Acoustic Improvisations + Recording :
Day One – Formats [Sue Lynch & Douglas Benford]
Session One 29 November 2025 Saturday 4:30pm
Session Two 29 November Saturday 6:30pm
Day Two – Informals [Sue Lynch & Douglas Benford & Iris Colomb]
Session Three 30 November Sunday 3:30pm
Session Four 30 November Sunday 5:30pm
£8 | 6 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets
Running Time : 45 minutes approx.
Acoustic improvisations and explorations flowing from artwork and experimental poetry.
Over two days this Sue Lynch and Douglas Benford collaboration is based around performances, incorporating Lynch’s own projected visual art and Colomb’s found text improvisations.
Lynch employs saxophone and flute, whilst Benford uses tenor recorder, accordian, objects and melodica. Performances would encompass accidents and expressions with a multi media slant, as both musicians react to the visual aspects and surreal poetic excursions by Iris Colomb on Day Two.
Stewart Morgan will be recording the performances on Sunday. The concept of Project DIVFUSE curatorial line DIVFUSE Recording Room is to provide an intimate space for live recordings to be carried out, where sound from the outside working yard and the audience might come into the mix.
Sue Lynch
Sue Lynch, works as an experimental saxophonist and visual artist .She studied fine art at Coventry College of Art. Since 2012, she has curated The Horse Improvised Music Club, with Adam Bohman and Adrian Northover. She is also a member of the Psychedelic Afro Beat Sudanese band ‘The Scorpios’.In 2016 she formed, ‘Paradise Yard’, an electro acoustic ensemble, performing at Iklectik, Cafe Oto, The ICA and a Delia Derbyshire Tribute at DIY Space, featuring words and music. She has performed at 3 Klange Tag Music & Word Festival, Switzerland with Hildegard Kleeb, The Womad BBC Stage,Tusk Festival and Guess Who Festival (Utrecht) with The Scorpios. Solo performances include Pied Nu Festival, Le Havre and The Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire 2025. In November 2024, she was part of Light Sounds Festival 2024, featuring contemporary musicians who also use visual art as part of their work. She has recorded with artists, Anna Homler, Crystabel Riley, Sharon Gal, Regan Bowering, N.O Moore, Adam Bohman, Sophie-Sleigh Johnson and Viv Corringham.
https://suelynch.wordpress.com/
Douglas Benford
Douglas Benford, composer and sound artist, has been involved in various audio genres and monikers since the late 1980s, performing at institutions in the UK (Bristol’s Arnolfini, London’s Science Museum, Tates Modern & Britain, The Roundhouse, ICA and Glasgow’s CCA), Cafe Oto, The Vortex, Iklectik, festivals worldwide (Mutek, Synch, Transmediale) and has had installation work in numerous UK galleries (London, Swansea, Stroud and Essex). His works and performances have been aired on the radio internationally, as well as on BBC Radio 3 (Freeness, Mixing It) and regularly on the Ambrosia Rasputin show on Resonance FM. After numerous electronica releases and activity in the 90s and 2000s, he now performs acoustically (on accordion, tenor recorder, toys, objects) with the London Improvisers Orchestra, regularly attends Eddie Prevost’s workshop, and has contributed to Mark Wastell’s The Seen collective. His collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Dominic Lash, poet Tamar Yoseloff, Angharad Davies, sculptor Rob Olins, Matt Atkins, Lina Lapelyte, Tom Ward, Marjolaine Charbin, Sylvia Hallett, Steve Beresford, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, John Edwards, Sofia Vaisman-Maturana and Jennifer Allum.
http://dbenford.bandcamp.com/music
Iris Colomb
Poet and artist Iris Colomb is always searching for new ways of making, performing and experiencing poetry. From artist books to performance art, each of her projects invites us to revel in new poetic possibilities. Her work creates a sense of unpredictability through indeterminate outcomes, disrupting the traditional boundaries between artist and audience. Her current solo exhibition at the Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library showcases a selection of works engaging with language visually and sonically through poetic objects and physical constraints as well as chance, improvisation and duration. She is one half of the double-act Soft Play with artist Paul Ingram; and text-sound duo [something’s happening] with musician Daryl Worthington. She is also part of improvising trios Small Print Drama (with Douglas Benford and Tom Ward) and TheThreeFeet (with John Bisset and Andrew Ciccone). Iris’ first full-length poetry collection Nothing Intensifieswas published by Pamenar Press earlier this year.
