Margate Electronics #8

Margate Electronics is a quarterly event dedicated to live electronic music. It explores the intersection of club and experimental electronic sounds, focusing on hardware and concept-driven performances that push creative sonic boundaries. Summer edition - this time diving deeper, more psychedelic, more abstract, more immersive. Performing live: Sculpture is a London-based experimental audio-visual duo - musician Dan Hayhurst and visual artist Reuben Sutherland - combine animation, video art, and unstable electronic music into a uniquely synaesthetic experience. Their live AV set is a maximal portal into their visionary aesthetic, with Sutherland using a camera mounted on a turntable to create kaleidoscopic animations from a library of zoetropic prints, photo collage, electromechanical imaging, and cutting-edge digital techniques. Hayhurst manipulates samplers, reel-to-reel tape recorders, Walkmans, and CDJ decks to create an analogue/digital hybrid of electronic pop and experimental splatter, maximising the unexpected results of these combinations. Sculpture have performed internationally and released a stream of polymedia works across a range of forward-thinking labels. - Y Bülbül is the solo project of London-based Turkish-British artist Yiğit Bülbül. Defying easy categorisation with his music, he has so far released three albums encompassing a wide musical range from abstract electronica to ambient: ÜÜÜ (2024) self-released digitally, and Not One, Not Two (2022) & Fever (2020) LPs on the German label Pingipung. 
 - Richard Pike is an Australian-British composer who’s career has ranged from quiet music under his moniker Deep Learning to scoring TV music for Stanley Tucci. With his band PVT (aka Pivot) he has released on Warp Records UK, and also performs with his new age jazz trio Forgiveness (Gondwana Records), and made art installation work with London’s United Visual Artists. He recently scored a large scale installation in Times Square NY to bookend a Charli XCX show, and made a piano and guitar duo record with Adam Coney (Trestle Records).