Sunday 8th January | 6pm | £7 On the door or pay what you can
Audrey Chen and Phil Minton serve up a set of wild acapella free vocalisation. With a primary focus on the interplay between the uttered sounds of the mouth and vocal chords, Minton and Chen plumb the depths of their most inherent and bodily instruments. Their improvisations are fearless, fragile, hungry, passionate, riotous, ululating and animalistic, yet are also in all respects, human. Website
Phil Minton comes from Torquay in the UK. He is one of the heavy weights when it comes to vocal improvisation and extended technique. He played trumpet and sang with the Mike Westbrook Band in the early 60s then again in 80s when he returned from doing various dance/ rock band work in Europe. Since the He has become best known for his Feral Choir performances and workshops around the world. Minton plays in a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher and has ongoing duos with all the above. He also plays regularly with Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Guylaine Cosseron, Hugh Medcalfe and Szilard Mezei.
Audrey Chen is a second generation Chinese/Taiwanese-American musician born in Chicago. For nearly two decades, her predominant focus has been her solo work with the cello, voice and electronics, but she has more recently, in the last four years, begun to shift back towards the exploration of the voice as a primary instrument. Aside from her solo concerts, Chen performs as BEAM SPLITTER with trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø; as MOPCUT with Lukas Koenig and Julien Desprez; as HISS & VISCERA with modular synth player Richard Scott; as trio in SEN RYO NO with modular synth players Tara Transitory and Nguyen Baly; in duo with Kaffe Matthews; as AFTERBURNER for voice/live electronics/light with Doron Sadja; and as VOICE/PROCESS with Mexican sound artist Hugo Esquinca. Notable past collaborators include German conceptual artist John Bock and abstract turntablist Maria Chavez.
Chen and Minton have been performing as a duo for more than a decade with concerts/tours in Europe, the US, China, Argentina and Brazil. Their duo album, By the Stream, was released by SUBROSA in 2013.
Support from local duos Rubber Demon, WIno Lodge and Plastic Containers of Nothing.