- Beef Presents -
An evening of experimental music.

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 and film.



Popon

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/
A special A/V set from BEEF Member Laura Phillips.



Dali de Saint Paul, Lia Mazzari and Kathy Hinde – “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.

Annie Gardiner

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.

Throughout the evening 16mm film loops made during the ‘Refracted Light‘ workshop will animate the space. Sign up to the workshop https://hdfst.uk/e149156 run by BEEF members Melanie and Matt.

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KIT FORM is over one level, with an accessible toilet

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KIT FORM
37 Jamaica Street
Stokes Croft
Bristol
BS2 8JP

Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio — Read more — Read less