Thursday 23 July 2026, 7.30pm
Project DIVFUSE is presenting its third off-site event and a second one at Cafe OTO. Bringing together three artists who have exhibited or performed at Project DIVFUSE micro art space in Lower Clapton E5 since its doors first opened to the public in July 2021, this is an evening to showcase sound pieces that are sculpted with objects. It is also one of the events to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Project DIVFUSE - an independent exhibition platform in London dedicated to sound and multi-media art, run by Livia Garcia. www.divfuse.com
Kate Carr is a London-based sound artist and researcher working across composition, performance and installation. Her practice explores field recording as both a creative method and a way of understanding relationships between people, environments and technologies. Through recording, listening, performance and the construction of instruments from discarded materials, she examines the ambiguities of recorded sound and the shifting boundaries between documentation, fiction and encounter.
Central to her work is an ongoing practice deploying recording protocols: score-like systems, actions and constraints that structure how recordings are gathered. Her work draws on the sound of public spaces, infrastructural vibrations and hybrid environments.
Carr performs internationally and runs the sound art label Flaming Pines. She is a member of the duos Rubbish Music (with Iain Chambers) and Quartz Sand (with Cath Roberts).
https://www.gleamingsilverribbon.com/
https://www.flamingpines.com/
David Sappa works between D.I.Y sound sculpture, improvisation and field recording - with a dense smudge between.
Their projects emerge via site-responsive processes, exploring found and discarded things - reconfigured and animated through sound, to explore instability and leaky thresholds between bodies, material, time and place.
Li Song is a London-based musician and computer programmer. He performs improvised music with his computer and composes music using electronics and acoustic instruments. His collaborative project with Zhu Wenbo, No Performance, focuses on compositions using environment sounds, acoustic instruments, computer algorithms, and random sequence. He is also a member of computer network music ensemble and research group, [ _ _ _ ], focusing on algorithmic collaboration. Recent works include Two Snare Drums (Infant Tree 2022), [ _ _ _ ] (with Jia Liu and Shuoxin Tan, SUPERPANG 2022) and Text (with Zhu Wenbo, Zoomin' Night 2021).
For this evening, Li Song will be presenting his work Slow Software.
https://lisong.bandcamp.com/
https://notimportant.org/
https://zoominnight.com/artists/li-song/
