London Improvisers Orchestra

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The London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) is a British improvisation ensemble that has existed since 1998.

background

The London Improvisers Orchestra emerged from a formation that had appeared on Butch Morris ' London Skyscraper tour for the Contemporary Music Network in November 1997. After performing in London, Birmingham, Oxford, Manchester, Bristol and Liverpool, the members decided to develop the orchestra project. The London Improvisers Orchestra was founded in 1998 and explores free, orchestrated and elaborated group improvisations in its monthly rehearsals ; It developed its own vocabulary of signals for communication among improvisation musicians.

Cafe Oto in Dalston

The first regular appearances took place monthly in the Red Rose Theater ; since 2008 quarterly in Cafe Oto . In recent years the formation has performed monthly at the I'klectik Arts Lab in South London. Regularly participating musicians and composers in the first phase of the formation were Steve Beresford , Evan Parker , Veryan Weston , Caroline Kraabel , Simon H. Fell , Adam Bohman , Dave Tucker , Philipp Wachsmann , Pat Thomas and Terry Day .

The orchestra's work was initially documented by Martin Davidson on his Emanem label ; In 2000 the album Proceedings was released with 31 contributors. A year later, The Hearing Continues appeared with 37 musicians. François Couture rated the album with Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, Philipp Wachsmann, Veryan Weston , Louis Moholo , Marcio Mattos and a number of younger musicians “simply as one of the best examples of a creative orchestra.” It presented (how similar to Keith Tippett 's Centipede ) "One of the highest talent-to-volume ratios in history." Davidson also included the LIO in the program of his first Freedom of the City Festival in May 2001. The recording with 39 musicians fills the majority of the production Freedom of the City 2001: Large Groups (2002).

Musicians of the London Improvisers Orchestra (2018)

Susan Alcorn ( Pedal Steel Guitar ), Knut Aufermann (Electronics, Composition), Harry Beckett (Trumpet), Steve Beresford (Piano, Composition), Alison Blunt (Violin, Composition), Adam Bohman (Objects), Sarah Gail Brand (Trombone) , John Butcher (saxophonist), Paloma Carrasco-Lopez (cello), Lol Coxhill (soprano saxophone), John Edwards (double bass), Susanna Ferrar (violin), Jacques Foschia (clarinet), Sylvia Hallett (violin), Charlotte Hug (violin, Voice, composition), Christoph Irmer (violin), Charlotte Keeffe (trumpet), Hyelim Kim (Taegum), Julie Kjaer (saxophone / clarinet / flute), Caroline Kraabel (alto saxophone, voice, composition), Dominic Lash (double bass), Tony Marsh (percussion), Hannah Marshall (cello), Neil Metcalfe (flute), Louis Moholo (percussion), Maggie Nicols (voice, composition), Adrian Northover (soprano saxophone), Sonia Paço-Rocchia (bassoon, composition), Orphy Robinson ( Percussion, composition), Paul Rutherford (trombone), Rowland Sutherland (flutes), Pat Thomas (keyboards, Composition), Dave Tucker (e-bass, e-guitar, composition), Philipp Wachsmann (violin, viola, composition), Jackie Walduck (vibraphone), Ray Warleigh (saxophone, flute), Sarah Washington (electronics), Annie Whitehead ( Trombone), Jason Yarde (saxophone, composition).

Discographic notes

  • Freedom of the City 2001: Large Groups (Emanem, 2001)
  • The Hearing Continues (Emanem, 2001)
  • Freedom of the City 2002 (Emanem, 2003)
  • Responses, Reproduction & Reality (Emanem, 2005)
  • Improvisations for George Riste (Psi, 2008)
  • London & Glasgow Improvisers Orchestras Separately & Together (Emanem, 2007, with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra )
  • Lio Leo Leon (psi, 2010)
  • HMS Concert (Kukuruku Recordings, 2012)
  • Twenty Years On (LIO, 2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The Twentieth Anniversary London Improvisers Orchestra. CafeOto, October 10, 2018, accessed October 1, 2018 .
  2. ^ Review of the album The Hearing Continues by François Couture at Allmusic (English). Retrieved October 6, 2018.