Burning Harpsichord Salon

Name: Burning Harpsichord Salon
Start: 2025-10-08T19:30:00+01:00
Location: The Hill Station Cafe

Schedule

Wed, 08 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Hill Station Cafe | London, EN

The Burning Harpsichord Salon presents an evening of experimental music and improvisation.
Featuring a trio between Bill Thompson (live electronics), Marjolaine Charbin, (piano and voice) and Regan Bowering (percussion), a solo by Leon Michener (clavichord) and a solo by Lucia H Chung (live electronics feedback).
Doors 730 / Music 8pm | £10 entry (£5 for students)
The Hill Station, Kitto Rd, London SE14 5TW
[Less than a 10 minute walk from Nunhead, New Cross Gate or Brockley stations; Busses 484 and 343 stop 100 meters from venue]
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Regan Bowering
Regan Bowering is a percussionist, improviser and sound artist based in London. Her solo work explores various combinations of drums and percussion, objects, amps, speakers, and feedback.
Her debut album “Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces” (Dec 2023 on Bezirk Tapes) 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). She also regularly collaborates with saxophonist Sue Lynch and is currently doing a practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London.
www.reganbowering.com
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Marjolaine Charbin
Marjolaine Charbin is a French pianist based London. She uses the keyboard, strings and frame, a range of objects, contact microphones and voice. She is interested in how the traditional instrument she grew up with is still able to represent and shape her changing self and environment. Since studying sound engineering and then jazz piano at the conservatoire in Brussels, she has focussed on improvised music and open forms of compositions.
She has collaborated with a wide range of musicians currently including Eddie Prevost, Ute Kanngiesser, John Butcher, Chris Cundy, Phil Durrant, Angharad Davies and Dominic Lash, as well as with dancers, theatre and film. She sees herself as a living recycling machine that creates new forms with all that attracts her desire and attention, including jazz music, new music, environmental sounds, the physical limits of the piano and of her body, interconnectivity and the edges of her individuality.
She has performed in venues and festivals around Europe such as Sound Disobedience Festival (Ljubljana), Exploratorium (Berlin), Cafe Oto (London), Hurta Cordel festival (Madrid, Barcelone), The Vortex (London), Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival, Music We’d Like to Hear series (London). At the moment she focusses on developing her language for solo performance.
https://www.marjolainecharbin.com
https://marjolainecharbin.bandcamp.com/music
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Lucia H Chung
Lucia H Chung is a Taiwanese experimental noise artist based in London, United Kingdom. She performs and releases music under the alias ‘en creux’ where sound creation springs from her interests and fascinations in the inherent noise floor within audio equipment. She uncovers and reveals such hidden noise via her manipulations with no-input feedback mixing. The volatile nature of feedback and the unpredictable glitch from the excessive energy generated within the equipment becomes her improvisational and compositional strategy. As the word 'en creux' suggests, she summons a hollowed out, reversed form of sound from the mixing console.
Lucia’s passion lies in live performance and has regularly performed solo and with collaborators in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America, including Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (CH), Krama Festival (GR), Lisboa Soa Festival (PT), Sanatorium of Sound Festival (PL), Festival Electropixel (FR), Sonorities Festival (NI), Through the Floor Festival (UK) and Supernormal (UK).
www.luciahchung.com
https://bandcamp.com/encreuxmusic
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Leon Michener
Leon Michener is a London-born pianist whose music spans recordings of 20th-century classical music through to free jazz. Acquiring a small Moog synthesiser at the age of fourteen by saving a year’s worth of pocket money led to his passion for combining acoustic keyboards with live electronics. After graduating from Trinity College of Music he constructed his Klavikon system, a combination of piano, amplification, found objects, feedback and analog processing. Augmenting the 88 keys with his own inventions and found objects - custom-made microphones, toys, vibrators, and lots of blu-tak allowed him to deliver cascading batteries of percussion, sub-basses and dark abstract soundscapes. He has recorded on numerous labels, including a solo Klavikon album on the Nonclassical record label. His latest research has led him to resurrect and explore obsolete keyboard instruments such as the Clavichord, Dulcitone, and the Yamaha CP80 electro-acoustic piano.
For this performance, he will be playing on an amplified portable Clavichord, prepared with found objects, which has also been “hacked” to include a custom-assembled electro-acoustic-mechanical percussion instrument in its lid.
https://www.instagram.com/leon.michener.klavikon/
https://www.facebook.com/Klavikon/
https://leonmichener.bandcamp.com/
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Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in a number of groups including The Seen, zerøspace, and Airfield (with Ian Spink), and duos with Ian Stonehouse, Phil Durrant, and Yoni Silver. Past collaborations include performances with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.
Although originally trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for the better part of 15 years. In recent years he has returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining it with electronics with miscellaneous tabletop devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.
He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award.
www.billthompson.org
https://burningharpsichordrecords.com
Doors 730 / Music 8pm | £10 entry (£5 for students)