Psyché Tropes Three-day Residency [Day 3]

For the final day of the three-day residency at Project DIVFUSE, Psyché Tropes presents four live compositions by artists working in the field of expanded and immersive audio. Each session will be presented in a 6.1 configuration in the absence of light or visual stimuli. Due to limited capacity, individual show tickets are available only. Georgina Brett 3:30pm Georgina Brett is a composer, vocal live-looper and event organiser, founded Tuesdays Post : Live Progressive Ambient in 2012 and has curated a number of multispeaker concerts in London and worked on many ambisonic and surround sound compositions. Since 2003 Georgina has explored the territories of the voice and delay pedals making collages of vocal sound, often but not always non-verbal. She continues to innovate and develop her live vocal collages including transferring outboard live techniques to computer based programs and 3D Ambisonic spatialisations. Pagan Red 4:30pm Pagan Red is the experimental and electroacoustic alias of Rory Donohue, an electronic musician and field recording artist originally from Galway, Ireland, now based on the South East coast of the UK. Under this moniker, he explores the intersection of synthesis, processed acoustic textures, and environmental recordings, shaping intricate sonic environments that invite focused and meditative engagement. While Donohue has produced music for over a decade under his o.utlier alias—releasing on labels such as Appian Sounds, Soul People Music, and Animalia—his work as Pagan Red delves further into textural experimentation and spatial sound design. His release Materia on Titrate Records, the label he co-runs and curates, embodies this shift, drawing from modular synthesis, custom-built effect chains, and non-traditional recording techniques, including electromagnetic and seismic sensors. Matt Spendlove & Amanda Butterworth 5:30pm Matt Spendlove is an artist from London who creates immersive installations, audiovisual performances and sonic artefacts. Across these situations he explores spatial ambiguity, structural form, waveform materiality and the illusory contours of psychophysics.His work channels the dynamics of sound system culture by incorporating low frequency vibration alongside hacked code and optisonic experiments. He combines a preoccupation with emergent behaviour, rule based repetition and chaotic systems to generate enlivened visual stimuli and shape dubbed out, cracked and reductive sonics into audible geometric form. Through textured intricate production, his shows bring corporeal presence carved out with a minimalist’s scalpel. Amanda Butterworth is a sound artist, composer and performer exploring sound, space and deep listening. Drawing on her background as a vocalist, yoga teacher and trained actor, her research explores themes of embodiment, phenomenology and deceleration to create immersive artworks that foster deeper connections to our environment. As a composer she works across spatial sound technologies to create active listening experiences that transform the listener’s relationship to space, using sound as an intervention to enliven everyday spaces and multichannel works that reimagine performance spaces and artist/audience dynamics. Merkaba Macabre 6:30pm Steven McInerney’s multimedia project Merkaba Macabre draws upon dichotomous energies, meditating between the sacred and profane. Their live performances utilise multi-channel systems, employing a structuralist methodology that values error and reappropriation. From here, speculative narratives take form, often blurring the lines between science and fiction. McInerney has composed surround sound compositions for film, live performance, and installation.