upcoming concerts
Friday 8 February 2019
“a Pan-European instrumental quartet”
Angharad Davies / violin
Marjolaine Charbin / piano
Ute Kanngiesser / cello
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga / zither
part of Resonance FM Fundraiser
Iklectik | Old Paradise Yard | 20 Carlisle Lane
London SE1 7LG (map)
More info here
recent concerts
Sunday 27 January 2019
Jürg Frey
Electronics and loudspeaker pieces
Part of an ensemble playing Circular music no. 6
Jennifer Allum / violin
Angharad Davies / violin
Sarah Hughes / zither
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga / zither
John Macedo / electronics
Luciano Maggiore / electronics
Phil Maguire / electronics
Phil Julian / electronics
Cafe OTO
7:30pm
London, UK
More info here
Friday 20 April 2018
outwash – trio with Angharad Davies (violin) and Tisha Mukarji (piano)
Borderline Festival 2018
Athens, Greece
see here – more info to follow
Friday 23 March 2018
‘early to late’ cd launch concert on another timbre
Magnus Granberg
How Vain Are All Our Frail Delights (2017)
Jürg Frey
Late Silence (2017)
Ensemble Grizzana:
Jürg Frey
Magnus Granberg
Angharad Davies
Mira Benjamin
Anton Lukoszevieze
Dominic Lash
John Lely
Richard Craig
Philip Thomas
Simon Allen
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga
7:30pm
st mary at hill
lovat lane
london ec3r 8ee
organised by music we’d like to hear
info and tickets here
Tuesday 12 December 2017
quintet with John Butcher/Angharad Davies/Matt Davis/Dominic Lash
John Butcher (saxophone)
Angharad Davies (violin)
Matt Davis (trumpet)
Dominic Lash (double bass)
more info here
Cafe OTO
7:30pm
London, UK
midnight music at ausland in Berlin last Friday
trio with Jennifer Allum and Ute Kanngiesser
feedback on our Huddersfield performance //
5 star review of the Jürg Frey / Magnus Granberg concert at Huddersfield in the Financial Times of all places (by Josh Spero):
“…The festival’s final afternoon featured work that reminded me of Oliveros but was far more refreshing. Magnus Granberg and Jürg Frey both took inspiration from early music, atomising pieces by Byrd and Ockeghem respectively, but producing radical results. In Granberg’s How Vain Are All our Frail Delights? (2017), the players of the Ensemble Grizzana set off along separate paths, interpreting gobbets of musical material in their own way. Emerging into a 40-minute crystalline silence were rustles from the zither, electronically magnified breaths from the flautist, a gentle buffing of the cello strings. For the second time that weekend, there were tuned glasses of water.
In Frey’s Late Silence (2017), the ensemble pulled simple, quiet two-note phrases from the hush, calling and replying to one another, leading and holding back, before warm harmonies emerged as several instruments took up a single note and let it fade away. Despite the sparseness of the material, it felt purposeful and secure, in contrast with Oliveros’s fussy obfuscation. The result was meditative, questioning, universal, spiritual. It actually sounded like fragments echoing down the centuries. ★★★★★ ”
“The musicians of Ensemble Grizzana are arranged in the usual way for their concert at St Paul’s Hall in Huddersfield. Another player, the percussionist Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga, sits among them. The table beside her holds a small and rather beaten-up zither and a tray of the kind of objects you might find at the back of a spare kitchen drawer: two filter baskets from stove-top espresso machines, a tea-strainer, letter opener, a cog, a nut and bolt…”
read the whole review on the spectator here
“..strikingly, stunningly beautiful…”
read the whole review on the 5:4 blog here
Friday 8 December 2017
trio with Jennifer Allum and Ute Kanngiesser
also playing:
Hanna Hartman – objects
BI & KA
Biliana Voutchkova – violin
KA (Cornelia Müller) – piano
part of biegungen im ausland
more info here
ausland
8:30pm
Berlin, Germany
Sunday 26 November 2017
Magnus Granberg: How Vain Are All our Frail Delights? World Premiere
Ensemble Grizzana:
Magnus Granberg celesta / harmonica / percussion
Jürg Frey clarinet
Mira Benjamin violin
Angharad Davies violin
Richard Craig flute/electronics
Philip Thomas piano
Anton Lukoszevieze cello
Dominic Lash double bass
John Lely electronics
Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga zither and electronics
Simon Allen percussion / dulcimer
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 40
1:00pm
Huddersfield, UK
more info here
Wednesday 11 October 2017
TRIO: with Luciano Maggiore and David Toop
also playing:
SOLO: Christian Wolfarth
DUO: Angharad Davies & Jason Kahn
part of SOLO:DUO:TRIO
more info here
Cafe OTO Project Space
7:30pm
London, UK
Thursday 18 May 2017
solo concert
Azkuna Zentroa
Bilbao, Spain
More info here
Saturday 17 December 2016
duo with Angharad Davies (violin)
London, UK
Tuesday 13 December 2016
duo with Henrik Olsson (percussion, electronics)
Göteborg, Sweden
Sunday 13 November 2016
trio with Daichi Yoshikawa (feedback) and Xavier López (synthesizer, laptop)
Berlin, Germany
Tuesday 30 August 2016
RE/WOT #4
trio with Seijiro Murayama (percussion) and Ross Lambert (guitar)
also playing Daichi Yoshikawa (feedback)
live music at St Augustine’s Tower
the oldest building in Hackney
behind 354 Mare Street E8 1HR
7pm door times
tickets £8 at the door only
limited space //
reserve your ticket at dimitra@strokebystroke.net
Friday 22 July 2016
trio with Axel Dörner (trumpet) and Daichi Yoshikawa (feedback)
Sound Metaphors Record Shop
Berlin, Germany
Tuesday 5 July 2016
duo with Jennifer Allum (violin)
sharing the evening with Graham Dunning/John Macedo/Tom White (trio) and Steve Noble/John Butcher (duo)
£8 at the door (£6 advance)
more info here.
Cafe OTO
Sunday 16 January 2016
duo with Axel Dörner (trumpet)
also playing Daichi Yoshikawa (feedback)
Ausland
Berlin, Germany
Tuesday 3 November 2015
trio with Seijiro Murayama (percussion) and Ross Lambert (guitar)
as part of Seijiro Murayama’s residency
OTO Project Space
£5 at the door only
more info here
Thursday 1 October 2015
trio with Cristián Alvear and Ryoko Akama
OTO Project Space
6pm doors
£6 at the door only
more info here
Sunday 11 October 2015
performance with Constanza Brncic, Matt Davis and Jennifer Allum
RE/WOT #3
live music and dance at St Augustine’s Tower
the oldest building in Hackney
Thursday 19 November 2015
solo at echoraum
trio with schnee: Burkhard Stangl (guitar) and Christoph Kurzmann (ppooll, electronics, voice)
Vienna, Austria
recent concerts
Monday 31 August 2015
duo with Ute Kanngiesser
opening for Andrea Belfi
cafe OTO
more info here
Thursday 2 July
trio with Felipe Araya Muñoz and Jennifer Allum
also playing Luciano Maggiore
Cafe OTO Project Space
6pm doors
£6 at the door only
more info here
Wednesday 17 June
OTIUM (quartet with Henrik Olsson, Angharad Davies and Axel Dörner)
L’ateliers
Evreux, France
more info here
Wednesday 10 June
Confine Aperto
duo with Neza Naglič
also playing Ivo Poderžaj, Andrej Fon
Ljubljana, Slovenia
more info here
May 2015
RE/WOT #2 was absolutely amazing // sound- people- light-wise //
RE/WOT #2
SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015
MATT DAVIS :: trumpet/electromagnetic setup
http://f-i-e-l-d.co.uk/
RIE NAKAJIMA
http://www.rienakajima.com/
TOM MUDD :: electronics
http://www.tommudd.co.uk/
UTE KANNGIESSER :: cello
http://www.utekanngiesser.com/
DIMITRA LAZARIDOU-CHATZIGOGA :: zither
RE/WOT #2 is the second event of
live music at St Augustine’s Tower
the oldest building in Hackney
behind 354 Mare Street E8 1HR
6pm doors
tickets £8 at the door only
limited space //
reserve your ticket at
dimitra@strokebystroke.net
Many thanks to Hackney Historic Buildings Trust for making the Tower available
recent concerts
THE SEEN
Sunday January 25th 2015
3pm – 9pm
The Old Limehouse Town Hall
646 Commercial Road
London
E14 7HN
Entrance £10 on the door
Free Confront Recordings sampler CD with the first 30 tickets sold
ABJECT BLOC in association with Confront Recordings presents:
THE SEEN
David Toop – alto flute
Clive Bell – sho
Bertrand Denzler – saxophones
Yoni Silver – bass clarinet
Mark Wastell – harmonium, tam tam
Richard Sanderson – accordion
Phil Julian – electronics
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga – zither
Angharad Davis – violin
Phil Durrant – violin
Graham MacKeachan – double bass
Dominic Lash – double bass
ABJECT BLOC DJ’s:
Jon Hawken, ” “[sic] VomiTimoV Goldie & John Wild plus special guests!
Enquiries : “ “[sic] VomiTimoV Goldie Abject Bloc sarcomasign@gmail.com
SOLO at CAFE OTO
Thursday 5 February 2015
MUCKLE MOUTH & CAFE OTO PRESENTS:
PASCAL NICHOLS + L’OCELLE MARE + DIMITRA LAZARIDOU-CHATZIGOGA
Cafe OTO
8pm
“Great triple bill of artists pushing at the fringes, hosted by Muckle Mouth – a series of events drawing lines between folk and experimental artistic practice, bringing DIY artists, musicians, academics together in an informal setting.”
More info here.
news
16 October
BAUCHREDNER
upcoming duo release with Martin Küchen in Cathnor recordings
Stay Tuned, Rutger Zuydervelt’s (Machinefabriek) “orchestra”, where I formed part of a 153-part ensemble playing an A note is getting some very good reviews // Check it out here
RE/WOT #1 was such an enjoyable evening from every point of view: organizer, audience, player // here are some pictures by Laszlo Juhasz:
May 2014:
BEFOREHAND – Live at Hundred Years Gallery (ccs 28)
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga: zither
Mark Wastell: electronics, bowls, shruti box
BEFOREHAND formed exclusively for the an appearance at the launch concert for Angharad Davies’ ‘Six Studies’ release on Confront. That debut concert performance was recorded and, following a long standing ritual at Confront, was subsequently released for public consumption and critique.
No rehearsal beforehand(!), straight into the music. Dimitra played with one functioning arm, the other strapped up due to a broken elbow. Mark played his electronics set-up, last used at a show with Keith Rowe in Dublin in 2006. Eight years in a case never touched.
Potential to fail? Possibly. Did it?
Info here.
1 May 2014:
news
Mobile #2 OR odds ratio is now online on another timbre ::
You can now listen to the whole composition and its parts
a modular composition with
Nate Wooley 
Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro & Ferran Fages)
Xavier Charles
Enrico Malatesta
Christian Weber
Flow and stillness, moving parts, instructions, balance and probabilities on a kinetic structure.
Read more about it here.
April 6:
watch an excerpt of BEFOREHAND’s performance:
March 31:
BEFOREHAND (duo with Mark Wastell) did their debut concert and we had a great time! Overall, a great evening with Angharad Davies’ excellent violin solo.
February 16:
playing with the BOAR collective + friends at OTO has been great fun:
January 26
happy to have my music listened to in Prague in a series of listening environments curated by Ivan Palacký at the skolska28 gallery.
‘Quiet Fields on the Way from Work’: more info here
HAPPY NEW EARS
January 01, 2014
Lovely start of New Year ::
my project-composition ‘Mobile #2 OR odds ratio’ has just been completed – all parts together and in place and it is such a joy to my ears!
With Nate Wooley, Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro & Ferran Fages), Xavier Charles, Enrico Malatesta and Christian Weber!
Simon Reynell, of another timbre, asked me five months ago to coordinate a project, which I took on as a great opportunity to work with the above musicians, living around the world, but being somehow linked in my mind.
A challenge worth the effort, I say now!
‘Mobile #2 OR odds ratio’ is a modular composition, inspired by Alexander Calder mobiles. Flow and stillness, moving parts, instructions, balance and probabilities on a kinetic structure.
I hope you’ll want to have a listen now…but you’ll just have to wait for a bit more..this is the heads up on an exciting 2014!
Thank you, Nate, Alfredo, Ferran, Xavier, Enrico and Christian!
Happy New Ears, everybody!
December 2013
Enjoy Michael Pisaro’s pieces performed in London
July Mountain:
Performed by Dan Bennett, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Seth Cooke, Stephen Cornford, Angharad Davies, Jane Dickson, Lawrence Dunn, Patrick Farmer, Bruno Guastalla, Jack Harris, Sarah Hughes, Kostis Kilymis, Dominic Lash, Will Montgomery, Samuel Rodgers, David Stent, Greg Stuart, and Paul Whitty.
Ricefall:
Performed by Dan Bennett, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Seth Cooke, Stephen Cornford, Angharad Davies, Jane Dickson, Patrick Farmer, Bruno Guastalla, Jack Harris, Sarah Hughes, Dominic Lash, Will Montgomery, Tim Parkinson, Samuel Rodgers, David Stent, and Paul Whitty.
Filmed by Stella Kun and Kostis Kilymis.
November 13
pure electric ap’strophe joy:
watch a video of ap’strophe, live in Barcelona last December in comamínim festival
September 22
Resor långt utanför :: travel far outside :: Sweden was awesome!
listen to our quartet with Angharad Davies, Axel Dörner and Henrik Olsson in Göteborg
August 10
really enjoyed trying out the new OTO project space
with Daichi Yoshikawa and Ross Lambert!
Photo: Andrej Chudy
July 29
review of the ‘workshop concert’ by Richard Pinnell
“Everything hits a standard, and throughout there is a sensation of pushing, nudging and constantly challenging one another in public”
July 23
the Wandelweiser box on another timbre sold out two months ago, but has now been re-issued!
Grab your copy and have a taste here
I am part of Rutger Zuydervelt’s (Machinefabriek) “orchestra” in the ‘Stay tuned’ project, for which he asked musicians to record an ‘A’ on their instrument, to form an audio work that will be presented as a multi-speaker installation. Read more about the project and listen to a preview sketch here
a cd version will be out in early 2014 on baskaru