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About Me

The London Musicians' Collective has been active on London's new music scene for over 30 years, promoting the best in experimental and improvised music concerts, running festivals, tours and workshops, producing special events and publications, and for the last three years realising radio broadcasts via the acclaimed Resonance 104.4 FM. Among our recent successes have been our Among our recent successes have been this year's 30th Anniversary concert series; 2005's "Immaterial" series; and summer 2004's "Feedback: Order From Noise" tour for the Contemporary Music Network, curated by Knut Aufermann and featuring Alvin Lucier, Otomo Yoshihide, Nicolas Collins, Sarah Washington, Billy Roisz, Xentos Fray Bentos and Toshimaru Nakamura. Our current plans include a second volume of the best-selling Your Favourite London Sounds CD, compiled by Peter Cusack, the launch of our new CD series, more issues of Resonance magazine - as well as regular concerts and our pivotal activity in the ongoing 24/7 broadcasts at Resonance 104.4 FM, a project reliant on two hundred volunteers and which uniquely showcases the work of thousands of radical artists. LMC is proud to have established and to run this incredible venture. The only arts organisation in Britain with a truly 24/7 public presence, LMC continues to expand and respond to new demands, encouraging access to and use of this unique resource - and forging collaborations with the leading musicians, sound artists, agencies, writers, thinkers and activists in the capital and beyond: no other arts organisation thinks like us or acts like us.

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Photos by Fergus Kelly & Richard Sanderson

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/10/2007
Band Website: l-m-c.org.uk/
Sounds Like: Two dozen performers from around the world are given free reign to redefine music. Over three days they coax incredible sounds from all manner of instrument, in every conceivable manner. Performers include the elder statesman of Japanese sound-art Yasunao Tone; mesmeric minimalist legend Charlemagne Palestine; and Norbert Möslang, enigmatic torturer of household electrical goods.

Group improvisations, drawing on diverse talents thrown in at the deep end of spontaneity, feature Tony Buck, superlative drummer of Australia's best export, The Necks; brilliant Belgian string virtuoso Julia Eckhardt; and sensational American trumpeter Peter Evans.

And to surprise ourselves, some players at the very edge of audio arts: Taku Sugimoto, whose guitar playing is so restrained as to stretch the laws of time; Bob Levene, who uses turntables as audio sculpture; and Helena Gough, who reveals the laptop as a landscape teeming with twittering life.

Take an example from Eve and Experiment.

"International in its sweep, uncompromising in its substance" - Time Out

Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, Holborn, London WC1B 4AP
http://www.cochranetheatre.co.uk

15th LMC Festival of Experimental Music:
Record Label: LMC
Type of Label: Indie