experimental & improvised music radio

Listen to Audition, Sundays between7-8.30pm, 104.4 FM if you're in Central London., or online at Resonance FM.

Audition is the radio show of Sound 323, a record store in North London specialising in interesting music (avant jazz/rock, improv, electronic music, sounds art .... ).

Performance Artist/Composer Adam Overton On Tour

London: Intimacy: Across visceral and digital performance
-9 December 2007 in London, England

hosted by Goldsmiths College, LABAN, and The Albany
I'll be performing the participartory group piece, Four Images on Friday the 7th in evening [FREE] and presenting the participatory installation, [ not ] just because we're horny: spin-the-bottle [ & variations ] from my Art as Excuse series throughout the day on Sunday the 9th [FREE]

both performances will occur in the Ben Pimlott foyer, and are FREE to attend (though some of the other surrounding events, i.e. the symposium, may be ticketed)

the scores for these performances are or will be available on Adam's website here:


Berlin I
Donnerstag, 13 Dec 2007, evening - FREE

Berlin Performance I: with the fabulous Kerstin Fuchs and Jessie Marino at their apartment
performing works by Stefan Streich, Antoine Beuger, and myself (maybe: Touch Music, Best Friends Forever, and/or Solo for Guitar)

please contact karusssel@gmx.de or a@plus1plus1plus.org for the address

Berlin II
Montag, 17 Dec 2007, 21.30

Berlin Performance II: with Christian Kesten as part of Labor Sonor at Kule
lineup TBA - i'll likely be performing Aura[l] Studies with the help of some friends
Labor Sonor, KuLe e.V. Auguststrasse 10, 10117 Berlin

click here for more info

** All of these events are very graciously supported in part through Subito, the quick advancement grant program of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum, in partnership with the American Composers Forum of Los Angeles. **

Modest Mouse Live @ Royal Albert Hall

I didn´t expect my first Royal Albert Hall experience to be Modest Mouse. Perhaps one of the BBC Proms Concerts or something.

I managed to tape parts of this show. You will hear Johnny Marr kind of rambling on about something near the end of Section 2.

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3


The show was actually pretty bad. So I didn´t stick around the whole time. Raced to Queen´s Arms for last drinks.

Bank Holiday

Today I visited the Horseguards of the Household Cavalry Regiment at Whitehall. Two mounted guards are posted at the Parliament Street Gate plus a third roaming the courtyard. A woman informs me that the walker is her son. In the photo below she is seen telling him it's raining.

Yes woman, it is. Now leave the man along so he doesn't get chewed out by his Staff Corporal.

This took place about half a mile north of Big Ben. (Go Steelers)



Next, out of nowhere, a mass of protester march up the street towards Trafalgar Square. The rally was organised by Strangers Into Citizens. The action they are promoting seems to make sense.




As they passed by, I retired to the Red Lion to get out of the rain and devour some Beef & Ale Pie.

Do you hear .... ?

[ UPDATED: MAY 12 ]

London Transcriptions : Portobello Market ?

As a matter of fact, I do.

Do you ?

I am interested to see/hear if the readership can extract something out of this that I don't manage to. You are welcome to submit to me a fragment of thought, still preferrably complete, musical or somethiing else, of up to 2 minutes in length (this is negotiable, please contact me about anything different to this). I don't really care if you are a musician or otherwise better-emploed, if you have a Copland Grant, or better (!), that you don't even know who Copland is. Brownie points for you !

Regarding actual performance possibilities, I am currently setting up a show back in Los Angeles (August 16). However if you are a fast-worker, I can work this into a set I am putting together in Berlin on June 25 at KuLe for the Labor Sonor Series.

Update on Final Submissions for the June 25 show:
Please submit your work by June 1.

Some guidelines for you to consider (& practical concerns) ... as you may know I'm on the road.

1. PDF files are preferred.

2. FYI, the gears that I am travelling with are: G3 Powerbook, iPod, Sony SRS-T33 small speakers, Edirol R-09 MP3 Recorder, Chromatic & A harmonicas, 2 contact mics (RCA ends)

Violin, as well as metal practice mute, glass slide. Hmmm anything else you can think of ?

3. Please attach a short bio of 2-3 lines about yourself. No promises about a program for your files, but there will at least be an ANABlog post about the show when it happens....

4. Send scores to my email: johnny_echo@yahoo.com.

OK, Happy Experimenting!

TRANSITIONS MAY 2-4

Laban Contemporary Dance joins forces with Trinity College of Music to form Trinity Laban, UK's first conservatoire of music and contemporary dance.

Laban-based TRANSITIONS DANCE COMPANY performs at Laban Dance Centre from May 2-4, 7.30pm.


Time Out (London) previews show.


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