IMPROVISOR Hutch Demouilpied

This podcast conversation is extremely special as Carole Finer sadly passed away earlier this year. I had the great privilege of performing with Carole and in this conversation we talk about her beginnings in experimental and improvised music, going back to the 60’s in London, at the start of this fascinating scene. She mentions many musicians and interesting artists she collaborated with and I have listed them all in the show notes. She talks about her experiences of performing, as far ranging as a large ensemble concert in Hampstead Town Hall to performing at the Munich Olympics in 1972. It was insightful and incredibly inspiring to hear about Carole’s life as an artist, a musician and sound artist and her world travels collecting field recordings. She talked so effortlessly, as she did on her own radio show ‘Sound Out’ on Resonance FM for many years. Her generosity and humility as a musician touched many people including myself and I feel privileged to have met her and grateful to have had this conversation.

SHOW NOTES:
People and things mentioned:

Merce Cunningham Dance Troupe
Rauschenberg- scenery painter
Windsor Zither banjo
Cornelius Cardew (Cor)
John Cage
Murial Cardew
Christian Wolfe
Morley College
Graphic Scores
Stella Cardew
Tim Mitchell
Dave Jackman
Stephen Selkin (selcon- check spelling)
Chris Hobbs
Michael Parsons
Howard Skempton
John Tilbury
Dave Smith
The Great Learning -by Cornelius Cardew
The Scratch Orchestra
Hugh Shrapnel
Hampstead Town Hall
Chelsea Town Hall
‘Beethoven Today’ concert
Morton Feldman
Munich Olympic Games
Michael Chant
‘When I’m cleaning Windows’
Hugh Shrapnel’s Wood and Metal Band
Keith Rowe
Cardrew Treatise
Stephan Szczelkun
Porto in Portugal 2010
Hugh Shrapnel’s ‘Rain Raining’
David O’Connar
Eddie Prevost’s Workshop
Jane Alden’s Vocal Constructovist
AMM_Cornelius Cardew
The harsh Sound Version ( Treatise)
David Ryan
Sue Lynch
Banjo, Toys, Percussion
Zorse Trio- 2013-Sue Lynch, Hutch Demouilpied
North East States of India
Field recordings; train, bus journeys, bird song, rain

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/fari-bradley-remembers-scratch-orchestra-s-carole-finer

Live from The Iklectik Horse Festival. Conversations with musicians/composers: Dave Petts, John Butcher, Mark Sanders, Douglas Benford, Students from Leeds and Leeds Beckett, and Paul Sutton, at the IKlecktik Horse Festival of improvised and experimental music and sound. It includes some excerpts of music from the festival curated by The Horse Improv Club at IKlectik Art Lab in London SE1 in January 2018.

SHOW NOTES:
Iklectik Horse Festival

Show notes

Dave Petts:
Mentions:

Sue Lynch
Adrian Northover
Mark Sanders
Louise
Morton Feldman
Xenakis
Remote Viewers
Caroline Krabbel
John Edwards
Crystabel Riley
Abstract
Machine-like
Big Bands
Boulez
Stan Kenton
Mike Westbrook
Carla Bley
Composition as a craft
Conduction
The London Improvisors Orchestra

Mark sanders
Mentions:

Fish factory studio’s
Johnny Edwards
John Butcher
20 Johns
Paul Dunmore
Zurich
Evan Parker
The Vortex
Liam Noble
Women musicians
Strong melodic free jazz
Alex Hawkins
Paul Whatly
Crystal Riley
Mathilda Rolfsson- Norwegian Percussionist
Rachel Musson
Pat Thomas
Cafe Oto
The Mac- in Birmingham
Tony Dudley Evans- promoter


Douglas Benford
Mentions:

Incongruous sound
Art installations
Sculptor
Field recordings
2 sounds at once
Urban and natural sound
National trust
Forest of Dean
Bermondsey
Delia derbyshire
Radiophonic workshop
Dr who theme
Paradise yard ensemble
Sound collage
Steve beresford
Adam Bohman
John butcher
Crysabel riley
Rhodri davies
Bonnington centre
ticklish
richard Sanderson
Confront recordings
Mark wastall
Clive bell
Rachel mission
Ed lucas
Hundred years gallery
LIO
Snap to grid






Paul sutton
Mentions:

Saxophones
South london
Horn arrangements
Iklectik
Mopomoso
The clinker
Derek
Lol
Danial thompson
Cath Roberts
Conduction


John butcher
Mentions:

John Edwards
Mark sanders
Norway
Stoller Lavik Solberg- percussionist from Oslo
Lasse Marhaug- noise electronic scene
self formed tiny drum kit
John stevens
Derek Bailey

This is a conversations with Sharon Gal. She is a Interdisciplinary Artist ,Vocal Experimentalist, Performer and Composer. She performs solo, and has on-going collaborations with Steve Beresford, David Toop, Steve Noble, Alex Ward, John Edwards amongst others. She directs site specific compositions/performances examining the inter-relations between people and place. She is the co-founder of arts radio Resonance 104.4.FM.
I talk to her briefly before her performance at the Iklectik Horse Festival about her beginnings and collaborations and play excerpts of her music.
Show Notes:
People and Things mentioned:

Free improv and jazz records
Lana lovitch
Punk
Nina hagen
Kate bush
David bowie
Mouth crazy
Thurston Moore
Sonic youth
Byron Coley
Moshi Connin
Denis Austin
The Klinker
Hugh Metcalf
Loot( the paper)
Band called Voltage- Dennis and Moshi
Adam Bohman
Richard Sanderson and the club room
Sound Out
The V& A
Gals with guitars
Goldsmith’s_ ‘Fill The Noise’
Micro amps
Sculpting in space
Open call
Voices in staircase
Sound and Music

refreshments: Water

A conversation with John Edwards an incredible musician and double bass player. We talk about the Iklectik Horse Festival: https://horseimprovclub.wordpress.com and his views on the improvised and experimental music scene in London and Europe. Listen to excerpts of music he has recorded. His insights and experience of how the scene has evolved over 30 years. How women as musicians and audience members are now contributing to the ever increasing interest in this music and his own inspirations and future musical journeys.

Show Notes

People/things mentioned

Dave Petts
Mark Sanders
Elton Deane
Veryan Weston
John Butcher
Barf Phillips
Evan Parker
Crystal riley
Sue Lynch
Lol Coxhill
Bruce turner
Scandanavia
Norway

Drinks/ snacks consumed:

Pints of ale
Belgium white beer

A conversation with musician, composer and promoter Sue Lynch about her beginnings in experimental and improvised music in London UK, how she started The Horse Improv Club and her curating of The Iklectik Horse Festival in London SE1 in January 2018.

Refreshments consumed: Tea and later- Vegetarian Thai food in Lower March SE1

Show Notes:
mentions:


Steve Beresford
Clive Bell
David Toop
Eddie Prevost
Adam Bohman
Caroline Krabbel
Dave Petts
The Remote Viewers
Crystabel Riley
Adrian Northover
Steve Noble
Hutch Demouilpied
Iklectik Art lab
St Austell Sound
Sharon Gal
Greta Pectecci
John Butcher
John Edwards
Mark Sanders
Adam Bohman

These Lamps- Sue Lynch
Jennifer Alum
Ruth Marshall
Linear Obsessional Label

To mark the occasion of his 60th birthday - Improvisor releases a podcast talking to Adrian Northover, an inimitable presence on the improvised and experimental music scene in London UK for many years and in my view, an effortless master of the saxophone. (http://www.adriannorthover.co.uk).
Discussing his playing with electronic players we discuss tonality and the combination of ‘freedom and restriction’ in this environment- which Adrian summed up as 'having handcuffs on but still being able to jump out of the window’……
We talk about the function of playing improvised music live - the collaboration & interaction between players and ‘providing the meat and grist for the audience…. either successfully or unsuccessfully’.
He talks of his interest in ‘Sufi’ music and the idea of ‘the ecstasy’ behind the music and how he likes to know ‘the function of music’. The differences between processed and produced or un-produced music ‘a document versus a treated document.’
Improvised music has become ‘more acceptable and less weird…’……people in the past would say it ‘was just noise’ not music…..it was ‘really out there in terms of public awareness… now you can do anything and it is not so outrageous’….. ‘it has moved more centre stage………’

Show Notes and Mentions:

The Alligators
Adam Bohman
John Edwards
Sue Lynch
The Happy End
Triptik
Steve Noble
Tasos Stamou
Steve Beresford
John Stevens
Phil Vaxman
Berlin
Foley st
The Bonnington Club
Ronnie Laws
Steely Dan
Hard Evidence
Morley College
I’Klectik Art Lab
London Improvisors Orchestra
Linear Obsessional Label
Sufi Music
Jazz Thali
Bollywood
North Indian Classical Music
Lol Coxhill
Stockhausen
Edgard Varése
The Remote Viewers
Ann Homler

Refreshments: tea and pretzels