Adam
Webster
Liverpool Musician and part of Frakture, Liverpool, England.
www.lr.frakture.org
Adam
Webster member of Frakture: Image
Tony Knox.
FBB,
the Frakture Big Band, was originally started in 1998 after a series
of workshops run by Phil Morton and Phil Hargreaves, then of Bonehouse,
in conjunction with the first series of Frakture concerts.
Since then it has become an important part of Liverpool’s
musical life, acting as a conduit for musical exchanges, a meeting
point for musical experimenters and a living laboratory for the
experimentally minded.
Membership is loose with no known criteria, numbers can vary between
5 and 15, sometimes augmented by visiting musicians.
The music can be completely improvised, based around composition
(several band members have supplied compositions for the band),
or based around some other structure; for instance we once did a
performance of one minute improvisations, interspersed with recorded
examples of the genre and haiku.
Past
performances have included major collaborations with bassist and
composer Simon H Fell (1999),singer Maggie Nicols (2000) and we
welcome Carlos Zingaro in November 2004..
Major
events include; a three-hour improvisation in the Colourscape
tent at the Pier Head, Liverpool; the Dislocation Sermons, by
Dinesh Allirajah and Phil Hargreaves,
funded by the Year of the Artist.
As well as formal concerts, the FBB network often gives rise to
other, less structured performances and collaborations from within
its ranks, often in collusion with the Bluecoat Arts Centre, who
have been extremely helpful in providing facilities for the band
over the last two or three years.
Eight
Days A Week
Liverpool Group
Eight
Days A Week
Liverpool Group
>> basement Project, History into
basement, Liverpool, England
>> Bryan Biggs, Artist and Director
of the Bluecoats Art Centre, Liverpool, England.
>> Dave Bixter, Artist and Co-Founder
of Dying Frog, Liverpool, England.
>> James Buso, Artist and part
of Royal Standard, Liverpool, England.
>> Pete Clarke, Artist and
Head of Fine Art at UCLAN (Preston), Liverpool, England.
>>
Alan Dunn, Artist and associated to Tenant Spin and FACT, Liverpool,
England.
>> Lin Holland, Artist and Lecturer
at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England.
>> Julie Jones, Artist and affiliate
to Arena Studios, Liverpool, England.
>> Tony Knox, Artist and Curatorial
Researcher for Podgy, Liverpool, England.
>> Paul Luckraft, Artist, Liverpool,
England.
>> George Lund, Artist and Founder
of Animal Utopia, Liverpool, England.
>> Susan Leask, Artist and Co-Curator
of basement, Liverpool, England.
>> Geoff Molyneux, Artist
and Lecturer at Liverpool Community College, Liverpool, England.
>> Neil Morris, Artist and Lecture
at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England.
>>
Margaretha Schoening, Artist and Co-Curator of basement, Liverpool,
England.
>> Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney,
Artist and Founder of Transvoyeur, Liverpool, England.
>> Adam Webster, Liverpool Musician
and part of Frakture, Liverpool, England.
Cologne Group
>> Georg Gartz, Artist, Cologne,
Germany.
>> Jurgen Kisters, Writer,
Art Critic and Journalist, Cologne, Germany.
>> Veronika Moos Brockhagen,
Artist, Cologne, Germany.
>> Kolner Stadt Enzieger, Cologne, Germany.
>> Tine Wille, Artist, Cologne,
Germany.
