EVENING #16, 14th June 2025, 7PM
Konsztrukting Soundz
an evening of improvised experimental electronic and electroacoustic music
The Fishermen’s Chapel
Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 2EA
(Google Maps link https://maps.app.goo.gl/Bj5a7yzDbsYByp6cA)
Tickets:
£15 on the door or
£10 in advance & online https://wegottickets.com/event/648954
Evening Setup
Set #1 Khabat Abas solo
Short Break
Set #2 Caroline Kraabel solo
Short Break
Set #3 John Butcher/Luigi Marino/Mark Wastell Trio
Short Break
Set #4 Tom Mills solo
Concert End (~22:00)
ARTIST INFORMATION
KHABAT ABAS
Khabat Abas is a cellist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist from Kurdistan-Iraq. Her work explores time, space, and memory through music, everyday sounds, and noises. She delves deeply into how we experience sound, particularly in various geopolitical contexts. Abas uses her instrument beyond traditional norms—improvising, composing, creating videos and sound installations, crafting cellos from diverse materials, and incorporating her body into performances. Through this approach, her work merges politics with personal expression, challenging conventional values and control.
CAROLINE KRAABEL
Caroline Kraabel is a London-based improviser, saxophonist, artist and composer. In 2022 Kraabel brought together a large group made up of all sorts of women, non-binary, and transgender improvisers: ONe_Orchestra New. Other active groups include a duo with cellist Khabat Abas; the Transitions Trio (with Charlotte Hug and Maggie Nicols); Fit To Burst, a song-based trio with Sarah Washington and John Edwards; and a quartet with Rowland Sutherland, John Edwards and Sofia Vaisman-Maturana that incorporates live poetry from guest poets, including Moor Mother. Kraabel has performed and recorded with many other excellent improvisers, including Robert Wyatt, Louis Moholo, Cleveland Watkiss, Hyelim Kim, Pat Thomas, Susan Alcorn, Veryan Weston, Maria Portugal, Neil Metcalfe, Mark Sanders, and Chris Corsano. Kraabel’s solo saxophone improvisations while walking in London and elsewhere were broadcast weekly over several years on Resonance 104.4 FM as Taking a Life for a Walk and Going Outside. Other radio work includes a series of interviews with improvisers in many media (music, dance, visual art, politics, activism), Why is Improvising Important, and a 22 hour series of new interviews with improvisers as part of 2022’s Radio Art Zone.
https://carolinekraabel.bandcamp.com/
http://www.masskraabel.com/life.html
JOHN BUTCHER
Born in Brighton and living in London, John Butcher is a saxophonist whose work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback, unusual acoustics and non-concert locations. He is well known as a solo performer who attempts to engage with a sense of place. Resonant Spaces, for example, is a collection of performances recorded during a tour of unusual locations in Scotland and the Orkney Islands.
Butcher originally studied Physics, but after publishing a PH.D (1982) in quantum chromodynamics, Butcher left academia and took off with music. He has since collaborated with hundreds of artists, some for many decades. To name a few: Derek Bailey, Akio Suzuki, John Stevens’ Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Sophie Agnel, Rhodri Davies, Matthew Shipp, Gerry Hemingway, Chris Burn, Polwechsel, Magda Mayas, Gino Robair, Thermal (Andy Moor & Thomas Lehn), Christian Marclay, Eddie Prévost, Okkyung Lee, John Russell, and Phil Minton.
https://johnbutcher.org.uk/index.html
LUIGI MARINO
Luigi Marino is a musician based in Bristol. His work focuses on networks able to display relationships between human and nonhuman actors, with particular attention to how intuitive decisions can profoundly affect pre-existing conditions. He is an active improvisor performing on both electronic media and percussion, especially zarb and bowed custom cymbals.
MARK WASTELL
Mark Wastell is a versatile improvising musician who has played a central role in the British improvised music scene for over a quarter of a century. He has performed and recorded extensively and his varied resume includes projects with Derek Bailey, Phil Durrant, John Butcher, Lasse Marhaug, Rhodri Davies, Simon H. Fell, Burkhard Beins, John Tilbury, Mattin, Mark Sanders, Tony Conrad, Evan Parker, Tim Barnes, Bernhard Günter, Keith Rowe, John Zorn, Peter Kowald, Joachim Nordwall, Otomo Yoshihide, Paul Dunmall, David Toop, Alan Wilkinson, Max Eastley, Hugh Davies, Julie Tippetts, Alan Skidmore, Mike Cooper, Chris Abrahams, Stewart Lee, Clive Bell, Arild Andersen, Jan Bang, Maggie Nicols, Thurston Moore and David Sylvian.
https://www.confrontrecordings.com/
TOM MILLS
Tom Mills is an electronic musician based in London. In addition to his solo work he plays Theremin in the group Bobhowler with Alicia Gardener-Trejo and Andrew Woodhead and also played on the album ‘Improvisers Inside Electronics’ alongside Antonio Acunzo, Tony Hardie-Bick and N.O Moore.