4th-9th September
Come Lord, 1969 residency A short residency, culminating in performances and happenings on Friday 8th & Saturday 9th
Wednesday 13th September & Thursday 14th September Secluded Bronte Two day residency.
Secluded Bronte are joined by filmmaker James Holcombe
W/support Chris Parfitt, Tim Bromage, Richard McReynolds & Jon Ruddick
+ Come Lord, 1969, Batterson a bono + Howl Hubbard & tsta
Saturday 16th September The ECSTATIC DRUM BEATS World Cup Was an interactive sound/performance art piece where people could use footballs to play the drums.
Activities included 5-a-side friendlies, a free kick competition, and a penalty shoot out, plus art exhibition, diy record labels selling merch, craft stalls, zine stalls, and performances throughout the event.
Thursday 21st September TactileBOSCH - Agora
Was a night of performance art, sound, movement and installation.
Five artists were selected through the TactileBOSCH Agora project call out
and will be working together in the SHIFT basement and on site within Welsh landscapes....
Selected artists
Vivian Ross Smith
Alkmini Gkousiari
Joao Saramago
Ki Lando
Aoife mcaleese
Saturday 23rd September An Evening with Muriel
Featuring an Exhibition by Visual Artist Molley May
Performing An evening with Muriel;
Zak Thomas
Rachel Crabbe
Jamie Joiner
Andy Oliveri
Will Davies
Tom Bromley
Holly Carpenter
28th September Will Guthrie solo, Gwilly Edmondez solo, Dan Johnson solo, Slow Murder & tsta duo.
Friday 29th September
Midding, Lighting In A Bottle, Jake A Griffiths.
Thursday 12th October
Godspeed You! Peter Andre, Insatiable wound, neverwas
Saturday October 14th Tell Tales
A trio of chilling tales, for trying times.
Halloween season for an evening of lo-fi entertainment to send shivers down your spine.
16th-25th October Iwan ap Morgan residency
The Ten day residency incorporated an artist talk & exhibition, featuring visual art
& performance documentation created over the past twenty years by the artist.
27th-30th October
Happening Studio Residency Happening Studio, joined the SHIFT residents for a five day residency. They had access to studio space, technical & peer to peer support within SHIFT’s shared supportive environment.
We return with our third Swamp parti....Think Bog bodies, Reptiles, and feral pussys lurking on moors and bathing in peat! & Enter the bog in the basement, Let us whip you into a frenzy of mud slinging and slimed dancing.
Expect ritualistic noise, Alien beats, touchy feely installs and lots of wild surprises -
Prize for best costume!!!
Members of South Wales Improvisers, Cheltenham Improvising Orchestra, South West Improvising Group and Hullabaloo Orchestra (Taunton) will be performing non conventional scores and improvisations.
Free / Donations / pay what you like on the door.
YEAH YOU – BEAUTY PARLOUR – EKSTASIS – AUGUSTE VICKUNAITE
Thursday 9th November 7:30pm
YEAH YOU, is the Welsh duo of Elvin Brandhi and Gustav Thomas which began in the Northeast of England in 2013. Their music is the monster they find hiding under every surface from formica to fibre glass to fortune and unforgivingness; their charge is to explode its merciless tongues so as to lick the dancefloor clean of reactionary gloop.
‘… an absurd pairing of the Rilkean sublime [with] knackered EDM… Wildly inventive and genuinely weird… underground music at its best.’ Stewart Smith, Wire (413) https://www.yeahyou.family
Beauty Parlour – Cardiff musician Xavier Boucherat’s ‘Beauty Parlour’ is an ongoing exercise in world-building, incorporating bleak ambience, flooded industrials and the otherworldly broadcasts of Cold War-era numbers stations to summon a landscape in permanent crisis. Current EP ‘King of Love’ breaks with his recent meditative / generative works in favour of bloodied, body-beat rattlers and high-drama industro-wave laments, recalling early, chaotic performances at packed-out house shows. 2019 EP ‘Flattened by Corrupting Waves of Love’ is now ‘Name Your Price’ on Bandcamp, and features the previously unreleased ‘Tender Wavelengths’. Xavier also writes ‘Through The Night’, a (near) monthly newsletter covering weird gigs in South Wales and outsider music from Wales / by Welsh musicians. https://linktr.ee/Xavierbbb
Ekstasis - Generating complex modular patches backed by dramatic vocals, pushing an idiosyncratic sound more compelling that 100x synth-fuccbois. Referencing acts such Deathpile, Puce Mary and Gavillan Rayna Russom, their performance will be a tantalising mesh of improvised and conceived soundwaves utilising contact mics, citing tactility as a key element of their latest set-up. @ekstasis__
Augustė Vickunaitė is a sound performer with a background in physics science. She mainly uses reel-to-reel tape recorders to play, record, and create sounds that contain diverse field recordings, malfunctions of the old technology itself and intentional sounds/instruments recorded in natural environments. She is interested in errors of old technology, randomness of nature, aesthetics of boredom and slow art. Her performance will contain audio tape loops and found tapes collage. https://archive.org/details/@augustevi
Joke Lanz was born in Basel in 1965 and now lives in Berlin.
He is a pioneer of the electronicindependentt scene and crossover artist whose work spans improvised and experimental music, noise and turntablism, performance art and musique concrète.
In addition to theatre and film music, radio works, installations, paintings and collages, he regularly performs with his band Sudden Infant or in various combinations throughout the improv scene or as solo artist with voice, electronics, turntables.
Simon Whetham has been exploring aspects of sound as a material for creation, unearthing obscured environmental sonic phenomena, acoustics and resonance, sonic energy and transduction. His projects are increasingly multi-disciplinary, becoming more visual, performative and tangible, exploring physical sound traces and transforming energy forms. https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com
Lightning In A Bottle. A duo comprising improvised Guitar & Drums, creating free form rhythms open-endeded sonic textures. Featuring composer Richard McReynolds & percussionist Luke Robinson. http://richardmcreynolds.com
Dutch sound artist, Svartvit, returns to SHIFT in November for a five day residency. Svartvit has performed internationally, a Dutch harsh noise project that was started in 2008. Svartvit takes influences from a wide spectrum including but definitely not limited to; Vienna Aktionism, socio-political topics, underground punk music, Russian constructivism as well as his contemporaries like Sword Heaven, The Rita, Prurient & Vomir.
As well as working with collaborators throughout the five days, Svartvit will be running a workshop & performances as part of their residency.
The focus in the event will be on the processes & techniques used. The listening session and all performances will be accompanied by an introduction of a few minutes explaining some of the characteristics techniques/equipment/choices used to make the sound & will be open to questions also.
Eddie Prévost drums
Silvan Schmid trumpet
Tom Wheatley bass
This new trio brings together musicians from the London and Zurich experimental improvisation scene after their paths crossed multiple times in the UK and in Switzerland, through Eddie’s long-running Friday night workshop at the Welsh Chapel in Southwark.
After working together across various projects, this trio presents their music for the first time: a buoyant and elusive jazz, driven by referential investigation. Following on from their inaugural concert at London’s Cafe OTO, and a concentrated recording process prior, they will release their debut record on Matchless Recordings in 2024. https://silvanschmid.chhttp://tomwheatley.co.uk
Omega Institute
Aidan Searle – drums
Jeff Green – bass
Nigel Bryant – oscillator/effects
Electronics manipulator Nigel’s meeting with drummer Aidan at Bristol free improvisation event ‘Sounds on the Corner’ and reconnection with bassist Carl sparked the formation of a trio who began their journey into the unknown in 2019. The band’s members are active players on the free improvisation scene in Bristol but their shared love of post-punk, jazz, dub and electronics is crystallised in Omega Institute. https://prestoncapes1.bandcamp.com/album/pct-07-continuum
Chris Parfitt – Improvising musician, South Wales Improvisers. Noteherder & McCloud, PSANCK, Nil, New Interpretations Orchestra, IE Improvisers Ensemble. https://noteherder.bandcamp.com
A night of sound, projection and movement with Ya Yonder & Tess Wood.
Tess Wood, a multidisciplinary artist, is currently immersed in research focusing on producing and delivering live art within an installation setting. In this exploration, they are collaborating with Ya Yonder to investigate the intricate connection between performance and sound. Utilising underwater footage captured during the 2022 and 2023 summer solstice on Ynys Mon, they delve into the creation of immersive live experiences, crafting moments imbued with folklore. This exploration revolves around the notion of generating new histories that encompass broader, non-binary life experiences.
With thanks to tactileBOSCH, SHIFT and CADW and Arts Council Wales for their ongoing support. https://linktr.ee/tesshonorwood
Ya Yonder is the slow-simmering but constant solo music project of artist, JT Thomas, whose sound production fluctuates between loose & freeform, rigid and overthought structures of texture & movement. Ya yonder Creates sound from sketched out half ideas that build into sonic sculptures, allowing new sounds to emerge & fade away.
Taking audio cues from SOPHIE, Arca, Aphex Twin, Low, Tyler The Creator, Jenny Hval, Oneothrix Point Never, Dean Blunt, Nosaj Thing, Lorenzo Seinni, Yves Tumor. https://linktr.ee/ya_yonder
'Dialogue' a 6 month project in which SHIFT residents collaborate with a partner artist they have invited into the space. The SHIFT basement will provide a starting point for artworks to energe through open ended, intuitive processes of sharing, making and conversation.
Dialogue
Conversation, documentation & exhibition through collaboration, artistic process & practice.
A durational project which will have public events at SHIFT, July & November 2023, allowing the collaboration to share documentation, process and dialogue with the group and the wider public.
Each partnership will define their collaborative project & schedule, which will emerge and develop through conversation, documenting and sharing their processes.
Featuring;
Rebecca Jones & Erin Donnelly
Jon Ruddick & Rebecca Harry
Jake A Griffiths & Amber Forde
Heledd C Evans & Lucy Smith
MAES Y CIRCLES - FARM HAND - HONDDU - PENNY LOPE - CHAMELEONIC
Friday 1st December 7pm
Maes y Circles, Farm Hand, Honddu, Penny Lope, Chameleonic
South Wales Improvisers established itself in partnership with SHIFT and creates the opportunity for an individual to play free improvised ensemble music on a regular monthly basis.
SW Improvisers welcomes all players of all levels who are interested in exploring new paths to music.
Players can come to the sessions freely and without any prior experience. We ask only that you have an open mind, a willingness to listen, to respond and to enjoy.
If you are interested in taking part in regular sessions contact; chris-parfitt@sky.com
Next sessions 2023: All sessions take place Sundays 2pm-4pm on the dates below.
