Our next dates will be Nov 30th-Dec 2nd in Tokyo.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Half The Sky - France & Japan
I recently had the honour of playing bassoon and soprano sax in Half the Sky at Rock In Opposition in Carmaux. Such a privilege to share a stage with Chris Cutler and Dagmar Krause as well as the rest of the band and what a challenge and joy to play Lindsay Cooper's music!
Our next dates will be Nov 30th-Dec 2nd in Tokyo.
Our next dates will be Nov 30th-Dec 2nd in Tokyo.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
VÄLVĒ & other news
Lots has been happening. Firstly, many thanks to A Sweet Niche and to all who came down to Servant Jazz Quarters last night - what a fun evening! Here's a little glimpse of what we did, courtesy of Kunal of Chaos Theory...
The next VÄLVĒ gig will be 3rd August at New River Studios - it'll be a slightly different set as no Elen on harp so I'll be trying out some new stuff that I'm working on at the moment.
Knifeworld action is also in full swing. We've recently played the o2, Night of The Prog (in a beautiful Amphitheatre in Germany!) and Festival 23 in Sheffield - next stops are Supernormal and ArcTangent.
Practise is well underway for Half The Sky with Chris Cutler, Dagmar Krause and Yumi Hara - my goodness Linday Cooper's writing is complicated!!!!! Such an honour though and I'm learning so much. Can't wait for RIO!
Next up, some writing and recording for a NecroDeathMort track, more practise, more writing and then a much needed little holiday in France....
Pretty sounds from @chloeherington's VÄLVĒ last night #electronica #music #harp #saxophone… https://t.co/RsKk9VIpdr— Chaos Theory (@Chaos_Theory_) July 26, 2016
The next VÄLVĒ gig will be 3rd August at New River Studios - it'll be a slightly different set as no Elen on harp so I'll be trying out some new stuff that I'm working on at the moment.
Knifeworld action is also in full swing. We've recently played the o2, Night of The Prog (in a beautiful Amphitheatre in Germany!) and Festival 23 in Sheffield - next stops are Supernormal and ArcTangent.
Practise is well underway for Half The Sky with Chris Cutler, Dagmar Krause and Yumi Hara - my goodness Linday Cooper's writing is complicated!!!!! Such an honour though and I'm learning so much. Can't wait for RIO!
Next up, some writing and recording for a NecroDeathMort track, more practise, more writing and then a much needed little holiday in France....
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Knifeworld album release and tour
Thing have been super busy on the Knifeworld front - our album, Bottled Out Of Eden, has come out on InsideOut Records and we had a great mini-tour culminating in a pretty out there London show at Bush Hall - many thanks to Chris of InnerStrings who filled the venue with his crazy projections. It was really quite magical and we had the honour of the wonderful Bob Drake appearing in his bear dog costume during the set!
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| Mel & Bob [Ashley Jones] |
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| Bush Hall [Ashley Jones] |
Monday, February 29, 2016
Half The Sky
I'm unbelievably excited and honoured to have been asked to play bassoon and soprano sax with Half The Sky at Rock In Opposition this September in France. Half The Sky preform the music of Lindsay Cooper (Henry Cow/News From Babel) and include original members Chris Cutler and Dagmar Krause. More info as it happens!
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Knifeworld album teaser
The album is finally finished and will be released 22.04.16.
Here is the album teaser as filmed by Emmett during the recording sessions in the Pyrenees last autumn...
Here is the album teaser as filmed by Emmett during the recording sessions in the Pyrenees last autumn...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
New piece - 'Rhythm Strip'
So, it took longer than intended to both conceive and then to edit but it's finally out!
My mother posted me an ECG printout (rhythm strip), knowing about my interest in graphic scores, having noted that it did look a bit like something useful. 2 years later, I finally realised how I could use it. I am interested in how people, collectively and individually, interpret similar material and what the combined effect might be.
Taking the three outputs on the strip, I researched how to work out the actual bpm and then used the graph paper on the strip and each output wave to create a score with bar lines on tracing paper. The section I had amounted to 11 bars at 50bpm. The respondents to my very vague Facebook post calling for 'contributors to an experiment' were allocated one of the three parts in the order in which they responded, to ensure equal distribution. I had absolutely no idea what would come back or how I would put the parts together until they did. Thank you so much to all who contributed - so many interpretations of my mother's heart! I think it's beautiful. And she would have found it utterly ridiculous but have been secretly highly faltered, I'm sure!
Here's the final piece and links to the 'instructions' and individual scores can be found below:
INSTRUCTIONS
aVF SCORE
II SCORE
III SCORE
The starting point for almost all my work is a graphic one. Sometimes it's something I see in my mind that conjures up a sound, sometimes the other way round, but there is always a graphic.
I first started working in this way in the late '90s when I discovered that 'synaesthesia' actually existed and I wasn't mad [much to my relief!]. I spent a long while researching it and ended up writing my dissertation at Goldsmiths about the links between our senses and exploring how we could extend/enhance our experience of an art form by combining them. After much cogitating (and quite an extended fag break) I started re-examining these ideas in my own practice.
A selection of these scores can be found HERE.
My mother posted me an ECG printout (rhythm strip), knowing about my interest in graphic scores, having noted that it did look a bit like something useful. 2 years later, I finally realised how I could use it. I am interested in how people, collectively and individually, interpret similar material and what the combined effect might be.
Taking the three outputs on the strip, I researched how to work out the actual bpm and then used the graph paper on the strip and each output wave to create a score with bar lines on tracing paper. The section I had amounted to 11 bars at 50bpm. The respondents to my very vague Facebook post calling for 'contributors to an experiment' were allocated one of the three parts in the order in which they responded, to ensure equal distribution. I had absolutely no idea what would come back or how I would put the parts together until they did. Thank you so much to all who contributed - so many interpretations of my mother's heart! I think it's beautiful. And she would have found it utterly ridiculous but have been secretly highly faltered, I'm sure!
Here's the final piece and links to the 'instructions' and individual scores can be found below:
INSTRUCTIONS
aVF SCORE
II SCORE
III SCORE
The starting point for almost all my work is a graphic one. Sometimes it's something I see in my mind that conjures up a sound, sometimes the other way round, but there is always a graphic.
I first started working in this way in the late '90s when I discovered that 'synaesthesia' actually existed and I wasn't mad [much to my relief!]. I spent a long while researching it and ended up writing my dissertation at Goldsmiths about the links between our senses and exploring how we could extend/enhance our experience of an art form by combining them. After much cogitating (and quite an extended fag break) I started re-examining these ideas in my own practice.
A selection of these scores can be found HERE.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Skip-diving
This week is pre-production week with Knifeworld as we have an album to learn before going into the studio next month. A song a day; so far so good! On day 1, I found some notation, scribbled on a bit of mdf, in a skip. So I decided to 'realise' this found score. This is what came out:
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