Raise Your Voice Col­lective’s very own in-house band per­form their very first con­cert, fea­turing new works from acoustic and electroacoustic, Manchester-based com­posers, and an im­pro­vis­atory col­lab­or­a­tion with spe­cial guest Richard Scott. All this and more in the cosy con­fines of Centro Bar in the Northern Quarter (next door to Matt & Phred’s).

Line-up

• Laptop set – Heather Bamforth
• fo­cus­in­focu­sout­fo­cus­in­focu­sout, for flute, cla­rinet, drum kit and cello – Hannah Ashman
• Public Bodies, fixed media – Sam Salem
• New work, for en­semble – Steve Pycroft
• Waves on the ebb, for en­semble – Francesca le Lohé
• This is Water!, for en­semble and tape – Chris Swithinbank
• Cli­n­amen cli­n­amen cli­n­amen, for cla­rinet and string quartet – Maur­icio Pauly
• Ono­ma­to­poeia, im­pro­visa­tions for en­semble & elec­tronics – Richard Scott

Venue

Centro Bar
74, Tib Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M4 1LG, UK (View map)

More about the people involved

Hannah Ashman is 19 years old and cur­rently in her first year of a music de­gree at the Uni­ver­sity of Manchester. Her in­terest in com­pos­i­tion res­ulted in her spending her gap-year at Trinity Col­lege of Music, where she studied with Paul New­land and Ollie Leaman. Her mu­sical in­terests are ec­lectic, en­com­passing such di­versities as ex­per­i­mental Hip Hop artist Flying Lotus, De­bussy, and con­tem­porary Danish com­poser Hans Abrahamsen.

Heather Bam­forth studied Music at the Uni­ver­sity of Manchester at un­der­graduate and post­graduate level be­fore going on to com­plete a PGCE. She now teaches very small people how to write and in her spare time en­joys per­forming on laptops.

Francesca Le Lohe is a second year music stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of Manchester whose major in­terests are in com­pos­i­tion and eth­nomusico­logy. She is es­pe­cially in­ter­ested in the re­la­tion and cros­sover between the two fields. Francesca is fas­cin­ated with Ja­panese music and aes­thetics, which is a dom­inant in­flu­ence in her cur­rent compositions.

Born in Costa Rica, com­poser Maur­icio Pauly is cur­rently based in Manchester. He has re­cently been awarded the pres­ti­gious Staubach Hon­or­aria com­mis­sion for a new work to be premiered at the 45^th In­ter­na­tional Summer Course for New Music in Darm­stadt, Ger­many, in 2010 by Oslo-based en­semble Asamisi­masa. His new string quartet will be premiered in New York by the JACK Quartet in Feb­ruary 2010.

Steve Pycroft is a freel­ance drummer, per­cus­sionist and com­poser living and working in Manchester. He gradu­ated with a Mas­ters in Com­pos­i­tion from the Uni­ver­sity of Manchester in 2009, studying with Camden Reeves.

Sam Salem is a mul­ti­media artist and acous­matic com­poser whose music has most re­cently been performed/exhibited in Montreal (ICMC09), New York (NYCEMF), Berlin (SMC 08), Valencia (Di­gital Media 1.0) and around the UK and Scand­inavia (as part of the Wet Sounds ’09 tour).

Starting out as a jazz sax­o­phonist, Richard Scott has found his way to using ex­per­i­mental elec­tronics in con­junc­tion with live in­stru­ment­al­ists to per­form im­pro­vised music. He has lived in Manchester for al­most twenty years and has re­cently worked in Am­s­terdam as Artist-in-Residence at STEIM.

Chris Swith­in­bank came to Manchester to study music and is cur­rently com­pleting a Mas­ters in Com­pos­i­tion at the Uni­ver­sity of Manchester with the gen­erous sup­port of a Harry Clough Bursary. He works with both acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sounds and has re­cently had works per­formed at New Music North West, MANTIS Fest­ival and Wrexham Arts Fest­ival. Up­coming premi­eres in­clude …going back to the skies, for Trio Atem, a new work for Ps­appha and Mik­rokonzert: I Swear I Saw the Sun Falling to be per­formed by Vag­anza at the RNCM in June.