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The Noise Upstairs have finalised details for the next in our series of free workshops.
This one’s going to be brilliant, Rodrigo Constanzo will be taking us through building a couple of home-made instruments, on the first session (Sun 9 May 7pm – THIS WEEKEND) we’ll be experimenting with a contact mic-based instrument, and for the [...]

Just realised what a weird word snow is. Look at it – snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow….. weird.
Anyway, this is my first post on the Efpi website for a while and I appologise for that, but Anton and Ben have been keeping us all well informed so big thanks to them. My only [...]

JOHN ZORN!! JOHN ZORN!! JOHN ZORN!!!!
Ok, we’ve not got him, but The Noise Upstairs is presenting a free workshop on Cobra, his most famous piece. The blurb follows…
The Noise Upstairs Workshops
John Zorn’s Cobra is either an often performed contemporary music composition, an improvisational game, a short attention span barrage of noise, a social experiment, [...]

So over the weekend, I got a chance to play with Skamel again. For those of you that don’t know (which is probably most of you), Skamel is a six piece that me and my brother set up a few years ago to play his arrangements of Raspigaous tunes (they’re a French ska band [...]

So I just got back from playing at Holy Trinity Church in Leeds with the Huddersfield Experimental Laptop Orchestra and the inclusive improv collective. All part of the Leeds Expo which looks really good (can’t make it to anything else due to other gigs unfortunately).
First off, our very own Ben Cottrell performed Oliver Carmen’s [...]