On the eve of International Women’s Day, we celebrate boundary-breaking sound with a powerful lineup of visionary women and non-binary artists reshaping experimental music.
MARCH 7th Gig
Kit Form
37 Jamaica St, Bristol BS2 8JP
Experimental Film, Music & Performances
Doors 7pm
popon is a Japanese-born sound artist now based in Berlin, whose creative path has taken her from raw beginnings as a vocalist to ever more exploratory sonic terrain. Her performances combine voice, small acoustic instruments, found objects and electronics to sculpt dense and atmospheric worlds of sound. Balancing fragility and intensity, popon treats each appearance as a live experiment where texture and tone unfold in unexpected directions. Every performance becomes a shifting landscape, where subtle details and sudden surges carry the audience into uncharted territory.
She is also as known as the small but hard collective crew. https://smallbuthard.bandcamp.com/
PanOrama
Dali de Saint Paul, Lia Mazzari and Kathy Hinde are “PanOrama”
PanOrama is an audio visual work created by Dali de Saint Paul, Lia Mazzari and Kathy
Hinde to celebrate Daphne Oram’s 100th year. Blending improvisation, synthesis, cello,
electronics and film, they aim to bridge past and present, guided by experimental
techniques. PanOrama follows Daphne’s own words on compositional process, combining archival materials, both samples and test scores, with the artists’ contemporary sound
practices. The performance includes visuals created on 16mm film at Tower Folly where
Daphne had her studio, and combines close-up footage shot on Bolex with ‘direct on film’
techniques such as frottage and photogram that activate the optical soundtrack of the film,
as a nod towards Daphne’s light-to-sound ORAMICS invention.
Dali de Saint Paul, Lia Mazzari and Kathy Hinde each received an ORAM award for
innovation in sound and music. PanOrama was commissioned by the ORAM Awards.
Welsh-Scottish-Italian artist, songwriter and producer Annie Gardiner is a musical adventurer. A listener and maker of many styles, interested in sound as inspiration, sculpture and texture, spontaneous improvisation, and composing from improvisation. Annie holds a passion for Bristol’s unique and diverse DIY scene and can regularly be found at The Cube enjoying long tones or hyper skree. Musical projects include Annie Gardiner (solo), Excellent Birds, MARCY and noise-rock duo Hysterical Injury. She works as a producer with a diverse range of artists from legendary J&J studios and Joe’s Garage in Bristol, as a Songwriting Lecturer at BIMM University and runs DIY label Crystal Fuzz Records.
Annie will be playing a set from her newly released Album, accompanied by Jo Kelly a stalwart of the Bristol free jazz and improv scene, performing solo and collaboratively in various constellations, including the free-noise-no-wave-improv-harsh-jazz quartet Yoke. They are also known for their moniker Wendy Miasma, a political-synth-pop-power-house. @miasma.corp
Lucia Sellars
Lucia Sellars plays with text, art and moving images and will provide accompanying feminist readings to the evening. She is a quiet observer and a self taught artist. Her videopoems have been screened across the UK, Europe, USA, Russia, and Australia. You can see more of her work here: www.luciasellars.org and @luciasellars1.