Daniel Spicer Article

Daniel Spicer has kindly written something about the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. You can download it here.

GIO at Edinburgh Filmhouse 15 May 2011

GIO perform live at Edinburgh Filmhouse on Sunday 15th May with special guest Guido Henneboehl. As part of The New Objectivity: Realism in Weimar Cinema season, GIO will accompany the silent films 'People on Sunday' and 'Berlin: Symphony of Great City'. See the filmhouse website for more info and ticket deals. http://www.filmhousecinema.com/showing/people-on-sunday/

Guido Henneböhl is a musician and concert organizer based in Berlin, Germany. He has worked with composers like Alwynne Pritchard, Jeremy Woodruff and Carlos Sandoval, and improvisers like Jochen Arbeit, Andre Vida and Brendan Dougherty. Henneböhl has a unique method of developing synthesizer instruments by circuit bending old keyboards and toys, and combining them with self constructed primitive synthesizer elements. The instruments are notable for their wide range of tones and dynamics, and produces stochastic-like musical phrases.

GIO Fest III, 10-11 December 2010 at the CCA Glasgow

Tickets £8/5 per day, available from CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street 0141 352 4900

Friday 10th December

6:00 Panel Discussion on Graphic Scores, with contributions from Francis McKee, Bryony McIntyre, Alasdair Campbell and Catriona Brown (in the CCA cinema).

7.30 GIO and guests perform Schweben- a GIO commission written by Barry Guy featuring a recording of the late Edwin Morgan reading his translation of Schweben: aye but can ye? by Vladimir Mayakovsky

8.30 Neil Davidson - guitar, Nick Fells - laptop and Aileen Campbell - voice

9.30 Ken Hyder - percussion

10.30 John Butcher - saxophones, John Russell - acoustic guitar and Dominic Lash - double bass

Saturday 11th December

2:00 Panel Discussion on Improvisation, with contributions from Barry Esson, Keith Bruce, Daniel Spicer, Maggie Nicols and Ken Hyder (in the CCA cinema)

4:00 Drums vs Printers - Stuart Brown - drums and percussion and Damien Marchal - printers

5:00 Peter Nicholson - cello and Shane Connelly - puppets

7.30 Three duos: George Burt and John Russell - guitars, Dominic Lash - bass and Maggie Nicols - voice, Fritz Welch - drums and John Butcher - saxophones

9.30 Edge: Ken Hyder - drums, Maggie Nicols - voice and Raymond MacDonald - saxophones

10.30 Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and guests

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.