emptyset: 'Dissever' / FRANKIE + Kelman Duran ‘McArthur’ / Rean Treanor + Cara Tolmie / GHOST DUBS

James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas’ longstanding collaborative production project emptyset crosses performance, architecture-specific installations and recorded work, with their latest set ‘Dissever’ reimagining and reengineering the hardware and exploratory sound worlds of the late-1960s.

FRANKIE & Kelman Duran reimagine avant-pop as a dubbed, fever dream of fragmented rhythms, eerie ambiance and cinematic catharsis. Franziska Aigner works at the intersection of music, performance, and philosophy. After studying at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, she has shown her own work internationally and collaborated widely across disciplines. Kelman Duran is a Los Angeles-based producer, composer, and visual artist who fuses reggaeton, ambient, drill, and industrial textures. He’s produced for Beyoncé and composed the score for 2022 film Rodeo.

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 much anticipated Bristol debut for GHOST DUBS. Michael Fiedler has gained international recognition in 2024 with his album ‘Damaged’, and subsequent split release ‘Implosion’. Elements of traditional dub/roots, dub techno, and even shoegaze and drone, are fed through Fiedler’s futuristic sound design and mesmerising, slo-mo dubbed gyrations.

Presented by Bristol New Music.

14+ (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)