I’m pleased to announce the next edition of Mercury Over Maps at Hill Station Cafe and Venue!
Please join us!
More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-28
Mercury Over Maps #28
Untitled Bass Piece no 2 for Bass Clarinet (Bill Thompson) featuring Heather Roche, Yoni Silver and Tom Ward.
Group improvisation featuring Heather Roche, Yoni Silver, Tom Ward, Harriet Bravey, Ian Stonehouse and Bill Thompson.
Heather Roche – Bass clarinet
Yoni Silver – Bass clarinet
Yoni Silver is a bass clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist operating in-between the fields of free-improvisation, noise, composition, and performance. He has performed with artists such as John Edwards, Charles Hayward, Sophie Agnel, Tim Hodgkinson, Catherine Lamb, Thurston Moore, Angharad Davies, Toshimaru Nakamura, Steve Noble, Birgit Ulher, Stephen O’Malley, Oren Ambarchi, Ghédalia Tazartès, John Butcher, Ashley Paul, and many others.
Some of his current projects include Charles Hayward’s band Abstract Concrete, RAY with Ashley Paul and Otto Willberg, and Iancu Dumitrescu’s and (the late) Ana-Maria Avram’s Hyperion Ensemble which he has been a member of since 2011.
Yoni’s solo and collaborative work appears on labels such as Creative Sources, Editions Modern, Aural Terrains, Confront Recordings, Chocolate Monk, Shrike Records, Beartown Records, and Hideous Replica.
https://yonisilver.wordpress.com
https://yonisilver.bandcamp.com
Harriet Bravey – Live electronics
Donyarth (Harriet Bravey) is a musician, composer, and all round musical artist. Interested in experimentation within music technology and improvisation, she works with a range of genres, often combining the acoustic with the electronic, often using folk instruments such as the autoharp or the recorder alongside her electronic palette. She also has a specific interest in graphic or otherwise experimental notation, especially when combined with electronic methods for example creations in Max/MSP or performance in digital ecosystems.
IAN STONEHOUSE – Magnetic tape, analog synth, spring box
Ian Stonehouse is a currently a researcher and archivist of experimental & electronic music at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has lectured in Sonic Art for the past 20 years and was Head of the Electronic Music Studios at Goldsmiths from 2004-2019.
He originally trained as a visual artist with experimental filmmaker Guy Sherwin and painter Paresh Chakraborty, and worked freelance for many years in sound, film, video and animation. In the late 1990s he was employed at the Lux Centre for Film, Video and New Media in London, working with artists such as Tacita Dean, Susan Hiller, John Maybury, Thomson & Craighead, Gillian Wearing, and Jane & Louise Wilson.
In recent years he’s performed as a member of noise-improv group Rutger Hauser (their eponymous debut album was released on the ADAADAT label in 2016), and as part of trio zerøspace (with Lucia H. Chung and Bill Thompson). Ian’s solo album, Voyage en Kaléidoscope (originally recorded on tape in 1995) was issued in 2016 thanks to the folks at Lumen Lake label. He was part of the ensemble who performed Bill Thompson’s Gates 2017at Goldsmiths and contributed tape loops to saxophonist Colin Webster’s release vs. Tape Loops on the Fractal Meat label in 2017. Ian’s albums Synthesizer Experiments Volumes 1-3 were self-released on Bandcamp in 2019, alongside several others.
He’s currently writing a biography of artist, performer, composer & sound poet Lily Greenham (1924-2001), whose first major retrospective – Lily Greenham: An Art of Living – ran from March to May this year at the Badischer Kunstverein gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany, for which he was a consultant researcher and tape archivist.
This summer he has been involved in making four new copies of composer Hugh Davies’ pioneering ‘Shozyg’ experimental instruments using original materials for an upcoming concert series in February 2025 at the Science Museum in London & Bradford, with composers Gavin Bryars, Shiva Feshareki, Sarah Angliss, and the group Icebreaker.
https://ianstonehouse.
BILL THOMPSON – Moog guitar and electronics
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 Ian Stonehouse, 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.
Mercury Over Maps is an extended residency by Bill Thompson featuring performances, installations and talks with various collaborators and guest artists.