Bitten By A Monkey performing a graphic score by Roland, live at St John on Bethnal Green on April 9th 2015

Dylan Bates: saw, violin, xaphoon
Roland Bates: piano
Steve Myers: recorders

Uni-Verse (Bitten By A Monkey, live at St John on Bethnal Green)

Jon Seagroatt plays variously bass, flute, soprano & tenor saxes, bass clarinet, percussion, keyboards, electronics and the occasional bit of wobbly trombone with a variety of ensembles and groups that have included Comus, Current 93, Red Square, B So glObal & Circuit.
He also works as a session player, recording engineer and producer. In one or another of the above guises, Jon has toured, recorded and performed in Britain, Europe and the Far East.

Jean Michel Van Schouwburg improvising singer from Brussels region. 
Has developped a large voice - mouth - throat musical & sound techniques and music since the nineties. Throat singing, overtones, jodels, mouth sounds, almost 3 octaves, falsettos, multiphonics and invented languages. Groups : Sureau with bass player Jean Demey and percussionnist Kris Vanderstraeten. MouthWind with Lawrence Casserley, live signal processing TRIO 876 with Marcello Magliocchi percussion & Matthias Boss violin + Jean Demey bass. Sverdrup Balance w Casserley & Yoko Miura piano Duos w Adam Bohman- w Sabu Toyozumi- w Audrey Lauro w John Russell. I Belong to The Band with Oli Mayne Adam Bohman and Zsolt Sörès.  Has worked with Adelheid Sieuw, Mike Goyvaerts, John Russell, Phil Wachsmann, Gianni Mimmo, composer Dario Palermo, Paul Hubweber, Katalin Ladik,  Nils Gerold & Mano Kinze, Pascal Marzan, Klaus Kürvers, Ivo Perelman....  
Work with Berberian Sound Studio movie director Peter Strickland as acting his own singer persona , J-M VS. Berberian Sound Studio was awarded and was featured in many festivals as the UK cult movie 2012.
Has organized +200 improv concerts in Brussels since 2000...
Holding voice workshop in many cities (Turin , Budapest, Liverpool, Nitra, Brussels)with his own techniques and conductions.
Writes in Improjazz (F) Jazzaround (B) and in his own Orynx-Improvandsounds.blogspot.com

Performed in Belgium, France, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Holland, Scotland in festivals, galeries, clubs, concerts and movie festivals.

Solo voice Video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fW09-3sduI&feature=share
Solo R de Choc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K99dYyCERKQ

Sabu Toyozumi & J-M Van Schouwburg : 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4qFOw_KsbM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ_BCLaSOIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sirOmx2ZnXg

MouthWind with Lawrence Casserley  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IriH7fyIrZE

Uni-Verse (Bitten By A Monkey, live at St John on Bethnal Green)

Dylan O. Bates