Donja Djember plays free spontaneous improvisations arising intuitively, floating. Compositions mixing a meditative sound with rhythmic sequences. Donja truly plays for the moment. She studied cello with Othello Liesmann in Cologne between 1090 - 1994 and at the Comprehensive University of Duisburg for free and partially improvised chamber music. Donja has played both national and international performances with the Theo Jörgensmann Werkschausemble as well as many others in the fields of new music, jazz, avant grade and world music. Donja has collaborated in a cello duo named Feuerbogen since 2000 on various radio productions and has worked within educational institutions, teaching cello as well as collaborating with a broad spectrum of composers, artists, writers, dancers and actors.

Shadi Al Housh has been playing various Arabic percussion instruments such as the Darabuka, Riq, and Duff for 25 years. In Syria he studied his instruments for 3 years at a state institute and worked as a professional musician with different orchestras and at the opera house. Shadi toured through various countries in the Gulf region and Africa. Since 2016, he has been living in Germany, where he completed a certification course in music pedagogy for musicians from different cultures at the University of Music and Dance in Köln city. Since then, Shadi has performed as a soloist with orchestras like the Heidelberg Philharmonic and Barockwerk Hamburg, as well as with various intercultural music groups, including the heeresmusikkorps Koblenz. Shadi is a frequent instructor in percussion workshops and collaborates with themusicakademy NRW among others. Additionally, Shadi practices as a rhythm therapist in a hospital Lahnhöheklink in Lahanstein.

Gregor Kerkmann completed his jazz studies in Arnhem (Netherlands) and has been working as a musician and composer since the early 2000’s. As a composer he worked for the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. He is co-founder of the ambient/ electronica/ jazz trio CHOGORI. Their music is mainly released by electronic Music label Modularfield. The last Album "Minor Green" was live recorded at Hansa Studios in Berlin in July 2022, also released at Modularfield. Gregor also works as a solo artist, playing upright and electric Bass, Guitar and Electronica.

Thomas Klein, born in 1968, lives and works as a freelance musician in Düsseldorf. Since 1994 he has been part of the internationally known electronic band Kreidler. Since 2013 he has also released albums as a solo musician under the moniker Sølyst. He composes music for film and radio plays and creates sound art works/sound installations - sometimes in cooperation with artists such as Dunja Evers and Mischa Kuball. He developed and curated the light and sound art exhibition Fire Flies in the Malkastenpark. He also plays live as a musician for the Schauspielhaus Köln and the D'haus in Düsseldorf and has composed music for several productions. He has been making music for many dance theater projects for Kabawil e.V. since 2015 and works there as a music lecturer, among other things

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Anja Lautermann, musician and sound artist from Düsseldorf, operates in the border area between traditional musical structures and experimental sound art. Her work is characterised by elements of electronic and electro-acoustic music, but also references to musique concrète, classical and new music, as well as the use of conventional musical instruments, electronics, recordings and everyday objects that make sounds. In her performances, she explores the diverse possibilities of reinterpreting musical and sonic content, constantly seeking new transitions, connecting and separating aspects by relating sounds from the most diverse contexts to one another. Anja Lautermann works in various ensembles with which she realises concerts, installations and performances. www.anjalautermann.de

Frauke Berg lives in Düsseldorf and is a visual artist and experimental musician (electro/acoustic). Numerous drawings, radio works, digital animations, installations and performances have been created in various collaborations and contexts. Her main interests are in-situ work and communication. Drawings are used as well as animations, noises, sounds and installations. As initiator of the "Hallraum Projekt", which was part of the art project "Gasthof Worringer Platz" founded by Andrea Knobloch and Oliver Gather, she invited positions between sound and visual art into public space. Here, questions about "togetherness" in space were repeatedly negotiated and made visible. www.fraukeberg.de www.hallraum.net

Axel Ganz is a musician who has appeared in numerous different projects for many years. He has played synthesizer, piano and electronic organ in numerous bands. He has also produced music for film and theatre productions and played as a performing musician for the theatre. Since 2018, Düsseldorf, he has been working with live coding, a technique that focuses on writing source code and interactive programming in improvised form. The intention behind this is to explore genuine forms of digital composition tools and sound generation. He also is cofounder of livecoding community „Toplap Düsseldorf“, which organises concerts and workshops on algorithmic music and creative coding. www.pondskater.org www.youtube.com/@toplapddorf/streams

Kai Angermann lives in Düsseldorf/Germany. He studied percussion at Cologne University of Music and at the Drummers Institute in Düsseldorf and the Drummers Collective in New York. Kai Angermann operates as an independent artist, drummer and soloist and music teacher. In addition to his work on band and ensemble his musical interest focuses on improvisational music and on projects which interact and get in touch with other art forms. He realizes his musical ideas drawing from the rich body of percussion and making use of the electronic alienation of acoustic sounds. As particularly attractive he would call the handling of electronics and the possibilities to influence the musical “material” as well as the variety of percussion instruments. http://kai-angermann.eu/

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Dariya Maminova (*1988) is a composer, pianist, singer, performer and painter, currently residing in Cologne, Germany. She comes from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Dariya works in the fields of experimental instrumental and electronic music, improvisation, musical theatre, and pop music. She is a performer and composer at the MAMI NOVA project, co-founded with her sister Malika Maminova (percussion) in 2012. A great interest is vocal music: her work catalogue includes pieces for choir, pieces for ensemble and singing, a chamber opera and songs. She is also interested in the synthesis of experimental contemporary music with both pop genres and music from other cultures. Since 2013, Dariya has been a participant in the interdisciplinary project "Framewalk" with the Kabawil organisation in Düsseldorf, where she has worked as a composer and performer together with artists from Ghana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia. Dariya also implements and performs the idea of synthesising various genres in her own project "Dariya's Songs". Dariya Maminova studied piano and composition at the Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory, composition both at the Detmold Academy of Music with Prof. Fabien Lévy and at the Academy of Music and Dance in Cologne with Prof. Johannes Schöllhorn, Prof. Brigitta Muntendorf and Prof. Michael Beil. https://dariya-maminova.com/

Stefan Schwander is a pivotal figure in Düsseldorf's Salon Des Amateurs. He has already amassed a remarkably rich musical repertoire. Through his Harmonious Thelonious project, he has spent the past dozen years exploring the worlds of Pan-African, South American and Middle Eastern rhythms in combination with a minimalistic electronic sound, distilling his very own groove from the point at which they converge. This musical reorientation starts with the fundamental approach to production: The polyrhythms of earlier works are no longer in the foreground, replaced by melodies and chords interwoven on a base frame of brittle, simplified beat constructs and rugged bass pulses. The elemental idea of his Harmonious Thelonious project: a form of dance music which, like a good club night, does not succumb to formulaic rigidity or generic expectations, but challenges the crowd, trading with jazz, krautrock, industrial, punk, dub and disco. https://harmoniousthelonious.bandcamp.com/album/cheapo-sounds

YÜRKE / Stefan Jürke lets us listen more closely. He shows electronic components of dance music and demonstrates them, phenomenologically, from all sides. The single track itself. With his compositions, YürkE literally creates creations that allow us listeners to participate in a process of uncovering and re-constructing typical elements of electronic music. He achieves this by improvising on arrangements of prepared substitute pieces and loops with repeated sets of new technical devices. YürkE reveals the essence of electronic music with his work. Stefan Jürke is known as an electronic musician, among other things, for his many years of work with the duo “GRAPH”. There, as well as as a solo artist, he deals with the interpretation and modification of a wide variety of electromusical genres such as abstract, techno and electronica. The main feature of his work is the improvisational intervention in real-time audio and the combination of different style mixes. Jürke also used the principle of quotation and (de-)contextualization in his work as a DJ. https://yrke.bandcamp.com/

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One Day Band 26 is a double piano session featuring a collaboration between London based composers Sam Beste and Gwilym Gold. Taking place at Fish Factory studios the session finds the two musicians improvising a series of thoughtful pieces ranging in mood, expression and dynamism. Sam Beste, the curator of ODB 26, also took the opportunity to invite Andrew McPherson along to the studio, with his invention, The Magnetic Resonator. It can be heard throughout the recording manipulating the grand piano’s strings to produce subtle drones haunting the exploratory interactions between Sam and Gwilym.

Londoner Sam Beste aka The Vernon Spring is a polymath in music who has production, writing and performance credits as eclectic as Amy Winehouse, Matthew Herbert, Kano, Joy Crookes, Beth Orton, Blood Orange, Gabriels and MF DOOM. Since 2019 he has been making waves with solo project The Vernon Spring, which foregrounds his rare capacity to hold sophistication and simplicity in the same hands through highly intimate muted-piano compositions and improvisations.

Gwilym Gold is a songwriter and pianist. His work as a soloist includes albums A Paradise (2015), Sky Blue Room (2019) and the ever-transforming suite of songs Tender Metal (2012). He has also created original music for a wide variety of art and dance works.

Andrew McPherson is a computing researcher, composer, electronic engineer, and musical instrument designer and a Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is Professor of Musical Interaction in the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London, where he leads the Augmented Instruments Laboratory. Andrew holds undergraduate degrees in both engineering and music from MIT, an MEng in electrical engineering from MIT, and a PhD in music composition from the University of Pennsylvania. Andrew’s musical instruments are widely used by performers and composers across many genres, and his research has led to two spinouts: Augmented Instruments Ltd, which develops Bela, an open-source audio maker platform, and TouchKeys, a transformation of the keyboard into a versatile multi-touch control surface. He is deeply committed to teaching: Bela is used in the classroom by over 20 universities, and his online course on audio programming has been followed by learners around the globe.

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Lightship 95 is a recording studio on a 550 tonne ship, permanently moored at Trinity Buoy Wharf, East London. The recording studio is run by Soup Studio and it is here that Mark Wastell congregated this incarnation of 'The Seen' to document One Day Band 25. This session lays bare the timbre and restraint that is afforded by musicians fully absorbed in contemporary improvisational practice. The tonal balance of this diverse instrumentation is at once fresh, tense and wholly rewarding.

Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance. Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation.

Born near London in 1957, Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts. Recently, he has been performing solo and duo concerts with Bill Thompson, Mark Wastell, as well as his seven-piece group ‘If Herbie Went West Coast’, using a modular synthesizer system. As a mandolinist, he has been performing with guitarist Martin Vishnick, mandolinist Richard Scott and drummer Emil Karlsen.

Alice Eldridge is a hybrid musician-coder-scientist-maker, currently working in Music Technology and Environment at the University of Sussex. As a cellist she has collaborated with some of Europe’s boldest improvisers and avant garde artists and is one quarter of award-winning ensemble, Collectress.

Chris Kiefer is a computer-musician and musical instrument designer, specialising in musician-computer interaction, physical computing, and machine learning. He performs with custom-made instruments including malleable foam interfaces, touch screen software, interactive sculptures and a modified self-resonating cello.

Luigi Marino is a musician based in London. His work focuses on networks able to display relationships between human and nonhuman actors, with particular attention to how intuitive decisions can profoundly affect pre-existing conditions. He is an active improvisor performing on both electronic media and percussion, especially zarb and bowed custom cymbals.

Mandhira de Saram is a founding member and leader of the Ligeti Quartet, a string quartet who specialise in contemporary music in all its many guises. She is also a busy soloist - an improviser, chamber musician and collaborator, working across a variety of genres with musicians such as Jason Singh, Wadada Leo Smith, Trish Clowes, Ethan Iverson and Shabaka Hutchings.

Mark Wastell has been active as a musician since 1995, making his initial concerts with the trio IST featuring Rhodri Davies and Simon H. Fell. He has performed and recorded extensively and has collaborated with the likes of Derek Bailey, John Butcher, Evan Parker, Lasse Marhaug, John Tilbury, Mattin, Mark Sanders, Tony Conrad, Tim Barnes, Bernhard Günter, Keith Rowe, John Zorn, Peter Kowald, Joachim Nordwall, Otomo Yoshihide, Burkhard Beins, Paul Dunmall, David Toop, Alan Wilkinson, Max Eastley, Hugh Davies, Julie Tippetts and David Sylvian.

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Our first presentation of 2021, One Day Band 24 is a session of poise and tactile precision. A complete presence and informal knowing that the collective energy is moving toward considered placement of each and every sound. The session took place at Holy Mountain Studio, London. Reflecting the time, place and ambience of each of the very special following collaborators, this is an audio document of empathy and progressive soundscaping.

A classically trained pianist, Belle Chen's music is a curious blend of classical, avant-garde, world, electronica, and sound art genres. Her approach to music is unpredictable, often bringing to the audience an element of surprise, yet she retains the tonal aesthetic of classical and neo-classical language in midst of textures drawn from experimental, avant-garde, and world genres. Chen first gained attention in UK's art music scene with her self-released EP 'Listen, London' in 2014, in which she juxtaposed classical repertoire with field recordings taken around London. Self-released albums Mediterranean Sounds (2016), Mademoiselle (2017), Departure (2019) followed - each with a distinct artistic vision - and earning Chen plaudits from industry heavyweights including Brian Eno ("original and provocative"), James Rhodes ("hugely impressive"), Max Reinhardt ("a revelation"), and BBC Radio 3 (Top 4 Best New Music of 2016 BBC Introducing).

Anders Holst is a Danish guitarist/composer, who is continuously looking to explore the means of expression through sound, and seeking to disclose the many sonic and textural possibilities that his instrument holds. His music is informed by reflections on the finds of his musical radar, which pans all around the world and is looking both back and ahead in time, and an equal devotion to improvisation and structure. He has released music in his own name on labels blackout music and scissor tail records and on Rillbar with his alter ego shadow ray. Besides, he is part of collaborations such as bog bodies (mir), Anders Holst & Yann Coppier (clang records) and Cirklen. He has played many acclaimed venues in Denmark and internationally.

Donna McKevitt writes music. Music for film and contemporary dance and music for concert. She likes to mess around with sounds, deconstructing them and combining them with acoustic instruments. She also writes for choral groups and chamber ensembles. From time to time she releases her personal work in the form of an EP. Donna started out in the band Miranda Sex Garden and collaborated with artists like Nick Cave, Tricky and Michael Nyman. Her first work was Translucence a song cycle of Derek Jarman’s poetry which she began when scoring music for his final film Blue. Translucence went on to be recorded and released on Warner Classics receiving five star reviews in all the Classical publications and National newspapers. Donna lived in Sarajevo in the early 2000s where she played viola in the Sarajevo Philharmonic. The new EP Sail and the film A Song Still Inside will also be released in 2020.

Thomas Stone is an electroacoustic composer and musician from London. His practice focuses on live performance, reconciling disparate influences such as his tinnitus, physical endurance, false memories, the physical effect of sound, victorian séance, bass music and 20th century composition. Refined through presentation in various resonant spaces (from churches to a disused water tank, Cornish coastal caves to the hull of a ship) his compositions use contrabassoon and sampling devices as oscillators for his snare drum. Blurring the boundaries between acoustic and electronic sound sources, his post-classical / post-techno soundscapes use the relatively ugly means of long tones, dissonances and cyclic rhythms to reach moments of austere, fragile beauty. Thomas has performed throughout the UK including shows at Tate Britain, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Serpentine Gallery and BBC Radio 3.

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Through friendship and shared involvement in the wider improvised music world, Graham Dunning, Andrew Lisle and Benedict Taylor had known each other for many years, though seldom worked together, and not had the chance to work as a featured small group, or ever play in this particular line up.

'As with the title and nature of the project - One Day Band - it was important to search for the potential newness, unpredictability, spontaneity and crucially challenge of a new group, formed in one day! Due to Trestle Records giving the liberty they did through the platform offered to us, it seemed most natural to jump off the veritable trampoline of freedom given, into a free improvisation as we would a live improvised music performance - the studio as approached as a performance setting if you will - making music with live/performance energy, come what may, with no directive and revision. Rather, all three members of the group responding to each other in real time, and are equally responsible for the shared outcome.' - Benedict Taylor

Graham Dunning's live work explores sound as texture, timbre and something tactile, drawing on bedroom production, tinkering and recycling found objects. He also creates visual work, video and installations drawing on these themes. Graham makes electronic music using unusual methods such as his 'mechanical techno' project and live coding. He regularly plays in improvising duos and ensembles, generally using turntable with dubplates of field recordings, found objects, homemade instruments and spring reverb tanks. Previous collaborators include Colin Webster, Sam Underwood, Ingrid Plum, Anton Mobin, Sascha Brosamer, Embla Quickbeam, Leslie Deere, Bobby Barry and Left Hand Cuts Off The Right. He has performed widely across the UK and Europe, Canada, Russia and Argentina. Graham runs Fractal Meat, an experimental and electronic music tape label which also releases artist editions, with a regular radio show on London's NTS.

Andrew Lisle is a drummer working in the field of jazz and improvised music. He strives to create music within the avant-garde, pushing the limits of what is possible on the drums (technically and musically) while drawing influence from the jazz tradition. Since moving to London in 2013 his virtuosity and musicality has established him as a sought-after drummer on the Jazz and improvised music scene, performing and recording with some of the most innovative musicians in the UK and beyond. These include Colin Webster, John Edwards, John Dikeman, Alex Ward, Dirk Serries, Alan Wilkinson, Matthew Bourne, Rachel Musson and Mark Sanders. Some notable venues and festivals he has performed at include: Cafe OTO, Vortex, The Barbican, Jazz at the Lescar, Paradox (Tilburg), Parrazar (Bruge), Love Supreme Festival, and Incubate Festival.

Benedict Taylor is a solo violist, violinist & composer. He is an active figure within the area of improvised & contemporary music, throughout the UK, EU, North America and Asia. He performs, records & composes internationally, having featured in many venues and festivals including: Spontaneous Music Festival Poznan, Cafe Oto, Jazz en Nord France, Royal Court Theatre, Galway Jazz Festival, Trafalgar Studios London, The Vortex, Ronnie Scott's, BBC Arts Online, BBC Radio 3 & 2, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Cantiere D'Arte di Montepulciano, Edinburgh Fringe, CRAM Festival, The Barbican, Royal Albert Hall, Southbank Centre, ICA London, Radio Libertaire Paris, Resonance FM London. As an improviser he has worked with; Evan Parker, Alexander Hawkins, Sarah Gail Brand, Paul Dunmall, Yves Charuest, Lauren Kinsella, Keith Tippett, Terry Day, Anton Mobin, Daniel Thompson, Tom Jackson, Neil Metcalfe, Wadada Leo Smith, Alex Ward, Renee Baker, Steve Beresford, Kit Downes, Tom Challenger, Angharad Davies, Stephen Crowe, Hannah Marshall, Cath Roberts, Sylvia Hallett, Dirk Serries, Blanca Regina amongst others. He has been involved with a number of higher education institutions, giving lectures in performance, improvisation & composition at the Royal College of Music, City University of London, Goldsmiths University of London, York University, Royal Holloway College London. He is the founder of CRAM - a music collective and occasional label dedicated to the promotion and programming of improvised music.

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One Day Band 22 was recorded in the seaside town of Ramsgate with Bush, Illhan and Stillman all local to the area with Biscuit making the journey from the West country to complete the line up. The spacious studio surrounding of Big Jelly was used to judicious effect with the session quickly charting contemporary experimental orchestral passages. Reed and string resonances floated in the high celling studio vaults whilst pitched percussion delivered more intimate avant garde ambience. The overall edit highlights a Musique concrète feel that goes a long way to conveying the playful yet considered approach of the boundless musical configurations that the day revealed.

London via Margate composer, producer and multi instrumentalist Raven Bush has collaborated with many well-respected artists including Kate Tempest, Paul Weller, Mica Levi, Kwes and Bullion. His music upholds a balance between the orchestral and electronic, abstract and conventional. Raven is also a member of Syd Arthur.

Known predominantly as a member of the Speakers Corner Quartet, Biscuit (Ross Harris) is a Flautist and multi instrumentalist who has performed at such prestigious venues as the Jazz Cafe, Royal Festival & Queen Elizabeth Hall. Harris has also been invited to perform at Tate Britain for Turner prize artist Chris Ofili, and supported masters Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, The Roots and many more.

Adem Ilhan is an English composer, producer and singer-songwriter. He has released many albums: his solo music project released under the name Adem, in the acclaimed post-rock band Fridge, alongside Kieran Hebden, and as part of the electronic duo Silver Columns with Johnny Lynch. He has scored several feature films and television series and numerous documentaries.

Robert Stillman is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from the north east United States. His music juxtaposes the archaic with the futuristic, incorporating influences of Jazz, Minimalism, American Folk music, and experimental electronic music to create a sound described by the Guardian Observer as “lending an avant-garde shimmer to pre-modern American sounds.”

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The session was one of a series of events (January 24 – 27, 2019) resulting from a 6-month long-distance collaboration between Bex Burch and Peter Zummo. It is one manifestation, in improvisation, of research into combining the gyil’s pentatonic scale with the 12-note western European scale, while also considering rhythmic structures appropriate to both traditions.

With composition in the background, on January 26th, 2019 Burch and Zummo invited Bird and Brichard into the Holy Mountain Studios. Whether responding or initiating, their playing was a fresh infusion. The tracks are all live takes, with no overlays. Sometimes we started from one of the compositions, and at other times someone just started playing. We had at least one microphone recording from the beginning of the session, capturing a special moment or two.

Bex Burch is principally known as the founder and band leader of Vula Viel, a jazz group from London, playing music based on the sound of the gyil, a wooden xylophone from West Africa, fused with elements of electronica and minimal music. Burch trained in percussion at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she was introduced to the minimalist music of Steve Reich, and then spent three years with the Dagaaba people of the Upper West Region of Ghana. There she learned music and xylophone making as the apprentice of a master xylophonist, before returning to the United Kingdom and forming Vula Viel. The name Vula Viel was given to Burch on the completion of her apprenticeship, and means "Good is Good" in the Dagaaba language, Dagaare.

Zummo is an American composer and trombonist. He has been described as "an important exponent of the American contemporary classical tradition." Meanwhile, he has been quoted as describing his own work as "minimalism and a whole lot more. Since 1967, Zummo's compositions exploring the rock, jazzss, disco, punk, and world-music idioms have been presented in venues including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City Center, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, among many others in New York City, as well as in numerous additional spaces worldwide. The website of the music magazine Pitchfork called Zummo's music “the sound of sublimity…that sends shivers down the nervous system,” and in an interview with The Quietus, Scottish deejay JD Twitch (Keith McIvor) characterized Zummo's work as “sheer bliss.” Zummo's "most familiar" music was created with cellist Arthur Russell Zummo played on most of Russell's recordings and produced several of them. Russell, in turn, played often for Zummo, notably on the Bessie Award–winning composition Lateral Pass, created for a dance by choreographer Trisha Brown, with a stage set by artist Nancy Graves.

Leon Brichard is a French born bass player and producer based in London UK. He is a founding and active member of the bands Ill Considered and Wildflower as well as French electro meet post-punk band Madmadmad. Ill Considered have released seven albums since their formation in 2017. Wildflower released a self titled records in 2017 and have been featured on the Sgt Pepper tribute album ‘impression of pepper’ released by the Impulse Label they are due to release their second album in 2019. Madmadmad has just released their first album. Leon has also performed, produced and recorded with a wide range of artists including Salif Keita, Rachid Taha, Batida, Melt Yourself Down, Plan B, Bilal, Francois and the Atlas Mountain, Sara Creative Partners amongst others.

A drummer, producer, and mixing and mastering engineer, the eclectic George Bird works with Zara McFarlane, electro-jazz upstarts Saltwater Samurai, Afro-pop musician Byron Biroli, theatre productions, and recording sessions ranging from folk to rock and beyond.

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One Day Band 20 features a collaboration between guitarist and composer Marina Elderton, drummer and electronic musician Nicholas Meredith (AKA Kcin) and violinist, composer Alicia Jane Turner.

As you’d expect from this trio ODB 20 is a highly atmospheric, darkly ambient collection. Nicholas’s drumming varies with industrial din and metallic klang above a sure footed driving kick and free-wheeling kinetic energy. FX pedals augment Marina’s guitar and Alicia’s violin, enabling a textural approach that strays into soundscape and filmic suggestions. Foreboding drones fluctuate and distort amidst spectral effected voices, a pitch-shifted seance that haunts throughout the session. It’s the rewarding culmination of three musicians comfortable and attuned in a mutual exploration that complements a shared aesthetic of confident experimentation.

Marina Elderton is an award winning composer for film, tv, theatre and games, based in London. Her practice combines experimental textures with traditional instruments. As an independent musician she regularly collaborates with other artists, co-founding ethereal-psych duo KULL, electronic duo White Russia (BBC Introducing) and female sound artist collective Erinyes.

As Kcin, Australian producer/drummer Nicholas Meredith combines industrial electronic production with his background as an in-demand drummer to craft powerful, ever-shifting soundscapes that feel monumental in their magnitude. His sound-world, although wet through with electronic and digital elements, draws significantly from the natural world: monolithic structures, human biology, water, working with themes of uncertainty and environmental change.

Alicia Jane Turner is a composer, sound designer, violinist and performance artist whose work spans contemporary theatre, new classical music and live art. Her practice focuses on the visceral affectivity of sound and live music in interdisciplinary performance, using composition and immersive sound design to explore the relationship between the internal and external body, and ask questions about physicality, identity and intimacy. Her compositions fuse the textures of noise music and ambient minimalism with classical instrumentation and electronics, to create dissonant and intricately layered pieces. In her research she interrogates the gendered politics of listening, silence and noise, and how sound and light works to generate atmospheres in sensorial encounters with contemporary theatre.

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The 19th One Day Band session comes from the mind of respected pianist and improviser John Tilbury. Along with musician / sound engineer Martin Clarke, John suggested a collaboration that also incorporates nature, specifically the gulls and the ambient sounds of his Kent coastal home.

The session took place in John’s home studio where he reacted to the prepared field recordings made by Martin Clarke in the morning of the session. Listening to Martin’s edit over head-phones, John played a series of improvisations utilising a grand piano played using a variety of experimental means.

John often used chance and a gestural motion with his fingers that purposefully didn’t always fully engage the keys. Fingers fluttering and wandering the sounds are sparse and incidental. Alongside this expressionistic playing John also used the interior of the piano percussively, striking and strumming the strings of the opened piano.

Martin’s ambient recordings intermingle with the sensitive piano interludes. The sounds of the street, the sea and the local gulls squawking, makes for a listening experience that sounds like a memory.

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Our 18th One Day Band session, curated by Vula Viel’s band leader Bex Burch, features Bex in collaboration with Kuljit Bhamra and Magnus Mehta.

Bringing together three accomplished percussionists the 4 tracks exhibit a stream of rhythmical improvisation and symbiotic collaboration. Combining sounds from a globally disparate selection of instruments, Indian Tabla, Ghanaian Gil xylophone and Latin hand drums ODB 18 offers a rare experiment focused entirely upon percussion.

Kuljit Bhamra is a composer, musician, producer and educator, celebrated for his Tabla playing and having pioneered the British Bhangra sound, mixing traditional Asian instruments and western forms. He has composed for film and theatre and was awarded an MBE in 2009 for services to Bhangra and British Asian music.

Bex Burch is the band leader of Vula Viel. A trio consisting of Ruth Goller on bass and Jim Hart on drums. She is a percussionist with a classical training at the Guildhall School of Music. Bex focuses her compositional output to the Gyilli Xylophone, an instrument she built herself under the tutelage of Ghanaian instrument makers. First visiting Ghana as an undergraduate, on the recommendation of a Ghanaian friend, she settled in the north, with the Dagaare People to begin an apprenticeship with Thomas Segkura, a professional maker of Dagaare xylophones, or Gyilli.

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