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Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Engineers

The BTTTBE will be engaging people on site with a combination of pre-planned and reactive sonic activities. BTTTBE is the live/performance extension of the trio of sound artists who produce the BTTTBE radio programme for London’s radio arts station, Resonance104.4fm, every Thursday 11pm – midnight. Howard Jacques’ The Bermuda Triangle has been a regular feature […]

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Emma Lilwall

Placed at the pivotal point where sound art and music meet, Lilwall examines genre using low–fi technology – shifting the audio, dissecting and refining sound into a raw material creating a new ‘super compound’ and fusion of the dismembered elements. Staging a durational activity that employs a hand-made record lathe and a sewing machine, she […]

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Form Constants

A new audio-visual collaboration between Aidan Richard Taylor and Kim Da Costa. The project embodies live performance using handmade and hacked analogue machines and forgotten technology of the recent past. Aidan Richard Taylor (from Ginko) builds his own modular performance synthesizers and sound effects and hacks consumer electronics in order to craft a unique sound. […]

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Graham Dunning – Music by the Metre

Dunning is an experimental artist who works primarily with sound and found objects. His work is concerned with time, noise, and memory. He creates abstract music machines from found tape loops, dusty 78s, live environmental sound, endlessly repeating dubplates of field recordings, and analogue synthesizer drone. These contraptions are then used to fill whole spools […]

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Sam Underwood

Hailing from Kernow and now based in the West Midlands, Glatze is the one-man-musical-loon alter ego of musician and instrument maker, Sam Underwood. By day he will be found in the Shed Sound Space, with his toolboxes, in search of raw materials to hack into makeshift musical instruments. By night he will deliver his usual […]

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Sound & Mysticism

All is vibration… Cymatics is the sttudy of visualization of sound and vibration. For Supernormal, S&M will be exploring ‘Cymagick’ using a sound and photography installation. Mark Wagner will be using amplified sound (voice, feedback, sine tones and beats) to vibrate mediums such as salt, water or starch revealing the ‘sacred’ geometries inherent in Sound. […]

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XXX** ‘TIPEX+ :-)

Shamanic noise cult founded by Henry Collins (ex-Shitmat) and Robin Foster. Voodoo incantations, possessed synthesisers and unpredictable druidic behaviour. Recent performances have included the ritualistic sacrifice of Jeremy Clarkson’s biography, pickled eggs, talcum powder & blood. For Supernormal, the duo will perform various preposterous scores throughout the weekend.

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[RHP] CDRs

Based in the West Midlands but working nationally and internationally, [RHP] CDRs is a research and production unit dedicated to investigating the spaces between contemporary art and experimental music. During Supernormal 2014 our curator, Ryan Hughes, will be working alongside the practitioners based in The Shed Sound Space to document the works their developing; this documentation will later be […]

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