has releases on Discus, Hard Return, Minimal Resource Manipulation (MRM), Lonely Impulse, Linear Obsessional, Crónica, The Spirit of Gravity, Korm Plastics, Con-V, Absence of Wax, TSOKL and Confront Recordings.
 
Paul hosts the podcast The Archive of Aural Detritus.  He writes about new music for The Sound Projector magazine and Honest Music For Dishonest Times and contributed an essay on contemporary Chinese sound-artists to the art book Perfection Of Understanding which was published in 2022.
 
“…feedback-like tones rising carefully amid a cloud of metal thorns…more physicality than most you hear, which gives the performance some nice faux visual weight…” – Byron Coley in The Wire magazine.
 
 
 
 

PAULA GARCÍA STONE

This too shall pass – performance at Avant Garden

I am an Anglo-Hispanic visual and sound artist. I have been active within the arts for more than 40 years, and I began composing with sound in 2003. I have worked both as a solo artist and collaboratively across composition, installation and film. I have played with improvising musicians Sue Lynch, Richard Sanderson, Charlotte Keeffe, Catherine Pluygers, Noisy Women, with Phil Durrant’s ensemble in ‘Exploring the Immersive Sonic Through Deep Listening’ 2022, and Bill Thompson’s ensemble for Intraspect 2023.

My compositions explore aspects of being in a particular space, situation and/or state of mind. I have had the privilege to play these on the diffusion system of The Loudspeaker Orchestra at St Alfege Church, and at the University of Greenwich when I participated in their Sound/Image International Conference 2019. 

Sue Lynch and I have had an ongoing collaboration for some years now and are working on a CD for 2025. For these events I am Using field recordings from my larder of sounds which I process live through software on the iPad.

www.paulagarciastone.com
https://soundcloud.com/cellsonance
https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/node/64218
https://vimeo.com/cellsonance

 

 

 
 
Sue Lynch works as an experimental saxophonist, composer and visual artist. She curates The Horse Improvised Music Club with Adam Bohman, Hutch Demouilpied and Adrian Northover. Currently performs with Sudanese musicians The Scorpios, playing at European and UK  Festivals.
 
In 2016 she formed, ‘Paradise Yard’, an electro acoustic ensemble, featuring women improvisers, performing at Iklectik, Cafe Oto and The ICA. In 2018, she performed at 3 Klange Tag Music &Word Festival, Switzerland and Pied Nu Festival in France. Recent releases  ‘Secant/Tangent’ (dxdy recordings) with Crystabel Riley and Nathan Moore, ‘Minaru’ a Blue Tapes release as featured in The Wire magazine, with Anna Homler, Adrian Northover, Dave Tucker and ‘Orbit-Son’  Sophie Sleigh-Johnson and Adam Bohman on Infant Tree label. Recent solo saxophone release on Scatter Archive
 
 

 

DOMINIC LASH

Dominic Lash is a double bassist and guitarist who the Free Jazz Collective has called an “exceptional creative musician”. He concentrates on improvised and experimental music, performing regularly with musicians such as John Butcher, Angharad Davies, N.O. Moore, Mark Sanders, and Alex Ward. He also performed with the late Tony Conrad and Steve Reid, has had solo double bass pieces written for him by composers including Jürg Frey and Éliane Radigue, and has worked with bands and ensembles including Apartment House, Modern Nature, and the Bozzini Quartet.
 
Spoonhunt record label (CD / download)
 

 
 

Mark Wastell is a versatile improvising musician who has played a central role in the British improvised music scene for over a quarter of a century. He has performed and recorded extensively and his varied resume includes projects with Derek Bailey, Phil Durrant, John Butcher, Lasse Marhaug, Rhodri Davies, Simon H. Fell, Burkhard Beins, John Tilbury, Mattin, Mark Sanders, Tony Conrad, Evan Parker, Tim Barnes, Bernhard Günter, Keith Rowe, John Zorn, Peter Kowald, Joachim Nordwall, Otomo Yoshihide, Paul Dunmall, David Toop, Alan Wilkinson, Max Eastley, Hugh Davies, Julie Tippetts, Alan Skidmore, Mike Cooper, Chris Abrahams, Stewart Lee, Clive Bell, Arild Andersen, Jan Bang, Maggie Nicols, Thurston Moore and David Sylvian.

https://www.confrontrecordings.com/

 

BILL THOMPSON


Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in a number of groups including The Seen, zerøspace, and Airfield (with Ian Spink), and duos with Richard Sanderson, Phil Durrant, and Yoni Silver. Past collaborations include performances with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.

Although originally trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for the better part of 15 years. In recent years he has returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining it with electronics with miscellaneous tabletop devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.

He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award.

www.billthompson.org 
https://burningharpsichordrecords.com

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Mercury Over Maps is an extended residency by Bill Thompson at Canvas and Cream Gallery featuring performances, installations and talks with various collaborators and guest artists.