Name: SOAK x The Thicket x The Worm
Start: 2025-12-13T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-13T22:00:00+00:00
Location: Market Hall

We are delighted to present a special edition of SOAK at the Market Hall dome showcasing bold new performances by Yas Clarke and The Worm.
📆 Sat 13 December
🚪Doors: 6.30 pm
🎟 £12 (£8 concessions)
📍Market Hall, Duke Street PL1 4PS
Our next SOAK is a fantastic double bill of sonic and musical experimental performances. Yas Clarke’s The Thicket is an intricate, rhythmic and melodic text score, composed for four voices performing a cappella. The Worm is a fictional, time-travelling narrator, created and acted out by Mimi Lawrence, a performance artist from Cornwall. The Worm will be performing from their new album Pantilde, which draws from folk and ritual traditions to focus on the everyday lives of a selection of peasants living in an alternative celtic landscape, alongside supernatural beings and embodied land masses.
Step inside the immersive dome at Devonport Market Hall and experience a performance like never before - where sound, story and space intertwine in breathtaking 360°. The dome transforms these performances into living, breathing worlds: voices surround you, textures shift and shimmer overhead, and every note reverberates through a landscape of light and resonance. An unforgettable, once-only opportunity to feel sound and performance in full sensory immersion.
𝐘𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭
A strange new a capella work from Bristol-based sound artist Yas Clarke, The Thicket is an intricate, rhythmic and melodic text score, composed for four voices. Sometimes narrative, sometimes abstract & non-verbal - this text is an arcane expression of the human relationship with its environment.
Each singer is conducted by a distinct in-ear score, a process which allows for detailed structuring of the four-part score; phrases, words and syllables layered into elaborate rhythms and harmonies otherwise impossible to perform. The result is mesmerising & uncanny, an experience which transports & transfixes.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐦: 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞
‘Pantilde’ focuses on the everyday lives of a selection of peasants living in an alternative celtic landscape, alongside supernatural beings and embodied land masses. Set across a variety of changing timelines, and featuring The Worm themself. These characters mingle with stream of concience ramblings about neurodivergence, and primordial ancestry from the project’s author. “It emerged as a way to unmask and play with genders and characters. It’s inspired by a book called ‘Medieval Woman’ by Ann Baer. I like the idea of making an album that’s a work of fiction. But also that because it’s a piece of abstract art it can give you limited facts and information about the story.” The album sounds in places like dungeon synth, a minimal theatrical soundscape or the end music for a Terry Pratchet casette tape. Performed live you will experience the esscence of this project in it’s purest ‘low-fi operatic’ form.
The Worm is a fictional, time-travelling narrator, created and acted out by Mimi Lawrence, a performance artist from Cornwall. The Worm is not a worm, nor is their music particularly about worms. The Worm is The Worm’s name. The Worm plays cello, harp, recorders and percussion, and they sing. Their live performances incorporate music, costume, clowning and spoken recitals and are inspired by historic forms of opera and dance, along with literature and computer games. Recordings of The Worm seek to document this performance experience. Their songs are simple and raw with a naive, intuitive attitude to production. The Worm explores vulnerability, humiliation and social acceptance. They are not exactly a musician but rather a clown, whose vehicle is song. Mimi developed the current set of music at Britten Pears Arts, Gwithian Chapel and Prah Foundation. They are releasing ‘Pantilde’ with Prah Recordings (UK) and EM records (Japan).
SOAK Live Art is curated and run by Sarah Blissett and Nuria Bonet.