Friday 30 January 2026, 7.30pm
John T. Gast Presents Petrols.
Flutes + FX form the core of a more improvisational framework.
Drawing on Gast’s Gossiwor material, with Aase Nielsen, Petrols moves into looser, more exploratory territory, balancing intimacy with sonic weight.
Recently performed at Berlin Atonal, the work continues to develop, responding to new contexts and times.
Finding the boy
Lost on a pier
Unravelling
Skins will guide u
Headtorch x 3
EXLRUTH (Ruth Hughes) is an artist and composer whose practice focuses on improvisation, appropriating and re-contextualising traditional form with a focus on live experience of sound.Ruth's practice explores relationships between British industrial histories and contemporary sound cultures, particularly those of her hometown Sunderland in the North East of England, Her performances and audio works use traditional choral compositional techniques as well as field recordings and live hardware processing. Some of her previous works have involved choir performances, experimental Dj sets using field recordings cut onto dub-plates and improvised harp.
Holding residencies at Accidental Meetings & Mutant Radio, on the buttons for the evening.
Memotone is one of the various aliases of self-taught multi-instrumentalist and composer, Will Yates. Predominantly an improviser, working with minimal, ambient and contemporary classical music. Recent years have seen memotone lean towards a more free-form approach, exploring jazz, drone and more meditative musics, often emphasising the give and take between close harmony and dissonance, and showing a keen interest in sound design and textural experimentation. His last LP dropped on Accidental Meetings, full of back-alley jazz and blissful oddities. Following previous work for entities such as Black Acre, Disktopia & Termina. Not to mention supplying instrumentation for Batu's debut album, and scoring works for Palace Skateboards.
