Bruce Coates, Jonny Marks, Mike Hurley, Trevor Lines and Walt Shaw

Frimp present an evening with two remarkable instrumentalists and masters of the extended technique. Derby based Walt Shaw is well known to Birmingham audiences from his work with the Birmingham Improbvisers Orchestra, the quartet SCHH and his duo Mahood, who combine music with performance art. Shaw moves from conventional drum kit to a plethora of little instruments, percussive devices, cymbals and gongs which he augments with cunning use of electronics. New Zealander Jonny Marks is currently resident in Birmingham and has quickly made himself an irreplaceable part of the improvising scene and is also makes inroads nationally through his work in duo with legendary percussionist Roger Turner. His approach to the human voice is unique, combining as he does contemporary extended vocal techniques with traditional Tuvan throat singing (something he studied for two years in China). Although one is intially reminded of Phil Minton, Maggie Nichols and Cathy Berberain, Marks’s quickly takes us into unfamilliar improvisatory territory. Both Shaw and Marks have worked with Bruce Coates before – together they form the Music/Performance group Mutt and Coates and Marks are currently working in trio with Mark Sanders. This extended line-up promises to produce some fireworks.