(Fri 25th Oct / 8pm / £8 advance, £10 on the door)

A double headline show from two performers with lineage whose music charts out expansive sound experiments that go as deep upward and outward through space as they go inward.

DUANE PITRE

A former pro skater with Alien Workshop, DUANE PITRE has ventured out as a solo artist focusing on abstract sound and experimentation for more than a decade with releases by some of the most revered experimental labels around, including Important, Root Strata, and Sonic Meditations. Blurring the lines between acoustic and electronic, structure and spontaneity, Pitre has rapidly crafted a sound all his own that resulted in him sitting high among the best-of lists from last year.

"[it] might be the most listenable probability-based music that I have heard … it is the blurring of computer and human into a single woozy, soft-focus middle ground that is Duane's real masterstroke … Feel Free is a weirdly perfect piece of music … it can probably be endlessly looped without ever becoming boring." Brainwashed

‘Feel Free’ was centred on harmonics played by guitars tuned in Just Intonation, and accompanied by a string ensemble playing to fixed parameters but also adding some improvisation which gave the piece its name. The effect has been compared to a river winding its inevitable path through time, and the accents from Pitre’s ensemble - especially the harp and hammered dulcimer - mimic outdoor sounds like the lapping of waves and the rustle of wind in leaves.

"The music proceeds without conflict into a three-dimensional fractal framework of curved contours and bright, pulsating nodes. Remaining posied and infinitely deep throughout, it's gorgeous stuff. " Wire

New album 'Bridges' builds on the immersive tonal structures of 'Feel Free' with new connections that expand on Pitre's use of space without limiting the hypnotically enveloping density of previous work. Other releases this year include a collaboration with electronic minimalist Eleh (under the moniker PITRELEH) and a live recording of his summer 2012 sextet performance of Feel Free at London’s Café OTO.

Pitre will be performing solo on this tour and his set will use themes and elements from Bridges, in conjunction with brand-new material that utilizes analog and digital synthesizers (all re-tuned in Just Intonation) and probability-based systems, controlled via computer.

SIMON SCOTT

Having started out as part of Slowdive, one of shoegaze’s genre defining acts, Simon Scott has gone on to play and collaborate with Nils Frahm, Taylor Deupree, ISAN, and The Sight Below. With his solo work there's a fixation on the more sculpted, textural aspects of sound combining elements of digital signal manipulation, micro-melodies and minimalism with environmental sounds and organic acoustic textures.

His latest record Below Sea Level (released on the 12k label) explores the desolate environments of the Fens (East Anglia) as well as his own past relationships with the landscape. Echoing the work of artists like Richard Skelton in creating a dialogue with the landscape and emotional resonance. Through utilizing hydrophones and other home made recording devices, Scott captures the sound both around and below sea level (hence the title), creating a thick and complex combination of field recordings, textured guitars and electronics. The occasionally overt guitar is reminiscent of some of Fennesz's best work with its sense of nostalgia for hazy, humid summer evenings of years gone by. Snippets of thumb piano and wind-up music boxes are infused, adding to that childhood charm and wonder. The result is an album of glowingly warm, densely textured excursions into landscape & memory.

“This is an album that sounds like a big bubble, a delicate bubble that might pop at any moment.” sirensound