Stewart Lee, Tania Chen, Steve Beresford, Poulomi Desai, Simon Underwood, Seth Ayyaz

Usurp Art Gallery and Sound and Music present two dynamic, ensemble performances that explore perceptual concepts of chance, time, listening and humour and the parameters of improvisational approaches in new music. The Usurp Chance Tour will be journeying from 15 March to 8 May and performing from an old chocolate factory to a revitalised cinema, to philharmonic halls.

"Indeterminacy" was originally recorded in 1959, with John Cage reading aloud 90 stories, each lasting one minute. For this performance, Stewart Lee assumes Cage's role accompanied by contemporary pianists, Tania Chen and Steve Beresford improvising on pianos and objects.

"Humour and existentialist melancholy co-exist, perching on a knife-edge." Gramophone

"The Conspirators of Pleasure" featuring Poulomi Desai (augmented sitar), Simon Underwood (modified toys and electronics) and Seth Ayyaz (daaf and electronics), create improvised soundscapes, twisting technology and transforming organic sounds into eerie calls with intense waves of noise, pulsating rhythms and melancholic, lyrical interplay.

Please note: this is not stand-up.