TOMS HOUSE - JACOB DWYER

Tom’s House is a one person performed audio-drama. It incorporates voice, live foley, field recordings and an original soundtrack composed by K.Freund, Kareem Lotfy, Jacob Oostra and Zuza Banasińska.

In Tom’s House, we listen to the diaristic meanderings of someone who’s returned to the UK for the first time in 15 years. Walking up Haddon Drive he spots the house of an old friend, Tom. The front door is open, so he goes inside. Wandering around the empty Tudor cottage –making cups of tea, rearranging CD collections and zoning in on the minutiae of domestic space– he ruminates on ideas of emotional intimacy, friendship and grief.

Jacob Dwyer is an artist based in Amsterdam working with audio, moving-images and writing. His work often centres around personal encounters that could equally be seen as fables or heresy. He has presented in art spaces and music venues, including Cafe Oto (London), David Dale Gallery (Glasgow), Good Children (New Orleans) and De Appel (Amsterdam). In 2022 he released The Devil Museum on vinyl with Mana Records and has since published Notes on Devils with Building Fictions. Most recently he has released his new audio drama, Tom's House, on South of North.
Jacob Dwyer

REAPING THE BOUNTY - MITRA KABOLI

Reaping the Bounty is a multimedia performance that explores the tenets of Shaker life. Largely using cutting room material and additional concepts, the performance is an accompaniment to my documentary, Making Utopia. This interactive performance takes a deeper look at Shaker life and examines what lessons can be brought into our modern lives. With the central Shaker tenet of, hands to work hearts to god, the audience is put to work to see what bounties can be reaped in this time of precarity. One part lecture, one part mugging and one part karaoke sing along, Reaping the Bounty will guarantee your place in heaven.

Mitra Kaboli is an award-winning audio producer, sound designer, and multimedia artist working professionally in radio and podcasting since 2012. Mitra was one of the original members of the Peabody Finalist podcast, The Heart. Her work has been featured on ESPN’s 30 for 30 Podcasts, the BBC, Making Contact and NY Mag’s Tabloid. In 2022, she hosted and produced the critically acclaimed podcast, Welcome to Provincetown. Currently, Mitra is an adjunct professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and at Hunter College.
Mitra Kaboli

WHAT’S IN THE AIR? A PERSONAL HISTORY OF EARLY RADIO

“My granddad Sydney Wright was a pioneer of early radio, before the BBC, when Manchester's regional station was still known as 2ZY. My graphic novel 'What's In the Air?' reimagines his life in the early 1920s, and how he met my grandmother at the studio at the Metropolitan Vickers works. I bring this personal history of broadcast to the cabaret stage through atmospheric sonic performance.” JUDE MONTAGUE

Jude Montague is a writer and composer who produces the weekly show The News Agents on Resonance FM 3pm-4pm Saturdays.
Jude Montague

AUTONOMOUS ORCHESTRATIONS - DELPHIS STUDIOS (WILL GORE)

Wind Bot: 15 mph wind, northerly, lasting 8 seconds.
Paper Cup Bot: Rolled 3 feet southeast. Now resting against a fire hydrant.

Delphis Studios share a series of entirely contained ai ecosystems - as we look inside - we find each system filled with custom chat bots caught in cyclical causal relationships: itch bot and scratch bot - sunset bot and nostalgic sigh bot - orchestrated by Delphis own team of engineers these performances weave between waiting rooms of the absurd - paradoxical cute mini universes of robotic poetry and/or purgatory.

Delphis say:
AI is an unsavoury and threatening prospect not because of the technology itself but because of the political systems from which it emerges. This work asks - can we deflect the invasive market forces that shape the current trajectory of these ventures - de-rail and re-assign these machines away from productivity, black box bias - towards working on our bigger more fundamental questions…. or failing that, if the machines do become too powerful and malign is it possible to segue them eternally, into loops of the infinitely banal

Robotic waiting rooms of the absurd. Siphoning the power of AI towards closed systems of devastating futility in the form of custom robot 'group chats': Itch Bot and Scratch Bot - Sunset Bot and Nostalgic Sigh Bot - Wind Bot and Paper Cup Bot - In a Waiting For Godot style reimagining - Delphis repurpose and experiment with closed loop relational systems exploring the beguiling poetry of the mundane and meaningless - furthermore - if the machines do become all powerful - is it possible to segue them eternally, into loops of the infinitely banal?
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With a background in songwriting, composition and performance honed through development deals at Abbey Road and Miloco Studios, In the last few years Will Gore has expanded his practice towards story telling and sonic world building. While on a dual 3-part residency with both Bristol’s Noods Radio and London’s Voices he has had the opportunity to experiment and develop a unique style and format that uses sound collage and detailed stylised sound design to immerse an audience within the setting of a fictional creative agency. Part workplace satire part absurdist meditation the angle into the world encourages us to consider creative decision making situated within the contemporary context of rapidly expanding technologies - and offers us a playful exploration of the future of work - generational relationships within the hierarchical context of the workplace, and the tension between authentic art and the commercial..

RADIO LIMBO - PETE HAZELL

Radio Limbo returns to St Leonards for another guided audio-trip — an unusual quest through original music, collage, soundscapes, and disembodied voices. The show celebrates radio as a shape-shifting portal to other worlds, a wilderness of its own, and its unique qualities of companionship. Join Pete for this curation and performance of surreal scenes and sonic experiments, using local intrigue and lost histories as the jumping-off point.

Pete Hazell is a music and audio artist based in Bristol. His various projects fall under the ‘Limbo’ umbrella, known for their signature blend of curious music, sound design, storytelling, and collage. His cassette label Limbo Tapes focuses on releasing music, monthly residency on Bristol’s Noods Radio is both a mix of new , and in 2024, Pete self-produced and released the audio series Limbo Calling as a podcast, expanding the Limbo universe through character, voice work, and surreal audio fiction.
His latest focus is performance — bringing Limbo sonics to a live audience.
Limbo Tapes

DJ SET PETE HAZELL + CATH COLOUR CARVER

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