Margate Electronics #8: Audio Visual

Margate Electronics #8: Audio Visual
Live: Sculpture, Y Bülbül, Richard Pike

Summer edition spotlighting audio-visual performance, diving deeper into the psychedelic, the abstract and the immersive.

Sculpture is a London-based experimental audio-visual duo: musician Dan Hayhurst and visual artist Reuben Sutherland. Their live AV set combines animation, video art and unstable electronic music into a synaesthetic experience. Sutherland uses a camera mounted on a turntable to create kaleidoscopic animations from zoetropic prints, photo collage, electromechanical imaging and digital techniques, while Hayhurst manipulates samplers, reel-to-reel tape recorders, Walkmans and CDJ decks to make an analogue/digital hybrid of electronic pop and experimental splatter. They have performed internationally and released polymedia works on a range of forward-thinking labels.

Y Bülbül is the solo project of Turkish/British artist Yiğit Bülbül, currently based in London, UK. Defying easy categorisation with his music, he’s so far released three albums: Fever (2020), Not One, Not Two (2022) and ÜÜÜ (2024), the first two on the multi-faceted German experimental/electronica label Pingipung and the third one self-released digitally. Whilst performing live, he takes the essence of a selection of tracks from his kaleidoscopic discography and reimagines them in an open-ended fashion: live-dubbing/rearranging/mix-and-matching them in cut-up style: always psychedelic, mostly hypnotic, seldom predictable. 

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).

Supported by Arts Council England