David Birchall / Kate Carr / Tullis Rennie (trio)

Improvised music from a trio of (guitar), (amplified objects), (trombone/electronics), launching their new release on records. David Birchall Kate Carr and Tullis Rennie Murmuring Music Flaming Pines Doors 3:30pm Tickets £10-14 TICKETS is a performer living in Manchester. He has played improvised music in the UK, Europe, Russia, Palestine, USA & Japan and undertaken artist residencies at The Penthouse (Manchester, UK) and Beppu Project (Beppu, JP). His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 6 Music & SWR in Germany. He organises and co-curators the Curious Ear series for improvised music in Manchester. David Birchall ’s practice explores the encounters, textures and technologies entangled with field recording using movement, objects and experimental recording techniques. She creates intimate, delicate and hybrid soundworlds which centre the interactions and collectivity which generate soundscapes. Carr works works across composition, performance and installation. In her live work she is increasingly examining some of the ambiguities of field recording, pursuing a practice which blurs live foley work with field recording techniques. She runs the sound art imprint Flaming Pines and has founded the sound art duo Rubbish Music with Iain Chambers. Her music can be found on the labels Room 40, Persistence of Sound, Helen Scarsdale, Longform Editions and Flaming Pines. Carr is Australian, and lives in London. Kate Carr is a composer, improvising trombonist, electronic musician, and field recordist who "foregrounds the act of listening as an active component in the creation of musical experience” – The Wire Magazine. His album Safe Operating Space (2024, Efpi Records) is a hybrid of club music and acoustic free improvisation, reflecting on themes such as global heating, AI-generated deepfakes, family life, and Kate Bush. His work encompasses sound installation, community-engaged participative projects, multi-channel concert works, video, mixed media and live/improvised performances – presented across 20 countries, alongside broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, NTS and ResonanceFM. He is co-founder of community arts action group Walls On Walls, and of Barcelona-based audio-visual collective Insectotròpics. Tullis's precious studio release was Fixed Freedoms (2022) on Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Jnr label, described as “a mutated set of electronic experiments that bends recognisable formulae (trance, dub techno, electro) into abstract landscapes" — Boomkat. His work is also released by Moving Furniture Records, Flaming Pines, Luminous, a new wave of jazz and ZeroWave. Tullis Rennie Posted in,, Upcoming Music Improvisation