Sunday 24 August 2025, 7.30pm
Unpredictable Series presents an evening that showcases new voices and diverse approaches in sound and visual art through unexpected combinations. Two sets where for the first time, these musicians will play together, bringing their own special style to create an ephemeral universe.
The first set presents Mexican-Dutch violinist Miriam de Boer Salmon, Blanca Regina - voice and electronics - and Benedict Taylor on viola.
The second set, co-curated by musician and producer Syd Kemp, will bring together Gamaliel Traynor on cello, Syd Kemp on bass, multi instreumentalist Jessica Roch and Tom Furse on synthesiser. Pierre Bouvier Patron will create both analogue and digital visuals in response to the musicians' improvisations.
This is a rare opportunity to witness innovative musical exploration in an intimate setting—an essential event for fans of experimental and boundary-pushing art.
- Syd Kemp + Tom Furse + Gamaliel Traynor + Jessica Roch
- Miriam de Boer-Salmón + Blanca Regina + Benedict Taylor
- Visuals by Pierre Bouvier Patron
Syd Kemp is a London-based musician, producer, and engineer, best known as a member of Ulrika Spacek and for collaborations with artists including Thurston Moore, Caroline, Kahil El’Zabar, Valentina Magaletti, and Crack Cloud. Based at the Total Refreshment Centre, he works as a producer and engineer. As a touring artist and engineer, Syd has performed globally, earning recognition for his dynamic musicianship and innovative production style.
Tom Furse is a multidisciplinary artist, AI specialist, synthesist and former member of The Horrors.
Gamaliel is a producer, writer, string arranger and cellist based in south london. He divides his time working with artists such as TEXAS, Fat White Family, Mica Levi, Jazmin Bean, TAAHLIAH, and performing cello in a range of different styles from experimental electronic to classical.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/7116261-Gamaliel-Traynor
Jessica Roch is a London-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and improviser. She writes music for film, games and installations and co-runs The London Ambient Orchestra. Her solo work blends ambient and electronic textures with elements of minimalism, folk, jazz and experimental music. Her work Pandemonium: Music for Parakeets is currently being exhibited at The Design Museum.
https://www.jessicarochmusic.com/
Visual artist based in London, working between digital video and analogue film and exploring the boundaries between them through moving image works, performances and installations, with a background in experimental film, expanded cinema and documentary. He presents video screenings and performances both solo and in collaboration. His work has been shown at L'Atelier MTK in France, Cruce and Proyector Festival in Spain, Café OTO and Iklectik in London, Sowieso in Berlin, Zaal100 in Amsterdam, and in Mexico.
https://www.studiopierre.art
Miriam den Boer-Salmón is a violinist and creator based in Amsterdam. Her multicultural background reflects in a love for diversity, for ever-changing perspectives on society and reality, which shows in her musical ventures. With improvisation at its core, she is constantly exploring musicking cultures, combining worlds in her unique language through both written and improvised music, including influences from folklore to new contemporary music and curious collaborations across disciplines, searching for the sounds' physicality, shape and colour.
Current projects are Mediterranean prog folk band Ell Sol&los Saturnos, improvisational strings duo FAUCES with Amanda Irarrazabal, free jazz duo Salmon/Škorić with drummer Aleksandar Škorić and electro-acoustic performance with Dimitra Kousteridou and dancer Maria Mavridou.
https://linktr.ee/miriamdenboersalmon
Spanish interdisciplinary artist, audiovisual designer and educator based in London, working across live performance, projection art, installation, sound and film. For over two decades she has developed spontaneous composition systems in which image, light and sound merge into a single field, drawing on traditions of free improvisation and expanded cinema. Her collaborators include Matt Black of Coldcut, Leafcutter John, Steve Beresford, Peter Cusack, Benedict Taylor, Mandhira de Saram and Laetitia Sadier. She is founder and Director of Unpredictable Series CIC and a member of LAC at Cruce Arte Contemporaneo in Madrid. She holds a PhD cum laude in Audiovisual Performance Art from URJC Madrid, and her work has been supported by Arts Council England, the British Council, Sound & Music and the Francis Chagrin Award.
Benedict Taylor is a solo viola player, violinist and composer active within string performance and improvised music in the British and European new music world. Described as a “virtuoso contemporary violist”, the central focus of his work is on the viola & improvisation, alongside composing for live performance, film, theatre, contemporary dance, art installation and creating multiple concept album projects.
https://benedicttaylormusic.com
