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Bang The Bore, Reductive Journal & The Cube Present

Ryoko Akama, Joseph Clayton Mills & Dominic Lash

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Sun 7 February 2016 // 20:00

Tickets: £6 advance

A fine of evening of performance by sound artist/composer Ryoko Akama, music/artist/writer Joseph Clayton Mills and improvisatory double bassist Dominic Lash of compositions by Alvin Lucier and Phill Niblock.

Ryoko Akama is a sound artist/composer/performer whose work approaches silence, time and space, exploring quiet and minimal music and situations. Akama performs with sine tones and objects, or creates sound installations that deal with materials, objects and phenomena. She is associated with the Octopus Collective, runs the Melange Edition label and edits the Reductive Journal. 
http://ryokoakama.com

Joseph Clayton Mills is a musician, artist, and writer who lives and works in Chicago. His text-based paintings, assemblages, and sound installations have been exhibited in Chicago, New York, and Europe and his work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker. He is the author of the short-story collection Zyxt, and in 2012 published Nabokrossvords, a translation of early Russian crosswords by Vladimir Nabokov. He is an active participant in the improvised and experimental music community in Chicago, where his collaborators have included Adam Sonderberg and Steven Hess (as Haptic), Michael Vallera (as Maar), Noé Cuéllar (as Parital), Sylvain Chaveau, Jason Stein, Michael Pisaro, and Olivia Block, among many others; his recordings have appeared on numerous labels, including Another Timbre, FSS, and Entr'acte. In 2013, in conjunction with Noé Cuéllar, he launched Suppedaneum, a label focused on releasing scores and their realizations.
http://www.josephcmills.com/

Dominic Lash is a freely improvising double bassist, although his activities also range much more widely and include playing bass guitar and other instruments; both writing and performing composed music; and writing about music and various other subjects.
http://dominiclash.co.uk

Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. Much of his work is influenced by science and explores the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media.
http://alucier.web.wesleyan.edu/

Phill Niblock. Composer, film-maker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia. Niblock's music is an exploration of sound textures created by multiple tones in very dense, often atonal tunings (generally micro-tonal in conception) performed in long durations. The layering of long tones only very slightly distinct in pitch creates a multitude of beats and generates complex overtone patterns and other fascinating psychoacoustic effects.
http://www.phillniblock.com/

http://www.bangthebore.org
http://www.reductivemusic.com/