Matawan
Melody with Texture

Multi-instrumentalist duo, Gareth Chapman and Barclay Brennan, decided to form ‘Matawan’ in 2013 with the purpose of creating an outlet for their audio work which was unrestrained by genre or pre-conceived rules.
Their intention was to simply create ‘new music’ which appeals to the listener on an almost holistic level.

Using both antiquated and modern forms of music technology, the pair primarily focus on producing highly saturated, evolving textures that posses distinct musicality without relying on obvious melodies.
To achieve this, Matawan’s pieces are usually made from dozens of ‘micro-melodies’ that are derived from short field recordings or played by the artists. These micro-melodies are then densely layered to create textures that are used to make each song.

Zoom around Rainbow
Slower than glaciers, harder than ecological collapse

Zoom Around Rainbow has been described as “hardware rave dystopian” and “slower then glaciers, harder than ecological collapse” to set the scene of what it’s all about.

Le Pavement
Spoken word & experimental timbres

Le Pavement are Jade Gunner and Joshua Bell. Two avant-garde ambient and evolving noise artists who create immersive soundscapes with elements of spoken words and experimental timbres.

Thursday 1st November 2018 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

Isnaj Dui
Flutes, dulcimers, electronics

Returning to the Spirit of Gravity since her fist show at The Scope a couple of years ago. Standing awkwardly between neo-impressionism and electronica, Isnaj Dui (aka Katie English) conveys a minimal yet captivating sound using flutes, home-made dulcimers and electronics. As a classically trained flautist, English has also studied electroacoustic music, alternative tunings and Balinese gamelan and has collaborated with numerous artists from electronica acts to folk bands.

isnajdui.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/isnaj-dui
www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/isnaj-dui/
Interviews
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/listen_isnaj-dui-tracks
www.attnmagazine.co.uk/features/12869

Loftslag
A new wave of punk no practice no money just noise.

Angle Zero can no longer make it and have been replaced by Loftslag, featuring members of Benen and Jothi.
ninitxjothi.bandcamp.com/releases

ESP
Electronic Sound Pictures

Born from their love of abstract audio, Brighton based duo E.S.P. is a project by Mark Churcher and Adam Wimbush to create Electronic Sound Pictures.
Combining BBC Sound Effects records with field recordings, sonic experiments and noise accidents, E.S.P. are transforming the non-musical audio into immersive sound collages.
Through experimenting with, and juxtaposing sound effects, this duo have become the architects of their own alternative narratives, atmospheres and audio images – limited only by their imaginations!
They make the sounds, you create the pictures.

Thursday 4th October 2018 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

This event forms part of Fort Process Dispersion, a season of events surrounding the third Fort Process festival of experimental music and sound art.
www.fortprocess.co.uk

The Braindead Ensemble
Acoustically networked feedback assemblage

Two feedback cellos a feedback bass and a Threnoscope are plugged together to form a multi-instrument, multi-channel system. The feedback cellos and bass are DIY electro-acoustic-digital resonator instruments. Each instrument has pickups under each of its strings and transducers built into the acoustic instrument body, inducing electromagnetically-controlled feedback which can be digitally processed. The classical model of a bowed instrument is inverted: the player no longer controls and excites the strings to produce sound, but negotiates with an ongoing, lively, self-resonating instrument. The threnoscope is a software system created by ixi audio for drones, live coding and microtonal, spatialised composition. All the instruments are networked acoustically: the channels of the threnoscope are diffused to a quadraphonic PA plus the integral speakers of the string instruments.

These feedback processes summon a wide sonic spectrum including airy microtonal micro-melodies, serene yet colourful drones, complex spectral gestures, and vast brutal explosions surfacing gradually or unpredictably into screams. This is an emergent, negotiated form of performance which involves the steering and shaping of evolving, distributed, sonic energies rather than the instigation and exchange of discrete musical ideas. No one is in control, although everyone is playing.

BDE are: Thor Magnusson (Threnoscope), Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris (Feedback bass), Chris Kiefer (Feedback cello) and Alice Eldridge (Feedback cello)

rdyer
keyboards, saw, loops, performance pop

rdyer is interested in junk, outdated technology and recycling, using a loop pedal, musical saw, saxophone, and site-specific recordings to create performance art and pop songs.

Zeyn Mroueh
Lebanese Palestinian Cypriot Post drone

Zeyn Mroueh is a Cypriot-born, Lebanese-Palestinian musician creating industrial soundscapes and experimental noise music.
He composes primarily on the guitar using an array of pedals and samples to distort and manipulate traditional music into atonal sound experiences.
“Pictures of the Floating World mixes maturity and knowledge with raw, ardent youthfulness in an assimilation of Post Rock, Lo Fi, Drone and Noise. It is at once experimental and deliberate, seamlessly blending dissenting voices and robotic vibrations with mellifluous reverbs.”
zeynmroueh.bandcamp.com/

Thursday 6th September 2018 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

Distant Animals (in a forest of signs)
Celebrate the launch of their LP

Distant Animals is the artistic output of Daniel Alexander Hignell, a researcher and sound, video and performance artist from South East England. Hignell has developed a practice indebted to political and participatory resonance of creative acts, interrogating notions of autonomy, collaboration, and the tension between sense (what is perceived by the senses) and sense(what is made sensible by the community). He has recorded, written, performed and researched numerous socially-oriented sound works across Europe, often choosing to work with a diverse range of collaborators, including visual artists, choreographers, theologians, lawyers, and political activists.
With this open-ended approach to composition, his new album ‘Lines’ relies on conceptually rich sonic phrases, exploring over its length both the purity of a musical tapestry that amounts to little more than a complexly modulated square wave -often pushing the filters that shape it to near breaking-point -and the rhythmic dissonance of the voice, noise, and distorted bells that erupt violently from it as the work progresses.
Soundcloud: bit.ly/2q8jsyA

I’m Dr Buoyant
The return of dark loops and distortion

Following a test run in November Thee Founder I’m Dr Buoyant returns to his solo performance mode, but exploring a darker aesthetic. Wielding a more dissonant sound palette, his music is now designed to be more intense and unsettling, reflecting a negative response to contemporary existence. Promoting his latest BandCamp release “Dark Looper”, copies of a short run remix CD will also be available on the night.
spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/dark-looper
soundcloud.com/im-dr-buoyant

Not For The Suffering Type
LoFi electronic pop improvisations

NOT FOR THE SUFFERING TYPE is the pop improvisation duo of Eleanor Callaghan and Iain Paxon. Literary inspiration comes from Eleanor’s teenage diaries, automatic writing and Christian songs from the Sacred Harp song book. Iain plays mostly bass and drum machine, Eleanor plays mostly keyboard.

Thursday 2nd August 2018 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton