Special Film Screening of BY BIRO AND UMBRELLA SPRING + Q&A with the Director Cathey Soreny & Adam Bohman followed by a performance by The Bohman Brothers.Adam Bohman’s life is a continual bricolage – from his artworks to his sound works, via his tape diaries and text pieces. He magpies and gleans away pedestrian gems, and from his hoard he conjures up a prolific and kaleidoscopic creative output. Filmed within and around his creative den – his sublimely cluttered flat in Catford – Adam guides us through tabletops overspilling with springs and metal, tottering piles of collages, and the joys of street signs of Lewisham, offering an intimate glimpse into his processes and passions.

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ADAM BOHMAN

Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of underground music for decades. Working with home-built instruments, found objects, tape cut-ups, collages, ink drawings and graphic scores. Favouring acoustic sounds over electronics, he explores the minute tendrils of sounds coaxed from any number of non-musical instruments and objects. He is a member of British experimental groups, Morphogenesis, The Bohman Brothers, Secluded Bronte, and The London Improvisers Orchestra. Adam's music is unique and experimental, incorporating Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation.

CATHY SORENY

Cathy is a documentary filmmaker who on one hand focuses on co-created films for social change, on all the rest of her limbs documents and celebrates the UK underground improvising scene. As part of Sheffield community TV collective Peak Signal 2 Noise she has developed a unique approach to exploring creativity. http://ps2n.org/

THE BOHMAN BROTHERS

Sound art veterans The Bohman Brothers invest random words with unearned meanings via the eloquent juxtapositions of their elegantly neutral voices. After three decades of experimentation, these alchemists of banality, these banalchemists, turn everyday leaden language into poetic gold.” - Stewart Lee (reviewing the ‘Back On The Streets’ album) Adam Bohman and Jonathan Bohman have been recording together since their early teens and playing live since 1984. Their repertoire includes a combination of sounds created in the moment and distinct compositions including songs. They use unconventional instruments, household objects, dislocated text from found, literary and commercial sources and collaged layers of recordings. Working together they are in a number of groups, including : Secluded Bronte with Richard Thomas, Apricot My Lady with Lukas Simonis & Anne La Berge and Ischio Romantico with Leonard Aspen & Roger Boulding. They have also worked with film-maker Peter Strickland on various projects. Additional collaborations with: Christian Marclay, Luke Fowler, Andy Holden, Ken Campbell, Ilan Volkov, Steve Beresford, Lol Coxhill, L.Voag, Lepke B, Peter Fengler, Felix Kubin, Jim O’Rourke, Charles Hayward, Michael Prime and Neil Luck. They have performed at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Roundhouse, Royal Albert Hall, South Bank and numerous smaller venues around the UK. Also across Europe and America. Their duo recordings include 'A Twist For All Pockets' (Rossbin, 2001), 'Purely Practical' (Peripheral Conserve, 2002), ‘Back On The Streets' (Peripheral Conserve, 2012), ‘Library Music’ (Des Astres D’Or, 2019) and ‘In Their 70s’ (Fort Evil Fruit, 2021)Album & concert reviews A Twist For All Pockets(2001) 

https://www.allmusic.com/.../a-twist-for-all-pockets...http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=278:the-bohman-brothers-qa-twist-for-all-pocketsq&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=133

Purely Practical (2002) “The new single by the Bohman Brothers, Purely Practical/Western Omelettes (Peripheral Conserve ph10 7”) is one of the best sound poetry jukebox records since Henri Chopin stopped cutting them. One side has one Bohman reading catalogue descriptions of table saws while his brother tries to disrupt his concentration with taped and/or live interjections that would throw most grown-ups out of whack. The flipside is a layered collision of taped sounds and disparate spoken bits that sounds like a couple of guys trying to keep their card game focused while the cruise ship they're on is burning and sinking around them. It's a top-notch release and quite different from the instrumental work for which I'd thought these two were better known. Nice cover graphics, too.”
Byron Coley, The Wire Magazine, October 2002. Uncut: Are there any specific influences you had in mind for the main character, Gilderoy?
Peter Strickland: There was an element of Adam Bohman. He did this recording with brother [Jonathan] called “Purely Practical”, which is them reading out DIY catalogues, and it was just fantastic. I begged them to let me put it out as a 7”. It was almost like Samuel Beckett or something, this weird inscrutable thing, completely mundane, but with this very hyponotic effect underneath it. Peter Strickland talking to Michael Bonner, Uncut magazine 2012 about his film, Berberian Sound Studio. In Their 70s (2021)

http://www.cookylamoo.com/.../time-travel-with-secluded...

Concert review: The Conway Hall in 2001

http://www.sumption.org/.../free-love-with-the-bohman.../