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Gated Community at Lantern Theatre
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Sheffield’s own audio-mystery school – rare live event next week
| When: | Back to Calendar » January 19, 2012 @ 7:45 pm – 10:00 pm | |
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| Where: | Lantern Theatre 18 Kenwood Park Rd Sheffield,South Yorkshire S7 UK |
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| Cost: | 7 / 5 | |
| Contact: | Mick Beck 0114 258 4999 mick.beck1@btinternet.com |
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| Categories: | Live Event | |
| Tags: | concerts experimental gigs jazz mick beck music nights out sheffield what’s on | |
Gated Community – Mick Beck’s Splendid “Big Band” 
Plus Alan Halsey and Mick Beck, Sound poems
An amazing start to the 2012 Notes and Sounds calendar at the delightful Lantern Theatre
The band explores the boundaries between musical structures and free improvisation. All members are based in or near Sheffield, some very experienced improvisers, some nearer the beginning of their musical journeys. This is the first performance since the band appeared at Rotherham’s industrial museum Magna in April 2011.
On this occasion, The audience will also be treated to a performance of the increasingly wellknown Sound Poem Duo of Alan Halsey (poet), and Mick Beck (tenor sax and bassoon), featuring Alan’s own works, and those of Hugo Ball.
Gated Community is a collective improvising group formed by Mick Beck in 2005. Membership ranges from 10 to 15, and in this performance there will be 14 who will be:
Martin Archer, sopranino and baritone saxes, clarinets and recorders
Geoff Bright, saxophones and voice
Neil Carver, guitar and effects
Stephen Chase, guitar and other sounds
Charlie Collins, percussion
Sarah Henderson, Cello
Lyn Hodnett, violin, trumpet, voice
John Jasnoch, diverse things to be plucked
Steve Jouanny, electric bass
Herve Perez, soprano sax
Mark Ridler, guitar
Pete White, voice.
Gillian Whiteley, piano
Mick Beck, the motivator, tenor sax, bassoon, whistles.
LIVE this Friday at OTT – Redstart + Beck / Halsey
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Noel Taylor clarinet. Julie Kjaer flute. Noura Sanatian violin.
Taylor, Sanatian, Beck, Kjaer at OTT, Sheffield Nov 2011
Noel Taylor has been establishing himself as a new voice on the London scene over the last few years. He presents this new trio of ostensibly classical instruments which will be given an original twist befitting Notes and Sounds alternative takes. Noura Sanatian on violin and Noel Taylor on clarinet are both members of the group Redstart, and the London Improvisers orchestra, joined this time by Danish flautist Julie Kjaer who is leader of the band Cardboard Whale. They will be joined for part of their performance by Mick Beck on bassoon, helping them to lurch from sumptuous harmonies and awful dissonances to dangerously madcap barrages of sound.
Halsey and Beck playing More Than Just Ball
Alan Halsey & Mick Beck will perform their arrangements of sound poems, some by Halsey himself, and some of those Hugo Ball wrote for the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. In all his work Halsey looks ‘to subvert our expectations
of poetry, to make us look at the moon from the dark side’ (Ian Seed). Beck’s uninhibited versatile tenor sax and his pioneering work with the under-used bassoon (his solo album Life Echoes on the Discus label gives
both instruments a run for their money) add a startling emotional dimension to these ‘verses without words’
Friday 18th November 2011
Over The Top, 78 Kingfield Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield Doors open 8pm for 8:30 Start £5 waged, £3 unwaged
For further information, contact Mick Beck on 0114 258 4999, or emailmick.beck1@btinternet.com
Hello!! …Beck is LIVE this Sunday with Tony Bevan, Klaus Janek & more in Sheffield!
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Paul Hession with Mick Beck
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Next gig – Nov 6th – this Sunday!!
KLAUS JANEK (doublebass and electronics
SCOTT R. LOONEY (electronics and prepared piano)
TONY BEVAN (bass saxophone)
Klaus Janek and Scott R. Looney have been working as a duo since 2009. They create a wealth of sonic textural landscapes in their interactions, with an emphasis on logic and contrasting concepts guiding the overall shape of the work. They released their duo album 1510 on Edgetone Records, and subsequently toured the EU playing duo and with other improvisers such as Wilbert DeJoode, Christof Irmer, Martin Blume, Sue Schlotte and many others.
For this 2011 UK tour they will be joined by the always creative and engaging bass saxophone of Tony Bevan, who has been a stalwart figure in the UK improv scene, playing with many notables including a long running trio with Sunny Murray and John Edwards.
Plus
JOHN JASNOCH (12 string guitar)
JOHNNY HUNTER(percussion)
MICK BECK(tenor sax and bassoon)
Jasnoch, Hunter and Beck, based in Sheffield, come together for the first
time in an exciting trio which will create a unique new storm!
Sunday 6 November 2011
OVER THE TOP, 78 Kingfield Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield
Doors open 7:45 for 8pm Start
£5 waged, £3 unwaged
For further information, contact Mick Beck on 0114 258 4999, or email
mick.beck1@btinternet.com
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