Simon Belshaw has studied composition with Gavin Bryars, Andy Hugill and Nick Atkinson. He completed his PhD at the University of Hertfordshire with Gavin Bryars in 2005.

He has had pieces performed by the Schidlof Quartet, PM ensemble, Gemini, Double Image and 3 Orm (amongst others). His music has been used for the video ‘Round and Round’ which was shown on Channel 4, the film ‘The Times Were Never So Bad: The Life of Andre Dubus’ and in advertising. 

He has had his own ensemble (the Belshaw band), which performed his music in both traditional and original settings, from concert halls to shopping centres, arts centres to open air festivals (including on three occasions the Bristol Community Festival at Ashton Court). The band ranged in size from an ensemble of five to one of fourteen players.

More recently he has produced multimedia installation works using sound, music and video. Two of these works, ‘Palingenesis’ and ‘Transition’, have been part of either the Exeter Autumn or Fringe Festival. He has also recorded music cds under the names Safe Harbour and the Wessex Melodica Orchestra and these have been featured on BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Devon and PhonicFM.

For the past few years he has been working on a project entitled Music Machines. These Music Machines are small computer programs that generate music, each machine explores a single idea, some are simple, some more complex. All are generated by the computer within established parameters, all run continuously until stopped by the listener and all are different each time they are played.

next show.
28.10.22 - w/ ultra low velocity

past.

abdulla rashim (northern electronics)
a made up sound (delsin)
AM khamsaa (light of other days)
agonis (amenthia recordings)
akay (basel)
alma negra (basel)
avia (zurich)
bleach (bern)
bauaïn (amenthia recordings)
bambounou (50weapons)
ben ufo (hessle audio)
blackbox (basel)
baaz (office recordings)
benjamin brunn (smallville)
benedikt frey (LARJ)
ben kaczor (basel)
bonnie (basel)
candy pollard (who the fuck)
chemistry village (basel)
christopher rau (smallville)
dario rohrbach (basel)
cepheì (basel)
dj dustin (giegling)
dj masda (cabaret recordings)
dorisburg (aniara recordings)
dubois (basel)
eli verveine (tardis records)
el tigre sound (twoets)
ed luis (basel)
edward (giegling)
ethyl (secretsundaze)
fabian bruhn (aniara)
forest drive west (livity sound)
gerd janson (running back)
gravina (sion)
herman (kosmos)
hack fu superdub (basel)
honoree (basel)
izabel (lullabies for insomniacs)
ieva (basel)
jolly (kashev tapes)
JP enfant (LET | amsterdam)
jamie shar (basel)
j banana (basel)
kastil (soul notes)
koyoti (kosmos)
kettenkarussell (giegling)
kombé (basel)
konstantin (giegling)
lcp (re:st)
localhost (luxembourg)
leafar legov (giegling)
marco shuttle (eerie records)
mark lando (basel)
mad marshal (basel)
mafou (basel)
molly (rex club)
manamana (kann records)
marc d' arrigo (zurich)
molekühl (zurich)
mark rhein (wake up!)
morard (basel)
mike parker (geophone)
miss jay (groningen)
mukuna (basel)
noria lilt (strecke)
neel (spazio disponibile)
new.com (comfortnoise)
neevo (basel)
oracy (mojuba records)
oskar offermann (white)
oscar schubaq (tardis records)
patrick russell
phrex (dubtopia)
philipp weibel (basel)
princess p (bern)
rndm (laid)
romañie (basel)
rozzo (mountain people)
rehbellen (basel)
sybil (deepmind)
skor rokswell (leipzig)
simon lemont (a walking contradiction)
tesdorpf (swim)
the citizen's band (LARJ)
trauminic (basel)
tunay can (basel)
tesdorpf (basel)
ulf eriksson (kontra musik)
varuna (a walking contradiction)
vector trancer (mirror zone)
yone-ko (cdv)
zøla (basel) 
//suibheallan. (a walking contradiction)

wall.

№1 - dream - 2013
№2 - dream - 2014
№3 - skor72 - 2015
№4 - yan paul - 2016
№5 - audio - 2019

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The Knot is the duo of cellists Tilman Lewis and Nick Storring.  Emerging in summer 2006, with allegiance to both form and freedom, they have since embarked on sonic explorations that draw on various folk traditions and experimental musics. The pair love to bend the instrument’s lyricism, drawing not so much on extended techniques as on an array of audacious contra-techniques: preparations/ apparati (practice mutes, hair-clips, clamps, wine corks, mallets, egg beaters, plectrums etc.). They still, however, permit the instrument’s natural beauty to have its place. These sonorities are channeled and combined into single unified textures, and everything from improvised heterophony, to stark contrast.

Both Lewis and Storring have been active in various Toronto projects. Storring regularly plays solo under his own name and as member of Picastro, Loom, son jarocho collective Café Con Pan, and of I Have Eaten The City. He is also a composer of chamber and electronic music, and winner of the Canadian Music Centre’s 2011 Toronto Emerging Composer Award. Lewis has recorded with the AIMToronto Orchestra, the Kyle Brenders ensemble, and experimental songsmiths Slim Twig and Clara Engel, and performed with the improvising superband that hosts the Music Gallery’s Compose Yourself events.

The pair have appeared together backing Sandro Perri, in a band playing with Doug Paisley, and as part of Aidan Baker’s large ensemble project Liminoid.

A product of the real underground of Iran, Paraffin is a record label and event organization based in Tehran.

"Since its inception in 1996, Brussels collective martiensgohome has collected, treated and played various forms of field recordings. Starting as a radio show, still broadcasting on radio campus every week, the collective has focused from the start on non-musical sound sources. Noise, machine failure, contact-mike recordings, radio statics and larger scale field recordings, every available sound is examined, tried out, deformed or kept intact, and assembled to take part in our improvised counterfeit soundscapes. No hierarchy is established between them, and small sounds, background hum, or glitches, are treated with the same respect as more explicit, more significant or more musical sounds. All those recordings are later abstracted, blurred, distorted, warped beyond recognition, taken sometimes as far as possible from their origins, and set in motion in a sonic fiction, a narrative of mystery and contingency. In this respect, the realistic, representational, quality of the recordings is secondary to their aural properties, to what we can see in them, to what we can make of them. Our radio programs and concerts consist of different moments, various locations, multiple acoustic spaces and times woven together to produce a hybrid place, governed by a composite chronology. It remains nonetheless a place, an ephemeral and artificial site, but a bearings of sorts, complete with movement, activity, liveliness, sometimes even inhabitants. It is a fantasy, a truth lying somewhere between a lie and a fiction."

Phil Julian is a UK based composer and improviser active since the late 1990s principally working with modular electronic devices and computers.

Audio works by Julian (and under the Cheapmachines alias) have been published on labels including Entr’acte, Banned Production, The Tapeworm, Harbinger Sound, Confront Recordings, Staalplaat (Open Circuit imprint), con-v, Beartown Records as well as numerous compilation appearances.

He also runs the Authorised Version label.

Julian has collaborated on remixes, recordings and performances with Tomas Korber, Michael Renkel, Jason Kahn, Daniel Jones, Kostis Kilymis, Tom Mudd, Angharad Davies, John Macedo, Dominic Lash, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dale Cornish, Ryan Jordan, Maurizio Bianchi, Nihilist Assault Group, The New Blockaders and GX Jupitter-Larsen of The Haters as well as being a member of the improvised drone ensemble Signals with Mark Beazley and Chris Gowers and playing as part of Mark Wastell’s improvising group The Seen.

Primary Information is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 to publish artists’ books and artists’ writings. Our mission is to publish out-of-print books that remain vital to ongoing conversations around artistic practice and to publish contemporary books by emerging, mid-career, and established artists. All of our publications are distributed internationally and priced at cost so that they are affordable and accessible to the largest possible audience.

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