Un/stable showcases improvised music, with two sets from a string trio of Khabat Abas, Ivor Kallin, and Isidora Edwards.
Doors 7pm
Tickets £8-12
Khabat Abas is an experimental cellist, improviser, and composer from Kurdistan, Iraq. She moves freely between artistic discipline and possibilities. Her works are inspired by a broad collection of methods, including noise, improvisation, and narrative storytelling as individual approaches. Therefore, she searches for unheard sounds or undiscovered spaces. Khabat is probably best known for her adapted cello and improvisational work exploring extended techniques, through which she started developing pieces that respond to the objects that are surrounding her or to her childhood memories. In her practice, she raises questions about what is out of bounds, raising the possibilities of sounds that cannot be controlled – in contrast to traditional musical values.
Ivor Kallin plays bass with Glowering Figs, viola with the London Improvisers Orchestra, electric violin with Electrio, and sometimes just does his own thing, improvising on viola and voice, as demonstrated on recordings on Scatter Archive and Linear Obsessional. He also does a weekly radio show on Resonance FM as Ambrosia Rasputin, and has featured in 100 short films, with John Bisset, on twothirteentv on YouTube.
Ivor and Khabat have a new CD out on Confront, entitled Tapsalteerie, depicted in echo.
Isidora Edwards is a London-based cellist, improviser and PhD researcher from Chile. Moving between thresholds that include the acoustic, amplified, and processed cello and electronics, her musical language questions epistemologies of time, listening, freedom, and pleasure. Her solo and collaborative performances with fellow improvisers have been presented in a vast number of festivals and venues around Europe, Latin America and the US. She was trained as a classical cellist at the Universidad Católica de Chile, and was awarded scholarships by the National Research and Development Agency of Chile (ANID) to pursue an MMus in Creative Practice (2019-2020) and a Practice-Based PhD in Music (2020-2024) both at Goldsmiths University of London.