Thursday 1 May 2025, 7.30pm
For her residency at Cafe OTO, Dali is curating 3 nights for experimentalists, avant-gardistes and dancefloor destroyers. Inviting a big crew from Bristol, where she’s based, and beyond, as many guests are international artists. Some of them are returning to OTO, many are coming for the first time, they all have crossed her path over the years and as music is made of connections, they have been creating music together. This line-up is made of great musicians and DJs widely engaged in culture; some are DIY promoters, part of various collectives, labels, in different countries and contexts. They've been working not only to produce their music but also to spread music from other musicians around them, in their communities thus resisting the shrinking political climate. The 3 days are a celebration of activism in music.
Kathy Hinde is an interdisciplinary artist who creates installations, performances and site specific experiences aiming to nurture a deeper and more embodied connection to the more-than-human world. Composed of hand-made objects, electronics and a blend of digital and analogue systems, her work represents a cross between kinetic sound sculptures and newly invented musical instruments. She creates pieces in response to specific locations and frequently works in collaboration with other practitioners and scientists and often actively involves the audience in the creative process.
Kathy has toured work across Europe, USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, China, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Colombia, Australia and New Zealand. Awards include an Ivor Novello Award, an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica, a British Composer Award, an ORAM award and a Scottish Award for New Music. Kathy received an Honorary Doctorate in music from Bath Spa University and is a member of Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF).
Website: kathyhinde.co.uk
Instagram: @kathyhinde
Kathy will be performing Twittering Machines
Twittering Machines begins with a study of the nightingale, a bird that sings at night, and of the disrupted environmental cycles that may threaten its future. Sonically and thematically, Twittering Machines is no pastorale. In it, John Keats’ poem Ode to a Nightingale, translated into morse code, taps out a shifting rhythm; perhaps a persistent distress call. Attempts to manipulate the blips and beeps to simulate birdsong renders the morse code indecipherable, and Keats’ poem slowly disintegrating into a swirl of non-verbal chirps and noises. As the composition evolves, elements are drawn from music boxes, bird imitation toys, singing bowls, gongs, synth, field recordings, as well as the voices of distinguished British ornithologist Peter Holden MBE and Bavarian bird imitator Helmut Wolfertstetter, cut onto dubplate. These multiple sound sources are sampled and manipulated live using a turntable, electronics and bespoke software, constellating in shifting, dreamlike patterns.
Twittering Machines won an Ivor Novello Award in 2020 and was released on limited edition Vinyl with screen prints in 2024 by Bristol Label TBC Editions.
https://kathyhinde.co.uk/work/twittering-machines-live-av/
In January 2025, following a project supported by Music to Come, the experimental duo Copper Sounds spent two weeks in the house of Sonoscopia (Porto) developing mechanical instruments and collaborating in the basement with Sonoscopia’s resident musicians. Through countless improvised sessions they gradually shaped new music—constructing frames, experimenting with mechanisms, and refining their new sonic devices. These 2 weeks culminated in 3 live performances across Porto and from April 2025, Gustavo Costa and Henrique Fernandes will join Copper Sounds for 4 live dates across the UK.
https://www.instagram.com/coppersounds/
https://www.instagram.com/sonoscopia/
https://www.instagram.com/gustavo_m_costa/
Copper Sounds are an artist duo who use traditional and contemporary processes to explore the physical and visual nature of sound.They see sound as a malleable material and have a unique way of working with and manipulating sound, through designing and making sonic objects which they play live.
https://www.coppersounds.co.uk/
https://coppersounds.bandcamp.com/
Sonoscopia is a space for reflection and creation, open to different ways of thinking and acting, and that’s where its strength resides. Throughout all these years the team have been doing an effort to create a space where artists related with experimental, improvised and electroacoustic music could share ideas and develop consistent work in a physical space that gathers all the technical and human conditions needed. They believe this dynamic allows Sonoscopia to grow and it creates a frame where local and international creators participate to construct a network, creating an ever growing sense of community.
https://sonoscopia.pt/en/#
https://sonoscopia.bandcamp.com/album/entropies-and-mimetic-patterns
https://sonoscopia.bandcamp.com/track/sonoscopie
Talking about Dali’s performances, Fanny Chiarello wrote :
“She picks up any music genre on the fly, catches words like a cat does a cotton swab, she throws words, throws notes into the fire of her anger or her joy and it crackles and it ignites; sometimes she'll start singing a fragile melody that makes you weep.“
— Fanny Chiarello in Basta Now (Permanent Draft, 2024)
https://www.instagram.com/dalidesaintpaul/
https://dalidesaintpaul.bandcamp.com/
Noods Radio favourite and celebrated Bristol head Lionel Lamadon fearlessly quests along the boundaries of experimental music, from spoken word, sound poetry, concrete music to noise, industrial, electronica.
