BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:521@lewesconclub.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250202T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250202T190000 DTSTAMP:20250113T155638Z URL:https://www.lewesconclub.com/events/john-zorns-cobra-by-safehouse-free -range-orchestra/ SUMMARY:John Zorn’s Cobra by Safehouse + Free Range Orchestra DESCRIPTION:John Zorn’s Cobra by Brighton’s Safehouse Brighton Collecti ve &\; Canterbury’s Free Range Orchestra\n\n£5 on the door\n\n5pm-7p m\n\nSafehouse Collective and the Free Range Orchestra from Canterbury joi n forces to play John Zorn’s Cobra and other experiments in group improv isation.\n\nCobra was conceived as a system with very detailed rules but w ith no pre-conceived sequence of events – a ‘game piece’ – for a g roup of musical improvisors and a prompter. The title was inspired by a ta ble-top war game.\n\nZorn said his goal with Cobra was to harness the crea tive developments in improvisation and extended techniques by New York Cit y’s downtown scene musicians in a semi-structured way\, but without hind ering their performances\; he was interested in telling the musicians when to play\, and with whom\, but without telling them what to play.\n\nPlus- Minus (1963\, 1974) by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was a key ins piration for Zorn\, inspiring him to develop methods play with or against each other and in response to his cues but without dictating specific note s\, sounds\, or other formal structures.\n\nImage Safehouse and Free Range Orchestra are pictured in the first of these joint gigs\, which happened in Canterbury in November. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lewesconclub.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2025/01/Safehouse2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR