Colour Out of Space

Schedule 17th - 19th April 2026

Artist text by Seymour Glass. A HUGE thanks to Seymour of the Brent Lewis Ensemble, Butte Country Free Music Society and founder/editor of influential San Francisco based DIY underground music and culture zine Bananafish. Read on!

Friday 17th April 6pm – Midnight (doors 5.30pm)
The Old Market. 11A Upper Market St, Hove BN3 1AS

Hali Palombo / Fleshtone Aura / Absurd Cosmos Late Nite / chik white / Jo Morrison / Adam Buffington / Marc Matter 

Hali Palombo

This Chicago-based composer works primarily with found sound and old media formats. What most people throw away or ignore — wax cylinders, shortwave radio, CB chatter, Midwestern field recordings — she treats as essential, profound, and as three-dimensional as a season pass to Journey to the Centre of Your Beak.

In 2025, she received a Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events grant for production of an original album of children’s music, and completed a residency at Wave Farm in the Upper Hudson Valley of New York, where she created Echolalia FM, a one-hour piece centred on repetition, communication, and the strange comfort of echoing sounds inspired by echolalia, a common coping tool in individuals with autism. 
 

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Fleshtone Aura

Technologies from all eras are welcome in the operating theatre of Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist Andrew No C Zukerman, from the new and eventually sentient to the antiquated and doorstop-ready. His kinetic mixing of disembodied fragments tangles them in new and startling contexts, while simultaneously inviting audiences to join the side-quest for the lost city of disorientation. An oasis in the twinkle of every eye. 
Fleshtone Aura evolved out of the now-disbanded Gastric Female Reflex, a duo with Jacob Horwood that was active from 2003-2013. Before ceasing all operations in 2014, their label Beniffer Editions emancipated more 100 releases — by themselves and by artists of similar pedigree. Zukerman has since released more than 15 albums on vinyl, cassette and CD, which supported tours in United States and Europe. In the past several years his focus has shifted to serving dance, theatre and film.
 

Absurd Cosmos Late Nite

Mark Groves of Melbourne, Australia, enjoys playing with his voice and tape, among other embarrassing pursuits. A good friend described Absurd Cosmos Late Nite as “a strange trip to somewhere in Australia most of us have experience with, yet (if you’re lucky) only in dreams we barely understand. Or perhaps our inner dialogue, set to an uneasy meter, critiquing and discussing, over and again.” In summary (perhaps): “Imagine Scott Walker fired by Macquarie Group.” What does that look and sound like in the context of Brighton’s social and physical landscape? Elbow your way to the front of the room and find out.
Absurd Cosmos Late Nite is one of many aliases occupied by Groves. Others past and present include Absoluten Calfeutrail, Arum Lilies, Resident Pissant, Von Einem, and even Mark Groves. Projects shared with others currently include Voice Imitator and Red Wine and Sugar. He also runs the Index Clean label

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chik white

In 2009, Darcy Spidle’s music took a minimalist turn when he moved to Chezzetcook, on the rural coast of Nova Scotia and acquired a collection of handmade jaw harps. Thus began a ritual of improvising on the instrument in natural settings, evolving into experimental territory, with the incorporation of a visceral, freeform approach that explores harmonics, texture, breathwork, and sound poetry. In a 2018 interview with It’s Psychedelic Baby, he said, “I’m choking myself with the throat mic, hyperventilating, and hammering at a razor sharp blade that I’m holding in my mouth. It’s very intense. And it needs to be. The shows can be surprisingly dark and visceral. I try to go deep when I play, and sometime it’s not pretty.”

Most of his two-dozen-plus albums centre on jaw harp, though he has also recorded with nose flutes, various horns, harmonicas, and guitars. Collaborations include Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Bill Nace, Xuan Ye, Sam Shalabi, Chad VanGaalan, and Colin Fisher. He has also created two musical short films under the Chik White name—Marshlands and Altered Voicing. 

Jo Morrison

After practicing her yarl for some time, this Essex-based vocalist and sound maker (with an increasing penchant for costume) became a student at TOMA (the other MA), an alternative art school based in Southend. She’s also part of the Noisy Women Present collective, regularly plays with the London Improvisors Orchestra and the Lo-Fi Improvised Music Workshop, and created the 36-second viral Instagram reel which was filmed in a YHA dorm in Hexham, the one with an electric blue mattress that uttered things. The unconventional eros of the work yield an approving nod from a follower in need, while another observed that it’s what unemployment looks like. 

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Adam Buffington

Following the dissolution of Pennsylvania’s premier conceptual art collective Meat Locker Full of Christmas Ornaments, Buffington relocated to Reykjavik, where he specializes in contemporary Icelandic art and music with visual artist Tumi Magnússon via the Mumbling Eye label. His practice is rooted in musique concrète and the aesthetics of the DIY underground.

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Five Questions

Marc Matter
Sound-artist, researcher, conqueror of the Art Academy for Media Arts in Cologne, this former member of Institut fuer Feinmotorik has been producing text-sound-poetry under the name Voiceover since 2010. Turntablist manipulations of voice and speech sounds, searching for speech-effects and semantic collisions. A mangled sound of language — executed in live performances, on recordings, and via radio broadcasts (German WDR and SWR). One professional matchmaker, puzzling over Nervous Breakthrough (Tanuki 2014), advises reserving it for “late nights when you wanna feel slightly unbalanced,” because, though it is “distorted, fragmented,” it is nevertheless, “still human. Like someone trying to say something important but the signal keeps breaking. Maybe that’s modern life in a nutshell.”
Matter’s collaborations with poet Dagmara Kraus, with performance artist Veridiana Zurita, and with visual artists Haseeb Ahmed and Tris Vonna-Michell are consistently gold-standard semantics-scrambling odysseys. Curator of exhibitions about Henri Chopin and OU Review, lecturer about text and sound

Saturday 18th April AM
The Rose Hill, Rose Hill Terrace, Brighton, BN1 4JL

Iain Paxon / Starfish Workshop + Performance

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Saturday 18th April AM (TBC)
The Open Market, Marshall’s Row / London Rd, BN1 4JU 

Julian Weaver

– Details to follow

Saturday 18th April 1pm – 3.30pm 
One Church, 20-22 Gloucester Pl, Brighton BN1 4AA

4046 Group / John Macedo /Regan Bowering / Lucia H Chung / Matt Atkins / Vicky Sparrow / James Shearman and Paul Margree (rotating improv set)

Panel Discussion with Duncan Harrsion

4046 Group
Formed in August 2025 by Matt Atkins, Lucia H Chung, John Macedo and Paul Margree, based around a simple and inexpensive DIY electronic noise box (designed by synth-builder Martin Freeman), this group has an open, fluid and expandable membership. Anyone who constructs one of Freeman’s noise boxes can participate in performances, which draw on non-traditional organising methods such as free improvisational exercises, indeterminacy, graphic scores, and food fights of the Renaissance. Musicians and non-musicians engage equally in performing with live electronics.The participants at Colour Out of Space are John Macedo, Regan Bowering, Lucia H Chung, Matt Atkins, Vicky Sparrow, James Shearman and Paul Margree.

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John Macedo
Improvisation, self-built electronic instruments, collaboration, and playing with the relationship between performer and audience are central to this London-based artist’s explorations of the space between acoustic and electronic sound, often presented in intimate, immersive, and intuitive ways. His work has been released by The Tapeworm, Infant Tree, Hideous Replica, and Sound Holes, and he has performed throughout the UK, Europe, and the United States. 
 
Regan Bowering
The solo work of this London-based sound artist explores combinations of drums and percussion, objects, amps, speakers, and feedback. Her debut Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces (Bezirk Tapes 2023) “tames resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters,” notes to The Quietus, while A Technology of Feeling LP (Infant Tree 2026), though more deeply exploratory, still “feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” Bowering’s collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake has produced two releases so far — 2 Movements (Feedback Moves 2024) and Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers (Infant Tree, 2023).
 
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Lucia H Chung
Performing and releasing music as en creux, this Taiwanese artist based in London creates sound that springs from a fascination with the inherent noise floor within audio equipment. She uncovers and reveals such hidden noise via manipulations of no-input feedback mixing. The volatile nature of feedback and the unpredictable glitch from the excessive energy generated within the equipment becomes her improvisational and compositional strategy. As the alias en creux suggests, she summons a hollowed out, reversed form of sound from the mixing console, or, as summarized by Jack Chuter, “scared-fish drones, a reckoning with low frequencies, damp cardboard noise wall, cinematic conjurings.”
Chung’s passion lies in live and improvised performance; she has performed solo and with other artists in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America.
 
Matt Atkins
This improvising percussionist and sound/visual artist who uses electronics, objects and tape loops in his work has released music on Falt, Rusted Tone Recordings, Invisible City, Whitelab Recs, tsss tapes, Coherent States, Steep Gloss, Flaming Pines, Wabi Sabi Tapes, Dasa Tapes and Chocolate Monk. Since 2006 he has run the label MRM Recordings. In 2020 he began curating and presenting Auricular Shelter for CAMP radio. In 2022 he had his first solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, Eoliths, at London’s Hundred Years Gallery. 
 
Vicky Sparrow
This University of Nottingham professor works across poetry, sound art, performance and criticism. Her improvisations with voice and objects produce ambivalent textures between poetry and music, reaching for a re-sounded horizon. Elliptical Movements calls her work “distinctive verbal music.” She has performed at Café Oto, Rammel Club, Matt’s Gallery, Hundred Years Gallery, and elsewhere. 
 
James Shearman
This hard-working noise being of Leytonstone, London, has recorded and performed amplified metal improvisations and compositions under his own name since 2023. The man’s tendrils do not ever take a holiday, it seems; consider the mosaic of crust and slime trails in various areas and crevices: mantric harsh noise and power electronics released under his surname only; Gutter Carrion’s feedback worshipping high-end wail and wall noise; the blackened noise of Roadside Dead; dronegaze by Echoes Throughout The Caverns of Leytonstone; the dungeon synth of Jåshlýkk; and collaborations aplenty (in the duo Milky Eyes, in a duo with Zheng Hao, in a trio with Oishi, and with Lydia Musonic as Brand New Flesh, among others).
 
Paul Margree
This improvisor and sound artist from London has described his evolution as a “weird crablike progression.” As Ivy Nostrum, he blends explorations of everyday objects with musique-concrète-inspired sound collage. Sparks within Margree’s dark cloud have been liberated by SND HLS, Liquid Library, Structured Disasters, Wormhole World, Invisible City Records, and Chocolate Monk. Between 2022 and 2024 he curated the Tread Into Mulch event series. 
 

Saturday 18th April 6pm – Midnight (doors 5.30pm)
The Old Market. 11A Upper Market St, Hove BN3 1AS

Tongue Depressor / Shakeeb Abu Hamdan / BILLA ENSEMBLE / Alice Kemp / Michael Barthel & Anna Schimkat / Augustė Vickunaitė / Hexakaidecagon

Tongue Depressor
From New England, USA, Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey write and perform drone-based music with bagpipes, double bass, pedal steel / lap steel, tape loops, organs, harmonicas, and bells. Bones For Time (Worried Songs 2023) caught Boomkat’s notice with its “examination of tonality and timbre that’s psychedelic, noisy and startlingly well-conceived. We’re primed to transcend.” They tour regularly in North America, Europe, and the UK.
 
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan
This Paris-based musician and visual artist performs with an unorthodox setup of drums, bells and cymbals, augmented and amplified with surface transducers, microphones, pitch and rhythmic modulation effects, and modified megaphones. Performances are structured but leave space for generative accidents and improvisation in response to the instabilities of feedback manipulation and the unpredictable interactions built into his instrumental system. It is obvious even to bloggers that “the queasy weirdness of the sounds take precedence over Hamdan’s sometimes cumbersome means of producing them.” He has recently shown work and performed at Beirut Art Centre, Real No Real Festival in Madrid, GMEA in Albi, Fylkingen in Stockholm, Les Instants Chavirés in Paris, and Café OTO
 
BILLA ENSEMBLE
Billa Ensemble was formed in the winter of 2023 on the occasion of Michiu (electric guitars), the concept horse (no-input feedback, bells, reel to reel tape machine, dictaphone), Turmeric Acid (tapes, contact microphones, objects), and Marie Vermont (electronics, tape, keys, contact microphones, mixer, mallets, cymbal) getting together in Vienna (the city as well as the state of mind). Coming from different musical backgrounds, the members share a dedication to working with and manipulating magnetic tape in various forms (reel to reel, cassette, minicassette); their shared approach to music making, improvisation and listening embraces electroacoustic and analog instrumentation in live performance. The Quietus hears their improvised music on In Brownswood (Chocolate Monk 2025) and Live at Café OTO (Sound Holes 2025) “as slow-dispersing Pollockian splat, a brilliant mess of transfixing, erratic lines.”
 
Billa Ensemble at Cafe Oto
Alice Kemp
Whether working in sound composition, experimental music, public/private performance, installation, drawing, collage, poetry, lo-fi video, fetische-object making, or training alligators to hunt humans, Kemp’s work is informed by subtle states of trance, dream, and disturbance. She has presented live art internationally and released audio/musical works through Fragment Factory (DE), Harbinger Sound (UK), Erratum Musical (FR), Tochnit Aleph (DK), Helen Scarsdale Agency (USA), Dead Mind (NL), and Coherent States (GR). 
 
Augustė Vickunaitė
Employing vintage reel-to-reel tape recorders, this sound experimentalist articulates diverse layers found material, field recordings, voice, music instruments, objects, and the whole spectrum of malfunctions of decaying technology. Vickunaitėspecializes in tape music, noise, and collage, and is known for a theatrical and darkly humorous approach, often exploiting errors of analog audio equipment. Her solo work encompasses tape loops and collages of found audio tapes. Deeply admired by our friends at Kraak, who effortlessly “sink into and dissipate with” the “fluid dexterity” of the music she creates. “Worlds appear and disintegrate in a grainy mush,” they gasp, palms sweaty, “Obliterating themselves in the melée.”
 
Michael Barthel & Anna Schimkat
Working in electroacoustics, sound-poetry, and site-specific performance as a duo since 2016, Schimkat and Barthel unravel the fabric of natural sounds, attempting to penetrate the vast store of information they contain, which they reinterpret with noises, field recordings, text-recognition software, voices, recorders, a birdcage and bird seed, as well as a prepared turntable. Their exploration of the tradition of animal voice imitation A VOCHEL WO RED (“A bird who talks” in the Hessian dialect of German) focuses particularly on bird calls, which are widely used for species identification. Side note to any ornithophobes in attendance: all the exits are clearly marked. You’ll be fine.
 
Hexakaidecagon
Rumours about Hexakaidecagon have been seeping out of unexpected places. They are the Ruby Slippers, the Grand Ole Opry, and the House on the Rock. This upside-down power couple is a whirlwind survey of knocking in the night and rushing tides. A typical concert performance could include percussion sourced from a dump, glossolalic jibber-jabber, a radio telescope, long lists spoken with big voices, and FaceTime calls to Mom and Dad. The duo shares members with Benicio del Trainwreck, Asparagus Piss Raindrop, Dome Riders, and Peeesseye. They are absolutely thrilled to welcome situations in which possibilities overpower intentions.

Sunday 19th April AM
The Rose Hill, Rose Hill Terrace, Brighton, BN1 4J

Hali Palombo Residency Playback

– Details to follow

Sunday 19th April AM

Sophie Cooper – Sound Canvas Workshop

– Details to follow

Sunday 19th April 1pm – 4pm 
One Church, 20-22 Gloucester Pl, Brighton BN1 4AA

Marija Kovačević /  Lonny Hoffmann & Zhao Ziyi / Rory Salter /  Luciano Maggior

Marija Kovačević
Working in classical, experimental and improvised music, this Serbian-born, NYC-based violinist’s series Music for Broken Violins explores the texture of broken violins, bows and their fragments on self-released solo albums. No doubt any Helena and Herbert Hotworth Hooter-Tooter with a chair and conservatory degree has a “sacrilege” and an “awful” waiting to burble out of their jowls in reference to Kovačević’s technique, but then some people wouldn’t know goosebumps without a swat in the face. Besides, broken violins appear on her collaboration with Thierry Müller, Rainy Afternoon Near Paris (Ilitchmusic 2023); on Push Broken Duet with Romain Perrot (Chocolate Monk 2023); on Bez Vremena with Paul Collins and Quentin Rollet (Astres d’Or 2025); and on her duet with Theo Gowans Playable Litter (ScatterArchive 2026). The company, it is good.
 
Luciano Maggiore
Working with speakers, playback devices, small acoustic objects, and bodily sounds, Maggiore investigates mechanisms of diffusion and staging, using different media as effects. His interest in repetition and endurance helps move work across areas such as behaviourism, non-human animal languages, dance, and folklore, while at the same time, his musical research is rooted in electroacoustics, where he explores performative components, particularly in relation to the perception of the musical act and the obscurity that emanates from it. In addition to this skull-crushing work, this Palermo-born resident of London plays trumpet in a duo with saxophonist Seymour Wright, while NO PA PA ON, founded with Louie Rice, is dedicated to the performance of score-based works, both acoustic and amplified. 
 
Lonny Hoffmann & Zhao Ziyi
As a multimedia artist studying religious artworks and their purposes in Oberlin, Ohio, an awakening occurred in the foyer of a Thai restaurant (as they often do), leading Hoffman to develop an interest in the tight connection between the unknowable and the everyday. The challenge, if not impossibility, of creating largely objective and pure representations of extremely subjective, personal situations and events, using a deliberately unfixed array of materials, is the basis of his work. 
Zhao Ziyi was born in Beijing in 2007 with a simple sound and a difficult-to-use body. His debut solo CD Sorry (Sub Jam 2025) uses “embarrassed silence” to illuminate the unbearable “meaninglessness of time.” The One, Two double-cassette (Sub Jam 2025) and The Cheapest Japanese Cuisine in the World (Zoomin’ Night 2025) — both by Nichijo (his duo with Yang Kuku of Ghostmass) — approach musicality with annihilation in their hearts and ought to be the one-two micro-gulp of The New Torpor. Ziyi has organized the You and Me Festival in Beijing every summer since 2023, and in 2024, co-founded the exceptionally small, multifaceted venue Xiaozu.
 
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Zhao Ziyi Bandcamp

Rory Salter
Rory Salter lives in London, working mostly with sound and performance, as a musician and sound technician. Recordings are available via Index Clean, TEETH, Research Laboratories, Zoomin’ Night & others. A new album ‘a sky cold as clay’ is out now on Infant Tree.

‘His work is formed through experimentations with acoustic & electronic instruments, faulty & functional technologies, cassette tape, feedback and walking; motivated by exploring relationships to environment, work/labour & craft; It is rooted in practice and documentation. He has performed and worked with Derek Baron, Phil Julian, Sun Yizhou, Mark Peter Wright, Regan Bowering, Li Song and others. He co-runs the record label and mail-order distribution Infant Tree with artist Ben Victor Waggett and curates a series of concerts in London between Cafe OTO, Dalston and Spanners, Loughborough Junction.’  Hundred Years Gallery

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Sunday 19thth April 5.30pm – 11.00pm (doors 5.00pm)
The Concorde 2, 286A Madeira Dr, Brighton BN2 1EN

Aaron Dilloway / Chop Shop / CIA Debutante / Zheng Hao / Suppwiyah / Shit Creek /  Ypsmael

Aaron Dilloway
Through his work in improvisation, industrial noise, musique concrète, field recordings, and a covert international mentorship program, Dilloway has become a leading figure in the American Midwest’s experimental noise scene. Noting the “sheer intensity and strangeness of his work,” The Wire sees humour in his otherwise “monstrous and unwieldy” performances for nearly-swallowed contact mics and tape manipulation. 
 

‘Hailing from Michigan, Aaron Dilloway was a founding member of formidable trip metal gods Wolf Eyes. Since he left that band a decade ago, he’s delicately extended his exploration of tape manipulations and found sound appropriation, simultaneously bringing warmth and acidity, high-end assault and dreamy dislocation.’  Wavering Forms

Chop Shop
Since 1987, the recordings and installations of Scott Konzelmann have featured his speaker construction assemblages and tape music compositions. His sound and noise are intrinsically connected to sculptural objects. Forged from re-purposed junkyard fragments fitted with functional loudspeakers and fed by prepared recordings, they articulate particular frequencies into hissing static, jet-engine drones, and noxious rumbles — all of which retain a metallurgist residue.
One of his more noteworthy releases was Steel Plate, a double 10-inch bound in roofing tar paper strapped to a plate of steel (RRRecords 1991). His split 10-inch with Small Cruel Party (Scmaolpl -C-r-u-e-l- Psahrotpy, RRRecords 1995) was literally cut in half — to be assembled on the listener’s turntable at their needle’s peril.
At Colour Out of Space, Konzelmann offers up a distillation live mix from the long out-of-print OXIDE (23five, 2008), utilizing prepared reel-to-reel tapes of his muscular and aggressive drones, in a dialog with a solitary speaker construction.
 
CIA Debutante
Deep dive into freedom indoor workshop, eternally temporary composition — a soundtrack to floating toxic airborne apparition. Lo-fi spirit, spoken word, deconstructed guitar, adventure synths. Hits from the future. CIA Debutante rework the post-punk / experimental kingdoms that have been left behind, only to haunt and refurnish them to their own abstract design. William S. Burroughs collaborating with The Flaming Tunes and Tolerance, Thought Broadcast, PSF Records, wherever the algorithm guides you. They capture the essence of the modern sound, tear apart and satirise the ghosts in the machine and get tangled in the wiring.
With four LPs released by Siltbreeze Records, tours across Europe, Japan, and China, and performances at Les Atelier Claus, Café Oto, Cave12, their oddly unique vortex of sound and improvisation has led them to play alongside the like-minded The Dead C, Roy Montgomery, The Rebel, Sister Iodine, Protomartyr, Warm Currency, Exek, Carrageenan, and Ensemble Économique.
 

Zheng Hao
Born in Wuhan; based in London. Mostly uses electronics for solo and group improvisation, while other times also makes computer dance music. Enjoys gritty and gnarly textures as well as delicate, amorphous qualities in different sound and space. Irrefutable evidence that a re-calculation of the optimum broken-eggs-to-omelette ratio is due.

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Suppwiyah
Based in South Yorkshire, Naila Dracup uses DIY modular synths and tactile tape manipulation to create dense and volatile constructions.
Shit Creek
Lewis Duffy’s recorded music began as an earnest attempt to communicate with corvids. Now it’s something else. For over a decade now, this Brighton-based artist, originally from West Yorkshire, has been working with soothing violin drone, spaced-out sample splatterings, and all points in between. Those points include: “a woozy sip of slurries of shrooms for teetotalers from the cracked glass of failure” (Tango Super Bock, Chocolate Monk 2022); “shimmering electronics and repetitive glee pulsing like euphoric ear worms” (No Jacket Allowed, Chocolate Monk 2022); and “anthems and elegies for the AI slop age, assembled without heed to the bounds of context or tastefulness” (Dopamine Warrior, Chocolate Monk 2026). In lieu of applause, the artist requests that you reward their efforts by leaving twigs, leaves, and marbles in neat piles at the foot of the stage.
 
ypsmael
This sound maker from Germany — active since 1999, appearing solo under ypsmael and other monikers since 2010 — focused primarily on live work akin to electroacoustic improvisation until 2020. Work has since included radio plays and sound collage, but the summoning of “Rod Serling moods and atmospheres of doubt,” to quote Sound Projector, continues.