Henry Dagg/Evan Parker - Then Through Now - album launch and live improvised performance

This event is a benefit gig to support The Hot Tin as a grassroots venue and all ticket sales go to the venue. 

Please pay what you feel. (suggested £10-£25)

Launch party and rare live improvised performance of Evan Parker and Henry Dagg at The Hot Tin to mark their new album release Then Through Now on the False Walls label. With support from Filter Feeder.

Henry and Evan improvised together for the first time as part of the Free Range series in Canterbury, Kent, on December 2, 2021. For the performance, Evan played soprano saxophone, and Henry developed a new electronic instrument called the Stage Cage, to both process Evan’s live sound as well as generate its own sounds.

The Stage Cage includes four valve test-oscillators, a pair of ring modulators, frequency shifter, chromatic zither, and a variable tape delay system (consisting of two quarter-inch tape machines, eight feet apart – the first machine records, and the tape runs past moveable playback heads to the second machine, allowing several replays). Henry's main performance interface is a ‘dynamic router’: a five-key controller, which is the bridge between most of the components of the Stage Cage.

Towards the end of the performance, the tape machines were stopped, their reels reversed and set to play: the improvisation from then on was overlaid by a reverse reproduction of what Henry and

Evan had already been performing, with the reverse recording itself also being subjected to various treatments.

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This event is a benefit gig to support The Hot Tin as a grassroots venue and all ticket sales go to the venue. 

Please pay what you feel. (suggested £10-£25)

Huge thank you to all involved.