'Happiness' - the second track from a suite of 5 released as a tour-only disc via Manchester's Ono imprint. The record, called Fleck EP, features work by Michael Cutting and Vitalija Glovackyte alongside mine; all of which are fixed-media reimaginings of a live show we've been touring since May 2015. It involves birds, fish, old ladies and live text projections. For more info, head here:

http://www.acm-ensemble.co.uk/fleck.html

UK DATES:
130515 - Apiary Studios, London
140515 - Vivid Projects, Birmingham
150515 - S1 Artspace, Sheffield
160515 - Metal, Liverpool
170515 - IABF, Manchester

EU DATES:
170615  - Del Rex, Berlin
190615  - Spanien 19, Aarhus
200615 - Mayhem, Copenhagen
220615 - Splendour, Amsterdam

US DATES:
040317 - National Sawdust, New York City

Happiness

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Joe Snape (1989) mixes conventional and homemade instruments with light, text and video to make unusual and emotive performances. His work has been presented at places like The Kitchen (New York), Café Oto (London), and Wonder Site (Tokyo), and also at places like the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg) and Aldeburgh Music. The Quietus calls Joe’s music ‘goofy, melancholy, irreverent fun – very, very singularly itself.’ Fluid Radio thinks it’s ‘joyous and beautiful’, and one time in The Guardian Nico Muhly called it ‘organized, disorganized fun’. In front of a small audience, AACM trombonist George Lewis described Joe’s work as ‘some seriously unartful sh*t,’ and everybody agreed. Joe is a former UK Young Artist, has been nominated for the Arts Foundation’s Creative Producer fellowship, and has helped commission new work from over twenty young artists and composers on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a recipient of the 2021-22 Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Award for Artists in Composition and was a 2020-21 composer-in-residence at the beautiful Sage Gateshead.