Upcoming
—2024—
October 10: The Noise Upstairs, Manchester
–words and music–
Lauren Redhead (spoken word, electronics), Amy Jolly (cello), Alistair Zaldua (e-violin). Improvised interpretations to Lauren’s experimental texts at The Noise Upstairs.
Venue: Fuel Cafe, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW (map)
Doors open: 8.00pm
November 25: Notes&Sounds, University Arms, Sheffield
Performance of improvised music in trio with John Jasnoch (guitars) and Adam Woolf (clarinet), featured soloist: Olie Brice. Venue: University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7HG.
—2025—
February 24: Notes&Sounds, University Arms, Sheffield
Duet with David Birchall (e-guitar)
Venue: University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7HG.
Past Performances
—2024—
September 7: Performance: ‘The Pipe Organ as a Site for Musical and Technological Innovation‘ conference, City University, London
Duo Redhead Zaldua perform work for organ and electronics by:
Michael Bonaventure Celestial Objects II,
Sophie Stone postcard sized pieces,
Huw Morgan the kestrel stands haloed before the sun,
Lauren Redhead curse tablets,
Mike Vaughan clints and grikes,
Alistair Zaldua Redrick S
Venue: St. John the Evangelist, Duncan Terrace, Islington, 5.30pm
August 19 – 23: Residency Experimental Studio (South-West Radio), Freiburg
I have been invited as artist in residency for the 2nd time to work on the electronic part for a cycle of pieces titled Redrick S for different instruments and live electronics at the Experimental Studio in Freiburg, Germany. During this week I will work intensively with Flügelhorn and microtonal trumpet specialist Steve Altoft.
July 30: The Noise Upstairs, Todmorden
Performance of free improvisation, in duet with James Coote (drums).
Venue: The Golden Lion, Fielden Square, Todmorden, OL14 6LZ
June 1: Redrick S, album release
Release of Redrick S in three versions: 2 installation versions and 1 concert version. Recording: San Servolo, Venice.
Lauren Redhead: organ, Alistair Zaldua: live electronics.
May 28: NoiseFloor, ESML, Lisbon
Performance of what are notes anyway. Collaborative audio-visual composition by Jenn Kirby, Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua during NoiseFloor Annual Conference. NoiseFloor Information. Conference timetable (pdf).
Venue: Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML), 6pm
March 18: Curious Ear, Manchester
Performance of free improvisation, in duet with David Birchall (e-guitar).
Venue: Peer Hat, 14-16 Faraday Street, Manchester (map)
Doors open: 7.30pm, 8pm start
March 14: Noise Upstairs, Manchester, 7.30pm
Performance of free improvisation, in duet with James Coote (drums).
February 29: DLF: 54 stops by Annette Schmucki
Broadcast of 54 stops, grésillement, alphabet des rauschens by Annette Schmucki, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, (Berlin). Lauren Redhead: organ, Alistair Zaldua: live electronics.
Recording: Chiesa di San Servolo, Venice, 25.10.2023
January 29: Notes&Sounds, University Arms, Sheffield
Performance of free improvisation, in duet with James Coote (drums).
—2023—
December 1: CURSES AND SPIRITS, Duo Gallio Zaldua, released by scatterArchive
Album: Christoph Gallio (saxophones) and Alistair Zaldua (e-violin) in duet.
Improvised and composed music by: Christoph Gallio, Lauren Redhead, Alistair Zaldua. Digital release by scatterArchive (Glasgow).
26th November: Mopomoso, Vortex Jazz Club, London
2pm – 5pm: Free Improvisation with Trio CZW: Paul Cheneour (flutes), Maureen Wolloshin (oboe), Alistair Zaldua (e-violin). Trio CZW online album, pan y rosas discos.
November, 11: Saint Stephens, Bristol
Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua Duo: organ and live electronics in combination with Huw Morgan and Michael Bonaventure, Automatronic.
Performances of:
Mike Vaughan: clints and grykes
Alistair Zaldua: Redrick S
Music by Michael Bonaventure, Jono Cole, Chris Fox, Huw Morgan, and Lauren Redhead.
6.00pm, Saint Stephens Church, Bristol
November 1st: Plastic Language [something’s happening]
Broadcast of AprilAprilApril by Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua. Broadcast on NTL/live radio stream. Recording made at Experimental Studio, SWR, Freiburg, in April, 2023.
1am – 2am
October 31st: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Research Lecture on recent work for composition class and research students.
October 21 – 28: Duo Redhead Zaldua: Residency San Servolo, Festival Registri, Venice
Concert and installation performances of work by Annette Schmucki, Sophie Stone, Lauren Redhead, Michael Vaughan, Alistair Zaldua for organ and live electronics. Further details to be announced.
Tuesday Oct. 24: Installation
- Sophie Stone, Postcard Sized Pieces
- Alistair Zaldua, Redrick S (World Premiere of installation version)
Wednesday Oct. 25: Installation
- Annette Schmucki, 54 stops (2 hour version)
Friday Oct. 27: Concert, Festival Registri
- Michael Vaughan, clints and grykes
- Michael Bonaventure, Celestial Objects II
- Sophie Stone, Syntheses
- Lauren Redhead, curse tablets
- Huw Morgan, the kestrel stands haloed before the sun
- Alistair Zaldua, Redrick S
- Annette Schmucki, 54 stops
Venue: Fondazione San Servolo, Isola di San Servolo, 30133 Venezia VE, Italy (map)
October 16: Curious Ear, Manchester
Performance of free improvisation, in duet with James Coote (drums).
Venue: Peer Hat, 14-16 Faraday Street, Manchester (map)
Doors open: 7.30pm, 8pm start
September 14: Noise Upstairs, Manchester, 7.30pm
Performance of free improvisation, in trio with James Coote (drum kit) and Andrew Rothwell (percussion). Recording of rehearsal session at Lilac Room Studio, Manchester (June 6th, 2023).
Venue: Fuel Cafe, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW (map)
August 21 – September 3: Radiophrenia
24-hour Sound Art Festival Festival, Click here for full schedule.
Broadcast of four collaborative pieces by Lauren Redhead (spoken word, synthesiser), Maurice Oeser (live electronics), and Alistair Zaldua (e-violin). Click here for listening link.
August 25th: Shorts 19, 1pm – 2pm; by increments
August 27th: Shorts 35, 10pm – 11pm; April April April
August 29th: Shorts 9, 8am – 9am; dreisam
September 1st: Shorts 26, 1pm – 2pm; experimentalstudio
July 11th: Unsupervised #3, Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester, 10.30 – 5pm
Performance of Ochre, Red, in an updated version for e-violin, live electronics. “Showcase of performances and presentations from participants of this year’s Unsupervised project!“
Organised by: The Machine Learning for Music Working Group
Address: Room G16, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Bridgeford Street, Manchester, M13 9PL.
May 11: Noise Floor Conference, University of Staffordshire, 4:30pm
Performance of Ochre, Red, in a version for e-violin, live electronics, and voice. Performers: Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua.
Link for conference schedule.
April 17 – 21: Residency Experimental Studio (South-West Radio), Freiburg
April 16th: Hospital Kirche, Stuttgart, 5pm
Duo Redhead/Zaldua with Composers Slide Quartet:
An Berblingers Prothese, by Alan Hilario,
Second performance of work for work for organ, e-violin, live electronics, trombone quartet, and percussion.
Venue: Hospital Kirche, Stuttgart.
April 15th: Münster, Ulm, 7pm
Duo Redhead/Zaldua with Composers Slide Quartet:
An Berblingers Prothese (World Premiere)
New work by Alan Hilario, work for organ, e-violin, live electronics, trombone quartet, and percussion.
Venue: Ulm Münster. Details to be announced.
30th March: Free Range, Canterbury, 7.30pm
Alwynne Pritchard and Alistair Zaldua. Info page here. Performance includes work by Lauren Redhead, Alwynne Pritchard and Alistair Zaldua.
Venue: Fruitworks Coffee Shop, 1-2 Jewry Lane, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2NP
28th March: Deptford Town Hall, Goldsmiths, 6pm
Alwynne Pritchard and Alistair Zaldua, Rush-Hour Concert: 6pm. Performance includes work by Alwynne Pritchard, Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua.
Venue: New Cross Rd, London SE14 6NW
26th March: Mopomoso, Vortex Jazz Club, London
Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua. Performance includes pieces and improvisation by Huw Morgan, Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua.
Doors open: 2pm
Venue: 11 Gillett Square, London N16 8AZ
Comments from audience member, Tim Banks
25th March: Access Space Sheffield
Lauren Redhead (electric organ, live electronics) and Alistair Zaldua (e-violin). Performance includes work by Huw Morgan, Lauren Redhead, Sophie Stone, and Alistair Zaldua.
Further details to be announced. Doors open 7.00pm
Venue: Event Central, 26 Fargate, Sheffield City Centre, S1 2HE
31st January: Hypotesis: Andrew Zhou and Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson, Studio Boerne, Berlin, 7.30pm
Performance of Something is Other Than It Is, solo bass clarinet.
Venue: Studio Boerne 45, Börnestraße 43, 13086 Berlin
—2022—
December 10th, St Swithun’s Church, Worcester: Automatronic
Performances by Huw Morgan and Michael Bonaventure, Lauren Redhead (organ) and Alistair Zaldua (live electronics). Automatronic Bandcamp publications. Publicity for this concert.
Programme:
Map Fred Wallberg (organ solo)
Zombie Ant collaborative compositions by Huw Morgan and Michael Bonaventure
1.50am Dreaming Lin Yang
Curse Tablets Lauren Redhead
November 9th, Zürich: Musikpodium Der Stadt Zürich
Duo Redhead/Zaldua: Premier of 2-hour version of Annette Schmucki‘s 54 stops for organ and live electronics.
5pm – 7pm; City Kirche St Jakob, Stauffacherstrasse 34, 8004 Zürich
Blog post on our collaborative work with Annette Schmucki
November 2nd, Online: NowNet Arts Conference 2022
Improvisation: Performance of 35′ version of Fred Rzewski’s Second Structure (1972) for solo or ensemble ad lib. (pdf of score) for open ensemble with Orpheus Institute (led by Juan Parra and Jonathan Impett).
NowNet Arts Conference, Stonybrook University, New York, Full timetable
Time: 1pm (Eastern Daylight Time Zone); UK: 6pm
16th October: Low Frequency Trio (LF3), Mexico City, 6pm
Performance of Laruelle’s Film
Foro International de Música Nueva, Sala Manuel M. Ponce, Pallacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico. 6pm
Low Frequency Trio: Antonio Rosales: bass clarinet, Juan José García: contrabass, José Luis Hurtado: piano
Blog post on Laruelle’s Film and LF3
13th October: Access Space Sheffield, 8pm
Solo performance: e-violin and live electronics. Concert details.
Performances of work by Alistair Zaldua, Lauren Redhead, and collaborative works. Doors open 7.30pm
Venue: Event Central, 26 Fargate, S1 2HE
July 4th: Swiss Percussion Days
4pm Lecture on interregnum by Alistair Zaldua
8pm Performance of interregnum for percussion sextet
Conducter: Pascal Pons
Performers: Percussion class of Pascal Pons, HSLU Lucerne
Hochschule für Musik, Klassik, Musik-Akademie Basel, Leonhardsstrasse 6, 4051 Basel
July, 5th: Music and/as Process, Deutschlandradio Kultur, 00.05
Broadcast of portrait program on the Royal Musical Association Study Group, Music and/as Process (website), by Carolin Naujocks
July 9th: Hundred Years Gallery, 19.30
Performance of free improvised music with Franziska Baumann (voice and electronics) and Steve Noble (percussion). Further info.
Hundred Years Gallery , 13 Pearson St. London E2 8JD
June 26th: Backbox Kosmos, Luzern Hochschule für Musik (HSLUM), 11.00
Performance of interregnum for percussion sextet
Conducter: Pascal Pons
Performers: Percussion class of Pascal Pons
Hochschule Luzern – Musik, Arsenalstrasse 28a, Blackbox Kosmos
6010 Luzern-Kriens
June 18th: Landis & Gyr Studios, Whitechapel, 19.30
Performance of free improvised music with Franziska Baumann (voice and electronics) and Steve Noble (percussion)
Concert Information: Facebook Event page
5 Smithy Street, Stepney Gardens, Whitechapel, London, E1 3BW
June 6th – 12th: Residency at Neither/Nor, Ytra Arna, Bergen, Norway
Neither/Nor Alistair Zaldua portrait page.
Blog post on Neither/Nor Residency.
June 8th: House Concert at Neither/Nor
Invited audience.
June 11th: nyMusikk Krapyl: Biblioteksmusikken, 12.00
Performance at nyMusikk Krapyl: Biblioteksmusikken Concert Series: solo e-violin and fixed media, Bergen Library. Facebook page for info.
May 12th: NoiseFloor 2022, Staffordshire University
Duet with Lauren Redhead (spoken word and text composition, with e-violin improvisation and live electronics). Programme.
Performance Lecture: Performing Creative Textual Practices as Critical Re-writings.
Cadman Studios, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2DE
March 31st: Free Range Spring Season Opening Concert, 19.30
Opening free improvisation duet with Sam Bailey (violin and piano) in support of Zubin Kanga’s Hidden Vortices set.
The Old Synagogue, 33-34 King St, Canterbury CT1 2AJ
March 5th: CoMa Manchester All-comers Workshop
3pm – 5pm: workshop of graphic score propaganda
St Margaret’s Church, Rufford Road, Whalley Range, M16 8AE
February 15th: Radiophrenia
8am – 9am. Broadcast of Machines by Lauren Redhead (spoken word and text composition) and Alistair Zaldua (e-violin improvisation), Link to Schedule.
February 14th: Radioprenia
8am – 9am. Broadcast of Feminist Pirate Broadcast by Lauren Redhead (spoken word and text composition) and Alistair Zaldua (e-violin improvisation), Link to the Schedule.
—2021—
December 09: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Berlin
Duo Redhead/Zaldua: Unmeasured Preludes
Broadcast of Unmeasured Preludes for organ and live electronics by Jesse Ronneau, Huw Morgan, Lauren Redhead, Alistair Zaldua, Luis Henriqué Yudo, Maureen Wolloshin
November 07 – 13: Duo Redhead Zaldua, Concerts in Berlin
Duo Redhead/Zaldua: Organ and live electronics
Performances of music by: Irene Galindo-Quero, Uday Krishnakumar, Fred Wallberg, Lin Yang, Lauren Redhead, Luc Döbereiner, Lula Romero. Further Details.
November 8th (Monday), 19.00: Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche
November 10th (Wednesday), 19.30: Pfarrkirche, Weißensee
November 11th (Thursday), 20.00: Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche, Schöneberg
November 13th (Saturday), 19.30: Alte Pfarrkirche, Pankow
November 14th (Sunday), 18.00: Tabor Kirche, Kreuzberg
October 07: Free Range, Canterbury
Trio CZW: Paul Cheneour (flutes), Maureen Wolloshin (oboe), Alistair Zaldua (e-violin) // Free improvisation
Venue: Fruitworks Coffee Shop
October 7: Trio CZW Album Launch: Where The Wind Takes Us
Published by Pan y Rosas Discos, Album of free improvised and composed music by Paul Cheneour, Maureen Wolloshin, and Alistair Zaldua
Album available: here.
September 15: Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Newcastle
Premiere performance of string trio fragments (2021); Trio Northumbria
Newcastle University
May: Festival Tectonics, BBC Glasgow
Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua Duo: Organ and live electronics
Performances of Giant Silver by Michael Bonaventure (UK), Fault by Huw Morgan (UK), Phosphorescent, by Lauren Redhead (UK), and …rain of stars by Alistair Zaldua
BBC Concert Recording (available until Tuesday June 8th)
—2020—
Tuesday December, 15th (0:05 CEST): Deutschland Kultur
Notation for Improvisation. Broadcast of radio feature focussing on the interaction between notation and improvisation. Includes interviews and work by Floris Schuiling, Sarah Brand, Moss Freed and the Union Division, and the Instant Composer’s Pool.
Related blog post by Lauren Redhead on the IMR Notation for Improvisers 1-day conference (London, 9th February, 2019)
Sunday December 13th: The Neon Hospice
Airplay of Kanon_E , from remote music on The Neon Hospice radio station
hosted by Lumpen Nobleman, of Extra Normal Records
Wednesday December, 9th: Release of EP: image invisible
Launch of EP: image invisible
Music for pianos and electronics written between 1997 – 2013.
Sunday December, 6th (2pm/CST-UTC-05): Jefferson Park EXP
Host: pan y rosas discos netlabel (Chicago)
Online performance with the whereness quartet: Ansuman Biswas (Indian percussionist), Paul Cheneour (flutes), Maureen Wolloshin (oboe and cor anglais), Alistair Zaldua (violin)
November, 8th (5pm/UK): London Sound Gallery
Inclusion of propaganda (graphic score) in short documentary film as part of collaborative online concert by Hermes Experiment and Gesualdo Six
November 6th: Album Launch of Remote Music
Launch of online album of postcard pieces for multiple violins.
Thursday, October, 8th: whereness album launch.
whereness quartet: Ansuman Biswas (Indian percussionist), Paul Cheneour (flutes), Maureen Wolloshin (oboe and cor anglais), Alistair Zaldua (violin), published by RedGoldMusic records, recorded at Quantum Leap Studios. Link for streaming.
October, 6th: ViviEntes Ciclo Album Launch
Twitch/Live Video+Chat Album: Lamenzamiento-de Cartografia compilation album. Inclusion of Front Room Distanced (Trio CZW)
October, 2nd-4th: Festival “Breaking Boundaries”
Host: Ox & Öl. Simone Keller, inclusion of Simone Keller’s realisation of postcard piece Kanon E as part of E-box sound installation by Marcel Zaes. Moods Jazz Club, Zurich.
Initial realisation of Kanon E for multiple violins
September, 12th: Tenterden, Kent
Whereness Quartet: Ansuman Biswas (percussion), Paul Cheneour (flutes), Maureen Wolloshin (oboe), Alistair Zaldua (violin)
5pm, Free Improvisation at Shiva Nova Concert Series
September, 9th: Royal Musical Association Annual Conference Goldsmiths University
Peter Sheppard Skaerved(violin), and Chris Redgate (oboe)
counterparts for oboe and violin
Blogpost
February, 19: Electric Spring, Huddersfield
Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua Duo: organ and live electronics
Performances of work by Ailís Ni Ríain(IR), Annette Schmucki (CH), Cara Stacey (SA), Sophie Stone (UK), Nina Whiteman (UK)
7.30 pm, Phipps Hall, Richard Steinitz Building, University of Huddersfield
February, 14: Saint Stephens, Bristol
Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua Duo: organ and live electronics in combination with Huw Morgan and Michael Bonaventure, Automatronic
Performance of work by Annette Schmucki (CH) and Sophie Stone (UK)
6.00pm, Saint Stephens Church, Bristol
February, 8: Ideas of Noise Festival, Birmingham
Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua Duo: organ and live electronics
World premiere performances of work by Ailís Ni Ríain(IR), Annette Schmucki (CH), Cara Stacey (SA), Sophie Stone (UK), Nina Whiteman (UK)
January, 24: WinterSound Festival 2020
Free Range Orchestra: performances of work by Sophie Stone, Dan Herbert, Grant Gover, Joe Inkpen, and Jason Hodgson
Daphne Oram Building, Canterbury Christ Church University, 7.30pm, Friday, 24th January
—2019—
November 1: University for Creative Arts, Canterbury
Free Range Orchestra Workshop with UCA students, Bauhaus Now
October 31: Free Range Concert Series, Garage Café, Canterbury, 7:30pm
Bauhaus Now with the Free Range Orchestra & UCA students
October 6: Margate Now Festival, Turner Contemporary Gallery, 3pm
Free Range Orchestra: Everywhere, Everywhen
Music by Tim Long, Sam Bailey, Neil Sloman, Sophie Stone, and the Free Range Orchestra
September 26: Salford Summit, The Eagle Inn, Salford, 7:30pm
Lauren Redhead Alistair Zaldua Duo: hearmleoþ—gieddunga, by Lauren Redhead [interview]
March 30: Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent
Captain Swing for Free Improvising Orchestra and live electronics
Narrator: Kat Peddie, Conduction: Alistair Zaldua, Performers: Free Range Orchestra
Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent, Canterbury
Saturday, March 30 (6pm), 2019
March 14: hr2-Kultur Musik (Hessian Radio broadcast)
Konzertsaal: “Wilde Lieder” – Marx. Musik I
Presenter: Stefan Fricke
Broadcast of manifesto, for speaker and chamber ensemble (2018)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conductor: Michael Wendeberg,
speaker: Marcus Farnsworth
Thursday, March 14 (8:04pm), 2019
February 28: slyph figures for solo piano (2017)
Ian Pace, St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield University
Thursday, February 28 (1:10pm), 2019
Hillingdon Music Festival
sketch to the free
Performers: In Place Ensemble, conductor: Colin Riley
Antonin Artaud Theatre, Brunel University, London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
Friday & Saturday, 15 & 16 February, 2019
Winter Sound Festival
Captain Swing (WP) for Free Range Improvisers Orchestra and live electronics
Narrator: Kat Peddie, Conduction: Alistair Zaldua
Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
Saturday, January 26, 2019
—2018—
KontraKlang
Something Is Other Than It Is for solo bass clarinet (2014)
Soloist: Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson, Arkaoda, Karl-Marx-Platz 16, Berlin-Neukölln, U7 Karl-Marx-Strasse
8pm, Sunday, December 16, 2018
Automatronic in Cambridge: Waves of Sound
Blow Up solo organ, 70 minute version (2011)
Soloist: Lauren Redhead, Corpus Christi College Chapel, Cambridge
Saturday, October 13 (14:00-17:00), 2018
SWR2 JetztMusik ‘Tyrannei und Freiheit’ / Wilde Lieder Marx.Music
Broadcast of manifesto, for speaker and chamber ensemble, 11′, 2018
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conductor: Michael Wendeberg, speaker: Marcus Farnsworth
October 10 (22:03-23:00), 2018
Wilde Lieder Marx.Music
manifesto, for speaker and chamber ensemble, 11′, 2018
Selected as a prize winning work for the Wilde Lieder Marx.Music International Composition Competition
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conductor: Michael Wendeberg, speaker: Marcus Farnsworth
September 1, 2018: Promotionsaula der Universität, Trier, Germany (WP)
September 4, 2018: CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Ian Pace at Fifty – Tributes and Early Modernism
sylph figures (WP) for solo piano (2017)
Ian Pace, City University, London
April 20, 2018
Free Range Concert Series
sketch to the free (WP), graphic score for improvising orchestra and conduction (2018)
Free Range Orchestra, conduction: David Leahy
Garage Coffee House, Canterbury
March 29, 2018
—2017—
KontraKlang: Extended Organ
Blow Up solo organ, 70 minute version (2011)
Soloist: Lauren Redhead
Emmaus Kirche
Berlin
Germany
Deutschlandradio Kultur
…rain of stars solo organ and live electronics
Soloist: Lauren Redhead / electronics: Alistair Zaldua
25th August 2016
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