TWO evenings of contemporary improvised music are set to take place in South Cumbria.

Odd7 Recordings brings the vastly-experienced Casserley/Corringham/Lauro/Miura Quartet to Ulverston Parish Church on Thursday September 28, and the following evening will see Inclusion Principle and Orfeo 5 appearing at the neighbouring Parish Rooms on Friday October 29.

Lawrence Casserley is celebrating 50 years of making electronic music.

His Signal Processing Instrument draws the sounds of his colleagues into new sonic landscapes.

He has a history of creative collaborations with a huge variety of musicians, poets and visual artists, and this quartet is made up of musicians he has worked with in a number of contexts.

Vocalist Viv Corringham has received international recognition and has been presented in 22 countries on five continents. She creates concert music, installations, radio works and 'soundwalks'.

Audrey Lauro is an alto sax player focusing mostly on free improvised music. She has spent the last decade developing her music on the experimental Belgian music scene, working deeply in the language of the instrument, from the phrase to sound event through all kinds of atoms and particles.

Completing the quartet is Yoko Miura, a Tokyo-born pianist who has travelled regularly outside of Japan since the turn of the century, performing with many of the leading figures of European experimentalism, including Hans Koch, John Russell and Steve Beresford, as well as recording two acclaimed albums with US drum legend Matt Wilson.

Support for the Thursday performance comes from Uniphants - a collaboration between members of the Some Some Unicorn collective and Elephant in the Room, featuring pianist Miles Doubleday, guitarist Ian Simpson, saxophonist Paul Clark, and electronics by Shaun Blezard.

The October show sees Inclusion Principle - made up of Martin Archer, Herve Perez and Peter Fairclough - performing their minimalist free improvisation, which occupies a space between electronics, nu-jazz, and contemporary electro-acoustic music.

Orfeo 5 - comprising Keith Jafrate, Shaun Blezard and guests - play music that is romantic and narrative and mysterious all at once, using a variety of beats and loops to create excitement, and combining composed elements with improvisations.

Theirs is a full sound in which the electronics shape the acoustic instruments into new structures, via improv, jazz, folk, dub, sound art and electronica.

Both concerts get under way at 7pm, and entrance is by donation.