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Resonant Chamber presents five acts for an evening of abstract live electronic music and visuals. Carausias Arise! (Dafydd Roberts)
Duncan Chapman
Ben Eyes
Finton O’hare
Daniel Conway
Dan Conway's moving images have provided visual accompaniments to artists as diverse as Cabaret Voltaire, Seefeel, Hannah Peel, Gazelle Twin, Bicep and many, many more.
Carausias Arise! is the latest sonic ritual from Ceredigion-based obscurant Dafydd Roberts, sometimes known for his eerie alchemical-drone and hermetic sound experiments. Gnawing at the margins of UK underground since the early ’90s with releases via Camera Obscura, Oggum, Earworm, Ochre Records, Plate Lunch and his own Listen to the Voice of Fire imprint.
“A fabulous delirium of competing frequencies.” – Biba Kopf, The Wire “Weird and wonderful alchemy.” – Tom Ridge, The Wire “An astonishing meditation of noise… amazed and terrified by the unstoppable power he has unleashed.” – Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
Carausias Arise! is a live sonic ritual shaped by electronic noise, abstracted texture, and hymnic invocation, drawing on Anglo-Welsh poetry and 17th-century alchemical writings. It grows out of the folk-noise haze of Flying Saucer Attack, echoing Coil’s ritual electronics and the spectral vocal drift of Cucina Povera.
Now booking performances for 2026.
Duncan Chapman is a composer and musician based in Lincolnshire, UK. Much of his work involves collaboration with a wide range of people to create performances, installations, and recordings.
Recent projects include online live-streaming events, curating a concert for the Aural Diversity project, and performing morning music with Supriya Nagarajan at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India.
He has worked with organisations including BCMG, x-church Gainsborough, and COMA Glasgow, as well as on online performances with Comb Filter (with Simon Limbrick and Adrian Lee), Humbox, and Quiet Knot (with Mike McInerney).
His solo work has been released on the Silent, Takuroku, and Linear Obsessional labels.
Other recent work includes:
Three — an album of marimba and live electronic pieces with Simon Limbrick
A residency at EMS in Stockholm
Performances of Lullaby: Sonic Cradle at Radiophrenia (Glasgow), Casa da Música (Porto), Spot On Festival (Sydney), Portsmouth Guildhall, Woolwich Works, and at the 2022 and 2023 WOMAD festivals
Duncan is actively developing participatory projects using the new multichannel sound system at x-church Gainsborough. He has led events with Music in the Round (Sheffield), Conductive Music, Wigmore Hall, Manasamitra (Yorkshire), Sound Scotland, and Awards for Young Musicians.
Ben Eyes
Ben Eyes is an award winning composer and sound engineer working in the North of England. His work is typified by large, complex textures and sound collages using field recordings, heavily treated guitars, acoustic instruments and vintage analogue synthesisers.
His performances combine video, immersive surround sound, live musicians and live audio manipulation. His interests lie in working outside the usual musical realms including collaborative work in dance,theatre, performance art and film. He won the award for Best Use of Sound at ICAD in 2017 for his composition “Fiamignano Gorge” based on data from the earthquake prone gorge in Italy. Ben has performed at festivals and concerts across Europe and the USA and released music on record labels Time Released Sound (USA), The Centrifuge and This Is Music.
Ben has recently worked with Gazelle Twin on the online performance piece “Absent Sitters” and tour of Black Dog and Trevor Wishart. He is one half of the Kongolese techno band Electroni Kong and produces electronica for a variety of labels under the name Quip and ambient music under his own name.
As a live sound engineer Ben has worked with Nihiloxica on the ground breaking Aphex Twin Printworks concert in London, Wrangler, Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Benge, Blancmange, Creep Show (with John Grant) and John Foxx.
Fintan O'Hare
Conjures sonic landscapes, mesmerising grooves and intricate percussive patterns from motors, grills, bells, flower pots and other everyday objects live in front of your very eyes.
Fintan is a composer from Cornwall. He studied composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. His pieces have been performed by the Danish Radio Choir, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and others.
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