About this Event
Come celebrate five years of the Wabi-Sabi Tapes label in London. The event also marks the launch of Mélodie Blaison new tape 'Worn by Salt' on Final Image.
Including live sets from:
Mélodie Blaison is a french artist, flutist and composer based in Brussels. Integrating her classical training with experimental production, her research is rooted in a desire to create intimate experiences.
She explores breath, voice and sound material beyond classical frameworks. She deconstructs the codes of interpretation and instrumental forms to invent listening spaces where sound becomes a vehicle for presence and relationship.
Her works take various forms — immersive installations, interactive sound objects, collective performances, and electroacoustic compositions — opening up a sensory experience that blends contemporary rituals, sensitive, narratives, and shared improvisations.
By creating hybrid instruments and placing the body at the heart of the musical act, she questions the way we inhabit and communicate with sound. Her work invites us to rethink music as a living, fluid and open experience, where listening becomes a moment of collective transformation. Her work is shown in different places like Nantes, Marseille, Bourges, Strasbourg, Brussels, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Bristol, Geneva or Paris. Avant le Rivage released in 2024 by Wabi-Sabi Tapes is her second album, following on from VINTVRI, released by Grande Rousse Disques in 2022.
https://wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/avant-le-rivage
https://melodieblaison.bandcamp.com
Kate Carr’s practice explores the encounters, textures and technologies entangled with field recording through movement, the collecting and use of objects as performance tools, and experimental recording techniques. She creates intimate, delicate and hybrid soundworlds that foreground the interactions and forms of collectivity through which soundscapes are generated. Working across composition, performance and installation, her work draws on vibrations caused by cars and footfalls, overheard murmurs and public speech, music circulating in public space, and the distant roar of sporting events. These materials are shaped and morphed through rebroadcast, live foley and experimental microphonic techniques in her performances and compositions.
https://katecarr.bandcamp.com
Beachers is the project of London-based Daryl Worthington. He works in the crossovers between accidental and composed sounds, hi and lo-fi audio, with a particular interest in the beauty of the mundane. This takes an array of approaches, from explorations of the materiality and tactility of radio signals through to analogue synthesis, field recording and cassette collages and sample-based computer music. Beachers releases have appeared on czaszka (rec.), Shimmering Moods, Fractal Meat, Wabi-Sabi Tapes and his own ineffectual suns label. His latest release, ‘Horns Of Death’ (ineffectual suns, 2025) explores a replica fox-hunting horn, processing and twisting its rattles, squeaks and blasts through computer and sampler.
“Most of these sounds would normally be considered interruptions, unlooked-for incursions into a peaceful state. But by transforming them into music, [Beachers] transforms his perception of the world, too. Rather than regretting what the noise adds to your environment, better to find what you can add to the noise.” Matthew Blackwell, Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, November 2024, on There are no cicadas in this town
"I love the purity of it. If you’ve ever fallen asleep with an off-the-hook landline lying on the bed next to your ear, you’ll be familiar with the hypnagogic dreamworld they conjure here.” Philip Sherburne, Futurism Restated, on 'Off the hook'
“Horns Of Death is a strong release in various ways – the intriguing and/or tonally pleasing sounds it contains, the likelihood of it being the first ever experimental hunting horn album, and the sociopolitical context of its instrument it imparts, wordlessly.” Noel Gardner, The Quietus, on Horns of Death
DJs Laura Not & Andrew Hulme (Final Image)
Laura Not is an artist and DJ. For over a decade, she’s been collaging unusual music behind the decks and curating radio programmes focussing on experimental sounds such as the thematic (x)=musik on Lyl Radio. She has released music on labels like Kashual Plastik and Infant Tree, solo or in a duo with Andrew Hulme with whom she co-runs the imprint Final Image.
soundcloud.com/lauranot
Andrew Hulme is a musician and film-maker. He is a founding member of the post-industrial ambient band O Yuki Conjugate (Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Emotional Rescue) and has been active in several other projects such as A Small Good Thing, Gush and most recently dis fac. He founded the label Final Image in the late 80s and has now rebooted it together with Laura Not, releasing both new and archive material.
https://oyukiconjugate.bandcamp.com/
‘Worn By Salt’ by Mélodie Blaison is Final Image's third release since its reboot in 2024.
http://finalimage.bandcamp.com
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Spanners, Arch 504 Ridgway Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00
