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XVELASTIN:

Xavier Velastín (xvelastín) is a sound artist and technologist whose practice spans live art, sound design and composition for theatre, sound for video games, sound poetry, algorithmic composition and digital instrument creation. Xavier's work often has a focus on utterance, agency, the environment, technology and the physicality of sound. Xavier is a resident of the Pervasive Media Studios and is currently on a research fellowship with the British Library's Eccles Centre. Xavier has presented work for the Barbican Centre, Southbank Centre, the Royal Exchange Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, Brixton House, Watermill Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Iklectik, Hope Mill Theatre, KokoTeatteri, Theatre Deli, The Cockpit, Applecart Arts, Alphabetti Theatre, the Edinburgh, Brighton, Camden and Ventnor Fringe festivals, VAULT Festival, and FIAT Montenegro.


YELLATONE

Yellatone, AKA Ashley Loxton (b. 1984) is a Visual and Spoken Word artist living in Bristol.
His visual practice consists of painting, reused fabric, and found material.

He has exhibited in shows including: 'Places Faces Things', 'Here We Go Again'. Solo exhibitions include: 'Crowd Pleaser', 'Big Yellow' and ‘Going Home’

His Poetry reconfigures the vocabulary and language, from musical subcultures of his formative years (Drum & Bass, Uk Rap). Alternating between discursive prose, Spoken Word and Rap, he uses social deconstruction, and story-telling, to address personal historical trauma and euphoric recall.

Yellatone has worked with producers in London and Bristol. He has performed at The Bomb Factory (Archway, London), and South London Gallery (Peckham, London).

In January 2025 he released his first studio album titled Simulacrum. This was produced by Bristol producer Frenic. The album explores the fast evolving presence of AI, and the experience of what it’s like to exist in mid 2020s, caught in the currents of technology, reality and everything in between.

MARK ANTHONY PEARCE AND NICK MOORE:

Nick Moore is a Bristol-based poet, improvising musician and abstract painter. He has been writing and performing poetry for over thirty years, and as poet and musician has collaborated with dancers, visual artists, musicians and other poets in various combinations – most consistently with In-congruity Project since 1993. He has become more interested in how writing looks on the page, how it sounds and its relationship with drawing and published seven books exploring these aspects in the COncreteVisualSOnicPhOnicWOrdPlay series, including *Architrave*, *enjambment*, *Bricolage*, *Moondrag*, *Clung*, *Whwatt* and *Tintinabulation*, as well as *EXTEMPoRiSATIoN*, a book of visual music/graphic scores. Some of these are now held in the British Library’s contemporary print archive. He has also been known to thread spontaneous music into his readings. Nick recently published a collection of Poetry 'Birdwater' with Kertecz Press. Copies can still be purchased here: https://kerteczpress.bigcartel.com/product/nick-moore-birdwater

Mark Anthony Pearce lives and works as a Receptionist in Bristol. He is the author of twelve books of Poetry, most recently 'The Store Beyond The Styx' (With Tohm Bakelas, Danny D Ford, Gwil James Thomas, Paul Sims and Seth Guy) (2025, Between Shadows Press). His poems have appeared in over 23 journals online and in print.
He is the editor of Kertecz Press.

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