2022 OOOH FESTIVAL - Photo by James A Smith

Bettina Schroeder collaborates with various musicians and sound artists. She is a member of THE BEACH BULLIES, SCHROEDER/SMITH, RITA SAYS & THE JERICO ORCHESTRA, plays regularly at improvised music events including SKRONK, SCALEDOWN, international OOOH FESTIVALS and performs with the LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA and NOISY WOMEN PRESENTS.

THE DARKEST NIGHT HUNDRED YEARS GALLERY WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION at Hundred Years Gallery, London. Performance with Gardyloo Spew.

#OOOH_BERLIN 2023. International Free-Improv & Spontaneous Art Festival, 27 & 28 April. Photo by Paul Eiser.

Noisy Women at The Vortex Jazz Club, London, at Mopomoso concert, 27 Aug 2023. Photo: Sylvia Harlett

MURMURATION OF RESOLUTIONS & APPEALS exhibition by the Otolith group at greengrassi Gallery, 2 March 2024. Music hosted by free-jazz performer Maggie Nicols with The Noisy Peoples Orchestra. Photo by Anjalika Sagar

Album release UP BEAT by Bettina Schroeder & Xqui on Wormhole World Records. UP Beat is a new collaboration between Xqui (music, production) and Bettina Schroeder (lyrics and vocals). Accompanying videos by Schroeder/Smith (Yes, Yes, Yes / Colour Junkies, Orange Monkeys), Mal Robinson (Mayhem On The Roads / It’s Dark Outside), Ronald Denning (I Slip Into Your Brain, You Slip Into Mine) and Andrew Stys (I Slip Into Your Brain, You Slip Into Mine).

Radio play & reviews (UP BEAT album by Bettina Schroeder & Xqui)

2022 - BBC Introducing Radio Lancashire - 12th Nov
2022 - Louder Than War music magazine: UP BEAT album review - 28th Nov
2023 - Radio On Berlin - The Tape Review Show by Rinus & Adrian - 19th Mar
2022 - 2BOB Radio Australia: Hamish MacKenzie, The Other Window - 5th Dec
2023 - Spotify release - 26th Jan
2022 - Joyzine article - Xmas 2022 - 24 days of free music downloads
2023 - Resonance FM: Dexter Bentley’s Hello Goodbye Show - 18th Feb
2023 - Resonance FM: Ivor Kallin’s Ambrosia Rasputin Show - 12th Feb
2023 - Funderground #63 by Beach Head Radio with Kai Nobuko - 18th Apr
2023 - In Memory of John Peel Podcast - 28th Jan
2023 - Trust The Doc blog by Neil March - 28th Feb
2023.- Eternal Fusion radio: Mixed Bag Murmurs #040 - 16th Mar

2023 Vanishing Point at AMP Studios curated by Neil March - 3 amazing & talented female artists, RETROPXSSY, ZHENG HAO, BETTINA SCHROEDER ft. XQUI and JAMES A SMITH. Performance featuring the tracks from the newly released album UP BEAT by Bettina Schroeder + XQUI. Highlights at Vanishing Point.

Album SHATTER RESISTANT by Bettina Schroeder & Tony Irving featured on freeness, Vision Festival 25 , BBC Radio3, July, 18th 2021. Linear Obsessional label

Hundred Years Gallery, May 2022. Photo by James A Smith

2021 - Album VERSUS by Jude Cowan Montague and Bettina Schroeder released on Wormhole World records. Hamish MacKenzie on 2BOB Radio, Australia: "The Car That Fell From Dreamboat To Hell is SUCH a fabulous track!… one of my all-time favourites from over 40 years of audio travelling. I like it that much." (March 2021)

2021 - 'The Car That Fell From Dreamboat To Hell' by Bettina Schroeder. Taken from the album VERSUS by Jude Cowan Montague and Bettina Schroeder released March 2021 on Wormhole World Records - all videos

2021 - Release of album SHATTER RESISTANT by Bettina Schroeder and Australian based drummer Tony Irving on Linear Obsessional label on cassette with full colour artwork by Schroeder. BBC RADIO 3 featured the album on “Freeness, Vision Festival 25” programme, Sunday 18 July 2021. 

2017 - Bettina Schroeder & Australian based drummer Tony Irving at SKRONK performing at New River Studios, London. June 2021 release of album SHATTER RESISTANT on
Linear Obsessional label

CINESONIC immersive live audio/visual performance event and fundraiser for Ukraine at IKLECTIC, London SE1 7LG, UK

2021 Sam Enthoven’s The Sinister Cabaret 2, including Jude Montague 'vs.' Bettina Schroeder, James A Smith and more. Video Andrew Page.

Performance of LONDON IS by Bettina Schroeder at music event üF BEAT, 23 Feb 2023

From the album Versus by Jude Montague & Bettina Schroeder

Radio RESONANCE FM plays ‘BABYDOLL’, by Bettina Schroeder and James A Smith - No.43 on compilation benefit album ‘HER INDOORS’. Release by Women Composers Collective, May 26, 2020: womencomposerscollective.bandcamp.com
ARTICLE: The Sunday Tribune

 
Review of SKRONKTRONIC #26: CURATED BY THE DOLL (19 Feb 2020): https://yeahiknowitsucks.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/skronktronic-26-a-little-report/

Review of SKRONKTRONIC #26: CURATED BY THE DOLL (19 Feb 2020): https://yeahiknowitsucks.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/skronktronic-26-a-little-report/

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All Skronk releases: skronkimprov.bandcamp.com

SKRONK #146 Jan 2024 - Robin Bale, John Bissett, John Eyles, Bettina Schroeder
At NEW RIVER STUDIOS, London, UK. Photo: Émilie Newman

SKRONK #146 - THE FINAL SKRONK. Performance with Robin Bale, John Bissett, John Eyles, Bettina Schroeder. Listen to the full recordings on Bandcamp.

2017 - Open session recordings SKRONK#14  SKRONK#14 Album  Photo: David O'Connor

2017 - Open session recordings SKRONK#14
SKRONK#14 Album
Photo: David O'Connor

SKRONK#36: Bettina with Nuno Veiga, Adrian Aversion, Adam Kinsey Photo: David O'Connor

SKRONK#36: Bettina with Nuno Veiga, Adrian Aversion, Adam Kinsey
Photo: David O'Connor

We raised £207 from compilation album A LITTLE TINY BAND IN THE RAINFOREST including track No.20 ‘Rainforest Litany’ by Bettina Schroeder + Nuno Veiga, released Aug 2020. Donations were sent to an indigenous-led human rights organisation to assist child refugees in Wamena, West Papua. The project is put together by Sarah Kate Michel (Pandora's Diary) and Jude Cowan Montague.

Bettina Schroeder performing alongside other artists at Oooh Amsterdam an International Free-Improv & Art Festival. Venue: De Ruitme, Amsterdam (22 - 24 Nov 2019). The festivals happen in Berlin, London, Sicily, Tel Aviv, Istanbul and other cities around the globe.

Bettina Schroeder, Tarik Haskic, Andrew Ciccone, Hywel Jones performance at Babble & Squeak (8th December 2019) benefit gig to save The Horse Hospital. More info: (Save The Horse Hospital campaign) www.thehorsehospital.com/stop-the-horse-hospital-from-closing

Nuno Veiga was filmed and interviewed by a Portuguese TV station at New River Studios, London during a performance evening at improv event SKRONK where Bettina Schroeder performed alongside Nuno, Rick Jensen and Sebastian Stekovizc.

24/01/2015. Bettina Schroeder and Jude C Montague build the skyscrapers and shanty towns of 'News City' in the Resonance 104.4 studio as a live sound art installation. With reports from special correspondent James A Smith.

Performance at WORLD NEWS ORATORIO 3. A semi-improvised evening of musical news, stories derived from the Life! feed of the Reuters Television News Agency Saturday 8 November @St John on Bethnal Green 200 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9PA by JUDE C MONTAGUE & Bettina Schroeder, Georg Heutmekers, Mark Braby, Calum F.

2016 - MULTIOVLONDON at iKlectik Art Lab

2016 - MULTIOVLONDON at iKlectik Art Lab

2019 - 'THE PLAYGROUND' with Kate Smith, Bettina Schroeder, Nuno Veiga, Rick Jensen and dancers, Rambert, London

2019 - 'THE PLAYGROUND' with Kate Smith, Bettina Schroeder, Nuno
Veiga, Rick Jensen and dancers, Rambert, London

SELECTED PAST PERFORMANCES

2024 - A MURMURATION OF RESOLUTIONS AND APPEALS, Otolith group exhibition & music by The Noisy People's Improvising Orchestra, Greengrassi Gallery, London, UK
2024 - LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA, The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK
2024 - SRONK #146: THE FINAL SKRONK, New River Studios, London, UK
2024
- WINTER FESTIVAL: INTOX EXTRAVAGANZA, Bettina Schroeder (ukulele & spoken word) with Nathan Greywater (bass). Amp Studios, London, UK
2024 - #OOOH_CIRCUITBENT: International Gathering of Circuit Benders & those using bent gear in their performance, New River Studios, London, UK
2023 - THE DARKEST NIGHT HUNDRED YEARS GALLERY WINTER SOLSTICE, performance Bettina Schroeder with Gardyloo Spew. Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
2023 - BETTINA SCHROEDER & THE GREAT ONE release of track CARELESSLY ARRANGED FREQUENCIES on compilation album ‘A WORMHOLE XMAS 2023’.
2023
- Performance at 16 DAYS, creative event for change around gender based violence and abuse. Soho Studios, 2 Archer Street, Soho, London, UK
2023
- LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA @ THE OLD CHURCH, performance with Bettina Schroeder & poet Roger Huddle, The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK
2023 - Wormholeworld records takeover on CULTURE AS A DARE feat. video of YES, YES … from my latest collaboration album UP Beat 
2023 - Release of album BESPOKE by Andrew Ciccone aka Omphalopticon with spoken word contribution by Bettina Schroeder on Bezirk Tapes
2023
- MOPOMOSO / AUGUST, performance with Noisy Women and other artists at Vortex Jazz Club, London, UK
2023
- SKRONKFEST 2023, festival of improvised, experimental and audio visual performance at New River Studios, London, UK
2023
- SEA MANTIS DEVOURS... Experimental sounds at Arch1, London, UK
2023
- SKRONK #124, #128, #132, New River Studios, London
2023
- THE NOISY WOMEN PRESENT FLYING FREE CAMBRIDGE, Bettina Schroeder guest performance alongside a wide range of talented performers, St Philip’s Church, Cambridge, UK
2023 - #OOOH_LONDON 2023. International Multidisciplinary Free-Improv Festival, New River Studios, London, UK
2023 - Radio play Stephan Barett’s LITTORAL TRANSMISSIONS #45 on Radio Resonance Extra featuring lyrics and sound by Bettina Schroeder & Stephen Barrett, London UK
2023
- #OOOH_BERLIN 2023. International Free-Improv & Spontaneous Art Festival, PAS & Cordillera, Berlin, Germany
2023
- VANISHING POINT, music event Bettina Schroeder ft. Xqui & James A Smith, Retropxssy, Zheng Hao, at AMP Studios, London, UK
2023 - üF BEAT open mic with Zachary Bacon Darwin, Chris Arnold, Joe Perry, Martin Worster, Ajay and Kevin Perry, Holy Innocents Church, London, UK
2022 - Release of album UP BEAT by Bettina Schroeder and Xqui on Wormhole World Records, UK. The album is accompanied by six videos.
2022 - London Improvisers Orchestra performing in the glorious acoustics of Saint Mary's New Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK
2022 - BOAT-TING, Steve Beresford & Bettina Schroeder, Bar&Co, Temple Pier on the Thames, London, UK
2022
- SKRONKFEST 2022, festival of improvised, experimental and audio visual performance at New River Studios, London, UK
2022
- THE NOISY PEOPLE’S IMPROVISING ORCHESTRA + live visual arts, spoken word, dance - St Paul’s Church, Cambridge, UK
2022
- TWO TRIOS & ONE SEXTET improvised acoustic and synthetic sounds with dance at Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
2022
- Oooh Festival - International free-improvisation music festival June with visual art and performances at New River Studios, London, UK
2022
- THE NOISY WOMEN PRESENT improvised music with Steve Beresford, Bettina Schroeder, Marion Treby, Dominic Lash, Jo Morrison, Nicky Smith, Faradena Afifi and Jane Hollingworth, St Philip’s Church, Cambridge, UK
2022
- CINESONIC immersive live audio/visual performance event and fundraiser for Ukraine at IKLECTIC - total raised £1,665, London, UK - EVENT VIDEO
2022
- Radio play of album VERSUS at TAK TENT Radio, UK
2022
- Radio play of album VERSUS at Hamish MacKenzie’s show THE OTHERE WINDOW, Australian radio 2BOB RADIO
2022
- No Computers II,  improv music session incl. set by Hannah White & Stephen Shiell’s, London, UK
2022
- Radio play of album VERSUS at Carel de Goede’s show, FUNDERGROUND on Beachhead  Radio
2021
- BBC RADIO 3 album SHATTER RESISTANT featured on “Freeness, Vision Festival 25” programme, Sunday 18 July 2021.
2021
- Release of album SHATTER RESISTANT by Bettina Schroeder and Australian based drummer Tony Irving on Linear Obsessional label on cassette with full colour artwork by Schroeder.
2021
- Release of collaborative Album ASPIRATIONAL COMBAT by The Oneirologist - Track 5 'Seen Too Much' featuring Bettina Schroeder, N.O Moore, Maeng Da: Mophead & Dr Kaku. Released 17 March 2021 
2021
-December, Radio play of album VERSUS at Tamar’s show ‘Are We There Yet’ at WFMU - Independent freeform radio, New Jersey and New York City, USA
2021 - THE SINISTER CABARET 2 - JUDE COWAN MONTAGUE ‘vs’ BETTINA SCHROEDER with James A Smith guitar & percussion and more at ALL GOOD BOOKSHOP, 35 Turnpike Lane, London, UK
2021 -September, Radio play of album VERSUS at Tamar’s show ‘Are We There Yet’ at WFMU - Independent freeform radio, New Jersey and New York City, USA
2021
- Album VERSUS released on Wormhole World records featured on Australian radio show The Other Window – 2BOB 104.7FM 6 April 2021, DJ Hamish MacKenzie:
"The Car That Fell From Dreamboat To Hell is SUCH a fabulous track!… one of my all-time favourites from over 40 years of audio travelling. I like it that much."
2021
- Release of Album VERSUS by Jude Cowan Montague and Bettina Schroeder on Wormhole World records, 12th March with thirteen videos and Merchandise. Mastered at SmithSound Studios.
2021
- Radio RESONANCE FM: Bettina Schroeder's track 'I Am Worried About' for the forthcoming album VERSUS by Bettina Schroeder & Jude Cowan Montague on deXter Bentley's HELLO GOODBYE SHOW.
2021 - The track ‘ROAD WORKS’ by Bettina Schroeder is featured as part of Raxil4’s, CALL AND RESPONSES PROJECT.
#80 on the track listings. January 2021
2020 - Release of compilation album A LITTLE TINY BAND IN THE RAINFOREST
2020
- SKRONK OUT #1, The Intimate Space at St. Mary’s Tower, London
2020
- Radio RESONANCE FM: Bettina Schroeder + Nuno Veiga’s track RAINFOREST LITANY for the forthcoming compilation album A LITTLE TINY BAND IN THE RAINFOREST introduced at Jude Cowan Montague’s radio show THE NEWS AGENTS
2020
- Radio RESONANCE FM plays ‘BABYDOLL’, by Bettina Schroeder and James A Smith - No.43 on benefit album ‘HER INDOORS’. Release by Women Composers Collective, May 26 2020: womencomposerscollective.bandcamp.com
2020
- #OOOH_ONLINE NO. 2, BETTINA SCHROEDER and others, the international artists’ music festival online with new music by one-off ensembles of spontaneous interaction. 
2020 - SCALEDOWN #156, BETTINA SCHROEDER, ALICE KARVLI and ILLI ADATO, The King & Queen, London:
soundcloud.com/blackarrows-in-blackholes/bettina-schroeder-alice
2020
- SKRONKTRONIC #26: CURATED BY THE DOLL, BETTINA SCHROEDER alongside THE ONEIROLOGIST, New River Studios, London
2020 - Portuguese TV filming Nuno Vega with artists Bettina Schroeder and Rick Jensen, Sebastian Sterkowicz and others at SKRONK, New River Studios, London
2020
- ‘AN OCCASIONAL AFTERNOON #1’, BETTINA SCHROEDER in collaboration with a selection of other artists, The Horse Hospital, London
2019 - SKRONK #76: SKRONKMAS, New River Studios, London
2019 - BABBLE AND SQUEAK #4, Save The Horse Hospital fundraiser, The Horse Hospital, London
2019 FLAMING TUNES radio show on 4ZZZ, Brisbane, Australia (resident drive-t'me underground antipodea show) - Track 1 by BETTINA SCHROEDER & TONY IRVING
2019 - 'Oooh FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM', Free-Improv & Spontaneous Art Festival, De Ruitme, Amsterdam
2019 - ‘SKRONKFEST LONDON’, BETTINA SCHROEDER in collaboration with artists from around the world, New River Studios, London
2019 - 'THE PLAYGROUND' with Kate Smith, Bettina Schroeder, Nuno Veiga, Rick Jensen and dancers, Rambert, London
2019 - 'Oooh FESTIVAL LONDON', New River Studios, London
2018 - 'A SOUND RESPONSE', The Intimate Space, London
Including videos Purple Rain Dogs I and Purple Rain Dogs II
2018 - 'THE WITCH OF THE GATE', Hundred Years Gallery, London
2018 - SKRONK#36, New River Studios, London
2017 - 'SOHO, MON AMOUR' 01 ZERO1 Hopkins St, London
2017 - 'TONY IRVING IN DUOS' with Bettina Schroeder & Massimo Magee
SKRONKNew River Studios, London
2017SKRONK#14New River Studios, London
2016MULTIOVLONDON, St Clements Church, London
2016MULTIOVLONDON at iKlectik Art Lab, London
2015 - THE NEWS AGENTS – RADIO SHOW ON RESONANCE 104.4FM, London - Extract of The News Agents on YouTube
2015SCALEDOWN King & Queen, London
2014 - WHITEOUT, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2014 - WORLD NEWS ORATORIO 3, St John on Bethnal Green, London

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