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-Upcoming on Active Cancellation:

18/05/08 : John Butcher & Adam Bohman



"In the hands of London improvisor John Butcher, the saxophone can sound like anything, from a peice of hollowed out brass baubled with pads and valves to a hermetically sealed feedback system, a minature sound enviroment teeming with ever-evolving note forms, or a huge echo chamber inflicting dub scale damage on every breath."

"As a free improviser Adam Bohman has pretty much everything required for the job. He weilds an armoury of soundmaking devices - a disassembled violin, springs, lightbulbs, a barbecue grill, a wire record rack, a wooden box with wires stretched across - and creates a post-serial slipstream of variegated events, where more detail is pressed into a split second than ought to be allowed."


15/06/08 : GX Jupitter Larsen

"Some of my broadcasts have consisted of me slowly pushing live microphones into power grinders"



During the 1990s Larsen was the sound designer for the performances of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories. His best known work is as the founder of the noise act The Haters, who have performed all over the world, and appear on over 300 CD & record releases.


06/07/08 : Marcus Schmickler



Marcus Schmickler will present a new version of his latest algorithmic piece ‘Altars of Science’ (Editions Mego), utilizing various applications of granular-synthesis onto microtonal pitch material. He is closely associated with the a-Musik label and over the last years he has worked in the fields of electronic, improvised, experimental and new music as well as doing scores, radioplays and leftfield pop music projects. Possibly best known for his work as Pluramon, he has worked alongside Julee Cruise, Kevin Drumm, Keith Rowe, Jacki Liebezeit and Jan St. Werner. Other collaborators have included Thomas Lehn, John Tilbury, Peter Rehberg and Thomas Brinkmann. He is also member of MIMEO.


20/07/08 : William Bennett

For the penultimate show from the CYRK curated ACTIVE CANCELLATION radio series, DJ Cut Hands aka William Bennett (Whitehouse) presents a very special one hour mix showcasing some of the first material from his amazing new Afro Noise project. This mix comprises brand new material produced by William with djembe, doundoun, ksing-ksing, synthesiser, electronics as well as excerpts from Florian Hecker, Whitehouse, East African witchcraft, feline recordings and Ghanaian funeral field recordings.

Some information on Afro Noise from the Cut Hands myspace:

'I think it's been obvious for a while now my fascination with African (and Haiti for that matter), especially in terms of the music, language, and art - the inspiration has been utterly invaluable, and now my plan is to take this passion and endeavour much further with the pursuit of an open-ended genre that I've dubbed afro noise. Essentially to consist of obscure African percussion elements in free-form work-outs with almost any other type of (genuine) sound experimenting. Already in evidence in some of the latter-day Whitehouse tracks, I believe there are incredible and exciting possibilities here which will also serve to draw a firm line between - what seems to me at least, and I've said it before - the utterly staid, conservative, conformist, and oh-so-boring ageing 'noise' genre. Let's recapture the flame and the excitement.'

William Bennett - Edinburgh, June 2007


27/07/08 : Nic Bullen

Nic Bullen is one of the founders of the legendary Napalm Death, as well as a past member of Scorn with Mick Harris and Final with Justin Broadrick. Bullen currently runs the electronic imprint Monium and records and performs solo and as a member of Black Galaxy and Photon Hex.


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