Upcoming Events 


February 25th 2012

8:30pm

Arch 1

Arch 1, Cranberry Lane, West Ham

Jennifer Allum violin   Ute Kanngiesser cello   Ross Lambert guitar  

Guillaume Viltard double bass   Niko Meinhold piano   Anna Kaluza saxaphone  


Past Events

December 20th 2011

8pm

Muddy Ditch 3

Cafe Oto, Dalston

Jennifer Allum violin   Adam Bohman objects  

Adam Bohman objects   Ross Lambert guitar   

Ross Lambert guitar  Pat Thomas piano  

Pat Thomas piano  Jennifer Allum violin    


December 18th 2011

8pm

The First Concert — An Adaptive Appraisal of a Meta Music - book launch and concert

Cafe Oto, Dalston

Jennifer Allum violin   Eddie Prevost percussion   John Tilbury piano  Seymour Wright alto saxaphone   

Sebastian Lexer piano+   Grundik Kasyansky electronics   Hutch Demouilpied trumpet  Tom Soloveitzik tenor saxaphone   


November 20th 2011

7pm

s o l o s

Servant Jazz Quarters, Dalston

Jennifer Allum violin  

Xavier Lopez laptop  

Ross Lambert guitar

Lucia H Chung laptop


October 29th 2011

8pm

2*3*5

Arch 1, West Ham

Jennifer Allum violin   Tom Soloveitzik tenor saxaphone   Gabriel Humberstone percussion   

Grundik Kasyansky electronics   Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga zither  


September 26th 2011

8pm

Workshop Series

Cafe Oto, Dalston

programmed by Matthew Waters

Jennifer Allum violin   John Lely melodica & percussion   Philip Somervell piano   

Seymour Wright Alto saxaphone   Tom Soloveitzik Tenor Saxaphone   Vasco Alves Am/FM Keyboard 6   

Benedict Taylor viola   Hyelim Kim taegum   Carole Finer cumbus & objects    


September 10th 2011

6:00pm

Chamber Music

4 Belsize Park, Flat 12, NW3

Jennifer Allum violin   Tom Soloveitzik tenor saxaphone

Jamie Coleman trumpet   Artur Vidal alto saxaphone


September 11th 2011

7:30pm

Necessary Praxis

Servant Jazz Quarters, Dalston

Jamie Coleman trumpet   Hannah Marshall cello

Seymour Wright saxaphone   John Russell guitar

Jennifer Allum violin   Eddie Prevost percussion


July 28th 2011

8pm

The Dismantled Cabaret

Chats Palace, E9

Jennifer Allum VIOLIN  

Plus 9 other solo performers 


July 3rd 2011

1pm

Contemporary Music Sunday Sessions

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Jennifer Allum VIOLIN   Elo Masing violin

Guillaume Viltard double bass



Helmut Lachenmann

Elo Masing

Toccatina

Dance

Aisha Orazbayeva violin

Lucy Railton cello


May 22nd 2011

8pm

Lumiere

88 Chatsworth road, E5 0LS

Jennifer Allum VIOLIN   Elo Masing violin

Benedict Taylor VIola   Noel Taylor clarinet Guillaume Viltard Double Bass


May 2nd 2011

2pm

Freedom of the City

Conway Hall, Holborn

Please use link for full line-up details

Jennifer Allum VIOLIN   Philip Somervell Piano  & Ute Kanngiesser CELLO


March 28th 2011

8pm

Workshop Series

curated by Grundik Kasyansky

Cafe Oto, Dalston

Jennifer Allum VIOLIN   Seymour Wright SAXOPHONE   Paul Abbott UNSPEC.  & Ute Kanngiesser CELLO


March 25th 2011

8pm

Guildhall School of Music's Jazz Week

Guildhall School of Music, Barbica

Jennifer Allum VIOLIN   John Butcher Saxaphone Ute Kanngiesser CELLO Eddie Prevost PERCUSSION


March 19th 2011

8pm

Bonnie Jones in London

Arch 1, West Ham

Jennifer Allum VIOLIN   Bonnie Jones ELECTRONICS   Grundik Kasyansky ELECTRONICS   Ute Kanngiesser CELLO   Paul Abbott UNSPEC.   Ross Lambert GUITAR   Eddie Prevost PERCUSSION  & Seymour Wright SAXOPHONE


March 5th & 6th 2011

7pm

As Alike As Trees: New Sounds Uncovered

Rag Factory, E1

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Jennifer Allum VIOLIN   Matt Davies TRUMPET   & Ute Kanngiesser CELLO


February 12th 2011

6:30pm

Mind is Moving

The Nunnery, Bow Road

Michael Pisaro

Six simultaneous performances from the Mind is Moving series

Jennifer Allum VIOLIN
Rebecca Dixon cello
Dominic Lash double bass
Henri Vaxby guitar
Jamie Coleman trumpet
Tim Parkinson Voice

November 13th 2010

8:00pm

Mike Bullock in London

St Marks Church, Clerkenwell

Mike Bullock double bass   Guillaume Viltard double bass  

Paul Abbott unspecified   Seymour Wright SAXOPHONE  

Mike Bullock double bass   Jamie Coleman trumpet   Gabriel Humberstone sounds snare  

Jennifer Allum violin   Linda Aubry-Bullock electronics   Tom Mudd feedback joypad  


November 15th 2010

7:30pm

A concert at The Rag Factory

The Apricot, Gallery, The Rag Factory, E1

Christian Wolff

Samuel Vriezen

Christian Wolff

Witold Lutoslawski

Earle Brown

Ben Patterson

John Lely

Michael Pisaro

Pauline Oliveros

Aarau Songs

Between Chords

Tilbury 2

Sacher Variation

For Helga

Variations for Double Bass (excerpts)

Harmonics of real strings

Perception

Blue Heron

The Post Quartet
Ian Mitchell clarinet






Mike Bullock double bass








October 30th 2010

8:00pm

Shoreditch Church concert

St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch

Jennifer Allum violin   Ute Kanngiesser CELLO  David Thomas viola

Dominic Lash double bass   Hannah Marshall cello  Patrick Farmer objects  Phill Durrant electronics  Diatribes objects and percussion  


October 25th 2010

8:00pm

Workshop Series

Cafe Oto

programmed by Philip Clark

Jennifer Allum violin   Tom Mills violin  Ross Lambert guitar Matt Olczak guitar  

Jamie Coleman trumpet   Robin Higgins voice  Dave Lawrence objects  

Paul Abbott unspecified   Daichi Yoshikawa electronics  Gabriel Humberstone snare  Russell Callow objects  


October 20th 2010

8:00pm

Galvanised! Festival

Cafe Oto

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Jennifer Allum violin   Gabriel Humberstone snare  Grundik Kasyansky electronics David Papapostolou cello  


September 12th 2010

7:00pm

Kings College Concert

Kings College Recital Room, WC2

Jennifer Allum violin   Ute Kanngiesser CELLO  

James Allsop tenor saxaphone  



Tim Parkinson

Earle Brown

Premiere

December 1952

Tim Parkinson piano & Angharad Davies violin

Lawrence Williams saxophone & Jane Dickson piano


September 13th 2010

8:00pm

Workshop Series

Cafe Oto

programmed by Matt Hammond

Jennifer Allum violin   Chris Hyde-Harrison double bass  Mirei Yazawa body movement 

Luciana Bass guitar   Arthur Swindells pocket trumpet  Guillaume Viltard double bass  

Matt Milton violin   David Papapostolou cello  Seymour Wright saxaphone  


August 24th-28th 2010

8:00pm

Enkephale Theatre presents. 'The Emporer Self'

Arcola Theatre

devised and part-improvised

live theatre accompaniment

The Post Quartet


July 26th 2010

8:00pm

Workshop Series

Cafe Oto

programmed by Eddie Prevost

Jennifer Allum violin   Yuki Okamoto piano  Eddie Prevost percussion 

Philip Somervell piano   Ross Lambert guitar  Jamie Coleman trumpet  Paul Abbott unspecified  

David O'Connor saxaphone   Sebastian Lexer piano  Tara Stuckey clarinet  


July 17th 2010

7:00pm

A concert at the Bakery

please contact for address details

Jennifer Allum violin   Tom Mudd feedback joypad  Matt Milton violin

Arthur Swindells pocket trumpet  Daichi Yoshikawa electronics



Chris Fox

Morton Feldman

Maurice Ravel

Paul Abbott

Blank

Extensions 3

'A boat on the ocean' from Miroirs

video work

The Post Quartet

Sebastian Lexer

Yuki Okamoto
 

video


June 25th 2010

7:30pm

Conversations without Cage

St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch

Christian Wolff



Earle Brown

Morton Feldman

Microexercises 1(2006), 
Microexercises set 2 -
‘For Grete’ & Exercise 10 1974

From Folio 1952-3 & 1-5 c1970

Vertical Thoughts 4 1963 & Last Pieces 1959

Jennifer Allum violin
Simon Allen percussion
Paul Bevan trombone
Tania Chen piano
Nancy Ruffer flute
David Ryan clarinet
Ian Mitchell clarinet


June 11th 2010

7:30pm

FIORI in London

St Agnes, Gresham Street, EC2

Michael Parsons


William Byrd

Henrich Isaac

unknown

Three Sappho Lyrics
Levels II
String Trio

Fantasia

untitled instrumental piece

trad. Scottish & Irish melodies

FIORI vocal ensemble
The Post Trio percussion
Tania Chen piano


May 22nd 2010

7:00pm

Sejiro Murayama in London

St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch

Sejiro Murayama voice and percussion Jennifer Allum violin Daichi Yoshikawaelectronics Eddie Prevost percussion Seymour Wright saxaphone Sebastian Lexer piano Grundik Kasyansky electronicsUte Kanngiesser cello


May 3rd 2010

2:00pm

Freedom of the City

Conway Hall, Holborn

Please use link for full line-up details

Jennifer Allum VIOLIN   Grundik Kasyansky electronics   David O'Connor baritone saxaphone   Eddie Prevost percussion


April 26th 2010

8:00pm

Workshop Series

Cafe Oto, Dalston

programmed by Jennifer Allum

Tom Mills violin   Jerry Wigens clarinet  

Matt Hammond guitar   Guillaume Viltard double bass  

Sebastian Lexer piano   Matt Milton violin  


April 10th 2010

3:00pm

A free event as part of a series discussing the work of Richard Hamilton

Serpentine Gallery, W2

Robert Ashley

Trio I from Trios (White on White) (1963)

The Post Trio


April 19th 2010

7:00pm

Interlace

Great Hall, Goldsmiths

Jennifer Allum violin   Jamie Coleman trumpet   Ute Kanngiesser cello  Sebastian Lexer piano  

Heddy Boubaker saxaphone   Roger Turner percussion  Guillaume Viltard double bass  

Heddy Boubaker saxaphone   Grundik Kasyansky electronics  


March 29th 2010

8:00pm

Workshop Series

Cafe Oto, Dalston

programmed by Paul Abbott

Jennifer Allum violin   Ute Kanngiesser cello  Ross Lambert guitar   Eddie Prevost percussion   Mirei Yazawa voice   Daichi Yoshikawa electronics  


February 13th 2010

7:30pm

Tom Johnson in London

Deptford Town Hall, New Cross, SE14

Tom Johnson




Tim Parkinson


Michael Parsons

Trio - 288 three-note chords with sums of 72 (middle C = 24)
Trio - Block Design piano piece (2005)

melodica and percussion (2009
untitled (2004d)

selected piano pieces

The Post Trio

Tim Parkinson percussion & melodica  

Michael Parsons piano  

Gandini Juggling


December 7th 2009

7:30pm

Non-classical

The Macbeth, Hoxton

Michael Parsons

Tom Johnson


Cornelius Cardew

 

Level for String Trio

Trio - 288 three-note chords with sums of 72 (middle C = 24)

First String Trio (1954)

The Post Trio


September 28th 2009

8:00pm

Workshop Series

Cafe Oto, Dalston

programmed by Matt Olczak

Jennifer Allum violin   Grundik Kasyansky electronics  

Ricardo Tejero saxaphone   Gabriel Humberstone snare  Daichi Yoshikawa electronics  

Ute Kanngiesser cello   Arthur Swindells trumpet  Jerry Wigens clarinet  


September 26th 2009

7:00pm

MIASS at Newington Green; "The Shed likes Food"

Newington Green, please contact for details

Jennifer Allum violin   Matt Hammond guitar  Seymour Wright saxaphone  

Gabriel Humberstone snare   Ute Kanngiesser cello  Tom White electronics  


November 21st 2009

7:00pm

Interlace

Great Hall, Goldsmiths

Jennifer Allum violin   Daichi Yoshikawa electronics  Philip Sommervell piano  

Paul Abbott unspecified   Sebastian Lexer Piano+   Ute Kanngiesser cello  

Marjolaine Charbin piano   Grundik Kasyansky electronics  Guillaume Viltard Double Bass  


July 15th 2009

7:30pm

Music We'd Like To Hear

St Agnes, Gresham Street, EC2

Tom Johnson

 

Formulas

Music & Questions

The Post Trio

Tom Johnson


June 18th 2009

8:00pm

A Series of Fortunate Events presents...

Cafe Oto, Dalston

Michael Parsons

Henri Vaxby

Tom Johnson

Helmut Lachenmann

Taylan Susam

Michael Parsons

 

Levels II

Second String Quartet

Formulas

Pression

For Maaike Schoorel

Level Trio

The Post Quartet with Angharad Davies


May 3rd 2009

7:00pm

Freedom of the City

Conway Hall, Holborn

Christian Wolff

 

selections from Exercises

The Post Trio & Christian Wolff


April 28th 2009

6:30pm

Chelsea Space concert

Chelsea Space, College of Art and Design, SE1P

Earle Brown

 

selections from Folio

December 1952

The Post Trio, Ian Mitchell, Tania Chen, Paul Bevan, Nancy Ruffer, David Ryan


March 23rd 2009

8:00pm

Workshop Series

Cafe Oto, Dalston

programmed by Paul Abbott

Jennifer Allum violin   Matt Milton violin   Ross Lambert guitar  Ute Kanngiesser cello  

Jamie Coleman trumpet   Paul Abbott unspecified  

Laura Hyland voice   Philip Somervell piano  Matt Hammond guitar  


December 11th 2008

8:00pm

A Series of Fortunate Events presents...

Cafe Oto, Dalston

Tom Johnson

Cornelius Cardew

John Lely

Michael Parsons

John Cage

Matteo Fargion

 

Combinations for String Quartet

Second String Trio

The harmonics of real strings (viola)

Levels

Quartet in 4 parts

Pining for Madame Lupukhov

The Post Quartet


December 7th 2008

Michael Parsons' 70th birthday concert

The Warehouse, SE1

Michael Parsons

 

Levels

Highland Variations

The Post Quartet


November 3rd 2008

All Saints concert series

All Saints Church, Friern Barnet

Tim Parkinson

Tom Johnson

Markus Trunk

Anton Webern

 

String Quartet (right hand only)

Combinations for String Quartet

Twin/Double

Op.28 String Quartet

The Post Quartet


November 2nd 2008

Cornelius Cardew Biography book launch

The Warehouse, SE1

Cornelius Cardew

Second String Trio

First String Trio (first movement)

Workers' Song (performed by Mizuka Yamamoto)

The Post Quartet


July 16th 2008

Music We'd Like To Hear

St Agnes, Gresham Street, EC2

Anton Webern

Cornelius Cardew

Orlando Lassus

Henry Purcell

Michael Parsons

Op.28 String Quartet

Second String Trio

Selected duets

Fantasia (arranged by Michael Parsons)

Highland Variations
Levels

The Post Quartet


June 7th 2007

Right Hand Only String Quartet

Deptford Town Hall, New Cross, SE14

Tim Parkinson

John Lely

John White

Jerry Wigens

Michael Parsons

String Quartet

String Quartet

String Quartet

Violarrrrgh!

Levels

The Post Quartet


May 24th 2007

Concert at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre

Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, NYC

Cornelius Cardew

 

John Lely

Schooltime Compositions

White Noise Machine

Second Symphony

Jennifer Allum, John Lely, Travis Just, Kara Feely


May 19th 2007

Concert at Firehouse 12

Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT

John Lely

Pocket Pianos

Second Symphony

Slow Movement for Strings

Harmonica High

Jennifer Allum, John Lely, Seth Kim-Cohen, Mike Bullock, Olivia Block instrumention included various string instruments, pocket pianos, percussion, & Harmonicas


May 6th & 7th 2007

Freedom of the City

Red Rose, Seven Sisters

9!: Jennifer Allum violin   Ross Lambert guitar   Eddie Prevost percussion   Nathanial Catchpole saxaphone   Jamie Coleman trumpet   Shakeeb Abu Hamdan electric bass   John Lely unspecified   Sebastian Lexer piano+   Michael Rogers guitar   Samantha Rebello flute   Tara Stuckey clarinet   Seymour Wright saxaphone   Jerry Wigens clarinet   Romuald Wadych guitar  


April 7th 2007

Rational Rec

Bethnal Green Working Men's Club

Øyvind Torvund

various avant-garde folk pieces

Plus Minus, Jennifer Allum, Kjell Tore Innervik, Håkon Stene, Tim Parkinson, Adam De la Cour, Joakim Munker, Steve Beresford & Dominic Lash


February 3rd & 4th 2007

7:00pm

Interlace

Great Hall, Goldsmiths

9!: Jennifer Allum violin   Ross Lambert guitar   Eddie Prevost percussion   Nathanial Catchpole saxaphone   Jamie Coleman trumpet   Shakeeb Abu Hamdan electric bass   John Lely unspecified   Sebastian Lexer piano+   Michael Rogers guitar   Samantha Rebello flute   Tara Stuckey clarinet   Seymour Wright saxaphone   Jerry Wigens clarinet   Romuald Wadych guitar  


February 2nd 2007

Rational Rec

Bethnal Green Working Men's Club

John Lely

Second Symphony

Jennifer Allum, John Lely, Christopher Fox, Joanna Baillie, Laurence Crane, Mark Knoop, Catherine Kontz, Henry Vaxby, Cecilia Wee, Russell Martin, Paul Whitty


November 11th 2006

Cornelius Cardew Conference

Great Hall, Goldsmiths

Cornelius Cardew

Second String Trio

Workers' Song (performed by Mizuka Yamamoto)

The Post Quartet


Reviews of Penumbrae

In lesser hands, limiting the music to bowed surfaces could easily come off as a contrivance. Here, the two approach their improvisations with conviction and bracing detail. Control is the key, with both musicians using attack and decay, resonance and a honed attention to the qualities of string and metal to create mercurial striations across a precise trajectory. This is a release which continues to reveal itself with concentrated listening over a number of plays and is one that I've found myself returning to often.

Michael Rosenstein, PARIS Transatlantic, Summer 2011


Following the music is like following the curves, studying textures of a complex, and yet simply created sculpture. This sculpture however has two creators, that have chiselled and carved and spun their shapes and forms around one another’s to create this subtle, engaging maze of criss-crossing lines and blending tones. The sounds remind me of bright lights on a dark evening, glowing metals pulled from the forge, alive with a dangerous, scathing vitality and yet somehow quite beautiful to behold in their simplicity. If the sounds alone are finely crafted here, the way they are combined shows an acute understanding of one another’s music, despite the significant age gap (maybe as much as forty years?) that spans between the musicians. There is a closeness of ideology as much as aesthetic, formed through the musicians’ joint attendance at the weekly improvisation workshops in London that have focussed the work of so many bright musicians. This shines right through into the confidence that this music is full of, a fearlessness borne out of the urge to explore the territory, the material, rather than seek out perfection.

Richard Pinnell, Watchful Ear, March 2011


There are many ways to play free improv, but typically you’ll never confuse freely improvised music for composed music. Or so I thought. On Penumbræ, Allum and Prévost don’t sound like they’re playing jazzy compositions by any stretch, but this is an album that has the textures and instrumental approaches of free improvisation while also taking on the character of a pre-formed composition. On this album, that is, it feels spontaneous, yet the direction of the album’s music is so unified, it gives you a sense of well thought out patterns. In other words, there seem to be some rules in place, but I’m not sure what they are. To illustrate, I feel as if the players come and go as they please, but at the same time, when they jump into the music, their choices in sound aren’t a second or two long, but some kind of system. Each segment of sound, impressively developed (on the spot, presumably), has such character that is seems fully formed before it is played and integrated into the record. So this record will challenge you - is it possible to have such complex ideas on the spot? Or does this make you think deeper about improvisation? Is improvisation simply an on the spot selection of things you’ve already heard, practiced, etc. and stored? And if this is stored in their minds in some form before it is played, why does it feel so fresh and appropriate to the proceedings? In other words, this might seem random to the players and not have any true structure assembled beforehand, yet at the same time the music seems structurally sound in a way almost no freely improvised record I’ve heard does. This probably is my album of the year so far, so please search it out and support these artists.

Killed in Cars, April 24th 2011


Prévost et Allum nous entraînent dans un voyage sonique minimaliste et dynamique, sensible et attentif; et pour l'auditeur, cette exploration est aussi submergeante que captivante. Richesse de l'archet, magie de l'entente et profondeur de l'écoute s'associent à un dynamisme aussi cérébral qu'émotif, qui n'a étonnamment rien d'hermétique ou de froid. Malgré leur aspect systématique, ces études sont vraiment chaudes et humaines, ouvertes aux émotions et à la sensibilité (pas seulement intellectuelle), une recherche où le dynamisme interactif suscite autant d'émotions qu'il captive l'attention.

Impro Sphere, 26th April 2011