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Max Reinhardt with a Collaboration Session featuring cellist and contemporary music champion Lucy Railton and the multidisciplinary artist and computer composer Russell Haswell. Plus Garden Dog Barbecue by hard-hitting Manchester jazzers GoGo Penguin, Appalachian blues from the Dixon Brothers and new music for mbira by Chartwell Dutiro.

Lucy Railton is a performer and curator and since 2009 has been making sonic work. As a performer Lucy is in high demand as a cellist specialising in new music and is currently collaborating with violinist Aisha Orazbayeva and the pianist Kit Downes. She has performed with the London Sinfonietta and Ensemble Plus Minus and regularly with composers on new music and studio recordings. She founded the new music series Kammer Klang in 2008 and is co-director and founder of the London Contemporary Music Festival. She has toured world wide performing with the dancer Akram Khan and continues to work in dance, theatre and film as a writer, onstage performer and creative collaborator.

Born in Coventry in 1970, Russell Haswell began working with digital sound and computer graphics at the Coventry School of Art. He was a member of Gescom, and has close ties with Autechre and Aphex Twin, as well as Bruce Gilbert and Peter Rehberg. He has collaborated with and produced projects by countless electronic artists and as curator Haswell has commissioned surround sound works by Peter Zinovieff, Yasunao Tone, Bernie Krause, and Chris Watson. He also curated two All Tomorrows Parties events.
Computer Music, Japanese noise, free improv, electroacoustic composition, black metal, grindcore, Detroit techno, and early Warp and Earache are all key influences. Haswell has been a resident artist at institutions in Scandinavia, Japan, France and Australia.