As a drummer and percussionist, Jon Mueller has performed solo and in various groupings throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. His recordings have been released by record labels such as Table of the Elements , Polyvinyl Records , Type Recordings , Jagjaguwar , Hometapes , and many others.

Over the past 25 years, Mueller has become increasingly focused on recognizing the dialog between sound and the situation it’s presented in, often bypassing standard approaches to percussion and considering acoustics and concepts surrounding the work in order to create a larger experience for those listening. The experience of sound, both on it’s own and in performance, can be intense, personal, and physically effective.

Mueller has worked with members of the groups Swans , Wilco , Bon Iver , and Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Trio , as well as being a founding member of the groups Pele , Collections of Colonies of Bees , and Volcano Choir . He has also collaborated with artists such as James Plotkin , Marcus Schmickler , Bhob Rainey , Dan Burke , Asmus Tietchens , Lionel Marchetti , Z’EV , Jason Kahn , Jack Wright and many others.

I Almost Expect to be Remebered as a Chair (for snare drum) by _type

Jon Mueller website
Tom Lecky on ‘Alphabet of Movements’ for The Liminal
Jon Mueller interview with Paris Transatlantic

Naomi Kendrick/David Birchall/Andrew Cheetham

Live drawing from Naomi transforms the improvised musical elements (guitar/percussion) into something else completely. Utterly compelling stuff.

Belied Gunaiko

solo flute work out from Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides mainwoman

belied gunaiko by Rayon Recs

@ St. Margarets Church, Rufford Road, Whalley Range, M16 8AE

£5/£4

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Birchall/Brice/Marks Trio

Olie Brice is a double bassist from London he has performed with Ingrid Laubrock, Javier Carmona, Veryan Weston, Marks Sanders, Alexander Hawkins, Gail Brand, Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Lol Coxhill, Pat Thomas, Mulatu Astatke, Mikolaj Trzaska, Steve Noble, Alex Ward, Hannah Marshall, Steve Reid and Steve Swell, among many others. “Brice makes the entire body of his bass sing. He has the ability to deliver a fractal line that is as purposeful as any by the great jazz bassists, but to do so within an entirely abstract setting” – Brian Morton, Point of Departure. “Consistently inspired” – The Wire. http://oliebrice.wordpress.com

Phillip Marks has been performing and promoting improvised music in Manchester, the UK and Europe since the mid-80s. He is a founder member of Bark!, a member of the Grew Trio and has performed with Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Phil Waschman, Marcio Mattos, Alan Tomlinson, LaDonna Smith, Mick Beck and many others. “Mark’s percussion work shapes and holds it together. His drumming drives the music along and gives it it its pulse- enough indeed for the publicity to  describe it as ‘James Brown meets the spirit of Modernism!’ not a phrase often attributed to improvised music.” All About Jazz. “Hard-edged, nervous improvisation, held together by an oblique textural logic and resolutely ungroovy rythmic figures… There’s a wealth of ideas and an intuitive sense of structure which emerges with repeated listening” Resonance FM

David Birchall started playing the guitar in 1994 and has continued to ever since, gigging and touring extensively with a variety of groups in the UK, France, Holland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Palestine and Denmark. Music he has been involved with creating has been played on BBC1, BBC Radio1, BBC 6 Music and Resonance FM. Realising a few years ago he spent most of his time trying to improvise within the musics he played whether structured or open, he has since consciously tried to locate improvisation at the core of his musical work. He has also made performances with dancers and performance artists at the Lowry Theatre in Salford, the Greenroom in Manchester and the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. www.davidmbirchall.wordpress.com

Films from Castles Built from Sand Collective

selection of recent works from this local/global group of investigators and agitatorshttp://castlesbuiltinsand.wordpress.com/

@ St. Margarets Church, Rufford Road, Whalley Range, M16 8AE

£5/£4

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KALBAKKEN
anglo-norwegian folk song terror and beauty. another rare Manchester performance, tonight’s gig sees line up of voice, violins, guitar, grand piano and percussion

www.myspace.com/kalbakken

DJ SPECIAL K
high fibre exotica

JAIME RORY LUCY’S RUCKSACK CINEMA
analogue visual action

@ St Margarets Church £5/£4 8pm kick off 10:30pm curfew

Great video of Angela and Rod performing as Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern at last Tubers gig. Listen out for fireworks!

Ludo Mich is a Belgian Fluxus artist, performer and filmmaker, active since the 1960s. Ultra Eczema helmer Dennis Tyfus was instrumental in bringing Ludo to the attention of a younger generation after he saw Ludo’s pansexual aktionist emetic films from the 60s and 70s – nudist adaptations of science fiction and Greek myths. In 2005 Ultra Eczema released an lp cut from the soundtracks of these experimental films which featured Da……daist poetry, savage cries and screams, homemade instruments and junk sound. Through this fresh wave of exposure, recent years have seen Ludo Mich collaborating with, amongst others, Dylan Nyoukis, Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer and Wolf Eyes.

Harappian Night Recordings is the solo moniker of Hunter Gracchus member Syed Kamran Ali. Since releasing his critically acclaimed debut album, The Glorious Gongs Of Hainuwele, on Bo Weavil early in 2009 (voted 11th in The Wire magazine’s end of year poll) Ali has produced a slew of increasingly deranged albums on various microlabels across Europe. These releases have seen him move far beyond ‘musical forgeries from an imagined east’ into ambivalent and disturbed psychic territories that have parodied, mutated and ripped apart singular fourth world cosmopolitanisms in a disjunctured maelstrom of frenetic, conflicting and distorted energies. This will be Ali’s debut performance as Harappian Night Recordings in the UK.

Pascal Nichols is one half of improvising duo Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides, who were recently justly described by a conspicuous music critic as the best live band active in the UK right now. Although, as a percussionist, Nichols has collaborated with a number of free improv luminaries it would be wrong to judge him by the criteria of earlier generations. Although technically proficient, the really intriguing qualities of Nichols lie in his insatiable interest in sound and his endless and authentic pursuit of the elusive wild mercury of genuinely collaborative improvisation, undistracted by the idiomatic flippancies and rodomontade of much free improv.

Akke Phallus Duo: A long overdue and much anticipated collaboration between Ben Morris of Chora and Jon Marshall of The Hunter Gracchus. Postally sharing raw voice, poached acousmatic sound & brut instrumental ingredients, shitting on Eno’s Fourth World confluence of privilege, they navigate modes of avant-experimentation open to the freedom & potential of this new duo dynamic. Wheezing & stuttering non-musics through broken mics and burst bellowed reeds, they integrate the spectres of position, loss, resistance and the fruits of free-hybridity from the comfort and confusions of the First World.

doors 8pm, first act 8.30 and PROMPT 10.30pm finish
£5 (£4 concessions)
There will be Kelly’s magic punch, beers, snacks and souvenirs as always

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TONY BEVAN (UK)/SCOTT LOONEY (US)/KLAUS JANEK(IT)

An intercontinental meeting of improvisers!

Scott Looney has forged a signature style using the inside and outside of the piano, plucking strings, using metal implements and other quick preparations, in combination to playing the piano normally. He has also developed a flexible, expressive voice with electronics using Max/MSP which is as effective as his many piano textures are…
www.scottrlooney.com/

Klaus Janek studied classical doublebass with M. Muraro, Venice and in workshops with D.Holland, P.Kowald. L.Butch Morris, Jaribu Shahid.
He explores avantgarde music and works on sound research on the doublebass. Gets involved in the improvised music scene and lots of traditional and electronic music, published CD (FMP, edel classics, Minor Music, Solponticello, Ubiquity and others), in between three solo doublebass CDs. Composes music for tv, dancetheatre and a houseopera, sound for Meta Design, Berlin. Art direction of various concertseries in Italy and Germany. Concert and festival appearances in EU, USA, Russia, Israel, Canada and Japan.
www.klaus-janek.de /

Tony Bevan is an Oxford based player of bass, tenor & soprano saxophones. He has been involved with the LMC and Oxford Improvisers and performed with many of his contemporaries on the UK free improv scene: Phil Minton, Steve Beresford, John Russell, Pat Thomas, Steve Noble and many others.
www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mbevan.html

INVISIBLE HAND
free jazz tinged improvising from 4 great musicians all based in the North West
Stephen Grew: Piano
http://stephengrew.wordpress.com/
Phillip Marks: Percussion
http://www.myspace.com/barkcontraption
Matt Robinson: Clarinent
http://mattrobinsonjazz.weebly.com/
Maxwell Sterling: Double bass
http://www.myspace.com/maxwellsterling
TAKAHASHIS SHELLFISH CONCERN
combines abstract expressionist visual art with experimental electronic-acoustic music to accentuate the similarities of both during improvised exchanges. Angela paints onto a contact miked canvas as Rod and Anton manipulate the sound generated.

http://www.takahashisshellfishconcern.com/

(photos borrowed from mule)

reviews here:

http://santiagosdeadwasp.blogspot.com/2011/08/womb-at-st-margarts-whalley-range.html

http://manchestermule.com/article/review-tubers-music#more-10158

RICHARD SCOTT’S LIGHTENING ENSEMBLE
Scott is now a Berlin based composer and improviser focusing on electroacoutic music.
Richard Scott (Buchla Lightening/WiGi/synth) www.richard-scott.net
Adam Linson (double bass & electronics) http://www.percent-s.com/
Phil Marks (percussion)

David Birchall (guitar) www.davidmbirchall.wordpre​ss.com

Last sighted with Evan Parker at the Cross Street Chapel, Manchester and also at the Manchester Jazz Festival 2010 amidst the Gothic grandeur of St. Anns Church.
Scott has indeed a weath of writing for The Wire and has worked for the London Musician’s Collective (LMC).

HUMAN COMBUSTION ENGINE
This process combusts 2 highly respected inventive improvisers from Leeds… Melanie Crowley and Phil Todd. THis event will hear them playing a duel of SYNTHS. Sounds like the throwing forward of Klaus Shulze into a hot pit.
http://www.myspace.com/ash​traynavigations/photos/239​17721

WOMB
This is a very exhilerating emerging band of Manchester! …Womb are fiercely dedicated to the act of expression. Womb’s approach is experimental, often creating music using World and homemade instruments, sculptures and found objects, as well as more conventional instrumentation. Womb employs some elements of structure but is currently centered around free improvisation with passion at its core. The sound is in a state of constant flux, of construction and deconstruction, of unity and of tension. Womb do not sit comfortably in any genre but parallels have been drawn to a range of styles including; noise, punk, no-wave, psych, spacerock, free jazz and drone.
http://womb.art.officelive​.com/default.aspx

TICKETS ON THE DOOR
WAGED £5
UNWAGED £4

PUNCH SERVED AS A MATTER OF TRADITION AT TUBER EVENTS AND PRETZELS

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