The Joyous Thing 3 # Altared Lane: Hannah Lamb, David Carpenter, Stu Bannister & Lukas Hornby

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

A group composition of haunted sound-geographies by Hannah Lamb, David Carpenter, Stu Bannister & Lukas Hornby.

Using un-treated and modified field recordings produced with open source software we assemble a kind-of history of Altar Lane, which delineates two historical landed-estates between Bingley and Keighly in West Yorkshire.

Altar Lane has many contemporary leisure usages and has followed agricultural and industrial developments over the last two centuries. This provides rich fodder for conversation, rich-fantasy and documentary all of which are combined into this piece commissioned by Outlands Network for radio broadcast.

David Carpenter has a background in community radio and creates music as The Argent Grub often using found sounds, and loud guitars.

Stu Bannister has performed indoors and outdoors around Leeds/Bradford and the UK for 20-odd years, once as a member of the prog-punk band Quack QUack and since as a solo noise-maker and collaborator. Recent projects have included performing noisy aquatic sounds abnoard Ben Cummins’ Piano Raft as it descended the FIve Rise Locks, contributing to the Folklore Tapes Compilations, and a duo with guitarist Dean McPhee called Rederator.

Lukas Hornby performs solo drone, turntable, and sampled percussion as GRST. He began 2022 with a number of firsts, self-releasing his debut EP on bandcamp and his first physical release on a compilation of drone with label Difficult Art and Music. Musically he likes to explore textures, long-form narratives, and esoteric synthesis.

Hannah Lamb is an artist, lecturer and author, interested in the role textiles can play in capturing a sense of time and place. She lives and works in Bingley, West Yorkshire.