Performances/Broadcasts – Alistair Zaldua

Upcoming

—2025—

February 24: Notes&Sounds, University Arms, Sheffield

Duet with David Birchall (e-guitar)

Venue: University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7HG.

Doors open: 8pm

Past Performances

—2024—

November 14: Ensemble 50:50, The Noise Upstairs

I will play as part of the Ensemble 50:50 sextet, led by Phil Morton at The Noise Upstairs. Phil runs the very useful Improvisers Networks Online page.

Venue: Fuel Cafe, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW (map)

Doors open: 8.00pm

November 25: Notes&Sounds, Sheffield

Performance in trio with John Jasnoch (guitars) and Adam Woolf (clarinet), featured soloist: Olie Brice. Venue: University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7HG.

Doors open: 8pm

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 (Blog-post on this concert).

Venue: Fuel Cafe, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW (map)

Doors open: 8.00pm

September 7: Performance at: ‘The Pipe Organ as a Site for Musical and Technological Innovation‘, 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

Begin: 7.30pm

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.

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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).

Venue: Fuel Cafe, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW (map)

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).

Venue: University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7HG

Doors open: 8pm

—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).

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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.

Performers: Andrew Zhou: piano
Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson: clarinets
Alessandro Massobrio: electronics

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

Further Info

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

Publicity post by Free Range

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

Blog post

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)

Blogpost on this concert

—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.

Blogpost

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.

Blogpost

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)

Blog post

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.

Blog post

Initial realisation of Kanon E for multiple violins