Jurgen Ehrmann : Richard Knight

02:00am to 06:00am on Sunday 12th June at NexusNightCafe

Moving to a bi-monthly format, the JERK duo present a four-hour DJ/computer improv set. Fusing eclectic afterhours downtempo grooves into the characteristic dubby JERK sound, RK's set will feature nods towards avant-electronica while retaining a deep house credibility.

Perfect if you're in Manchester centre after a night out and need to wind down your body, but perhaps not your mind.
Nexus Night Cafe serves food and drink from 2am-6am, although the venue has a no-alcohol policy.

Some recordings of previous JERK nights are available on the audio stream page.

Jurgen Ehrmann : Richard Knight

02:00am to 06:00am on Sunday 10th April at NexusNightCafe

Juergen Ehrmann and Richard Knight will be welcoming the arrival of this Sunday morning with a hazy dub-ridden banquet of sound - featuring nods towards genres perceived as (but perhaps not) house, jazz and techno. Using computers to facilitate layered mixing and edits on the fly, the JERK duo will fuse a compound from existing tracks and their own interventions.
Some relaxed, some rousing, never too fast.

Listen to JERK mixes (including recordings of previous NexusNightCafe gigs) in the 'audio stream' section.

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Hi all,

The first Electronic Organica session of 2011 and the 9th in our series welcomes some very special guests, including an extended house ensemble.
It's this Friday, at Briton's Protection from 8.30pm and as usual it has a meagre £3 entry fee, a tariff which also includes a free CD (while stocks last)...

Electronic Organica IX

Friday 28th January 2011

Featuring:

Boswellia (Pascal Nichols and Greg Thomas)

Gary Fisher

Electronic Organica Ensemble
(Richard Knight, Ian Simpson and Dave Birchall)

Pascal Nichols and Greg Thomas are

Gary Fisher is a Manchester based sound and visual artist who works within a continuous process of experimentation and enquiry focussed around investigatory or instinctive responses to sounds, objects, words and images. The work explores amplification of surfaces, textures and objects, combining found materials and reappropriating found objects and technologies for use as instruments or noise-makers. The process includes, sound recording, collecting, archiving, drawing, construction, photography, and text. It generates many outcomes including live performance, sound installation, CD or tape recordings, graphic scores. Sometimes the line between research and outcome is not clear and often they are the same. Objects, images, sound recordings and live performances may be seen as individual pieces in their own right as well as parts of a bigger 'work in progress' that is the process itself. ....

"Manchester's most avant garde music session" (Manchester Music – 2010).

Best wishes,
Richard

Electronic Organica X - Friday 25th March

from 8.30pm at Briton's Protection - M1 5LE.

Disco Operating System

The Disco Operating System. A misnomer of sorts, an hilarious wordplay derived from the personal computing term "Disc Operating System"; D.O.S. Pertaining, possibly to the musical form "Disco", or possibly not. Safest bet is that the Disco Operating System is not specifically any of the above, but does involve itself with sonic structures often of a cyclical nature, more often than not created with the aid of computing devices, and on less than most occasions involving a rhythmical gesture with a nod to your local 1970's coke palace.

The Disco Operating System is helmed by Gareth Bibby, who takes great glee in creating solid chunks of electronic joy from random patterns of radiophonic detritus and partially melodic undertones.

Wolf Scarers

Wolf Scarers are Simon Prince and Keith Jafrate, both playing tenor saxophones. They've known each other for years but have never played together until, after appearing on the same bill at Huddersfield's Inclusive Improv last year, it occurred to Simon to suggest some duets. So they got together at Oldham Music Centre and disturbed the pigeons in the neighbourhood for a few Fridays, and Wolf Scarers emerged. Both Simon and Keith have played all sorts of music in the past, and you can hear this in their improvisations, that swerve from gentle meditations that almost become chamber music across to full-blown shout-ups in the true tenor tradition, via, possibly, messed-up marching band funk and deconstructed jazz strut. (No computers are harmed in the making of their music.)

Richard Knight + Noise Research

Richard Knight is a sonic/computational artist, usually performing with digital equipment and an emphasis on spectral ambiguity. Knight also utilises mixing desks as sound sources: a typically passive audio device subverted to become an expressive instrument. Output is derived from the tenuous area between feedback and feedforward – the hazy and perplexing cusp between order and chaos.

Noise Research (aka UK sound manipulatist Ian Simpson) has adopted an uncompromising approach in both playing and performance. Simpson's source material comes not from the inside of a physics lab but the natural world: birds shriek and water crashes, processed into something altogether more alien as his hands wander around a table containing what looks like the contents of the world's coolest shed (Cath Aubergine - 2010).