EVENING THWENTY-THREE
21st March 2026, 7PM
Konsztrukting Soundz, evenings of improvised and experimental electroacoustic music.
The Fishermen’s Chapel
Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 2EA
(Google Maps link https://maps.app.goo.gl/Bj5a7yzDbsYByp6cA)
Tickets:
£15 OTD (cash/card) or
£10 in advance & online https://wegottickets.com/event/687115 [sale starts on 21st February 2026]
Programme:
1. SET #1 – Massimo Magee Solo
Short Break
2. SET #2 – SEA MANTIS
Short Break
3. SET #3 – Viv Corringham Solo
Short Break
4. SET #4 – Christopher Hill, Tony James Morton & James Malone
ARTIST INFORMATION
SEA MANTIS
SEA MANTIS is a semi-mythical, many tentacled aquatic being with a seeming tendency to emerge in the combined company of Edward Shipsey, Andrew Ciccone, Adam Kinsey and Stephan Barrett; four active members of London’s free improvisation and experimental music scene. Having first surfaced in 2019, occasional sightings have since been reported at various live music settings around East London, alongside sporadic radio transmogrifications on Radiophrenia and Littoral Transmissions’ Resonance Extra show. Having now not been seen for some time, rumour has it that the MANTIS will soon surface once again, in unforeseen locations.
CHRISTOPHER HILL
Christopher Hill is an improvising musician and sound artist. Based in London he regularly plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Eddie Prévost’s workshop group and promotes performances under the name of Babble&Squeak and DiscountGnostic. Recent collaborations and releases have been with Phil Morton (Project 50:50), Matt Atkins (Map & Territory; Moonside Tapes, 2023), Stephan Barrett (Dawn and Soil Bound: MRM 75, 2023), Microtonal Music (Moonside Tapes, 2023) and Ed Shipsey with whom he records as Egg & Crisp (Suckle Time; Astral Sewage, 2023). Some recent work has been aired on The Ambrosia Rasputin Show (Resonance FM) and Radiophrenia (Glasgow).
References
https://discountgnostic.bandcamp.com/
TONY JAMES MORTON
Tony James Morton is a London-based computational artist, creative technologist, musician, composer, and educator whose practice centers on real-time systems aesthetics. He designs audio-visual systems with defined rules and structures that leave space for improvisation, chance, probability, and human interaction—resulting in unique, evolving experiences each time. His recent musical work emphasizes textural soundscapes built from asynchronous loops, ambient/field recordings, found sounds, and generative processes. With a background in sound art (MA by research, Birmingham University) and music technology, Tony has exhibited and performed in multi-sensory installations and improvised settings.
References
http://www.tonyjamesmorton.com/
JAMES MALONE
James L Malone is a London-based sound artist, sound designer, improviser, and lecturer (Point Blank Music School) with a deep interest in synthesis, generative feedback networks, and extreme sonic potentials. His work explores improvisation, feedback as a creative force, and the unpredictable beauty of electronic systems. He maintains long-term collaborations including the duo Onin with Joe Wright (releases on FD label, which he co-runs), and has performed in improvised contexts alongside Eddie Prévost, John Butcher, Steve Beresford, Phil Durrant, Adam Bohman, and others at venues like Café OTO and festivals such as Supersonic. Beyond live improv, James composes and designs sound for short films and video games.
References
https://www.jameslmalone.com/
VIV CORRINGHAM
Viv Corringham (voice, electronics, field recordings) is a US based British vocalist and sound artist, who has been described as “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3) and “a vocalist of stunning virtuosity” (Louise Gray, The Wire). She makes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and installations. Her practice explores relations between voice, place and walking, responding with sung improvisations to both natural and urban soundscapes. Corringham has received international recognition and awards including two McKnight Composer Fellowships through the American Composers Forum. She is a certified facilitator of Deep Listening, having played and studied with composer Pauline Oliveros. In 2024 this practice took her to Mexico, Spain, Germany and the Listening Academy in Hong Kong. Notable live performances have occurred in festivals at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico, Issue Project Room New York and Tempo Reale Florence. Her recent album “Soundwalkscapes” (Vol. 1: January to June) on Flaming Pines label (Bandcamp’s Best Field Recordings 2024) has been well received. The Wire wrote that “Corringham voices the depth of place.” Her definitive contribution to sound art practice is the 20 year ongoing “Shadow-walks”, which create layers of time and space, combining recordings from shared and solo walks along the same path with her improvised sung response. They have occurred in 18 countries, are taught in many sound art classes and have been the focus of articles in books and publications.
References
https://www.vivcorringham.org/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/@vivcorringham3449
MASSIMO MAGEE
Massimo Magee is a writer, artist and musician based in London. His work is wide-ranging, including multimedia fiction, text art, sound and image audiovisual digital art pieces, digital visual art, experimental music (improvised, composed and everything in between), free jazz, radically extended saxophony, electronics, data manipulation and much more. He is the creator of a form of art he calls Audiovisual Digital Abstraction. In improvised music, he has worked with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Marc Edwards, Eddie Prévost, Tony Irving, Ken Ikeda, and many more.
References
https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/the-contemporary-jazz-clarinet-of-massimo-magee-and-his-rhythm
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/toneflower
https://massimomagee.bandcamp.com/album/trio
