1000 legs/Mélodie Blaison/Sara Mokrani/Marouchka/Igh Mass Orchestra at The Star and Dove - Totterdown Bristol
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"Revamped south-of-the-river spot The Star & Dove invite your favourite IGH scallywags through their freshly glossed doors! It’s a continental double-feature with: Belgian composer Mélodie Blaison’s experimental classical odysseys; luminous analogue/digital interweavings from generative synth minimalist Sara Mokrani; plus creepy crawly punk-jazz clownery from 1000 Legs for good measure."

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A gig on Friday 13th March. The event starts at 20:00.


We’re excited to host 3 unique artists from France / Belgium
Bristol’s new force in town & some mass orchestral we don’t
know what from us ! All at THE STAR and DOVE, a NEW
VENUE for Bristol alt gigs BS3 4RL. There is a separate
big hall for shows : )

More venue info https://share.google/xwQV9jHcUYXzB0OHF

Improv’s Greatest Hits is a night and fluid collective
using improvised music as a vehicle to mix musical and
social scenes. Blurring subculture lines, debuting new
artists + collaborations on the regular

For more and past shows look below !
https://www.instagram.com/improvsgreatesthits

MÉLODIE BLAISON

https://www.instagram.com/melodieblaison/
https://melodieblaison.bandcamp.com/
https://finalimage.bandcamp.com/album/worn-by-salt

Mélodie Blaison is a french artist, flutist and composer
based in Brussels.Integrating her classical training with
experimental production,her research is rooted in a desire
to create intimate experiences. She explores breath, voice
and sound material beyond classical frameworks. She
deconstructs the codes of interpretation and instrumental
forms to invent listening spaces where sound becomes a
vehicle for presence and relationship.

Her works take various forms — immersive installations,
interactive sound objects, collective performances, and
electroacoustic compositions — opening up a sensory
experience that blends contemporary rituals, sensitive,
narratives, and shared improvisations.

By creating hybrid instruments and placing the body at
the heart of the musical act, she questions the way we
inhabit and communicate with sound.Her work invites us
to rethink music as a living, fluid and open experience,
where listening becomes a moment of collective transformation.

SARA MOKRANI
https://www.instagram.com/saramkrni/
https://saramokrani.bandcamp.com/album/bismillah
Sara Mokrani is a French-Algerian composer who explores
generative sound from modular synths along with dreamy
melodies played on organ and oud. Inspired by pastoral
harmonies, her practice focuses on sequencing techniques
and pattern-based melodies that create a minimalist sound
architecture allowing us to explore the purest emotions.

1000 LEGS ( one off improv set )
https://www.instagram.com/1000legs 
https://on.soundcloud.com/0e6c11wotOppKiBcMz
https://youtu.be/nLxTaD5m5tI?si=gwItjWsa5ezfjjvP 
https://youtu.be/A6BoUQeYZ_M?si=0BhJk-yMdwhDB5Vk

1000 legs muster a circus of freak performers from London
to Bristol,1000 legs are a ghoulish-funforallthefamily-new-
wave-electro-punk five piece based in Bristol. Kinetically
blessed and endowed with volatile force, 1000 legs are an
ugly, bestial addition to the southwest scene. FFO: Opus
Kink, Bauhaus, Maruja

IGH MASS ORCHESTRA
We’ll be forming an orchestra of 15 Bristol musicians creating
overwhelming forceful and fragile textures !

MAROUCHKA ( DJ )
https://www.instagram.com/butchaoreilles https://www.kioskradio.com/artist/marouchka
https://lyl.live/show/marouchka

As a proud resident DJ at kiosk.radio and an integral member
of the poxcat_collective—a collective dedicated to uplifting
queer and female-identifying artists—she’s also a creative
force as a graphic designer with bye.byebinary, advocating
for gender diversity. Her sounds range from obscure 80’s
EBM to upbeat electro acid, forgotten wave gems and the
occasional trance trove.



Entry requirements: no age restrictions

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