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Half instrument, half human, ‘Bamboo Mustard’ is an embodiment of raw primal audio energy dressed in bamboo cane trousers, a conker-collar and a grass mask. Natural material and scavenged scrap has been reconstructed to turn the discarded into sound objects and DIY instruments for spontaneous music making. Bamboo Mustard explores improvisation, communal creativity, decay, anti-consumerism, smog and power structures of group dynamics. The journey through each instrument, attempting to build reality bending sonic textures through improvisation and body movement. Bamboo Mustard slowly offers out the instruments to audience members to explore and improvise and allows the remainder of the performance to be open-ended and unpredictable. On occasion he has fully disposed of the alter ego and transferred the sound-costume to audience members leaving the chaos in their hands. The aim is to create a non-hierarchical collective sound expression, embracing and being open to the communal spontaneity and creativity of the present moment.

Camden Fringe 2018

The Water Rats

30th-31st July

Photographs by Edward Smyth

and Giulia Mazzocchi

Faversham Fringe 2018

Edible Culture

Photographs by Ashleigh Fisk

and Benedict McLoughlin

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