Bristol New Music
22 - 26 April 2026
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22 - 26 APRIL āssia ghendir / Cara Tolmie + Rian Treanor / claire rousay / Cole Pulice / Eliana Glass / emptyset / Erwan Keravec / Ex-Easter Island Head / FRANKIE + Kelman Duran / GHOST DUBS / Harry Górski-Brown + Wojciech Rusin + Phaedra Ensemble / Hatis Noit / KMRU / Lucy Railton / Merope / Olukemi Lijadu / Orcutt Shelley Miller / Saint Abdullah + Eomac + Rebecca Salvadori / Yas Clarke / YUNI…
22.04.26 Orcutt Shelley Miller / Cole Pulice
22.04.26 Orcutt Shelley Miller / Cole Pulice
Bristol New Music opens its 2026 edition at Strange Brew with two essential projects from the contemporary US underground, both performing in Bristol for the first time. * ORCUTT SHELLEY MILLER Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy) + Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) + Ethan Miller (Comets on Fire) A heavyweight US trio operating at the fault line between rock and free improvisation, OSM unites three giants of A…
23.04.26 Olukemi Lijadu
23.04.26 Olukemi Lijadu
On the occasion of Olukemi Lijadu’s exhibition at Spike Island, Feedback, Lijadu will perform a new live music score to her film 'Feedback'.
24.04.26 Erwan Keravec + @xcrswx
24.04.26 Erwan Keravec + @xcrswx
Two Bristol debuts. Early doors at the Cube. Limited tickets ! ERWAN KERAVEC is a Brittany-born highland piper, composer and improviser who’s long been at the vanguard of bringing bagpipes into contemporary music; with interpretations of modern composers like Radigue, Riley, Glass, or solos which find new sounds from his instrument, taking it far from its original cultural setting, into noise a…
24.04.26 KMRU + Saint Abdullah, Eomac & Rebecca Salvadori + YUNIS
24.04.26 KMRU + Saint Abdullah, Eomac & Rebecca Salvadori + YUNIS
Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a sound artist and experimental ambient musician, raised in Nairobi, Kenya and currently based in Berlin. Across numerous releases, concerts and sonic research projects over the past decade or so he has built a distinctive practice of expanded listening, opening a space to consider and reflect on auditory environments beyond the norm. His work crisscrosses field recordi…
24.04.26 Xterea
24.04.26 Xterea
Operating out of London, Xterea crafts raw soundscapes that meet gritty fractured rhythms. Recent works include “I’ll Call You Later,” “Headcase,” and “Guardian of Zeus” on 5 GATE TEMPLE, as well as “Like the Shadows Before Babylon” on Mindseye Records and self released “The Ghost of X.” His live performances unfold as immersive sonic rituals — full-frequency incursions tha…
25.04.26 Bristol New Music - Saturday pass
25.04.26 Bristol New Music - Saturday pass
1415 - 1545 Arnolfini sees Mark Knoop performing Sam Salem’s composition for prepared piano and electronics ‘Waves of Crashing Darkness’ (2024); and an intimate performance from London-based artist ãssia ghendir. 1615 - 1915 St Georges hosts performances by LA-based artist claire rousay with a scratch ensemble of players from Bristol’s music scene; a rare South West performance from cel…
25.04.26 ãssia ghendir + Mark Knoop / Sam Salem
25.04.26 ãssia ghendir + Mark Knoop / Sam Salem
Live performances from ãssia ghendir (solo) and Mark Knoop (performing Sam Salem’s Waves of crashing blackness). Co-presented with Another Sky as part of Bristol New Music 2026. ãssia ghendir is a cross-disciplinary artist working at the convergence of voice, movement and sound. Their practice weaves together geological soundscapes and devotional vocals. ãssia’s work seeks transformative …
25.04.26 claire rousay + Lucy Railton + Harry Górski Brown, Wojciech Rusin & Phaedra Ensemble
25.04.26 claire rousay + Lucy Railton + Harry Górski Brown, Wojciech Rusin & Phaedra Ensemble
A prolific multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer, claire rousay gracefully crafts boundary-less music and brings a singular reflexivity, unflinching honesty and adroit humour to the performance space. At this show the LA-based artist will perform work from acclaimed recent album a little death with a bespoke ensemble of Bristol players. Musician and composer Lucy Railton’s Blue Veil inv…
25.04.26 emptyset + FRANKIE & Kelman Duran + Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor + GHOST DUBS
25.04.26 emptyset + FRANKIE & Kelman Duran + Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor + GHOST DUBS
Emptyset's ‘Dissever’ reimagines and reengineers the hardware and exploratory sound worlds of the late-1960s, and was first created for Tate Modern’s ‘Electric Dreams’ exhibition on the histories of modern art and technology. Live these components are channelled into singular, full-frequency soundsystem physicality. FRANKIE & Kelman Duran reimagine avant-pop as a dubbed, fever dream of…
26.04.26 Bristol New Music - Sunday pass
26.04.26 Bristol New Music - Sunday pass
BNM 26 Sunday pass, includes - 1415-1530 Victoria Rooms with Shui Mo Ensemble. 1600-1845 The Lantern with Japanese expanded vocalist Hatis Noit, dreamlike Lithuanian-Belgian fourth world folk group Merope; and Yas Clarke’s ‘The Palmhouse’, a brand new experimental acapella work for seven voices. 1900-2230 Strange Brew, with New York-based singer, pianist and visual artist Eliana Glass; A…
26.04.26 Shui Mo Ensemble
26.04.26 Shui Mo Ensemble
In Sea, Shadow and ink • 潮汐之影,水墨之间 , Shui Mo 水墨brings four newly commissioned works by Hong Kong, Taiwan, Uk, and China-Japan-UK composers to Bristol: - Dancing Ink is a propulsive new commission from Cardiff-Hong Kong phenom, 邵丽堂 Kiko Shao. - Changing light, sea and reflection are central to the imagery of (Shui Mo cellist) George Owen’s inspiration from master 吉…
26.04.26 Hatis Noit + Merope + Yas Clarke
26.04.26 Hatis Noit + Merope + Yas Clarke
A Japanese vocal performer hailing from Shiretoko in Hokkaido and now based in London, Hatis Noit takes her name from Japanese folklore; meaning the stem of the lotus flower, which connects the living and the spirit worlds: “a voice you only need to hear once and you’ll never forget it” — Mary Anne Hobbs Merope explore a contemporary vision of ancient Baltic music. Their roots lie deep in…
26.04.26 Ex-Easter Island Head + Eliana Glass + Jasmine Wood & Pavel Milyakov
26.04.26 Ex-Easter Island Head + Eliana Glass + Jasmine Wood & Pavel Milyakov
Ex-Easter Island Head are a Liverpool-based experimental music collective who compose and perform music for solid-body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments. Their last LP ‘Norther’ was much acclaimed, including being selected as the Quietus’ album of the year. “Among the boldest experiments in British music” - The Guardian. Composer, producer and multi-disciplinary artist J…
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