Viv Corringham

Viv Corringham (voice) is a US based British vocalist and sound artist, who has been described as “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3).

She has been cutting her own distinctive path ranging across free improvisation, Greek Rembetika, soundscapes and spontaneously created songs. Work includes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and installations. She is a certified teacher of Deep Listening, having studied with composer Pauline Oliveros, and holds an MA in Sonic Art from Middlesex University, London.

Reuben Derrick

Saxophonist, clarinettist, sonic artist and composer Reuben Derrick grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand. His doctoral dissertation ‘Acoustic illuminations: recorded space as soundscape composition’ (2014) draws upon field recording and improvisation.

Phil Durrant

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Born near London in 1957, Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts.

Geoff Eales

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Born in Aberbargoed, pianist, composer and improviser Geoff Eales has enjoyed an incredibly varied music career. At Cardiff University he studied composition with Alun Hoddinott and piano with Martin Jones. He was awarded a Ph.D for his large-scale work An American Symphony and his setting of Dylan Thomas’ poem In the Beginning for tenor, horn and piano. Geoff has also written a piano concerto, string quartet, brass quintet and A Sussex Rhapsody, the latter commissioned by the BBC.

Milo Fell

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Milo Fell lived and played in the Manchester for seven years, playing with many local bands and musicians such as John Ellis’ Big Bang, Jon Thorne, Pocket Central, Isthmus and Rare Birds. He also played with some of the best jazz soloists in the UK - Don Weller, Bobby Wellins, Peter King, Alan Barnes and Jean Toussaint.

Susanna Ferrar

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Susanna Ferrar is a violinist with a special interest in site-specific improvisation. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and one of HT Ferrar’s grandchildren. She undertook her Postgraduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies (PCAS) at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2011-12, and, during this time, saw many of the places first visited and named by the men of “Discovery”. She has played her violin in Scott’s hut in Antarctica.

George Garford

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George is a saxophonist, composer and improviser active in the UK’s contemporary jazz and free improvisation scenes.

Harry Gilonis

Harry is a poet, editor, publisher and critic writing on art, poetry and music. Recent books include Forty Fungi, poems about common English mushrooms illustrated by the artist Erica van Horn (Coracle Press) and eye-blink, from Veer Books (deliberately ‘faithless’ translations of T’ang Dynasty Chinese poetry). He is the only living poet published on the lawn of London’s Serpentine Gallery.

Marilza Gouvea

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Marilza comes from a musical family in Brazil, her father played classical guitar and her grandfather was a maestro and music teacher. From an early age she got involved with music: bossa nova and Brazilian popular music.

At an early age she got involved with music: bossa nova

and Brazilian popular music.

Becoming involved in improvised music after moving to Europe, she has worked with many exponents of its artists such as Adrian Northover, Jim Dvorak, Terry Day, Phil Minton and Marcio Mattos.

Sylvia Hallett

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Sylvia Hallett is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. Her work grew out of the London Musicians Collective, where she played in a trio with Lol Coxhill and Susannah Ferrar, and was a regular contributor on NATO records with British Summer Time Ends.