GRAIN Presents: John Wall, Jack Dove + Caius Williams, Regan Bowering + Theodora Laird
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 · 7:30 PM
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GRAIN is a concert series and archiving project for experimental and improvised music, largely happening within South Bermondsey, and programmed / produced by Caius Williams & Theodora Laird.
Through programming and documenting new and adventurous music through collaboration, archiving, workshops, and performances, the project explores the ongoing dialogue between the transience of DIY art spaces and the communities that inhabit them.
JOHN WALL:
Born 1950.
Started composing 1990 and still going.
Played and collaborated with some good people.
There is no promotional visual youtube material.
go here https://johnwall.bandcamp.com/
and here https://utterpsalm.blogspot.com/
JACK DOVE:
is a musician and artist from London exploring contemporary composition methods through electronic experimentation and performance. Dove produces unpredictable listening experiences. He uses combinations of pyro, strobes, and other types of artificial light to interact with and control his homemade electronic circuits and mechanical machines, finding ways to generate unique sound textures from responding resonating objects.
Previous and ongoing shows include: Berlin Atonal '23, a carpark outside Bern train station, and ISC Club for Norient Film Festival 2022. He brings together his pyro-acoustic progressions annually at Fireworks, for the 4th and year in December 2024 at Ormside Projects, London.
CAIUS WILLIAMS:
is a musician from London who plays the double bass, guitar, and bass guitar. He works in collaboration with others, alongside various solo projects, often working with improvisation and explorations of resonance, and perception.
Some projects include ‘Crosspiece’ (with Theodora Laird), a duo with guitarist Tara Cunningham, alongside recent or regular performances/collaborations with Lifetones (Charles Bullen of This Heat), Steve Noble, feeo, Daniel O’Sullivan, Mark Sanders, Tom Challenger, Maggie Nicols, Sachiko M, Mark Wastell, amongst others.
REGAN BOWERING
Regan Bowering’s solo work explores the rhythmic and percussive potential at the intersections of improvisation, sound art and experimental composition. Her performance practice incorporates various combinations of drums, objects, amplification, microphones and feedback. Her debut solo release (Bezirk, Dec 2023) Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces was described as “a play of contrasts, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” (The Quietus). She is one third of a collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake, with two releases: “2 Movements” (Feedback Moves, 2024) and "Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers" (Infant Tree, 2023). Regan is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in NYC, as part of her ongoing practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London.
THEODORA LAIRD
is a vocalist and multidisciplinary artist. Releases under her solo project ‘feeo’ have received critical acclaim. Theodora's practice has involved in tandem with an interest in situating narratives within freely improvised music, specifically through frequent involvement in the GRAIN residency.
Through programming and documenting new and adventurous music through collaboration, archiving, workshops, and performances, the project explores the ongoing dialogue between the transience of DIY art spaces and the communities that inhabit them.
JOHN WALL:
Born 1950.
Started composing 1990 and still going.
Played and collaborated with some good people.
There is no promotional visual youtube material.
go here https://johnwall.bandcamp.com/
and here https://utterpsalm.blogspot.com/
JACK DOVE:
is a musician and artist from London exploring contemporary composition methods through electronic experimentation and performance. Dove produces unpredictable listening experiences. He uses combinations of pyro, strobes, and other types of artificial light to interact with and control his homemade electronic circuits and mechanical machines, finding ways to generate unique sound textures from responding resonating objects.
Previous and ongoing shows include: Berlin Atonal '23, a carpark outside Bern train station, and ISC Club for Norient Film Festival 2022. He brings together his pyro-acoustic progressions annually at Fireworks, for the 4th and year in December 2024 at Ormside Projects, London.
CAIUS WILLIAMS:
is a musician from London who plays the double bass, guitar, and bass guitar. He works in collaboration with others, alongside various solo projects, often working with improvisation and explorations of resonance, and perception.
Some projects include ‘Crosspiece’ (with Theodora Laird), a duo with guitarist Tara Cunningham, alongside recent or regular performances/collaborations with Lifetones (Charles Bullen of This Heat), Steve Noble, feeo, Daniel O’Sullivan, Mark Sanders, Tom Challenger, Maggie Nicols, Sachiko M, Mark Wastell, amongst others.
REGAN BOWERING
Regan Bowering’s solo work explores the rhythmic and percussive potential at the intersections of improvisation, sound art and experimental composition. Her performance practice incorporates various combinations of drums, objects, amplification, microphones and feedback. Her debut solo release (Bezirk, Dec 2023) Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces was described as “a play of contrasts, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” (The Quietus). She is one third of a collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake, with two releases: “2 Movements” (Feedback Moves, 2024) and "Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers" (Infant Tree, 2023). Regan is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in NYC, as part of her ongoing practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London.
THEODORA LAIRD
is a vocalist and multidisciplinary artist. Releases under her solo project ‘feeo’ have received critical acclaim. Theodora's practice has involved in tandem with an interest in situating narratives within freely improvised music, specifically through frequent involvement in the GRAIN residency.
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