GIO Festival III

The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s annual festival of free improvisation and collaboration returns to the CCA with guests including Dominic Lash, John Butcher, John Russell, Ken Hyder, Maggie Nicols and Damien Marchal, a performance of Schweben by Barry Guy (a GIO commission) and a series of talks and film screenings.

Friday 10th December from 6pm (panel discussion on graphic scores and improvisation) performances from 7.30pm

GIO performing Schweben by Barry Guy featuring a recording of the late Edwin Morgan reading his translation of Schweben: aye but can ye? by Vladimir Mayakovsky, John Butcher, John Russell, Dominic Lash Trio, Ken Hyder solo, Nick Fells, Aileen Campbell, Neil Davidson.

Saturday 11th December from 2pm (panel discussion on improvisation) with performances from 4pm

GIO + guests, The Edge: Ken Hyder, Maggie Nicols, Raymond MacDonald, Stuart Brown & Damien Marchal, Peter Nicholson & Shane Connelly + various other collaborations

Tickets £8/5 per day
CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street
Full program details to follow.

New Recordings released on NCA

Recordings of Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra performing Insects by Armin Sturm at this year's Glasgow Jazz Festival are available online here from Never Come Ashore a new net label for experimental music based in Glasgow.

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra at City Halls

GIO will be performing as part of a new series of concerts at Glasgow's City Halls recital room featuring performances of experimental and improvised music curated by Tom Dalzell.

Wednesday September 8th The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra 7.30pm

Wednesday September 22nd The Rope and Duck Company & The Red Ensemble 8pm

Tickets £6
Box Office: 0141 353 8000
www.glasgowconcerthalls.com

GIO Hans Richter Early Works

GIO / Hans Richter Early Works

The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra with German cellist Johanna Varner will perform live improvisation to screenings of Hans Richter's experimental short films from the 1920s.

An early exponent of Dada, Richter was also one of the first to recognize the possibilities cinematography offered the artist. He participated in the first avant-garde film movement alongside Leger, Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Cocteau and Dali.

'By film I mean visual rhythm ... to see movement, organized movement, wakes us up, wakes up resistance, wakes up the reflexes, and perhaps wakes up our sense of enjoyment as well. This kind of film gives memory nothing to hang on ... we are given a sense of what feeling and perceiving really is: a process - MOVEMENT.'' H. Richter 1924

Edinburgh Filmhouse Saturday 2nd October, 7pm
Glasgow GFT Sunday 3rd October, 2.30pm
Dundee DCA Sunday 10th October 2pm

Produced by the Goethe Institute, Glasgow

www.glasgowimprovisersorchestra.com

Coming soon: GIO Festival III 10-11 December 2010 with John Butcher, John Russell, Dominic Lash.