Olie Brice
Photo by Seán Kelly
Olie Brice is a double bassist, improviser and composer. Raised in London and Jerusalem, he now lives by the sea in Hastings.
Photo by Seán Kelly
Olie Brice is a double bassist, improviser and composer. Raised in London and Jerusalem, he now lives by the sea in Hastings.
Kit Bula is a drummer and percussionist renowned across the South East for pioneering the Fray Bentos sound, co-developing freak rock (with The Mystic Shed) and spearheading the burgeoning Bexhill-on-Sea avant-garde scene (as Brothers Bula). He has been playing for almost three quarters of his time on Earth and has recently released a solo-ish album All This Young Chump Wants is Drum. Between the 18th February 2026 and the 18th February 2027 Kit intends to play 25 gigs in 25 different towns in order to celebrate his 25th birthday, if anyone has a musical venue, library, shop or public toilet available for him to play in please send him your address and a date and time and he will do it.
Photo by Seán Kelly
Born in Brighton and living in London, John Butcher is a saxophonist whose work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback, unusual acoustics and non-concert locations. He is well known as a solo performer who attempts to engage with a sense of place.
Simian Carbuncle are a guitar duo exploring the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques. Matt Clark and regular collaborator Ade Southby are two like-minded and exploratory improvisors regularly performing in the improvised music scenes of Brighton and London.
Photo by Seán Kelly
Lawrence Casserley is best known for his work in free improvised music, particularly real-time processing of other musicians’ sound, and he has devised a special computer processing instrument for this work.
Andrew Ciccone is a multimedia artist and trash collector from New York. Since migrating to London Andrew has doubled down on his artistic output with deep ventures into live improvisation, paper collage, metalwork, abstract videos and prose. He also runs the Navel-Gazers interview series with recording artists and the No Computers improv event series.
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Matt Clark is a guitarist and improviser based in SE London.
His work sidesteps traditional notions of harmony and melody, instead exploring the random and unexpected within improvisation around twelve tones, and the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques.
Jamie Coleman is an accomplished trumpet player and has been playing with Nathaniel Catchpole, Alex James, John Edwards and Eddie Prévost, Guillaume Viltard and many other improvisers.
Viv Corringham (voice) is a US based British vocalist and sound artist, who has been described as “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3).
She has been cutting her own distinctive path ranging across free improvisation, Greek Rembetika, soundscapes and spontaneously created songs. Work includes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and installations. She is a certified teacher of Deep Listening, having studied with composer Pauline Oliveros, and holds an MA in Sonic Art from Middlesex University, London.