December - 2017

Welcome to Cold Bath Street!

Organic music-making through the

interaction of people.

CBS use a broad canon of improvisational approaches and draw on influences from Pink Floyd, Santana and Miles Davis right through to the present day. The band are a vehicle for the research work of Simon Partridge, Senior Lecturer in Music at UCLan. The aim is to produce new and ever-evolving pieces, to further understand improvisation and to share and encourage group music-making through concerts, workshops and collaboration with other artists.

On this site you can find out what we are up to, understand more about how the project works, get links to our music past and present, or get in touch with us directly.

Music and Movement

I have been taking part in these sessions, a couple a year, for a number of years now and find them very rewarding. In my experience, the challenges for the musician in undertaking this type of group improvisation with dancers, are similar than working with just the musicians. Everyone needs to be aware of everyone else, everyone needs to be listening and crucially for this work, watching. I do a lot of literal following of the movements of the dancers. Picking up on their en