Music

Minimum Wage Immanence Unit x Luigi Marino, Shuiqingqing He, Laura Phillips x Oliver Brouwer

Dove Street South

Fri 11 Sept · 19:00 · £10

Theatre

About this event

Join us for an evening of improvisation where free music, Chinese opera, and electronics coexist. On accordion, harmonium, guitar, banjo, bass clarinet, bowed cymbals, DIY circuits, zarb, guzheng, waterphone, field recordings, piano, shakuhachi & voice. The night will end with a performance from all musicians, with improvised projections. ~ Manchester's Minimum Wage Immanence Unit comprises Adam Fairhall on accordion/harmonium, David Birchall on guitar/banjo and Michael Perrett on bass clarinet. They improvise music that draws as much on English folk song as it does the timbral integrations of European spectralism and the free drone excursions of Pelt . ~ Luigi Marino is a Bristol-based musician whose work explores emergent phenomena involving people, objects, and whatever lies in between their shifting definitions. An active improviser, he performs on electronic media and percussion, focusing on the zarb, the computer as an instrument mediating human decision-making, and custom cymbals played with bows and extended through DIY portable circuits. ~ Hé, Shuǐqīngqīng (何水清清) is a gǔzhēng (traditional Chinese zither) performer and musicologist whose work explores transcultural musical practices. She is committed to developing new repertoire and collaborative performance practices that bring together Chinese and Western musical traditions as a founding member of SHUIMO Ensemble . Through close partnerships with composers, SHUIMO explores innovative approaches to intercultural music-making, creating new artistic possibilities beyond conventional aesthetic boundaries. ~ Laura Phillips is a naive instrumentalist who plays infrequently, most notably with Bristol-based improvisation groups Viridian Ensemble and, on one occasion, Improv's Greatest Hits! Her waterphone playing has appeared on releases by Viridian Ensemble , Free Nelson Doom Jazz , a tape on Ceramic Label featuring Copper Sounds , and in broadcasts for Radiophrenia Festival .