THE THICKET

A strange new a capella work from Bristol-based sound artist Yas Clarke, The Thicket is an intricate, rhythmic and melodic text score, composed for four voices. Sometimes narrative, sometimes abstract & non-verbal - this text is an arcane expression of the human relationship with its environment.

Each singer is conducted by a distinct in-ear score, a process which allows for detailed structuring of the four-part score; phrases, words and syllables layered into elaborate rhythms and harmonies otherwise impossible to perform. The result is mesmerising & uncanny, an experience which transports & transfixes.

"It's not like much else I've heard... it's really knocked me sideways, in a good way." Jen Allen, BBC Radio 3, Late Junction

"A meditation on humans & our place on Earth, conjuring both a sense of home & another world... Clarke reminds us that the barriers between real & imagined, natural & inorganic, aren't so strict." Vanessa Ague, The Quietus

"Wow, this piece is really great... it's really fantastic" Oren Ambarchi

“a strange mixture of beauty & austerity that I have not come across before or since” Harry Burgess, Adult Jazz

EMPTY BUCKET METHOD

Empty Bucket Method is a new trio featuring Stewart Houston (clarinet with floor tom), Kevin Leomo (saxophone) and Fritz Welch (horizontal bass drum). The music oscillates between desolation and exuberance. This concert will be their first time playing in front of fellow humans….

NEIL QUIGLEY

Neil Quigley is a Composer and Artist from Ireland who is currently living between Kilkenny, Ireland and Glasgow, Scotland.

Neil primarily makes solo work but is also in a duo with the composer Sam Scranton called Physique, a quartet with Bryn Davis, Nick Meryhew and Sam Scranton called The World’s Greatest Drum Programmer and an electroacoustic ensemble with Simon Wiens, Rachel Ní Chuinn, Lauire Pitt and Nicholas Cooney called Network Music Glasgow.

Neil's recent solo works centre on a speculative history of an audio research laboratory based in parochial Ireland in the late 20th century. This work is released as an ongoing anthology series entitled the "Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology”.