Thu 29 May 2025 7:00pm

Julian Woods

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Whirlpool presents Julian Woods

For his Whirlpool series concert, multi-instrumentalist and composer/arranger Julian Woods presents Sensations of Tone, a set of brand new original compositions and arrangements which explore different ways in which music can relate to the physical processes of sound production.

Inspired by composers John Cage, Harry Partch, and John Zorn, and by physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, the music makes use of just intonation (‘pure tuning’) and more gestural approaches to pitch, as well as employing ambient sound and ‘noise’.

As well as original compositions, the group will present new arrangements of music from Maddie Ashman’s widely celebrated solo guitar/voice work ‘otherworld’, which was a bestseller on Bandcamp.

Julian Woods

Julian is a guitarist, bassist and composer based in London. Julian is interested in exploring new and unusual musical colours by making use of microtonality and polystylism in the context of improvised music. A graduate of Oxford University, he was highly active during his time as a student, leading the University Jazz Society house band, and playing in everything from a jazz orchestra to a classical guitar quartet. He has studied with pioneer Philipp Gerschlauer and other microtonal theorists/composers, and is a current student of the Julian Joseph Jazz Academy. Current projects include adapting Arabic and Turkish traditional music and Ives quartertone piano works onto modified guitars, and performing with the London Improvisers Orchestra.

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