Proving not to be just Bristol's post-club provocateurs, Realist Alive links up with hyperglitch pioneers glitch.cool, descending on Bristol's temple of the avant-garde for an evening of algorithmic desctruction and computational breakage. The Cube plays host to the first of two collaborations in early 2026 between one of the last decade's most musically radical collectives and Realist, debuting in Bristol three of the UK's essential electronic experimenters, each with an audiovisual accompaniment. 

sunnk [live A/V] - Co-founder of glitch.cool, there are few more quietly significant acts in contmporary electronics than sunnk. Working with glitch and generative techniques, alngoside ever-evolving audiovisual programming, the Birmingham-based artist conglomerates industrial sonics, technological abrasion and a personal history of dance music to create works exploring occultism, neurological disorder, psychology and esotericism. Combining sound art and electroacoustics with an ongoing interrogation of bass-driven club music, anything sunnk puts to tape tends to astonish. He, with this legacy of subtle yet sizeable influence, on hyperglitch and much else, brings to Bristol an incendiary audiovisual set.

Thorjn [live A/V] - Guildford's crown prince of glitch debuts in Bristol off an immensely productive 2025. October's Through The Crystal Window saw Thorjn find full flower, encompassing electronica, IDM, ambient and hyperglitch in a fully-formed oneiric odyssey that should rightfully place Thorjn in the realm of your OPNs and Heckers. Not content with juat the one record, December sees the release of NOVOPANGEA, exploring the harsher side of the worlds Thorjn has proven so exemplary at building. Thorjn's A/V showing here further demonstrates a talent in true ascent. 

Genie Tempest - combining off-kilter glitch, serene trip-hop and art-pop, Guildford's Genie Tempest arrives off their own essential 2025 release. November's Royal Way EP saw the most complete distillation yet of GT's uniquely ethereal yet interruptive blend of pop songwriting and disruptive sound-collages of glitch. Somehow engendering both hesitation and tranquility, it's hard to find another producer in the UK capable of the same otherworldly, subversive mystery. Genie will perform accompanied by Cube mainstay, visual artist and projectionist Paul Hanson. 

tskali + Henry Wilson - Realist brethren open proceedings with an inevitable dual performance. HW's inimitable mixture of performance art and spoken word finds tskali in a rarer mode of glitchwise noise and ambient, staging a dialogue between a performer and a DJ equally seeking constant experimentalism and emotionality.

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