Yaxu

The most electronic-music led event, Haptic Somatic is an enlivened club night concept featuring artists working with music as medium, mixing live performance, noise, light compositions, and club music. It’s the heaviest bill of the series. Also the album launch for Ziúr (Planet Mu), Corsica Studios sees a headline show from the Berlin artist, fusing sonic textures and brainy beats into a functional dancefloor framework intended for loud systems. Broken techno comes from Yaxu, who uses his own handmade programming language TidalCycles based on a technique called ‘live coding’ for which he has been widely recognised. Also not to be missed are Polish artist and Oram Award winner Ewa Justka, a self taught instrument builder and electronics teacher, and Tara Pattenden aka Phantom Chips, the Australian born noise-performer who makes wearable synthesizers, then invites the audience to stretch and squeeze to create sound. Spatial is an electronic musician and multimedia artist, whose work pushes the dynamics of sound system culture incorporating low frequency vibration, hacked code, and optisonic experiments, then there’s improvisation artist Laurie Tompkins, an immersive LED light composition by Swedish composer /sound artist Marta Forsberg, and Vienna’s Billy Roisz & dieb13 as their duo RISC. DJ sets come from NTS Radio affiliate Chloe Frieda (Alien Jams) and Tristan Bath Spool’s Out on Resonance FM and The Quietus).