GRAIN Presents: Zheng Hao & Caius Williams / Minimum Wage Immanence Unit / Theodora Laird & Conal Blake

is a concert series and archiving project for experimental and improvised music, programmed / produced by &. GRAIN Caius Williams Theodora Laird Doors 7:30pm Tickets £8-15 TICKETS ZHENG HAO: Born in Wuhan; based in London. Mostly uses electronics or electro-acoustic instruments for solo and group improvisation, while other times also makes unpleasant computer dance music. Enjoys gritty and gnarly textures as well as delicate, amorphous qualities in different sound and space. CAIUS WILLIAMS: is a musician from London who plays the double bass, guitar, and bass guitar. He works in collaboration with others, alongside various solo projects, and often works with improvisation and explorations of resonance and perception. He is in the collaborative groups (with ), (with & ). He also works as guitarist/bassist for, alongside lots of other varied work as a supporting musician, both in studio and touring internationally. In a primarily improvised context, some other recent collaborators include,,,,,,,,,, and others Caius has also been organising ‘GRAIN’ since 2022: a concert series and label, focussed on programming new and adventurous music and nurturing a growing community with cross-scene and cross-generational collaboration. Caius Williams Crosspiece Theodora Laird Argia Tara Cunningham Theo Guttenplan feeo Steve Noble Tom Challenger Charles Bullen Zheng Hao Maggie Nicols Mark Wastell Rory Salter Regan Bowering Sachiko M Mark Sanders https://caiuswilliams.bandcamp.com MINIMUM WAGE IMMANENCE UNIT: comprises on accordion/harmonium, on guitar/banjo and on bass clarinet. They improvise music that draws as much on English folk song as it does the timbral integrations of European spectralism and the free drone excursions of Pelt. Writing in, described their debut CD as "sounding as if Terry Riley had gently commandeered the Bitches Brew sessions before nodding off in the corner”. Manchesters Minimum Wage Immanence Unit Adam Fairhall David Birchall Michael Perrett The Wire Daniel Spicer CONAL BLAKE: is a musician from Glasgow. He currently plays solo, improvises with various friends and is in the projects and. He uses electronics and percussion. He also runs the. Conal Blake Inweys Junk Modelling Feedback Moves label THEODORA LAIRD is a vocalist and multidisciplinary artist. Releases under her solo project ‘feeo’ have received critical acclaim. Theodora's practice has involved in tandem with an interest in situating narratives within freely improvised music, specifically through frequent involvement in the GRAIN residency. Theodora Laird Posted in,, Upcoming Music Improvisation