Writing / Publishing
BIRDWATER // KERTECZ#19
An evening of performances by Writers , Sonic and Visual Artists
KERTECZ#19
An event held at D-UNIT
(IMAGE CREDIT: SETH GUY)
NICK MOORE:
Nick Moore is a Bristol-based poet, improvising musician and abstract painter.
He has been writing and performing poetry for over thirty years, and as poet and musician has collaborated with dancers, visual artists, musicians and other poets, in various combinations. – most consistently with In-congruity Project since 1993.
His first book of poems was Getting Blood Out of a Stone; Goban Press, 1992. He was a Slam Winner in 1995 and was included in the Bristol Slam Poetry Anthology; Pimps of the Alphabet Press, 1998.
He was included in Entertainment USA, a collection of poems commissioned by Bath Literature Festival; Stride Publications, 1995.
His second book was a long poem, Moontides; boiling wells publications, 2006.
In recent years he has become more interested in how writing looks on the page and how it relates to the spoken word.
He has published seven books which explore this relationship, in the COncreteVisualSOnicPhOnicWOrdPlay series, as well as EXTEMPoRiSATIoN, a book of visual music/graphic scores. Some of these are now held in the British Library’s contemporary print archive.
He has also been known to thread spontaneous music into his performances…
MARTIN HARVEY:
Martin Harvey is a versatile bass player with thirty years experience, based in Wotton-under-Edge; he co-ran a successful jazz club there for many years.
His background is in modern jazz but he's done everything including singer-songwriter bands, Eastern European, Klezmer, Swing dance. As an improviser, has been a core member of the In-congruity Project over twenty years, as well part of The Revolutionary Knitting Circle, an improv quartet with Nick Moore between 2000-4.
MATT DAVIS:
Matt Davis has been active in improvised music since the mid 90’s, playing throughout Europe and Japan in many different collaborations and small and large group ensembles including Zeitkratzer and La Sospechosa dance company.
From 2003-2008 he directed ‘Field’ - a live art/performance project, which investigated notions of space and collaborated with geographer Doreen Massey, author of For Space.
His sound/music work includes acoustic improvisation (trumpet and preparations) alongside an electromagnetic set up: performance based improvisations that use custom-built cracked electrical devices, often with a visual element, to create electromagnetic fields that are rendered into sound, drawing on the immediate situation/radio space of the performance.
He is currently based in Bristol where he regularly collaborates with, amongst others, Phil Minton, Luigi Marino and Matthew Grigg.
Regular groups include Nodosus (with Angharad Davies, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dominic Lash and John Butcher) and a trio with Rachel Musson and Mark Sanders.
SETH GUY:
Seth Guy appropriates, reconfigures and juxtaposes materials to create playful works which propose a discourse into the cross-modal correspondence of auditory and visual perception at the intersections of language, memory and imagination.
Entry requirements: no age restrictionsThe event has been tagged in the experimental, spoken word and poetry categories.
An event held at D-UNIT
(IMAGE CREDIT: SETH GUY)
NICK MOORE:
Nick Moore is a Bristol-based poet, improvising musician and abstract painter.
He has been writing and performing poetry for over thirty years, and as poet and musician has collaborated with dancers, visual artists, musicians and other poets, in various combinations. – most consistently with In-congruity Project since 1993.
His first book of poems was Getting Blood Out of a Stone; Goban Press, 1992. He was a Slam Winner in 1995 and was included in the Bristol Slam Poetry Anthology; Pimps of the Alphabet Press, 1998.
He was included in Entertainment USA, a collection of poems commissioned by Bath Literature Festival; Stride Publications, 1995.
His second book was a long poem, Moontides; boiling wells publications, 2006.
In recent years he has become more interested in how writing looks on the page and how it relates to the spoken word.
He has published seven books which explore this relationship, in the COncreteVisualSOnicPhOnicWOrdPlay series, as well as EXTEMPoRiSATIoN, a book of visual music/graphic scores. Some of these are now held in the British Library’s contemporary print archive.
He has also been known to thread spontaneous music into his performances…
MARTIN HARVEY:
Martin Harvey is a versatile bass player with thirty years experience, based in Wotton-under-Edge; he co-ran a successful jazz club there for many years.
His background is in modern jazz but he's done everything including singer-songwriter bands, Eastern European, Klezmer, Swing dance. As an improviser, has been a core member of the In-congruity Project over twenty years, as well part of The Revolutionary Knitting Circle, an improv quartet with Nick Moore between 2000-4.
MATT DAVIS:
Matt Davis has been active in improvised music since the mid 90’s, playing throughout Europe and Japan in many different collaborations and small and large group ensembles including Zeitkratzer and La Sospechosa dance company.
From 2003-2008 he directed ‘Field’ - a live art/performance project, which investigated notions of space and collaborated with geographer Doreen Massey, author of For Space.
His sound/music work includes acoustic improvisation (trumpet and preparations) alongside an electromagnetic set up: performance based improvisations that use custom-built cracked electrical devices, often with a visual element, to create electromagnetic fields that are rendered into sound, drawing on the immediate situation/radio space of the performance.
He is currently based in Bristol where he regularly collaborates with, amongst others, Phil Minton, Luigi Marino and Matthew Grigg.
Regular groups include Nodosus (with Angharad Davies, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dominic Lash and John Butcher) and a trio with Rachel Musson and Mark Sanders.
SETH GUY:
Seth Guy appropriates, reconfigures and juxtaposes materials to create playful works which propose a discourse into the cross-modal correspondence of auditory and visual perception at the intersections of language, memory and imagination.
Entry requirements: no age restrictionsThe event has been tagged in the experimental, spoken word and poetry categories.
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