Artist Talks

LightSeq is an award-winning DIY instrument and performance system for live electronic music. It allows users to program any sequence of lights which are then translated into sound. This combination opens up a lot of possibilities for controlling, structuring and interacting with sound. This instrument tries to addresses an issue of ‚liveness‘ of electronic music performance. […]

Born in Lima, Peru, Maria Chávez is an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Accidents, coincidence and failures are themes that unite her sound sculptures, installations and other works with her solo turntable performance practice. Maria will be performing a solo turntable show, followed by Q&A from the audience and the chance to try out […]

Tom White is a London-based artist. His multidisciplinary practice spreads across sound, moving image, installation and live performance. Past projects include commissions from South London Gallery, Radiophrenia, Arnolfini, LUX Moving image, MK Gallery & Spill Festival of Performance. He won the British Composer Award 2014 (Sonic Art) for Public Address, commissioned by South London Gallery. […]

Join Music Hackspace and Sound and Music at this free edit-a-thon event, raising the profile of women in the British Music Collection – the UK’s national archive for new music - as it celebrates its 50th anniversary. The British Music Collection is a constantly growing resource, but still not representative of UK society, and this […]

Ray Lee is an award-winning sound artist and composer. He creates spinning, whirling, and pendulous sound installations and performances that explore “circles of ether,” the invisible forces that surround us. His immersive and mesmerising works such as the world-wide hit Siren, Ethometric Museum and his monumental outdoor work Chorus aim to make contemporary music accessible […]

Tony Nwachukwu is a prolific producer, Dj, lecturer and music consultant based in London. He is  founder of CDR the night of ideas and tracks in the making, an event and community where the main focus is on producers having a platform to listen to their own works in progress, carefully curated and weaved together […]

Tim Exile will be reflecting on the intersections between music and technology, and how they’ve shaped his own work both as a musician and within his current software projects. Tim Exile has released music on Warp, Planet Mu and others, and has released plugins and standalone software with Native Instruments and through his independent shop. […]

Martin Howse is occupied with an investigation of the links between the earth (geophysical phenomena), software and the human psyche (psychogeophysics) through the construction of experimental situations (performance, laboratories, walks, and workshops), material art works and texts. He is equally the creator of the skin-driven audio divination noise module, The Dark Interpreter, and the ERD […]

Folds and Folding: a lecture exploring the grey area between art and symmetry, intuitive topology and metaphorical origami. A collection of very different examples, from science fiction to music, art, video games, philosophy, cinema and biology, of the very notion of fold and the act of folding as an analogy for the deformation of everyday […]

Following his Harvester workshop over the weekend, Johann Diedrick present his work and perform with the Harvester instrument. Johann Diedrick makes installations, performances, and objects that let people play with sound. He shares his work through workshops, listening tours, and open-source software and hardware. He received the Asian Cultural Council 2016 Fellows grant and has […]