emptyset + FRANKIE & Kelman Duran + Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor + GD at The Lantern
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"Maximalist contemporary electronic at its sharpest and spikiest: Emptyset unleash insanely heavy, spatialised technological weepings in a massive spiritual homecoming show (their first for bloody ages). Joining the fray: FRANKIE & Kelman Duran’s avant-pop broken beats, Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor’s hypersurreal rhythmic chaos and Ghost Dubs’ Bug-grade, slo-mo industrial dub pressure. 1000000/10!"

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A gig held at The Lantern on Saturday 25th April. The event starts at 20:15.


Emptyset's ‘Dissever’ reimagines and reengineers the hardware and exploratory sound worlds of the late-1960s, and was first created for Tate Modern’s ‘Electric Dreams’ exhibition on the histories of modern art and technology. Live these components are channelled into singular, full-frequency soundsystem physicality.

FRANKIE & Kelman Duran reimagine avant-pop as a dubbed, fever dream of fragmented rhythms, eerie ambiance and cinematic catharsis. Raw cello meets spectral vocals, weightless melodies and broken up beats.

Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor’s collaborative work is a highly kinetic and playful collision of body-centric vocal explorations and intricate rhythmic systems which forms a deliciously disorientating, hypersurreal space of semantic modulations, concrete poetry, cut-up beats and mimicked samples.

The night closes with a Bristol debut for GHOST DUBS, Stuttgart’s master of low-end pressure, live dub techniques, and industrial aesthetics “an absolute immersive triumph, a furnace-reduced, machine-tooled groove of hypnotic, ever evolving high-density inner ear-bliss.” – Mojo

Part of Bristol New Music 2026.

Standing show, with high volume and flashing lights.
https://bristolbeacon.org/access/

Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio

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