Photo: Chats Palace
Since 2012, Bettina has played electric ukulele in RITA SAYS AND THE JERICO ORCHESTRA, a collective exploring the relationship between improvised music and visual art. Past gigs include Tate Britain, Camden Arts Centre, Merge Festival, Deptford X and MK Gallery. “If you like the sound of silk worms eating mulberry, whilst your kettle is on the boil with twig tea inside, you’ll really hate this”, Karen Eliot, (Home & Garden, March 2012)
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ZANG TUMB TUMB Rita Says and the Jerico Orchestra, 12th May 2019 performing"Zang Tumb Tumb, The Siege of Adrianople" (Fillipo Marinetti, 1912) at Limehouse Town Hall. Filmed by Roland Denning. Screened at The Horse Hospital, London, Sept 2019.
Rehearsal for the Great Learning on YouTube
Film directed by Roland Denning. Audio recorded by Adem Ali at House of Lime studios. Rita Says and the Jerico Orchestra, 2017
SELECTED PAST PERFORMANCES
2021 - WATERLOO FESTIVAL - RITA SAYS & THE JERICO ORCHESTRA live at the WATERLOO FESTIVAL, St John’s Church, London
2020 - WATERLOO FESTIVAL - Rita Says & The Jerico Orchestra presenting a radical choral reinterpretation of La Monte Young's Composition 1960 #7
2020 - RITA SAYS: TINO, ASAD, LA MONTE AND ME – film evening including ROLAND DENNING'S film of a performance of La Monte Young's Composition 1960 #7, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2019 - Rita Says & Jerico Orchestra, La Monte Young's "Composition 1960 #7", Limehouse Town Hall, London
2019 - Rita Says & Jerico Orchestra, Zang Tumb Tumb, Limehouse Town Hall, London
2019 - Rita Says & Jerico Orchestra & others, Bad Fruit, Chats Palace, London
2019 - Rita Says & Jerico Orchestra, Battle of the Bands - nonclassical - live at The Victoria, Dalston, London
2017 - Rita Says & Jerico Orchestra, The Great Learning, Limehouse Town Hall
2012 - 2016 - Performances with JERICO ORCHESTRA, The George Tavern, London
2016 - Performance with JERICO ORCHESTRA, Hundred Years Gallery, London
Jerico Orchestra at Hundred Years Gallery on YouTube
2015 & 2016 - Performances with JERICO ORCHESTRA, The Vinyl Cafe as part of Deptford X, London
2015 - 2016 - Performances with JERICO ORCHESTRA, The I`Klectic Arts Lab, London
2014 - Performance with JERICO ORCHESTRA, Vagabond N7, London
Jerico Orchestra at Vagabond N7 on YouTube
2012 - 2014 - Performances with JERICO ORCHESTRA, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2013 - Performance with JERICO ORCHESTRA, Vibe Gallery, London
2013 - Performance with Jerico Orchestra at
The Horse Improv Club, London
2012 - Performance with JERICO ORCHESTRA, Merge Festival, South Bank, London
MEMBERS
Adam Bohman: prepared strings & amplified objects
Bettina Schroeder: electric ukelele
Gabriel Keen: keyboards, piano
Graham Mackeachan: double bass & found objects
Grahame Painting: cello
Ivor Kallin: violin
James A. Smith: electric guitar and extreme mixing
Keisuke Matsui: guitar, xylophone, electronics
Mark Rathmell: electronics
Paul Shearsmith: pocket trumpet, trombone
Rita Says: slides & visuals
Will Baby: flute
Radio Interview about RITA SAYS AND THE JERICO ORCHESTRA (Listen above)
RITA SAYS: TINO, ASAD, LA MONTE AND ME - evening of music documentary films including a screening of ROLAND DENNING'S film of a performance of La Monte Young's Composition 1960 Number 7. Friday, January 31, 2020 Hundred Years Gallery