“Inhale deeply; exhale on the note of your choice; listen to the sounds around you, and match your next note to one of them; on your next breath make a note no one else is making; repeat. Call it listening out loud.” Video stream of Tuning Meditation performed live at Bang the Bore XI: Psychobabble.

After the Rain’s duo performance (featuring Ignacio Agrimbau and Hossein Hadisi) at Bang the Bore XI: Psychobabble. Their unique sound is a synthesis of all their numerous activities, as composers, improvisers, teachers, music therapists and ethnomusicologists.

Bang the Bore’s first fundraiser compilation, a 6cdr behemoth featuring music donated by John Butcher, Alvin Lucier, Astral Social Club, Mark Sanders, The A Band, Ashtray Navigations, Bolide and many, many more. Buy it here!

Stream, watch or download the first performance of Twelve Tapes: twelve C60 cassette tapes, each containing performances based around the note B, recorded live in enclosed, multi-storey and underground car parks. In performance, any number of these tapes may be played in any combination alongside any number of musicians playing any instrumentation.

Bang the Bore take part in a Resonance FM broadcast about the Supernormal Festival. Link us, yeah?

This inaugural performance of the BtBarbershop Quartet featured site janitors and concert dogsbodies Clive Henry, Kev Nickells and Seth Cooke alongside Dan Palmer from Glyphs, filmed live at Bang the Bore XI: Psychobabble 17.12.2011.

Melanie O’Dubhslaine’s performance at Bang the Bore XI: Psychobabble encoded Terry Smith’s text, ‘How to Describe Something Which Does Not Exist Yet’, into a voice synthesizer program, disfigured the results via manipulating the parameters and used it as the basis for extended improvisations on electronic and acoustic reed instruments.

The seventh and final part of Stephen Grasso’s treatise on London’s lost mythology finds the fatal flaw at the heart of plutocratic notions of ownership, adjudicates against the Enclosures Acts’ disempowerment of those outside the capitalist system and celebrates a visceral, animalistic humanism as an antidote to abusive authority.

Watch Co-Fragilities performing Adam Denton’s score Ideas for an Omnipresent Group as part of Bang the Bore XI: Psychobabble at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 17.12.2011.

Leaving behind the mythic skylines of the ever encroaching city, part six of Stephen Grasso’s adventures in the darker seams of London bridges the liminal space over the Thames, awakens the life-giving goddess of the river and exposes the veneration of ancestral bones in South London as modern magic echoes the past.

Two solo improvisations – one for guitar, one for violin – from Kev Nickells, under his Hákarl moniker at the Komedia in Brighton last October.

In the fifth part of his account of legendary London, Stephen Grasso excavates the ancient significance of the London Stone, proclaims the city’s history of violent resistance to abusive authority and ignites Christopher Wren’s Monument to the Great Fire of London as a beacon of both hope and the regenerative power of purifying fire.

Listen to an audio recording of Ben Piekut and the music students of Southampton University asking John Butcher and Mark Sanders questions about improvised music at the Turner Sims in February 2011.

Around a week ago I asked the Borum for contributions to a Christmas mixtape. This is the result. It’s comprised of roughly one third contributions of new music from forum members, one third suggestions from forum members, and one third my own selections.

Allison Brice’ Christmas mixtape, culled from her collection of jazz, easy listening and exotica.

Part four of Stephen Grasso’s psychoarchaeological excavation of London charts the mysterious vaults beneath the Bank of England, discerns the old ghosts of England channelled in contemporary protest theatre and sounds a rallying cry in the battle to reclaim our sacred space.

The entirety of Ashtray Navigations’ performance at the Past Present Future Space-Time Festival, which took place at the Wysing Arts Centre near Cambridge on 10th September 2011.

In the third part of his London Odyssey, Stephen Grasso reveals similarities between British creation myths and the Nephilim of Genesis and Enoch, recounts a history of insurrection in the capital under the banner of King Mob and casts a timely light on the occult stronghold of the City of London Corporation.

An accompaniment to Jane and Louise Wilson’s exhibition of photographs taken around the Chernobyl exclusion zone, our tenth event presented music themed around nuclear energy in the context of the wider energy industry, culturally embedded fears, environmental impact and humanity’s ceaseless and increasing demand for more power.

Part two of Stephen Grasso’s psychogeographic tour-de-force uncovers the pre-Christian mythologies of the site of St. Paul’s Cathedral, traces the global reach of St. Brigit though the syncretic religious practices of British indentured servants and African victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and disinters the ghosts of Londons past in the City of the Moon’s unquiet burial grounds.

Aaron Moore’s performance at the Fox & Newt in Leeds is full of awkward spaces, fortuitous circumstance and deliberate anti-musicianship, with disinterest in technical skill cultivated to a degree whereby it becomes a strategy in its own right.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… a (sometimes very) tangentially Voodoo-themed seasonal mixtape, courtesy of record collector and witchdoctor Stephen Grasso.