Sat 1st Feb / 8pm / £6 advance, £7 on the door

A series of gigs focusing on a specific instrument and the approaches to using it in performance.

Philip Jeck uses turntables to bring the crackle and hiss inherent in vinyl to the fore, in finely sculpted passages of ambience and noise. From old samples and loops this cinematic music stirs many thoughts and feelings: sounds move and form like ghostly scenes or half remembered dreams.

Jeck has released albums on Touch records and collaborated with the likes of Christian Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, Gavin Bryars and Jah Wobble.

http://www.philipjeck.com/

Stephen Cornford is a Bristol musician and installation artist. He uses blank mastering lacquers by amplifying and resonating the rotating aluminium platter to produce a palette of surface noise and feedback. The lacquer is explored for its imperfections, then vibrated in search of its resonances, its surface distressed by the needle as it amplifies it. Cornford has releases on Senufo Editions and Another Timbre, and curates the Consumer Waste label.

http://www.scrawn.co.uk/

Microdeform is Bristol-based musician Liam McConaghy. Influenced by Eno, Marclay and Basinski, he constructs haunted collages from fragments of environmental recordings, thrift-store vinyl and instrumental improvisations. Using loops, pulses and drones source material is recontextualised to create a distinctive sound palette.

Look out for Microdeform's new album on Zamzam Records.

https://soundcloud.com/microdeform