Notes & Sounds Uni Arms Monday 29 Jan 2024 8pm

Notes&Sounds presents

@ The University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Sheffield, S3 7GH

Monday 29th January 8pm. Suggested donation £5

DUO ZALDUA COOTE

Alistair Zaldua – electric violin James Coote – drum kit

James Coote and Alistair Zaldua established duet improvisation over the course of 2023 and concentrate on exploring the possibilities hidden in a reduced palette of sounds.

James Coote plays an experimental drum set-up that includes a diverse array of objects, and Alistair Zaldua plays the 5-stringed electric violin.

Plus

JABAW

Gillian Whiteley – viola, accordion, hurdy-gurdy, voice/Geoff Bright – soprano & bass saxophones, voice/John Jasnoch – 12 string& fretless guitars, mandolin

J[a]B[a]W is a free improvisation outfit featuring eclectic, hybrid instrumentation and vocalisation, creating an organic mash-up veering from delicate abstraction through insistent sonic curiosity to insistent rhythmic material.

bricolagekitchen prints’n’paper 

bricolagekitchen prints’n’paper is a Sheffield-based artist, pamphleteer and printmaker with a back story in the city’s metal industries (and grandfather in the ‘rag’n’bone’ and ‘scrap-tatting’ trade.) My practice focuses on the re-use and re-invention of discarded and devalued materials.

As bricolagekitchen prints’n’paper, I salvage packaging, discarded books, public works handbooks, battered maps and architectural blueprints as a basis for Adana and letterpress handprinted pamphlets, notebooks, and mini-posters which highlight the politics, ethics and aesthetics of working with ‘rubbish’. I fabricate in the heart of the scrap trade, in Attercliffe in Sheffield, at a studio in CADS Eagle Foundry Works, formerly the palatial offices for steel manufacturers Castmaster Rolls.

Salvage series  includes a range of printed items featuring 19thc Sheffield dialect words for rubbish and scrapkelterment, joram, mullock, and tag-rag. Mini-posters are handprinted letterpress on Adana on found and salvaged packaging paper, early 20thc maps and French public works handbooks with photomontaged motifs cutout from discarded classic texts.

See my related publications such as Junk: Art and Politics of Trash (2011) and co-edited (with Jane Tormey) Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer(2021).

Contact me at gmwhiteley@btinternet.com if you would like any items. Note: 50% of funds received by bricolagekitchen for artworks will go to social movements archive Sparrows’ Nest, Nottingham.

YOWL at Dubrek in Derby Saturday 18th Feb 2023

Listen here to Dubrek audio clip

DUBREK Derby, 67, Bridge Street  DE1 3LB  Saturday February 18th  £5 on the door – doors open 7.30pm

YOWL Gill Whiteley – piano, viola, hurdy-gurdy, voice, Geoff Bright – bass, tenor, and soprano saxophones, voice,  Walt Shaw – percussion, electronics , voice,  Lyn Hodnett – voice, cello, trumpet, objects

“Free improv collective YOWL cook sonic collisions across an accelerating event-space from whispered zero right through to the scream of libidinal wrench.

Expect a weird conjunct of wind, voices, strings, percussion and full-on animal bodies pushing towards a maximal threshold of intensity.”

Geoff, Gill, Lyn and Walt have worked together in different collaborations in duos, trios, & larger groups for many years, but this particular quartet is new and is being brought to Derby from Sheffield, Wales and Burton-on-Trent

There will also be an exciting set from William McGiven. Will is a free form DJ on SoulandJazz.com. His sets always surprise, shock, amaze and innovate

Helling Nelly at University Arms Sheffield Monday 26th September 2022

NOTES&SOUNDS
@ The University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Sheffield, S3 7GH
Monday 26th September, 8pm. £5

HELLING NELLY
Lyn Hodnett, Helen Papaioannou & Gill Whiteley
Prepare for a spontaneous kinetic performance as Helling Nelly play with an array of objects, materials and instruments, including trumpet, cello, baritone sax, hurdy-gurdy, chapel harmonium, scissors, tape, cardboard boxes and sculptural trails of paper. Warning: things could get messy!

FRANK & CLIFFORD
Dean Honer & Will Goddard
Electronics, tapes and guitar
Spontaneous explorations of new idioms possibly
FIONA KENNEDY & HELEN PAPAIOANNOU
1st outing of this Sheffield saxophone duo. Parping, quacking & skronking aplenty