Mike AdcockMike AdcockMike Adcock (born 17 May 1950, Birmingham England) is an accordionist and pianist currently based in Cheltenham. He was a founding member of Accordions Go Crazy, and has worked with Flaco Jimenez, the Ray Charles orchestra, African dance outfit Shikisha, composer Gavin Bryars, and The Last Dance Orchestra. In the somewhat niche area of free improvising accordionists Mike has developed a sound which is both subtle and expansive. For Linear Obsessional recorded the album "Accord" - a collection of duets with various improvising musicans.
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Baby
Formed in 1999 and previously working under the names ViV and Vole, Baby is a collective of improvising musicians based in London and Brighton. For further information see their website. They released the album "Near Wanstonia"
Steven Ball
Steven Ball works across various audio-visual media including film, video, sound, and has exhibited in numerous exhibitions, screenings, and performances, since the nineteen eighties. He is also a member of the legendary post-punk DIY group Storm Bugs. His website is here. Steven has recorded three albums and an EP for Linear Obsessional.
Lou Barnell
Lou Barnell is a London-born movement and sound artist.
As a neurodivergent female artist, Lou is inspired by dissonance and control. She creates scores as physical traces to explore her body as a disorientated instrument and a navigational tool. Lou uses ‘Live Dreaming’ to examine symbiotic parallels of dreaming and performing by merging bodies with movement, sound, and live sculptures. She uses alchemical re-useable materials such as ice, thermoplastic, and wearable sensors to fracture and formulate porous in-between spaces and imagine futures.
In this way, dreaming offers solutions for humanity in the face of self-destruction. Lou is currently undertaking a period of research and development funded by Arts Council England to interrogate the potential of dream states, embodied listening, and materials.
Website is here
As a neurodivergent female artist, Lou is inspired by dissonance and control. She creates scores as physical traces to explore her body as a disorientated instrument and a navigational tool. Lou uses ‘Live Dreaming’ to examine symbiotic parallels of dreaming and performing by merging bodies with movement, sound, and live sculptures. She uses alchemical re-useable materials such as ice, thermoplastic, and wearable sensors to fracture and formulate porous in-between spaces and imagine futures.
In this way, dreaming offers solutions for humanity in the face of self-destruction. Lou is currently undertaking a period of research and development funded by Arts Council England to interrogate the potential of dream states, embodied listening, and materials.
Website is here
Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford is a British musician who graduated from the University of York. He plays a variety of instruments, including piano, trumpet, euphonium and a wide variety of toy instruments and low grade electronics. He is probably best known for free improvisation, but has also written music for film and television and has been involved with a number of pop groups. He played in Derek Bailey's Company events and in the groups Alterations with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack, and the Three Pullovers with Nigel Coombes and Roger Smith. Steve has continued to play improvised music with a number of prominent musicians, including Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, Alfred Harth and Han Bennink. He has also worked with a number of popular musicians, including The Slits, Frank Chickens and The Flying Lizards. You can read much more about Steve here. He appears on the Linear Obsessional release "Berlin Toy Bazaar" with Anna Homler and Richard Sanderson
John Bisset
John Bisset is an improvising guitarist born in Stockport in 1960. He became involved with The Manchester Musicians' Collective and played with the post-punk bands Spherical Objects and Grow Up. After coming to London he played with many of the city's free improvisors and formed The London Electric Guitar Orchestra. He has continued to play both improv (with regular collaborators like Rhodri Davies and Burkhard Beins) and in left field pop groups like Pocket and Country Dad. He also produces extraordinary videos with Ivor Kallin for 2.13 TV. For Linear Obsessional John recorded the album (and DVD) "Van Quixote"
Mark Braby
Mark Braby led his own band "Joe's Comforters" and was a member of London avant-rock band "Lost Robots" (with Andy Coules, Richard Sanderson and Clive Pearman"). He has promoted music under the "Orchestra Pit" banner and is the regular host of London's "Scaledown" club. He is now a member of the legendary post-punk group Subway Sect, led by Vic Godard. He plays on the Linear Obsessional release "Baffling Signals".
Mark Browne
Mark Browne is an improvising musician based in Aylesbury, South East England. He has been playing different types of improvised music for many years, predominantly using the saxophone. Over the last 9 years the instrumentation has evolved to include percussion instruments, game calls and whistles. For further information visit his myspace page. For Linear Obsessional Mark recorded the album "Malapert and Erratic" and the EP "The Prejudices of History" and with the trio Browne/Thompson/Sanderson.
Duncan Chapman
Duncan Chapman is a freelance composer / sound artist based in Lincolnshire UK. Much of his work involves collaborations with groups to create performances, installations and recorded works. Recent projects have been with The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, British Paraorchestra (with Sound & Music) and the Spot On festival in Sydney. He is currently making sound effects and music for a village panto and touring Manasamitra's Lullabies projects in the UK and beyond.
For Linear Obsessional Duncan has recorded the albums "Piddocks" and "Cove"
For Linear Obsessional Duncan has recorded the albums "Piddocks" and "Cove"
Alex Charles
Alex Charles is a visual artist and musician based in the UK. He has previously appeared under such names as Thee Alex and, for some 11 years and over 100 releases, Thee Moths. His recent music is based around the live manipulation of loops made with small instruments, he describes this process as "simultaneously more simple and more complex". For further information visit www.alexcharlesmusic.co.uk. For Linear Obsessional he released the album "Hourse" and the EPs Trevenec and "Silenced Electronics".
Dave Clarkson
Over the last 30 years, Manchester based Dave Clarkson has been involved in many areas of music, mainly experimental. During the 80s, Clarkson recorded solo experimental/ electronic music on cassettes under the name Central Processing Unit as well as playing drums in rock bands. In 2000, he formed the solo project Illuminati and has so far recorded 5 CDs, numerous vinyl appearances and been featured on BBC radio and in film festivals. Illuminati also provided incidental music to the film of the media art installation ‘Human Avatars’ (Andrea Zapp 2006) together with Vini Reilly (Durutti Column). Clarkson co-founded the Lotta Continua label (2004-2010), Burst Couch experimental club night and co-formed experimental electronic trio Triclops (2001-2012) releasing 3 CDs. Clarkson has shared events with such artists as Keith Rowe, Janek Schaefer, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, Biting Tongues, Crispy Ambulance and Melt Banana. He is currently putting together new solo material and has recently been involved in remix projects, putting a Bandcamp page together called Cavendish House and recording three albums due for release in collaboration under the name Psychic Frequencies. Dave has recorded four albums for Linear Obsessional.
Charlie Collins
rlie Collins is a creative percussionist, free polyrhythmic drummer, and sound artist, based in Sheffield, UK. His work continues to explore the boundaries between pure sound and rhythm, frequently incorporating metal percussion and free improvisation. During the 1970s he was involved in the nascent “Industrial” scene, recording for cult labels Industrial, Fetish, and Doublevision, a period soon followed by collaboration with many of the pioneers of free improvisation. More recently he has been a regular member of alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons Quartet, has a duo with New York trumpet legend Ted Daniel, and has toured and recorded with the Linda Sharrock Group. His lifelong interest in East Asian percussion and rhythm technique is displayed in current work with komungo player Eun-Jung Kim, pianist Yoko Miura, visual artist Bongsu Park, composer Ryoko Akama, voice artist Ami Kamasaki, and Butoh dancers Tsukasa Kamidate and Mushimaru Fujieda. He is one of a handful of musicians to have played both Derek Bailey’s Company Week and Top Of The Pops.
Mike Cooper
Slide guitarist Mike Cooper released his first record in 1964 and proceeded to create a formidable reputation as a folk/blues artist. However his restless experimentation led him to start incorporating elements of free jazz and then free improv into his music, before completely embracing the aesthetic with his collaboration with a miriad of explorative musicans including the group "The Recedents" with Lol Coxhill and Roger Turner. His willingness to experiment and collaborate has taken him all over the world - including Hong Kong where his duo with Yan-Chiu Leung- "Right (H)ear Side by Side" was recorded for Linear Obsessional, a solo album "Forbidden Delta Planet Blues" followed
Viv Corringham
Viv Corringham is a British vocalist, composer and sound artist, currently based in NewYork, who has worked internationally since the early 1980s. Her work includes music performances, audio installations and soundwalks. Her ongoing project Shadow-walks has been presented in gallery shows from New York to Istanbul to Hong Kong. Her educational background and awards include an MA Sonic Art with Distinction from Middlesex University, London, England and a BA Theatre Design from Nottingham Trent University, England. She is a certified teacher of Deep Listening, having studied with composer Pauline Oliveros.
She is a 2012 and 2006 McKnight Composer Fellow. Viv has recorded two albums for Linear Obsessional.
She is a 2012 and 2006 McKnight Composer Fellow. Viv has recorded two albums for Linear Obsessional.
Cravune
Cravune was born in 1979 in Naples, Italy, and is currently based in Berlin.
As a self-taught programmer and recordist, he has been creating short and minimalistic compositions built around found sounds and field recordings, as well as producing aural environments for artists and contemporary dancers.
His approach to sound manipulation aims at preserving and sharing memories, intimate and unspoken perceptions, like an entry in a secret diary: not mere documentation of an occurrence but descriptions of an emotional state.
As a self-taught programmer and recordist, he has been creating short and minimalistic compositions built around found sounds and field recordings, as well as producing aural environments for artists and contemporary dancers.
His approach to sound manipulation aims at preserving and sharing memories, intimate and unspoken perceptions, like an entry in a secret diary: not mere documentation of an occurrence but descriptions of an emotional state.
Dirch Blewn
Dirch Blewn is the project of sound artist David Bloor. He explores ideas around connection to each other in community, to the past in memory and to the world in information. Sound generation through happy accident or influence of chaos in feedback, the physical influence of electrical components and the degradation caused by time and physical process. Work includes composition and recording using analogue systems and physical connections, building upon a relationship and history with these systems. He has recorded two albums for Linear Obsessional - Capacity and Resistance and Axis
Duncan Chapman
Duncan Chapman is a freelance composer / sound artist based in Lincolnshire UK. Much of his work involves collaborations with groups to create performances, installations and recorded works. Recent projects have been with The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, British Paraorchestra and at the Jaipur Literature Festival. He is currently making sound effects and music for a village panto, working on live streamed performances with a hive of bees and performing online with Carnatic singer Supriya Nagarajan.
Graham Dunning
Graham Dunning is an artist and musician working in sound, installation and performance. He has shown work in solo and group exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA. He improvises solo and in ensembles using various different set-ups including live found tape sampling, extended percussion, turntables and dubplates and homemade electronics. His website is here. He plays on the Linear Obsessional album "Estigate" with Colin Webster.
Phil Durrant
Born near London in 1957, Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts.
As a violinist (and member of the Butcher/Russell/Durrant trio), he was one of the key exponents of the “group voice approach” style of improvised music. In the late 90s, his trio with Radu Malfatti and Thomas Lehn represented a shift to a more “reductionist” approach.
Recently, he has been performing solo and duo concerts with Bill Thompson et al, using an analogue/digital modular synthesizer system. As a mandolinist, he has been performing with guitarist Martin Vishnick and a quartet with Sue Lynch, Hutch Demouilpied and Dave Fowler.
Durrant still performs regularly with the acoustic/electronic group Trio Sowari (with Bertrand Denzler and Burkhard Beins) and Mark Wastell’s The SEEN.https://www.facebook.com/philsowaridurrant/ https://www.facebook.com/sowarimodular/
As a violinist (and member of the Butcher/Russell/Durrant trio), he was one of the key exponents of the “group voice approach” style of improvised music. In the late 90s, his trio with Radu Malfatti and Thomas Lehn represented a shift to a more “reductionist” approach.
Recently, he has been performing solo and duo concerts with Bill Thompson et al, using an analogue/digital modular synthesizer system. As a mandolinist, he has been performing with guitarist Martin Vishnick and a quartet with Sue Lynch, Hutch Demouilpied and Dave Fowler.
Durrant still performs regularly with the acoustic/electronic group Trio Sowari (with Bertrand Denzler and Burkhard Beins) and Mark Wastell’s The SEEN.https://www.facebook.com/philsowaridurrant/ https://www.facebook.com/sowarimodular/
Far Rainbow
Far Rainbow is the North London based duo of Emily Mary Barnett (drums and percussion) and Bobby Barry (electronics and amplified objects). They have recorded several acclaimed cassettes for the Zero Wave label and appeared at alternative events throughout the UK. Their first CD release was "Somewhere Out There Was The Wave" for Linear Obsessional Recordings.
Sam Fendrich
Sam Fendrich is a composer (born 1947, Novosibirsk, Siberia) based in London. He began his musical career as a double bassist in jazz and folk groups, before becoming a professional poker player for a year, then after studying mathematical philosophy he returned to composition. "Etude Brutus" was performed at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival for the Sonic Arts Network. He is currently collaborating with the film maker Dominic Lee. A very old webpage can still be found here. When not composing Sam teaches higher mathematics. Sam has recorded seven albums for Linear Obsessional.
Pete Flood
Composer and percussionist Pete Flood is probably best known as the drummer and arranger with the British folk behemoth Bellowhead, he also plays with The Farmyard Animals Trio, Setsuban Bean Unit and The Treecreepers. There's an interesting interview with him here. For Linear Obsessional Pete recorded the album "Mycoworld"
Kassia Flux
Kassia Flux was a musician, composer and structural biologist. Her passion for music was kindled at school by violin lessons and choir, but rapidly morphed into a love of tape loops, contact mics, experimental vocals, field recordings and digital techniques.
Kassia forages and forges material from her surroundings, integrating it with her electric violin and voice, in order to create original tunes and long-form pieces for release, live performance, radio and installation. Kassia has performed at a number of London venues, including Iklectik, Linear Obsessional Live and Dronica festival. She has recorded two albums for Linear Obsessional. Kassia Flux tragically died in 2020.
Kassia forages and forges material from her surroundings, integrating it with her electric violin and voice, in order to create original tunes and long-form pieces for release, live performance, radio and installation. Kassia has performed at a number of London venues, including Iklectik, Linear Obsessional Live and Dronica festival. She has recorded two albums for Linear Obsessional. Kassia Flux tragically died in 2020.
Found Drowned
Found Drowned are the improvising trio of James O’Sullivan, Peter Marsh and Paul May. The three first played together around a decade ago and released their eponymous first album back in 2012; since then they’ve occasionally popped up at the usual improv hotspots, collaborating with the likes of New Zealand violinist Chris Prosser or Danish saxophonist Julie Kjaer among others.
Iris Garrelfs
Iris Garrelfs is a composer/performer intrigued by change, fascinated with voices and definitely enamoured by technology. She often uses her voice as raw material, which she transmutes into machine noises, choral works or pulverised “into granules of electroacoustic babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing” as the Wire Magazine put it. Iris works solo as well as in collaboration with other artists, for example with Thomas Koner in his Futurist Manifest, Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot), Kaffe Matthews, Scanner, and Si-cut.db. She also speaks about electronic music at conferences and events in the UK and abroad. Her website is here. For LinearObsessional,Iris recorded the album "Bedroom Symphonies"
Ben Glas
Ben Glas (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist and composer based in Portland, OR. Through ephemeral compositions Glas' work questions preconceived notions between passive and active participation, collapses the difference between hearing and listening; listening and experiencing. In seeking to explore open ended forms of music and listening perspectives, Glas' compositions focus on subjective perception, via the use of acoustics, psychoacoustics, text-based pieces and site responsivity as tools for sonic composition. Past works and releases include "Music To Interact To" (Blnkstrs/ NY), "Music For An Empty Space and Full Mind" (Sounds Et Al/ NY, PDX), experimental sound installations in various public spaces around the USA and a comprehensive multichannel drone composition debuted at PICA's (Portland Institute of Contemporary Art), as part of the TBA festival. More details and proof of this ego-trip can be found at www.thankyouforyourunderstanding.com
Duncan Goddard
Madrid based Duncan Goddard plays keyboards and bass guitar in the British group Radio Massacre International (with Steve Dinsdale and Gary Houghton) with whom he has recorded a number of albums variously categorised as "space rock", "krautrock" and "Berlin School". He and Steve started playing electronic music together in Teesside in the late 1970s, and the band have played various festivals around the world. Duncan recorded his first solo album "Electrical Tape" (an exploration of the unique sounds of the Mellotron) for Linear Obsessional in 2013.
Anna Homler
Anna Homler is a vocalist, performance artist and composer, based in Los Angeles, USA. She takes bits and pieces of phonetic clusters from several different languages and combines them into a language that is all her own. She calls this technique “Linguistic Alchemy.” She started out in 1980 with performance art, then around 1985 began to focus on the human voice. Anna travels the world with her music, singing with a wide array of different musical groups. She often combines these events with performance art and with found-object sculptures. For much more about Anna see her website here. Anna appears on the Linear Obsessional album "Berlin Toy Bazaar" with Steve Beresford and Richard Sanderson..
Bruce Hamilton
Bruce Hamilton (b. 1966) composes and performs music in a variety of genres. He has performed as a percussionist, improviser, and electronic musician for over 25 years. His music is published by Non Sequitur Music and can be heard on the Albany, Amaranth, and/OAR, black circle, blank space, Capstone, Ilse,, Memex, Phill, SEAMUS, Spectropol, split-notes, Three Legs Duck and Mark labels.
A graduate of Indiana University, Hamilton is Associate Professor of Music at Western Washington University, where he teaches music theory, composition, and directs the electroacoustic music studio (WWEAMS). He is a co-organizer of the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival, a board member of Make.Shift and the Washington Composers Forum, and runs the Spectropol netlabel. Hamilton lives in Bellingham with composer Lesley Sommer and their son Miles. His website is here. For Linear Obsessional, Bruce recorded the album "Drams"
A graduate of Indiana University, Hamilton is Associate Professor of Music at Western Washington University, where he teaches music theory, composition, and directs the electroacoustic music studio (WWEAMS). He is a co-organizer of the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival, a board member of Make.Shift and the Washington Composers Forum, and runs the Spectropol netlabel. Hamilton lives in Bellingham with composer Lesley Sommer and their son Miles. His website is here. For Linear Obsessional, Bruce recorded the album "Drams"
Kev Hopper
Kev Hopper is a bassist, guitarist, songwriter and electronic musician. He came to prominence in the 80's quirky indie band Stump, before embarking on a solo career with an early example of sampling music "Stolen Jewels" - he was a member of the audio/visual electronic quartet Ticklish (with Phil Durrant, Richard Sanderson and Rob Flint) and currently plays bass in the odd-prog-crypto-funk trio Prescott (with Rhodri Marsden and Frank Byng). For Linear Obsessional Kev recorded the albums "Tonka Beano" and "Corbyn Sceptic Club"
The Horse Trio
The Horse Trio are a London based improvising trio formed in 2012 by Sue Lynch (saxophones and flute), Hutch Demouilpied (trumpet and flute) and Richard Sanderson (melodeon and amplification). Their first release is an eponymous 3" EP - "The Horse Trio"
Ivor Kallin
Ivor Kallin is a Scottish improviser who lives in London. He currently plays bass with Ya Basta, and has done for at least two decades, bass with the Horseless Headmen, viola with the improv string trio Barrel (check out Gratuitous Abuse, the CD) and in the London Improvisors Orchestra (CDs on Emanem and Psi), previously played bass guitar with the London Electric Guitar Orchestra (several CDs on 213Music), made a CD on location in Glasgow with John Bisset (A Schlep from Strathbungo, on 213), and collaborates with the same person regularly making stupid but intelligent films for www.2-13.co.uk and occasionally rants bloody awful poetry as Ambrosia Rasputin, which was also the moniker adopted whilst hosting a regular radio show on Resonance FM. He is an Orient season ticket holder, and keeps a close eye on the results of Queen's Park and Pollok FC. He has recently become a grandfather, so that shows you how old he might be. You can write to Ivor at ivorkallin@gmail.com. He recorded "A Wee Dug Stole A Haddy Bone - Pibroch Viola Improvisations" for Linear Obsessional.
Grundik Kasyansky
My name is Grundik Kasyansky. I play electronic music.
I was a founding member of Israeli experimental electronic duo Grundik and Slava. The duo played an important role in the flourishing of the Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem art and music underground in late 90s-early 00s. Since 2004 I play improvised music, and collaborated with many musicians, dancers, painters and filmmakers. I released records through Matchless, Another Timbre, Creative Sources, Cathnor, Earsay, Fact, Auris Media, Stateart and Dromos. I also play in bands Staraya Derevnya, Denis D’or, and Llull Machines. Before concentrating on electronic music I wrote poetry and it deeply influenced my current practice. Since 2006 I’ve been developing a customised setup, which I call “feedback synthesizer” (a feedback/analog synthesis system).
https://grundik.tumblr.com/
Grundik recorded the album "Lepus" for Linear Obsessional
I was a founding member of Israeli experimental electronic duo Grundik and Slava. The duo played an important role in the flourishing of the Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem art and music underground in late 90s-early 00s. Since 2004 I play improvised music, and collaborated with many musicians, dancers, painters and filmmakers. I released records through Matchless, Another Timbre, Creative Sources, Cathnor, Earsay, Fact, Auris Media, Stateart and Dromos. I also play in bands Staraya Derevnya, Denis D’or, and Llull Machines. Before concentrating on electronic music I wrote poetry and it deeply influenced my current practice. Since 2006 I’ve been developing a customised setup, which I call “feedback synthesizer” (a feedback/analog synthesis system).
https://grundik.tumblr.com/
Grundik recorded the album "Lepus" for Linear Obsessional
Kamura Obscura
Kamura Obscura is the current project of Atsuko Kamura who performed in the early 1980s cult band Mizutama Shobodan (Polkadot Fire Brigade), one of Japan's first all-female punk bands. Their second album was produced by Fred Frith. On moving to London at the end of the eighties she joined Frank Chickens and co presented Kazuko's Karaoke Klub with Kazuko Hohki on Channel 4. Her new music incorporates enka, chanson, Japanese punk, and vocal improvisation, with current material inspired by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. Her website is here. For Linear Obsessional Kamura recorded the album "Speleology"
Fabio Keiner
Fabio Keiner is a sound artist based in Vienna. He prefers to keep biographical information to a minimum, referring to a Zen Bhuddist saying "I came alone, will leave alone and all my lifetime I stayed alone". More of his music can be found here. For Linear Obsessional Fabio recorded "Quiet Poundings"
Eun-Jung Kim
Eun-Jung Kim is a leading exponent of the komungo, the traditional Korean fretted long-board zither. She studied traditional music and performance at Korea’s Chonnam National University, ethnomusicology at The University of Sheffield, and komungo under master Mu-Gil Kim. Since then her music has reached out to incorporate other cultures and contemporary techniques, while abiding by the tenets of Korean performance, most notably in her long standing duo with percussionist Charlie Collins. She has worked with numerous other performers, including Steve Beresford, Terry Day, Yoko Miura, Derek Saw, Neil Campbell, Faye MacCalman, tabla virtuoso John Ball, and oud player John Jasnoch. In July 2017 she collaborated on the London world premier of visual artist Bongsu Park’s “Internal Library”.
Charlotte Law
Artist Charlotte Law first picked up her guitar in 2015 in an attempt to return to the Icelandic Highlands, where during weeks of solitude the ground shifted, its rocks breaking underfoot, and her mind lightened: blown out of the body by the wind. Since then the guitar has become a place to journey, with and through. Played with found and treasured objects (spoons screws swan feathers lump hammers shells stones) and a sense of space expanding: every journey is treasured and no path is the same.
Alongside her guitar she works with voice and text, piano's and power tools, grass, field-recordings, landscape, fire...she has made metal, films, books, and is water based. Genesis P-Orridge was a loving mentor, and collaborators include; Artur Vidal, Marie Roux and Anina Hug, My Name Is Confusion, Victoria Rance, David Bloor, Blanc Sceol and The SEER.
For Linear Obsessional Charlotte Law recorded the album Ice Since Fire.
her website is here.
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Alongside her guitar she works with voice and text, piano's and power tools, grass, field-recordings, landscape, fire...she has made metal, films, books, and is water based. Genesis P-Orridge was a loving mentor, and collaborators include; Artur Vidal, Marie Roux and Anina Hug, My Name Is Confusion, Victoria Rance, David Bloor, Blanc Sceol and The SEER.
For Linear Obsessional Charlotte Law recorded the album Ice Since Fire.
her website is here.
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Steve Layton
Steve Layton is a Seattle composer who for the last 30 years has worked almost exclusively with electronic and electroacoustic instruments and sound. He is also a longtime participant in the recurring web event Sound-In.org, which brings together musicians from all over the globe to create, play and share their music. Layton is also currently editor of the well-known contemporary classical website Sequenza21.com. His music is released on his own NiwoSound label. More
information can be found at www.niwo.com/steve. He appears on the EP Cairo Compression
information can be found at www.niwo.com/steve. He appears on the EP Cairo Compression
Yan-Chiu Leung
Yan-Chiu Leung is a Chinese musician based in Hong Kong, he plays the sheng -a traditional Chinese instrument - a kind of bamboo mouth organ. He appears in a duet with Mike Cooper on the album "Right (H)ear Side by Side"
Longstone
Cheltenham based experimentalists Longstone have been together for the best part of 20 years and have recorded several albums for the Ochre label and their own Wavetable imprint. Formed by electronicists Mike Ward and Mike Cross the band has expanded to include guitarist Kev Fox (90 degrees South), woodwinds improviser Chris Cundy and percussionist and improviser Stuart Wilding. Read more at Wavetable. For Linear Obsessional Longstone recorded the vinyl LP "Risaikuru"
Lost Robots
Lost Robots was formed in 2002 by Mark Braby (drums vocals), Clive Pearman (guitar), Andy Coules (bass) and Richard Sanderson (keyboards and vocals) as an experiment in improvised experimental rock, rehearsing frequently and creating songs from recorded improvisations in the manner of bands like This Heat, Can and Faust. Their first album "No" was released by Orchestra Pit Recordings in 2008. Activities thinned out as family life intervened, although the band made a few largely acoustic appearances before getting together in One Cat Studios Brixton to record their second album "Arms" for Linear Obsessional in 2015, the album finally appeared in 2017.
John Love
John Love AKA David Teboul works under the name Linear Bells. He is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist based in Nantes, France. His music is a mix between, vintage instruments, sound manipulations and field recordings, all primarily created with acoustic and analogic instruments. Teboul starting to produce sounds in the mid 90′s under the name of Embark. He created one of the first French net-labels “Acrylik”, which was involved in electronica production, and both digital and vinyl distribution. For Linear Obsessional John Love recorded the album "White Sessions"
Sue Lynch
Sue Lynch(Tenor Saxophone,Flute, Clarinet) currently runs The Horse Improvised Music Club in South London, with Adam Bohman and Hutch Demouilpied.
In the 1980’s she toured with The Happy End Big Band and then went on to be part of Caroline Kraabel's 'Mass Producer's'.
She currently performs with Hogcallin’ ( with John Edwards,Steve Noble, Adrian Northover),'The Remote Viewers’ , Helen McDonald’s ‘Future Groove’, The Horse Trio ( Richard Sanderson, Hutch Demouilpied) and an ensemble with Eddie Prevost and Jennifer Allum. Sue recorded the EP "These Lamps"
In the 1980’s she toured with The Happy End Big Band and then went on to be part of Caroline Kraabel's 'Mass Producer's'.
She currently performs with Hogcallin’ ( with John Edwards,Steve Noble, Adrian Northover),'The Remote Viewers’ , Helen McDonald’s ‘Future Groove’, The Horse Trio ( Richard Sanderson, Hutch Demouilpied) and an ensemble with Eddie Prevost and Jennifer Allum. Sue recorded the EP "These Lamps"
Christopher Mack
Glaswegian Christopher Mack also performs as The James Orr Complex, and records for Rock Action Records. His fingerpicking guitar style has been described as "taking a pioneering approach to the exploration of tunings (with) a general freedom of spirit." He currently lives in Sao Paolo, Brazil. He appears on the Linear Obsessional release "(o raio verde)", a collaboration with the sound artist skitter.
Ian MacGowan
Ian MacGowan has been playing improvised music since arriving from Dublin in 1990 and has collaborated with Paul Rutherford, John Stevens, Lol Coxhill and Eddie Prévost among others. He helped to institute the London Improvisers Orchestra in 1998 with Steve Beresford and Evan Parker after the Butch Morris London Skyscraper tour, and also founded The Gathering with Maggie Nichols. In 2000 he recorded his second CD as a leader, “Daybreak”, with Derek Bailey, Veryan Weston, Gail Brand and Oren Marshall. As well as regularly playing with UK and Irish improvisers, he has also performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar Arkestra, guitarists Hanearl Park and Reeves Gabrels, the Poet and Detroit legend John Sinclair, and New York based drummer Harris Eisenstadt. He has recently collaborated with drummer G Calvin Weston and has been featured on a version of John Zorn’s gamepiece Rugby which will be released by Tzadik. For Linear Obsessional Ian recorded the solo trumpet album "Windmap".
Phil Maguire
Phil Maguire is a sound artist, musician and photographer based in London. He makes "reductive music with computers and recordings of things". His work for Linear Obsessional, "this this" was premiered in July 2015 at Festival Internacional de Música Experimental in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Phil's website is here
Peter Marsh
Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Peter Marsh was a founding member of avant-funk band Lob, before playing in the improv trio Elvers. He continues to perform in a wide variety of musical contexts and plays regularly with drummer Paul May.He also produces and edits videos and writes about folk, jazz and experimental music for the BBC website. His collaboration with Paul May "Falling, More Slowly" was issued by Linear Obsessional in 2013.
Hannah Marshall
Hannah Marshall studied Music at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and with John Stevens 'Community Music LTD'. She has been devising music and sound within Theatre and Dance since 1996, working as a performer, sound designer/composer and puppeteer with a broad spectrum of artists and contexts. As a musician she is involved in improvisation and brings this into much of her work within theatre and dance. She plays with The London Improvisers Orchestra, Luc Ex, Barrell (with Alison Blunt and Linear Obsessional artiste Ivor Kallin) and Trio of Uncertainty. She is co-artistic director of The Ding Foundation, making visual theatre since 2001. Here website is here. Linear Obsessional has released her solo album "Tulse Hill"
Paul May
Paul May is one of the "go to" drummers on the UK improv / left field scene - he has played with a huge number of musicians who value his unique and spacious style. The past two decades have seen him tour extensively in Europe and the Scandinavian regions with improvised and pop music. He has released or played on a variety of records on labels such as Leo, Emanem, Loog, Butterfly, Fire, ATP, Four Eyes, Bo Weevil, Gronland, Forewind and Stuck Records with artists such as Carolyn Hume, Dom Lash, Duke Garwood, Alexander Tucker, Rosie Brown, Dan Beban, and Petra Jean Philipson. He is a member of The Windsors, featuring ex members of Kenny Process Team. He regularly forms a rhythm section with bassist Peter Marsh, with whom he recorded "Falling, More Slowly"
Jude Cowan Montague
Jude Cowan Montague is a composer/musician, writer and artist. Her first collection of poetry "For the Messengers" (Donut Press, 2011) is a study of Reuters news stories throughout 2008 and is based on her day job as a media archivist and film historian. She improvises using electronica and voice on Reuters stories for her monthly show 'World News Vision' on SoundartRadio. Recent albums are available on the Three Legs Duck and Linear Obsessional netlabels. She was a student of the innovative jazz educator John Stevens at Community Music, and makes odd,expressive videos that can be found on her You Tube channel, 'solarisqs'. She is also one half of the duo "Foulkestone" which performs traditional folk songs with electronic instrumentation. For Linear Obsessional Jude has recorded three albums.
Steve Moyes
Steve Moyes is an experimental improvising musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Kent, England. His main instuments are cello, electric guitar and xaphoon, and he makes extensive use of electronics, live looping and computer processing. Steve collaborates with a wide variety or musicians and artists in other media, including film, dance, live drawing/painting and spoken word. He is always keen to be involved in new projects, collaborations and live performances. His own website is here. For Linear Obsessional Steve recorded the album "Gardening".
Paul H. Muller
Paul Muller is composer based in California, USA. As a teenager Paul studied trumpet with Edward Truetel and now plays in the brass section of the California Lutheran University Orchestra. He also writes contemporary music for church services as well as instrumental and ambient electronic works. His main influences have been JS Bach, Steve Reich, Richard Lainhart and James Ross. Paul’s music has been sung regularly by the choir of Trinity Lutheran Church for over 10 years. Scores for these pieces are available for downloading and performance at no charge. In addition, Paul has posted ambient and instrumental works at ImprovFriday events each week. His previous CDs 'Directions' and 'Dark Sunset' were released on the Ventura Contemporary Music label. For Linear Obsessional Paul released the album "Soft Sirens and Still Time" and he provided a track for the compilation "Quarters".
Nada
Nada is the improvising duo of Roger Mills (Sydney, Australia) - Trumpet, and Hervé Perez (Sheffield UK) - alto sax. While Perez and Mills live on opposite sides of
the world, they met through their mutual work with the telematic improvisatory music ensemble Ethernet Orchestra. The pair quickly realised a shared aesthetic and
continued developing their sound online. Their album for Linear Obsessional, "Mirror Image" documents their first meeting in the physical world, and their continuing creative collaboration.
the world, they met through their mutual work with the telematic improvisatory music ensemble Ethernet Orchestra. The pair quickly realised a shared aesthetic and
continued developing their sound online. Their album for Linear Obsessional, "Mirror Image" documents their first meeting in the physical world, and their continuing creative collaboration.
Peter Nagle
Peter Nagle is a composer and cellist based in London. His music combines elements of improvisation, extended just intonation Peter Nagle is a composer and cellist based in London. His music combines elements of improvisation, extended just intonation and other alternative/ microtonal tunings, drones, loops and electronica.
Peter studied composition at Sheffield University with David Harold Cox, and later with Michael Finnissy. He was twice shortlisted for the Huddersfield New Music Festival Young Composers Award. His music has also been performed in Bath, Birmingham, Manchester and London, by ensembles and performers including Elision, the New Music Players, the Duke Quartet, Angharad Davies and rarescale.
As a performer Peter has appeared at venues throughout London including the Horse Improvised Music Club, Linear Obsessional Live, I’Klectik and APT Gallery. He has performed solo and with musicians such as Angharad Davies, Tom Jackson, Orphy Robinson, Sarah Nicolls, Laura Jurd, Elliot Galvin, John Richards (aka Dirty Electronics), Tansy Spinks and Rahel Kraft.
Peter studied composition at Sheffield University with David Harold Cox, and later with Michael Finnissy. He was twice shortlisted for the Huddersfield New Music Festival Young Composers Award. His music has also been performed in Bath, Birmingham, Manchester and London, by ensembles and performers including Elision, the New Music Players, the Duke Quartet, Angharad Davies and rarescale.
As a performer Peter has appeared at venues throughout London including the Horse Improvised Music Club, Linear Obsessional Live, I’Klectik and APT Gallery. He has performed solo and with musicians such as Angharad Davies, Tom Jackson, Orphy Robinson, Sarah Nicolls, Laura Jurd, Elliot Galvin, John Richards (aka Dirty Electronics), Tansy Spinks and Rahel Kraft.
Adrian Northover
Adrian Northover plays soprano, sopranino and alto saxophones, and is based in London. He can currently be heard playing on the London club scene with a wide range of musicians, including the London Improvisers Orchestra and The Remote Viewers, as well as doing solo saxophone performances. Recent gigs include playing at John Russells 'Qua Qua' festival, performing to films with Trip-tik at The Cinema Museum, and various gigs at The Horse Improv Club. Adrian also works with film/sound and has recently completed the soundtrack for an 8 min animation film for the human rights organisation 'Technical Tech'. As well as 'Jazz Thali' (Indo -Greek Jazz fusion) with Harvir Sahota (tabla) and Tasos Stamou (bouzouki), Adrian is also interested in North Indian classical music, and works with Hanif Khan (table), Mehboob Nadeem (sitar). He appears on the Linear Obsessional album "Mantra Gora". His website is here.
The Original Beekeepers
London band The Original Beekeepers are primarily Tom, Steve and Ash and have been around since 1984 in one form or another, originally performing as Shammy Leather. With a huge mountain of various CDs they have stockpiled nearly 500 home recordings. They have appeared on a couple of Asaurus Records compilations and "Music For Barges" originally came out on the UK cassette-only label Victory Garden Records. Eccentric and off-kilter their releases are never particularly easy to find, but are well worth the effort. They also perform live occasionally. Your can follow their activities on Facebook here. The Original Beekeepers very kindly allowed Linear Obsessional to re-issue the splendid "Music For Barges" in an expanded form and in 2015 they released the (very) long awaited new album "How The River Runs Dry", followed in 2019 by "Fear for the Future"
James O'Sullivan
Using a combination of feedback, conventional guitar techniques, and instrumental preparations, London-based James O' Sullivan exploits the full sonic potential of electric guitar and amplifier in order to relate them meaningfully to the immediate physical environment .
His interest in improvisation, recording and performance has led him to record and perform across the UK and internationally, both solo and with numerous improvised music groups. James’ more permanent musical collaborations include Muster, a duo with Dan Powell (electronics), Found Drowned, a trio with Pete Marsh and Paul May, and his work with Thanos Chrysakis on several releases on the Aural Terrains imprint. His debut solo album, feed back couple, was released in 2011.
His second solo album, ‘IL Y A’, is available on Linear Obsessional.
His interest in improvisation, recording and performance has led him to record and perform across the UK and internationally, both solo and with numerous improvised music groups. James’ more permanent musical collaborations include Muster, a duo with Dan Powell (electronics), Found Drowned, a trio with Pete Marsh and Paul May, and his work with Thanos Chrysakis on several releases on the Aural Terrains imprint. His debut solo album, feed back couple, was released in 2011.
His second solo album, ‘IL Y A’, is available on Linear Obsessional.
Juanjo Palacios
Juanjo Palacios is a field recordist and sound artist based in Gijón, Spain. During the last few years he has developed several projects related to soundscape and composition in which, through sound, he has not only investigated landscape, territory, identity, memory and heritage but also everyday life. In 2009, Juanjo Palacios created "Mapa Sonoru", a soundscape project in Asturias. In 2011 he founded "La Escucha Atent"a, a platform devoted to phonography which, from 2012, also has its own label co-directed with Edu Comelles and focused on field recordings. Juanjo Palacios is a collaborator of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial where, from 2011, he coordinates a working group linked to Mapa Sonoru. Starting in 2012, and together with José Manuel Costa, he is a curator of the project “…y su sonido”, a series of specific soundscape studies from an artistic point of view. From 2013 onwards he is co-editor of MASE, a project around the history and presence of sound art in Spain. His work has been exhibited or broadcasted in Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, LABoral Centro de Arte in Gijón, Matadero Madrid, Centro de Arte La Regenta in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Sala La Gallera in Valencia, Museo Barjola in Gijón and Sala Laudeo de la Universidad de Oviedo, among many others. His sound compositions have been published by labels in countries such as Portugal, England, Belgium, Colombia, Mexico or Spain. He has conducted workshops and given lectures on phonography and soundscape, designed ambiences and performed in concerts in several festivals and art centres. His website is here. For Linear Obsessional, Juanjo recorded "Ensenada"
Clive Pearman
Clive Pearman lives in South London, he played guitar (electric and acoustic) and banjo in the avant rock band "Lost Robots". After a background in blues and rock bands Clive's music has veered further into the realms of experimental improvisation as heard on his solo album "The Earliest Humans". As well as his irregular collaboration with Richard Sanderson, he plays in the Brazilian Tropicalia group "Os Dados" and the Equipe Collective. He appears on four Linear Obsessional releases - "Corks" and "Bottles" (both with Richard Sanderson), the solo album "The Earliest Humans" and his duo with drummer Mark Braby "Baffling Signals"
Jérôme Poirier
Jérôme Poirier is a musician who mainly uses electric cello, his voice, electronics and the bodhrán. He explores improvisation and acousmatic music. He is also involved in the chamber pop trio Landing Cellophane. Jérôme Poirier was born in 1978 in Paris, France where he still lives. He is the curator of the Three Legs Duck netlabel. He appears on three Linear Obsessional releases - "Deconstructed Notes Towards", "Quarters" and "The Seventh Tenant"
Project Mycelium
Project Mycelium was formed as an exploratory musical project in 2013 by London based musicians Luke Brennan and Lorenzo Santangeli. They have produced work for (live) film scores, collaborated on soundscape projects and have had their music archived in the British Library Sound and Moving Image Catalogue. They are currently working on long form piece of music for two electric guitars to be released later in 2016. Their releases for Linear Obsessional include "Pulse" and "Pyramiden"
raxil4
raxil4 is the solo project of London based sound and sculptural artist Andrew Page. His dark brooding dronescapes combine analog and digital sound sources, including field recordings, detuned radios, computers, turntables, CD & mp3 players, tape recorders, 8-bit gameboys, handmade electronic devices, broken vintage equipment and handmade sculptural instruments (made from mainly found materials such as hospital crutches, driftwood and bones reclaimed from the River Thames). His works have been broadcast on terrestrial and internet radio, been featured on film soundtracks and have been exhibited in art galleries, in the United Kingdom, Europe, America and Canada. He has collaborated with musicians, poets, performance artists, sound artists and visual artists. He has performed many improvised concerts solo, duo, trio or as part of a large scale ensemble. Occassionally he sings with a Blues band. Much of his music is available here
C. Reider
C. Reider is a composer of electronic music, he runs the Vuzh Music netlabel and the Dystimbria netlabel. He lives in Northern Colorado, in the United States. He has participated in many collaborations, and groups, most notably Drone Forest. Other major projects included Luster and Crook'd Finger. He was active in the global cassette underground during the nineties. He was also involved in music journalism, having written reviews and conducted interviews for the now defunct magazines AUTOreverse and Mouthy during the 90s & early 00s. His current pursuits circle around raising awareness of the netlabel community, and considering its future. There is also a plan in effect to play live improvised experimental music in various venues... a new concern having never performed live before 2012. For Linear Obsessional C. Reider recorded the albums "One Of The Drone Boys" and "Tape Loops"
Paco Rossique
Paco Rossique lives and works in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). He has lived and studied in Madrid and Florence (Italy). With a career spanning over twenty years as an artist, his work include paintings, murals, sound art pieces, sculptures, prints, magazine articles, art-books, illustrations for newspapers and curatorship.
He has composed sound art pieces, such as those for the exhibition “90% Water” with Mónica Aranegui and Jose J. Torres in the Library of the University Carlos III, Madrid 2011, Soundtracks for the “Land for the future: sustainable development” in the Elder Museum of Science and Technology Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and soundtrack “Planning the insular Landscape.” Special Territorial Plan of the landscape of Gran Canaria. Biennial of the Canaries 2009. His website is here Paco has recorded two albums for Linear Obsessional.
He has composed sound art pieces, such as those for the exhibition “90% Water” with Mónica Aranegui and Jose J. Torres in the Library of the University Carlos III, Madrid 2011, Soundtracks for the “Land for the future: sustainable development” in the Elder Museum of Science and Technology Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and soundtrack “Planning the insular Landscape.” Special Territorial Plan of the landscape of Gran Canaria. Biennial of the Canaries 2009. His website is here Paco has recorded two albums for Linear Obsessional.
Richard Sanderson
Richard Sanderson is an experimental and improvising musician based in London, originally from Middlesbrough in he North East of England. His instrument of choice is the melodeon (diatonic button accordion) although he also plays electronics, toys, guitar and organ. He has recorded with the bands Lost Robots, Minnow and Ticklish and in duos with Steve Beresford and Mark Spybey. His solo album "Improvisations for Melodeon" was released in 2011. He plays in Browne/Thompson/Sanderson, The Horse Trio and dances with Blackheath Morris Men. Very occasionally he re-activates his late 70's post-punk band Drop. He appears on the Linear Obsessional releases , "Bottles" and "Corks" (with Clive Pearman), "Tone Chambers" with skitter, "Berlin Toy Bazaar" with Steve Beresford and Anna Homler, and the solo releases "Precision" (an EP), "Air Buttons", "A Thousand Concreted Perils" and "Compass Rose". He also runs Linear Obsessional Recordings.
skitter
skitter is the Glasgow based sound artist Liam Stefani. He has produced collaborative works with Ela Orleans, Roger Ward, Richard Youngs, Ewan Stefani and many others, often working with manipulated field recordings. He has promoted many gigs under the "scatter" banner and ran the "Scatter" record label. Liam appears on three Linear Obsessional releases - "Quarters", "(o raio verde)" (with Christopher Mack) and "Tone Chambers" (with Richard Sanderson)
smallhaus
Smallhaus is David Little, a South-East London based composer, guitarist and electronic music producer.
Solaris
Solaris was formed by Mark Sanderson, Richard Sanderson and Mark Spybey as young krautrock fans in Teesside in 1974, when they were aged 12 and 13. As the members grew up through post-punk, electronic music and free improv they have remained friends and still occasionally record together. Their album "Summer Edits" was released in 2016 followed by the cassette "Findings and Soundings" in 2020.
Denis Sorokin
Denis Sorokin is a musician and painter from Saint-Petersburg. He performs new academic music, mostly the music of composers from Wandelweiser, and performs his own transcriptions for guitar of compositions by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Galina Ustvolskaya and others. In free improvisation he uses prepared guitar, live electronics and objects. As an artist he works in abstract painting, drawing, installation and performance art and also makes a covers to musical albums.
His website is here. He plays on the Linear Obsessional album "Lullabies For Monstrous Moonshine"
His website is here. He plays on the Linear Obsessional album "Lullabies For Monstrous Moonshine"
Tasos Stamou
Tasos Stamou is an electroacoustic music composer, a performer of free improvised music, an electronic instruments maker and a sound art tutor, fromAthens but currently based in London. During the past few years he has been exploring and utilizing several different mediums of original sonic creation into various recordings and performances; arrangements with self-modified sound toys (circuit bending) and found objects, electroacoustic equipment (modular synthesizers, DIY electronics, computer applications), vivid sonic performances and sound installations. Mostly as a multi-instrumentalist of free-improvised music he has presented live sets in solo projects and in collaboration with other experimentalists and improvisers (London Improvisers Orchestra, Evan Parker’s “Call them Improvisors” orchestra, Adam Bohman, Valerio Tricoli, Kuupuu & Lau Nau, Terry Day, Adachi Tomomi, Ilan Manouach, Ignaz Schick etc.) around venues and festivals for innovative music. Since 2008 he has been running “Kukuruku Recordings”, an independent label for ephemeral exploratory sound works. He is currently running workshop series for circuit bending & hacking sound toys for experimental sound production. He appears on the Linear Obsessional release "Mantra Gora". His website is here.
Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer.
He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in a number of groups including Gates, zerøspace, 3+1, and Airfield (with Ian Spink), and duos with Phil Durrant, Phil Maguire and Richard Sanderson. Past collaborations include performances with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.
Although trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for over 20 years. In 2016 he returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining built in electronics with miscellaneous table top devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.
He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2012.
For more information visit: www.billthompson.org
He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in a number of groups including Gates, zerøspace, 3+1, and Airfield (with Ian Spink), and duos with Phil Durrant, Phil Maguire and Richard Sanderson. Past collaborations include performances with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.
Although trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for over 20 years. In 2016 he returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining built in electronics with miscellaneous table top devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.
He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2012.
For more information visit: www.billthompson.org
Tick Tick
Tick Tick were a post-punk band formed in Middlesbrough UK in 1979. The original line-up consisted of Gary Widdowfield, Geoff Spence and Richard Sanderson. This group had the peculiar distinction of being mentioned in “Smash Hits” magazine as being the first band in Teesside to use a drum machine. It was this group that recorded their first record, a 12” EP entitled “The Immortalisation of Tick Tick” in 1980. Shortly after this the line-up was expanded by the addition of Ste Weatherall and Paul Fowler and went on to record the "My Swelling Heart" EP- finally released by Linear Obsessional in 2013. This group played some high-profile concerts in the North East, including gigs supporting The Fall and Pink Military. Further line-ups followed, including a stint under the name "The Maid’s Neck" before finally calling it a day in 1982. Geoff Spence's definitive history of the band can be found on his blog
Daniel Thompson
Acoustic guitarist Daniel Thompson is one of the leading lights of the newest generation of London improvisers, (which also includes Tom Jackson and Benedict Taylor). Originally from Norwich but based in London for several years, Thompson studied with John Russell before making his own way with a huge number of collaborations. For the last two years he has been running the Foley Street Improvised Music Series. For Linear Obsessional Daniel recorded with the trio Browne/Thompson/Sanderson.
NE Trethowan
NE Trethowan is an electronic composer based in Tampere, Finland. He runs the Tavern Eightieth microlabel with Mike Waters and his website is here. He recorded the album "Grammostola" for Linear Obsessional.
Sergey Vandyshev
Sergey Vandyshev is a musician and sound designer from St. Petersburg. He works with Pure Data software and experiments with such directions as ambient, microsound, field recordings and noise. At the moment he collaborates with different musicians from the experimental scene in St. Petersburg.
His Soundcloud page is here. He plays on "Lullabies For Monstrous Moonshine"
His Soundcloud page is here. He plays on "Lullabies For Monstrous Moonshine"
Paul Wady
Paul Wady has been recording music and making films as The Model Aircraft Museum since 2007. He was diagnosed with Higher Functioning Autism, or Asbergers in 2004. He works for the National Autistic Society. He says of his music "I love synthesizers because of the timbres and unique sounds they can make, together with the divine sound of pulse width modulation going slowly in and out of phase, a little chorused. Love it. The soaring sine waves, the strange beauty of a carefully tuned filter. That, and I can't play anything but the keyboard". His highly informative website is here. For Linear Obsessional Paul recorded "The Terminal Beach".
Matt Warren
Matt Warren is a Hobart, Tasmania-based artist with a practice that has a basis in both composition and improvisation. The work investigates memory, transcendence, liminal spaces and suspension of disbelief. He records and performs live both solo and with collaborative music projects and has performed as part of the Damo Suzuki Network and the Hobart Improv Collective.
He has undertaken sound-based residencies with Jean-Yves Thériault in Montreal, Canada and with Damo Suzuki in Köln, Germany and produced sound works that have been presented in Australia, New Zealand, France, UK, Germany, Portugal, Spain and the USA.
https://roomofsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/
https://mumblespeak.bandcamp.com/
https://dustanddata.bandcamp.com/
He has undertaken sound-based residencies with Jean-Yves Thériault in Montreal, Canada and with Damo Suzuki in Köln, Germany and produced sound works that have been presented in Australia, New Zealand, France, UK, Germany, Portugal, Spain and the USA.
https://roomofsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/
https://mumblespeak.bandcamp.com/
https://dustanddata.bandcamp.com/
Mark Wastell
Mark Wastell is a British free improvising musician based in London. Initially known as a cellist (notably in the trio Ist) he has expanded his pallette to include tam-tam, harmonium and amplified surfaces. A frequent collaborator and organiser, Mark also runs the acclaimed label Confront Recordings. For Linear Obsessional Mark released the EP of solo tam-tam "Vibra: Trent"
Weatherglass
Weatherglass is a musician who lives and works in North West England. His release for Linear Obsessional is "Contractions for Ophelia" .
Colin Webster
Colin Webster is a saxophonist from London who has performed with some of the key figures in free jazz and improvised music including Archie Shepp, Joe Bowie, Steve Noble and Alex Ward. Colin has recorded four albums and toured extensively with poet Anthony Joseph, and also recorded four albums of improvised music with drummer Mark Holub. Colin also regularly collaborates live and on record with like-minded souls from all over the world. His website is here. He appears on the Linear Obsessional album "Estigate" with Graham Dunning.
Chris Whitehead
Chris Whitehead is interested in the way sound can be used to evoke landscape, location and history. He has released field recordings on the Electronic Musik label and Impulsive Habitat. In his work and in the manipulated sound duo Ammonites with Chris Corner, the intention is always to immerse the listener in an unseen, textural environment. His latest CD is "Gryphaea" released on the OBS label. Chris is based in Whitby on the north east coast of England- A place which reverberates with deep echoes of the past. For Linear Obsessional Chris recorded the album "South Gare" and the "EP "Habitats for Metal Plants".
