Simon Jones is a composer, performer and crossdisciplinary artist based in Liverpool. He is one of the leading members of Frakture, a Liverpool-based organisation promoting free improvised music around the North West of England, and a founding member of Liverpool- and Edinburgh-based noise group, Noise Club. Simon performs solo with his acousmatic noise project, Hot Hail, and plays in a number of groups, including the a.P.A.t.T. Orchestra, Black Forest Orchestra, Shirakashi, Id of Morbius, Fraktal, i:Object, and several other groups, as well as delivering workshops both in free improvisation and on 20th Century composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, and performing work by these and other 20th & 21st Century composers live in public.