Sunday 7 August 2022, 8pm
Bridget Hayden is a Todmorden-based musician & rural conjurer noted for her participation with free-form noise rock acts such as Sunburned Hand of The Man, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Schisms & Bong..
Her best work however, is when her phantasmic voice is left to waltz solitarily with her own guitar or piano accompaniment. Bridget’s solo output is somewhat difficult to define, often falling into and swinging in-between the static-haze perplexity between words and worlds. Aching, yearning folk abstractions drift and swing between blistering, swelling guitar-crackle ecstatic fire, paradoxically concussing and elucidating. Ghost music for the living, breathing and feeling.
Some may draw comparisons to Grouper, The Space Lady, Cindy Lee, & Les Rallizes Denudes.
Ecka Mordecai is a London based artist working with sound, scent and performance.
Her mode is improvisational and driven by a desire to explore the feel of things, be it through touch: making and preparing instruments (cello, horsehair harp, psaltery, eggflute, Bluetooth speakers), or emotionally: exploring the way different sounds, scents and gestures feel and produce feeling.
Notable projects include her solo album Promise & Illusion (Otoroku, 2022), Sound perfumes (Aequill, 2022), soundtrack and voiceover for filmmaker Kamila Kuc’s I was there (plus a written passage in accompanying book published 2025, Delere Press), and musical composition for Voyage Through the Diamond Realm (De Beers at Frieze Art Fair, 2025/2026).
Her viral Instagram project Cable Queen is an ongoing spite-piece inspired by the grind of her job working as a sound technician in a male-dominated industry/world, in which she silently coils audio cables whilst looking into the camera. The comments, written by strangers, expose the conditions of her labour.
She has performed and released music with David Toop & Christian Kobi, Valerio Tricoli (as Mordecoli), Andrew Chalk & Tom James Scott (as Circaea), and as a cellist with Vanishing, Thurston Moore and Alexander Tucker. She has performed the works of Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, George Maciunas, Antoine Beuger, Yoni Silver and Taku Sugimoto.
U.K. based Thomas LaRoche/C.O.P (Creep Of Paris) is an insect breeder as well as the main representative of Research Laboratories.
His work has been described as “pungent muck”
