Bela Emerson & Hervé Perez duo
Cello, alto saxophone, laptop, electronics.

Bela and Hervé met at Buddhafield Festival in the summer of 2019. After a very brief musical encounter in the middle of a field amidst sun and wind, the duo realised that they had to play again, and involve their passion for improvisation with acoustic instruments and electronics.
Both experienced improvisers have performed for many years across the UK and Europe. As a duo, they are able to merge fluidly gestural, textural and melodic phrases, with great ease and near telepathic communication
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Bela Emerson is an innovative cellist who uses electronic processing to compose in the moment. She has toured worldwide and performed collaborative residencies at Sydney Opera House and Royal Festival Hall, as well as being commissioned by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction as a solo performer, playing four John Peel sessions for BBC Radio 1, and releasing four solo albums to date.
Her artist CV includes a wide range of collaborations: with artists such as acrobats Mimbre, filmmaker Tereza Buskova, musicians Sarah Angliss and Stephen Hiscock, and comedians Tamsin Greig and Rory Bremner (commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and the BFI).
Bela also works extensively as a community music facilitator with Open Strings Music and in healthcare settings with Wishing Well, using music as a tool for connection, creativity, and wellbeing, as well as training people at Goldsmiths in using relational music-making for dementia.
www.belaemerson.com
www.openstrings.co.uk
www.wishingwellmusic.org.uk

Hervé Perez: Artist, composer and improvising musician from France who now lives in England. He plays saxophones, shakuhachi and laptop in various groups and produces music inspired by jazz, contemporary and electroacoustic music, experimental, sound art and sound therapy.
He has released three albums with Inclusion Principle (Discus label), many recordings in collaboration with artists from around the world, and also solo work on various netlabels. His latest album, Imploding Stars (Focused Silence, 2019) features solo saxophone and live processing.
Hervé has worked as sound recordist and sound designer on a number of short films, and is currently carrying out residencies doing location recordings and concerts with Maja Bugge’s Northern (Full of Noises, Manchester Jazz Festival, Lancaster Jazz Festival).
Live performances incl. Huddersfield Week of Speakers, Mantis festival Manchester, insubordinations microfestival in Switzerland, Sheffield festival of the Mind, mopomoso at the Vortex London, megapolis and dumbo arts festivals New York, Jazz à Luz, Manchester Marsden and Lancaster Jazz festival, Full of Noises, etc.
www.spacers.lowtech.org/herve
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Meljoann
Dystopian pop, disorientating noises, corporate video testimonials

Originally from Dublin, Meljoann produces experimental electronic pop. In her latest single ‘Assfuck the Boss’, she explores the “stockholm syndrome of the employed”. Her sound has been described as “like a long-lost soul-pop album from the mid-1990s as remixed by Aphex Twin” (Eamon de Paor, Metro Herald)

Ascsoms
Field recordings and miscellaneous electronics

Adam Wimbush’s solo project Ascsoms is an evolving sound world formed from a semi-generative system of analogue and lo-fi equipment, tape players, loopers, field recordings, miscellaneous electronics and a rotating cast of effects pedals. His recent experiments explore layering and signal routing. These morphing environments, often dense and full of texture, feed into further productions – creating an ongoing experiment in sonic reproduction and reprocessing.
He is a keen collaborator, a member of  Thee Electric Spotchworms Tape Orchestra and half of sound effects duo Electronic Sound Pictures Visit https://ascsoms.bandcamp.com and https://soundcloud.com/ascsoms for more info and follow at @ascsoms on instagram and facebook

Thursday 5th March 2020 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Leifert
Avant-garde electronic duo

Leifert is an avant-garde electronic duo shaped in Mediterranean Europe, based in the UK. Raised by punk attitude, we are creating shifted wall of sound using variety of tools, exploring and playing with wide range of fields – psychology, mindperception, multiculturality, fashion – through melodies and sound design.

Music video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij850ZQLURk
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/leifertmusik
Live video: www.facebook.com/leifertmusik/videos/253875528643577/

The Organ Grinders Monkey
Guitar and technology twisted pop

The Organ Grinder’s Monkey is a musical collaboration between man and machine, an unholy alliance whose aim is to combine indie-rocking guitars with glitchy lo-fi electro beats and a dash of retro 8-bit synth.
The duo consists of Ben Garnett: a human who sings and plays guitar, and Bill Murray: the laptop computer who provides the rhythmical backdrop for his organic counterpart.
togm.bandcamp.com/

Paul Khimasia Morgan and Gus Garside
Electroacoustic shifting soundscapes

Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improviser, currently working with acoustic guitar body, objects and electronics. He has a live cinema soundtrack project in partnership with Steve Beresford & Blanca Regina, and performs and releases material in duo with Daniel Spicer. Paul’s latest album, “peoplegrowold” is released by Confront.
Gus Garside plays improvised music, free jazz & contemporary music as a double bass player, sometimes using electronics. He is a member of the Brighton Safehouse collective. Recent albums are “Puddling” with The Static Memories (Linear Obsessional, 2018) and two albums on Discus Music (2018 & 2019) with the Ron Caines/Martin Archer Axis.
Together they create shifting soundscapes.

Thursday 6th February 2020 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA