Tuesday 8 August 2023, 7.30pm
Pleased to welcome back Bezirk Tapes with another excellent line-up featuring sound designer, new media artist, and curator, Daphne X; [something’s happening], the sound and text duo of poet and performer Iris Colomb and composer Daryl Worthington (Beachers), and London-based sound artist and improvisor, Paul Margree - aka Ivy Nostrum.
Daphne X (she/they) is a sound designer, new media artist, and curator currently residing in Linz (Austria). In her artistic practice, which involves performance, podcast, and installation, she uses the means of sonic world building to design and explore rituals of collective composition, speculative listening, and communal healing.
Her music has been released on labels such as Exiles(HU), Bezirk (UK), tssstapes (IT), and written about in Quietus, A Closer Listen, BBC3,and Bandcamp Daily. She’s exhibited and performed in festivals like Ars Electronica, Kraak and Krama(ATH,GR).
Daphne X works traverse from intimate field recordings to vibrant synthesis, abstract pop music to ghostly instrumentals. Her albums are deeply poetic explorations of everything from Galician folklore to the sound of falling water.
She is the co-founder of Cachichi, a creative studio, curatorial platform and party series, and the host of Sonic Utopias, a sonic world-building podcast that airs monthly on Movement Radio in Athens, Greece.
[something’s happening] is the sound and text duo of poet and performer Iris Colomb and sound artist Daryl Worthington (Beachers). The project explores textual and sonic permutation through improvisation, scores and responses to situation and context. Their practice is centred around an integrating of sound and language, the two emerging together in unison rather than one leading the other. Their previous work has included experimental translations fused with site-specific field recordings, responses to art exhibitions as well as a live, fully improvised performance practice wielding poetry, processed voice and electro-acoustic sounds made with a variety of instruments and non-instruments.
In 2025 they released the albums Buzz (Flaming Pines) and a map has always been an attempt (Strategic Tape Reserve).
Their first release, an album of single-take live improvisations recorded with a solitary mic in a practice room, ‘Something Like That’, was released in May 2022 by Sensory Leakage. Their second release, 12.10.22, a recording of a live performance from October 2022 at Cafe Oto was released on the venue’s digital label Otoroku in 2023. In 2024 they were commissioned by EMALIN Gallery in London to respond to Adriano Costa’s exhibition HOW GRANDMA TAUGHT HOW TO KILL A GHOST CHICKEN.
[something’s happening] have performed with Eric Chenaux, Mai Mai Mai, Dali St Paul’s EP/64, Neo Geodesia and many more, for promoters and venues including Café Oto, Baba Yaga’s Hut and Upset the Rhythm.
https://flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/buzz
https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/a-map-has-always-been-an-attempt
IVY NOSTRUM is Paul Margree, a sound artist and improvisor from London. He blends explorations of everyday objects with feedback systems to explore ideas of instability and stasis. His work produces uneasy states of listening verging from deep, haunting drones to the delicate and nuanced exploration of daily minutiae. He has released work on SND HLS, Liquid Library, Structured Disasters, Wormhole World and Invisible City Records. https://nostrumivy.bandcamp.com/
