Name: Mercury Over Maps 20
Start: 2025-01-16T07:30:00+00:00
Location: Canvas & Cream

Mercury Over Maps 20

Mercury Over Maps returns for its 20th edition at its new location: Canvas & Cream Gallery in Forest Hill!

The evening features 3 sets – a solo by Ian Stonehouse (magnetic tape, analog synth, spring box), a duo by Roma Agnihotri (live visuals) and whose body is this (laptop), and a trio between Jackie Walduck (vibraphone and electronics), Yoni Silver (bass clarinet) and Bill Thompson (tabletop Moog guitar, electronics and found objects).

This is going to be a very special edition of MOM - come early and grab a meal and a drink then head back to the gallery for performances.

More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-20
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Mercury Over Maps 18
Canvas & Cream
18 London Road
Forest Hill, SE23 3HF, London
Thursday, January 16yh
Doors 730pm
£10 (£5 students) cash at the door
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IAN STONEHOUSE
Ian Stonehouse is a currently a researcher and archivist of experimental & electronic music at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has lectured in Sonic Art for the past 20 years and was Head of the Electronic Music Studios at Goldsmiths from 2004-2019.
He originally trained as a visual artist with experimental filmmaker Guy Sherwin and painter Paresh Chakraborty, and worked freelance for many years in sound, film, video and animation. In the late 1990s he was employed at the Lux Centre for Film, Video and New Media in London, working with artists such as Tacita Dean, Susan Hiller, John Maybury, Thomson & Craighead, Gillian Wearing, and Jane & Louise Wilson.
In recent years he’s performed as a member of noise-improv group Rutger Hauser (their eponymous debut album was released on the ADAADAT label in 2016), and as part of trio zerøspace (with Lucia H. Chung and Bill Thompson). Ian’s solo album, Voyage en Kaléidoscope (originally recorded on tape in 1995) was issued in 2016 thanks to the folks at Lumen Lake label. He was part of the ensemble who performed Bill Thompson’s Gates 2017at Goldsmiths and contributed tape loops to saxophonist Colin Webster’s release vs. Tape Loops on the Fractal Meat label in 2017. Ian’s albums Synthesizer Experiments Volumes 1-3 were self-released on Bandcamp in 2019, alongside several others.
He’s currently writing a biography of artist, performer, composer & sound poet Lily Greenham (1924-2001), whose first major retrospective - Lily Greenham: An Art of Living - ran from March to May this year at the Badischer Kunstverein gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany, for which he was a consultant researcher and tape archivist.
This summer he has been involved in making four new copies of composer Hugh Davies’ pioneering ‘Shozyg’ experimental instruments using original materials for an upcoming concert series in February 2025 at the Science Museum in London & Bradford, with composers Gavin Bryars, Shiva Feshareki, Sarah Angliss, and the group Icebreaker.
https://ianstonehouse.bandcamp.com
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ROMA AGNIHOTRI
Roma Agnihotri is a visual and sound artist whose work invites audiences to experience themes and imagery in an abstract, sensory way. Sound is central to Roma’s practice, combining with visuals to create immersive, textured compositions that explore the relationship between audio and visual expression. Their early work, a hand-painted, experimental short film series on 8mm film, delved into themes of nostalgia and the tangible nature of film, set to soundscapes from circuit-bent toys and handmade instruments. Roma’s practice has since expanded to include a range of materials and techniques, including stop-motion animation, as they explore new ways to merge analogue and digital elements in their visuals.

https://roamermultimedia.com/music-for-film/
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WHOSE BODY IS THIS

'whose body is this' is the musical project of Ben Mason, based on the UK's South Coast.
Working on the fringes of electronic music for some years now, whose has drifted further and further into extreme computer musics, from unstable/digital feedback systems, to more recently Pulsar Synthesis with his PdPG.
Finding common ground between free improv (noise guitar in the duo Ratdanger) and solo algorithmic composition, whose is finds interest in seeing how a system reacts: how the guitar reacts, how the trackpad reacts, how the PdPG reacts. This intention coalesces in bursts of static noise, rhythmic pulses, extreme quiet and thick digital textures.
whose's last project, Complete Gesture, recently release on electronic label EVEL - a collection of extreme, algorithmic computer trax, all made in the PdPG with machine assistance in the form of a “DIY” control neural network.
https://about.me/whosebodyisthis
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YONI SILVER
Yoni Silver is a bass clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist operating in-between the fields of free-improvisation, noise, composition, and performance.
He has performed with artists such as John Edwards, Catherine Lamb, Angharad Davies, Toshimaru Nakamura, Steve Noble, Birgit Ulher, Stephen O’Malley, Ghédalia Tazartès, and Ashley Paul.
Some of his current projects include Charles Hayward’s band Abstract Concrete, RAY with Ashley Paul and Otto Willberg, and Iancu Dumitrescu’s and (the late) Ana-Maria Avram’s Hyperion Ensemble which he has been a member of since 2011.
Yoni’s solo and collaborative work appears on labels such as Creative Sources, Editions Modern, Aural Terrains, Confront Recordings, Chocolate Monk, Shrike Records, Beartown Records, and Hideous Replica.
https://yonisilver.wordpress.com
https://yonisilver.bandcamp.com
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JACKIE WALDUCK
Jackie Walduck is a composer and vibraphone player, whose work explores the meeting points between composition and improvisation, and their impact on ensemble performance. She has performed across the UK, Europe and in the Middle East, with musicians as diverse as the Philharmonia, Sinfonia Viva, Kala Ramnath, and the Royal Army Band of Oman. She composes and leads The Academy of St Martin in the Fields orchestra with homeless men and women The Seymore Orchestra. Her collaborative film score for The Dress (dir. Maggie Ford) was premiered at Cannes Film Festival (2008).
Currently, Jackie co-directs Ethereal World with flautist Rowland Sutherland. Both a band and a club night, Ethereal World presents improvised music from some of the UK’s most exciting players drawn from contemporary classical, free improvisation and cross cultural jazz.
Recent compositions include The Migration Game (2016), a game opera for Spitalfields Winter Festival, and an immersive piece in a Suffolk Woodland Sensing Nature (2017), in which a blindfold audience was led through different woodland locations to hear music created in response to the sounds of stridulating insects, birds, bats and weasels. Sensing Nature was performed by Jackie’s ensemble Tactile, which brings together blind, VI and sighted musicians, and explores tactile composition and non-visual communication in music.
Jackie completed her PhD in 1997 at City University, supervised by Simon Emmerson. She is currently Lecturer in Music at the University of Kent.
https://www.jackiewalduck.org/
https://www.confrontrecordings.com/
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BILL THOMPSON

Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in a number of groups including The Seen, zerøspace, and Airfield (with Ian Spink), and duos with Ian Stonehouse, Phil Durrant, and Yoni Silver. Past collaborations include performances with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.
Although originally trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for the better part of 15 years. In recent years he has returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining it with electronics with miscellaneous tabletop devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.
He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award.
www.billthompson.org
https://burningharpsichordrecords.com
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Mercury Over Maps is an extended residency by Bill Thompson at Canvas and Cream Gallery featuring performances, installations and talks with various collaborators and guest artists.
https://www.facebook.com/mercuryovermaps