A roll call for last year’s poets who are published in our annual anthology HERE
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Other Room 9th birthday preview – Juxtavoices
Here’s a taster of Juxtavoices who’ll appear soon at our 9th birthday.
The Other Room
9th birthday and 9th anthology launch
Erkembode, Juxtavoices, William Rowe
Wednesday 5th April, 2017
The King’s Arms, 11 Bloom Street, Salford, M3 6AN
Free Entry
www.otherroom.org
Other Room 9th birthday preview – Erkembode
Here’s a taster of Erkembode who’ll appear soon at our 9th birthday.
The Other Room
9th birthday and 9th anthology launch
Erkembode, Juxtavoices, William Rowe
Wednesday 5th April, 2017
The King’s Arms, 11 Bloom Street, Salford, M3 6AN
Free Entry
www.otherroom.org
Juxtavoices at St Ann’s Square
Launch of Juxtavoices’ new CD/DVD
WARNING: MAY CONTAIN NOTES (Discus 58)
3pm, Friday 9th December
St Ann’s Church, Manchester M2 7LF
WARNING: MAY CONTAIN NOTES
may be ordered direct from Discus Music
http://discus-music.co.uk/catalogue-mobile/dis58cd2015-11-01-18-20-11-72-detail
Scott Thurston, Tim Jarvis, Jon Thompson and Juxtavoices
16 October at 17:30. Lecture Theatre 9, Arts Tower, University of Sheffield.
The Other Room goes to Sheffield
The Other Room this time in Sheffield as part of The Misummer Poetry Festival. Click on the poster to enlarge. Not to be missed.
The Other Room Presents The Other Room
Tom Jenks, James Davies and Scott Thurston reading together as The Other Room
Sunday 15th June, 3:30pm
£4/3
£4/3
Here is some information on the event:
The Other Room is a long running poetry night based in Manchester which focuses on experimental poetry. Over the last six years it has presented a diverse range of performers of national and international repute as well as showcasing vital emerging talent. It also boasts an amazing website of resources including regular news about poetry from around the globe as well as hosting a belt bursting archive of recordings and interviews. In this event The Other Room’s three organisers – James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston – perform their work together for the first time. This unique event is a fantastic opportunity to get a taste of The Other Room.
Other events at the festival include Alan Halsey, Juxtavoices, Ágnes Lehóczky and Harriet Tarlo. See more HERE.
FOSTER-M / JUXTAVOICES
Fri September 27th, 2013
7.30pm prompt start: £ Free
Snig Hill Gallery
24 Snig Hill Sheffield S3 8NB
Sheffield’s own antichoir Juxtavoices is now in it’s third year of surprising both itself and its audience in locations across the region.
We’re delighted to be performing (30 minutes 7.30pm – 8.00pm ) on the opening night of Foster-M’s latest solo art show in Sheffield.
Foster-m is a Sheffield (united kingdom) born artist. Working out of his F28b studio based in a disused machine factory in the old industrial part of the city. Using mixed media, not just on canvas but on any materials he can salvage or reclaim from his surrounding environment, wood, boards, old shop signs, roofing-felt, concrete sheets and numerous found objects. Having been brought up on the notorious KELVIN FLATS COMPLEX his works portray a cold alienation and social estrangement, so at first glance his paintings come across as violent, dark, self-destructive, full of chaotic lines, decaying figures, coded symbols and abstract texts which he refers to as primitive metaphors. But scratch the surface of the multi-layered work and you start to unlock a real warmth, a brutally honest social comment on his life and hostile environment, a life he describes as in isolation. You would expect this vision to leave you stone cold but that’s the great appeal to this artist and his work. …
Juxtanother
Juxtavoices’ first album Juxtanother antichoir from Sheffield (Discus 44) is now available from
http://www.discus-music.co.uk/menu.htm
& from West House Books, a.halsey@westhousebooks.co.uk
80 minutes. £10 incl. post.
Suppose you invited thirty people to meet one Saturday morning to try out their voices and hear how they might sound together. That’s what Martin Archer did in 2010 and out of that and subsequent meetings came Juxtavoices. Only a few of the thirty were experienced singers. They found themselves performing alongside musicians from the improvising scene, a few poets, visual artists and some less rarefied souls who also happened to find it an exciting prospect.
Juxtanother antichoir from Sheffield presents a repertoire developed over three years and performed in venues as diverse as a bear pit, a library stairwell, a disused steelworks, churches and more conventional concert settings. It includes arrangements of poems by singers Christine Kennedy and Geraldine Monk and others by Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein and the grandmaster of sound poetry Bob Cobbing, with solo and collaborative compositions by Martin Archer and co-director Alan Halsey.
Juxtavoices is no ordinary choir. It’s not an ordinary antichoir either. You’ve probably heard nothing quite like them before. Nor, they’ll assure you, have they. ‘Precisely what art should be: challenging, reflective and dislocating. Voices struggling to articulate thought and emotion, whispered and screamed and seduced and accosted from nowhere’ (Norman Paul Warwick).
West House Books, 40 Crescent Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1HN
Juxtavoices at the Network Musical Festival
The second Network Music Festival will take place in Birmingham (UK) on 22-24 February and will feature a performance by Juxtavoices on Sunday February 24th
Juxtavoices was formed in 2010 by composer Martin Archer and writer Alan Halsey. Since then the group has been surprising, delighting and occasionally alarming audiences across the region with their performances, often in public spaces. Comprising both trained and untrained voices, the group uses fixed texts and structures for its compositions, but no specific pitches are ever written and through use of improvised elements no two performances of a given piece are ever the same.
Juxtavoices: 3 summer concerts
- Jul 14th: JUXTAVOICES at Tubermusic, St Margaret’s Church, Whalley Range, Manchester.
- Jul 22nd: ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE plus JUXTAVOICES, Tramlines, Memorial Hall, Sheffield.
- Aug 25th: JUXTAVOICES, Daytime TBC, Monsal Head Railway Tunnel, Derbyshire.
Juxtavoices is a large antichoir which includes many familiar faces from Sheffield’s leftfield music, poetry and visual arts scene. Although the group performs structured scores, no fixed pitches are ever notated, and the group uses improvisation to shape the detail of the scores as the music progresses. Both trained and untrained voices are included. As well as playing normal concerts, the group is to be found in various unexpected public places and at poetry / text events. A Discus CD is planned for 2012. Always on the look out for new members.
Two Juxtavoices events
Juxtavoices is a large antichoir which includes many familiar faces from Sheffield’s leftfield music, poetry and visual arts scene. Although the group performs structured scores, no fixed pitches are ever notated, and the group uses improvisation to shape the detail of the scores as the music progresses. Both trained and untrained voices are included. As well as playing normal concerts, the group is to be found in various unexpected public places and at poetry / text events. A Discus CD is planned for 2012. Always on the look out for new members.
Upcoming events include:
- 17 Mar, Bluecoat, Liverpool
- Mar 24th, Central Library, Sheffield
Preview of Other Room 28 Performer Alan Halsey
Alan Halsey will perform some Hugo Ball poems at the next Other Room event alongside Mick Beck, Monday 26th September, at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation (more deatils in the middle column). Also performing Vanessa Place and Phil Hall. Some of Alan’s recent work with sound is his involvement with the anti-choir Juxtavoices.
Here’s a clip:
Juxtavoices in Salford
ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE plus JUXTAVOICES
Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere is an improvising rock group featuring
Martin Archer – organ, saxophones
Chris Bywater – keyboards, laptop
Terry Todd – bass guitar
Sarah Henderson – violin
Walt Shaw – percussion
Steve Dinsdale – percussion
Initial starting point for the group’s direction was the music of Magma, Sun Ra, Terry Riley, Faust and Amon Duul.
Opening group Juxtavoices is Martin Archer’s 25+ voice semi-improvising choir which has been amazing and surprising audiences in unexpected locations across the region since starting to perform in early 2011. By turns musical, poetic, theatrical and outrageous, this group is genuinely not like anything else you will have heard
Wed 12th October
THE HARLEY
Glossop Road, Sheffield
8.30 pm
£5 / £3 on the door
Wed 19th October
ISLINGTON MILL
James Street, Salford M3 5HW
8.30 pm
£6 / £4 on the door
Venue 07813 276 808
Juxtavoices in Sheffield
The next Sheffield appearance for Martin Archer & Alan Halsey’s 25+ voice anti-choir will be at the annual Art in the Gardens event in the Botanical Gardens.
The group will be playing three different sets during the course of the afternoon: 12.30pm – Pavilion 1.30pm – Bear Pit 3.00pm – Bear Pit Works to be performed include Hugo Ball’s Dadaist sound poem Karawane, plus semi-improvised pieces based on texts by Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein and Alan Halsey. Admission price is to the whole event, which centres around exhibitions by locally based artists.
SUNDAY 4th SEPTEMBER 2011 BOTANICAL GARDENS, CLARKEHOUSE ROAD, SHEFFIELD £6 NOTES & SOUNDS presents Mick Beck tenor sax & bassoon Martin Archer reeds & electronic effects Steve Chase guitar & miscellaneous A brilliant and curious selection of left field exponents.
MONDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2011 THE RED DEER, 18 Pitt Street, Sheffield S1 4DD 8pm £3.00/2.00 concessions.
Counting Backwards 5 reviews and audio
Reviews and audio for Counting Backwards 5: Phil Davenport, James Davies, Helen Shanahan and Juxtavoices available here
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