GIO
Festival 1: flinders
Friday
and Saturday 24/25 October CCA Glasgow: 19hrs (fri) and 15hrs (sat)
£5
Glasgow
Improvisers Orchestra : Michel Doneda : Tatsuya Nakatani : Maggie Nicols
: Usurper : Age of Wire & String : B/MacD5 : Catriona McKay / Alistair
MacDonald : Aileen Campbell and more
Friday
24th October
19:30 Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra w. Maggie Nicols
20:30 Ali Robertson (Usurper) / Fritz Welch (The Peeesseye)
21:15 Age of Wire & String (Peter Nicholson, Neil Davidson, Jamie
Allen)
22:00 Michel Doneda - sax & Tatsuya Nakatani - drums and percussion
Duo
Saturday
25th October
15:00 Screening of Kate Burton's film of GIO with George Lewis
16:00 GIO small group: Graeme Wilson, Robert Henderson, Stuart Brown,
Maggie Nicols, Armin Strum
16:45 Aileen Campbell - voice with Una MacGlone - bass and Nick Fells
- laptop
17:30 Burt/MacDonald 4 + Maggie Nicols, Gerri Rossi & Rick Bamford
19:30 Michel Doneda - sax, Neil Davidson - guitar, George Murray - trombone
20:15 Raymond MacDonald - sax, Tatsuya Nakatani - percussion, George
Lyle - bass
21:00 Catriona McKay & Alistair MacDonald - Harp & Electronics
22:00 GIO with Guests
Performers
Flyer
This
autumn we decided to unfold a broader vision of a GIO concert; inviting
some long term as well as new collaborators to play with the group while
hosting performances by local players whose work resonates within GIO.
The event is curated by Neil Davidson and Raymond MacDonaldHighlights
include Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani whose melding of shamanic
ritual with the physicality of free jazz is a perfect foil for saxophone
genius Michel Doneda’s evisceration of breath. Maggie Nicols,
the Angela Carter of free improv returns to nurture her long running
association with GIO and to perform for the first time with the Burt/MacDonald
quartet.
Catriona McKay and Alistair MacDonald’s harp and electronics project
draws fine lines between folk idioms and electroacoustic planes of noise
while on similar ground the reformed Age of Wire & String featuring
Peter Nicholson from the One Ensemble returns to Glasgow after five
years. The festival will also feature the first screening in conjunction
with the Magic Lantern and Never Come Ashore of Kate Burton’s
documentary of the orchestra working with George Lewis last year.