Over a 2 week residency Copper Sounds will be collaborating with Gustavo Costa and Henrique Fernandes of Sonoscopia. They will explore their shared interest in sonic objects, mechanical mechanisms and experimental music. During their time at Sonoscopia in Porto, they will develop a new body of work, creating both conceptual ideas and physical outcomes. This will culminate in performances at Sonoscopia and other venues. In return, Gustavo Costa and Henrique Fernandes will be hosted in the UK, where the quartet will perform at several venues including The Cube (Bristol), Cafe Oto (London), and Chapter (Cardiff).

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Copper Sounds (Isaac Stacey and Sonny Lee Lightfoot) are an artist duo who use traditional and contemporary processes to explore the physical and visual nature of sound. They see sound as a malleable material and have a unique way of working with and manipulating sound, through designing and making sonic objects which they play live. ​​Their process is about experimentation and the unknown, trying things out and always thinking directly about how the object and the sound affect one another. This approach has been used by the duo for their experiments in bell making, breaking the traditions of the medium by exploring the potential of merging 3D digital design and Bronze casting.

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Sonoscopia (associated artists Gustavo Costa and Henrique Fernandes) is an association that creates, produces and promotes artistic and educational projects, focused on experimental music, sound research and its interdisciplinary intersections. Since its inception in 2011, Sonoscopia has produced over 600 events, art projects, educational activities and publications; the organization has also visited approximately 20 European countries as well as geographies as distant as the United States, Lebanon, Japan, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. Some of its most noteworthy projects are Phonambient, INsono, Phobos – Orquestra Robótica Disfuncional e Phonopticon. In Portugal, Sonoscopia collaborates regularly with institutions like Fábrica das Artes/CCB, Teatro Nacional São João, Fundação de Serralves, Cine-Teatro Louletano, GNRation and Teatro de Ferro. Sonoscopia also has a creation and residency centre in downtown Porto, with small studios equipped for creative and scientific work and available for residencies and informal presentations, having hosted hundreds of artists from all over the world. Sonoscopia is partially funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura/Direcção-Geral das Artes.

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Music to Come Presents an evening with the vital Jordanian record label Drowned By Locals and a cast of friends & family

SAINT ABDULLAH
AL-MUTREB ABUL-LOUL & CHEREE TRUE
KINLAW & FRANCO FRANCO
AMBULANCE VS AMBULANCE
Hosted by DJ GAWAD

SAINT ABDULLAH: Essential Iranian-Canadian project whose collages of field recordings, saturated concrète, free jazz & scuzzed rhythms take you through the looking glass of Muslim diasporic experience, politics & memory

AL-MUTREB ABUL-LOUL & CHEREE TRUE: All the way from Amman, Al-Mutreb Abul-Loul (aka Abdel Ja7eem Hafez) takes the stage for the first and final time, joined by DBL collaborator Cheree True, to bid farewell to a decade-long musical journey

KINLAW & FRANCO FRANCO: Incendiary cybernetic-industrial-rap duo, bruising stages across Europe since 2018 & back in Avon for a first show in a while with a few carefully selected uplifting melodies and a new LP brewing for DBL later this year

AMBULANCE VS AMBULANCE: Psychotropic lamentations from Jeffrey Lee Hearse (Bokeh Versions) & Robin Stewart (TTT, No Corner), previewing materials from their own forthcoming DBL release

+ DJ GAWAD: Your host for the night; a mysterious Arab prodigy with many fingers on the pulse of Memphis rap and the Levantine underground, as heard on last autumn’s urgent mixtape ‘Volume 1’

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The showcase is part of a three-week residency in Bristol, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange between Amman-based collective Drowned By Locals—featuring Al-Mutreb Abul-Loul and Cheree True—and Bristol’s MTC artists Kinlaw, Franco Franco, and Ambulance vs Ambulance. A fully equipped studio will host collaborative writing, recording, and rehearsals, structured as workshops to encourage creative knowledge-sharing. The resulting audio-visual material will form the basis of Su’luk (The Vagabond Poet), a video essay weaving shared mythologies and geographies between the English South West and the Amman region. Through performances and gatherings, the project reimagines pilgrimage routes and overlooked sites, inventing a new folklore for the post-global era by mapping connections between decaying infrastructures, ancient landscapes, and forgotten architectures across two distant yet resonant lands.

15 March - Godiasco - Salice Terme
16 March - Udine - Hybrida
18 March - Rome - Trenta Formiche
19 March - Bologna - Freakout Club
20 March - Verona - Colorificio Kroen
21 March - Turin - Radio Blackout
22 March - Milan - Buka | Circolo Amelia
23 March - Bern - ISC
24 March - Fribourg - La Coutellerie
27 March - Geneva - L'Ecurie
28 March - Marseille - Data
29 March - Toulouse - TBA
30 March - Bordeaux - TBA
1 April - Rennes - Melody Maker
2 April - Paris - Salade Friday
3 April - Zurich - Moods
4 April - Amsterdam - Garage Noord
6 April - Bruxelles - Secret Location
7 April - Bruxelles - Kiosk Radio
9 April - Dusseldorf - Salon des Amateurs
10 April - Hamburg - MS Stubnitz
11 April - Berlin - Panke
12 April - Leipzig - Pracht
13 April - Dresden - Ostpol
14 April - Copenhagen - TBA
15 April - Malmö - Kallelse Festival
16 April - Bratislava - Pink Whale
17 April - Brno - TBA
18 April - Wien - Flucc Deck
19 April - Innsbruck - PMK

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High Density Gathering is a joint collaboration between Music to Come, Mistomame, and ARSIDER, bringing together two cross-sections from the Bristol and Turin music communities for a week-long shared residency. Over the first four days, artists from both cities collaborated at ASILE and Povera studio spaces.
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With time as a constraint and multiple creative practices as an advantage, the aim is to foster deep connections and produce new music—merging diverse sonic languages and artistic approaches through writing and improvisation sessions. Grounded in shared visions and intent,the recorded material will be co-released in 2025.
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The residency culminated in two live events as part of Radio Blackout’s three-day autumn festival, Ottobre Peso.

Participating artists: Arsider (IT - glitch / circuit-bent improv.), BKV Cadavre (UK - DJ), guest (UK - audiovisual / DIY instrumentation), Harrga (UK - industrial / experimental), Jeffrey Lee Hearse (UK - croonig) Kinlaw & Franco Franco (UK - industrial rap), Lengling + Valeria Miracapillo (IT - improv. electronics), Non Materia (IT - coding), NOT399093 (IT - smarmellocore / wobbling life), Ojoo (BE - DJ), Ossia (UK - electronic dub), Rico + Mrs Bhutan (IT - Nintendo DS rap)

‍Do You Have Peace? & Music to Come present Part 2 of a two-night special, featuring:

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JABU: Alex Rendall, Jasmine Butt & Amos Childs are joined by friends and collaborators Daniela Dyson, Memotone, Birthmark and Josh Horsley for an expanded live show featuring material from their new LP ‘A Soft and Gatherable Star’, out in September on Do You Have Peace?

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LORD TUSK: A live set from the London-based multidisciplinary artist and music producer with over 50 releases covering multiple genres, taking listeners on an electro-funk journey to worlds unknown.

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A.R. KANE: Back for their second show of the weekend, A.R. Kane revisit the dream pop aesthetics they pioneered and perfected on recordings like the ‘When You’re Sad’ and ‘Lollita’ EPs and their timeless debut LP ‘69’. Modern music is still catching up with them. “A.R. Kane dreamed for us all a new pop music, an alchemical vision of what dream pop really could be.” (Uncut)

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ROGER ROBINSON: London-based Trinidadian dub poet, writer and musician, known for his work with King Midas Sound, Black Space Quartet, and for his T.S. Eliot prize winning poetry collection ‘A Portable Paradise’. 

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TERESA WINTER: Composer and musicologist whose multifaceted releases on labels like The Death of Rave and Night School span dream pop, mutated rave and sound collage.

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BIRTHMARK: Dubwise FX, obscure drum machine workouts and words of truth meet with an undercurrent of UK dance music.

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BIRD OF PEACE ORCHESTRA: Jabu/Young Echo/Do You Have Peace?-affiliated ensemble bringing together a cast of players to close out the night.

Do You Have Peace?, Music to Come & Strange Brew present Part 1 of a two-night special, featuring:

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A.R. KANE: A visionary and still undersung group, whose run of cult releases from ‘86-’94 has influenced countless artists since. The first of two shows over the weekend reimagines the ecstatic blueprints laid down on tracks like 1992’s ‘A Love from Outer Space’ (after which Andrew Wetherall named his long-running clubnight) and short-lived 4AD supergroup M|A|A|R|S’s ‘Anitina’. “A.R. Kane live are a revelation” (The Wire, 2023).

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SEEFEEL: Formed in 1992 Seefeel’s revered output - for labels like Too Pure, as the first ‘guitar band’ signed to Warp and for Aphex Twin’s Rephlex imprint, along with founder-member Mark Clifford’s remix work for the Cocteau Twins - defined a whole new soundworld, traversing dubbed shoegaze, dark atmospherics and skeletal IDM. “Some of the absolute greatest music of the 1990s” (Simon Reynolds).

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BKV INDUSTRIAL: Bokeh Versions boss and long-time NTS resident with a bag of no-world psych, swamp dub, forest noises, cyberphunk dembow and ritual industrial.

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Strange Brew is 4 years old and we're glad to contribute with two special collaborations for the occasion. Kelan & Cruelle present 'Old Guns New Bullets', a warped and twisted renditions of 50's Rock and Roll and Country classics. Expect hats and stirrups. Accompanied by Shark in a Bathtub (LIVE - World Debut). Sh*t-hot duo of D-Ham and Gordon Apps from Avon Terror Corps presents their album 'Suspicious Package'. Classic era hip-hop reinventions rattled up against drum machine funk.

On Thursday 18th July, Music to Come will celebrate Women in Experimental Music inviting turntablist genius Mariam Rezaei for a series of workshops and performances.

From 10.30 to 12.30, Mariam will give a workshop to Music to Come affiliated musicians around destructured sound techniques, Then, in collaboration with Saffron, Music to Come invites Mariam Rezaei for an exclusive turntablist workshop open to Saffron affiliates and general public at the Cube from 13.30 to 15.30.

From 19.00 Music to Come and Strange Brew will offer to Bristol’s audience a night showcasing women working in experimental music; visual and sound artist Susu Laroche will open the event, followed by excellent Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello’s duo Permanent Draft and ending with a surely brilliant solo performance from Mariam Rezaei.

Depending on timing, there might be a final improv trio including Dali de Saint Paul, Valentina Magaletti and Mariam Rezaei ... SURPRISE!

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Music to Come and Bristol-based promoter SHFTD meet for an all-round gig>into>club event in the cells of The Island. Fully-stacked lineup of 8 acts for 9hrs of music.

Lineup: Rrose (dj), Rat Section (live), i-sha (dj), Birthmark (live), Copper Sounds (live), Kinlaw (dj), Kelan X Observer (dj).

New film from the Vincent Moon's collection - SOUND SEQUENCE - a sonic trip with Bristol based musician and singer Dali de Saint Paul.

Images by Vincent Moon, Sound by Lorenzo Cecchi, Filmed on the 19/04/23 at The Crofters Rights (Bristol- UK)
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Track 1 : improvisation on Spleen, a poem from Charles Beaudelaire in The Flowers of Evil

Tracks 2 + 3 : Free improvisation

Track 4 : Artaud de Harrga from the album Héroïques Animaux de La Misère (Avon Terror Corps)

YOKEL X D.Ham X Franco Franco present: Parable Of The Empty Cup... in concert. Book them in your town!
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Still pondering whether your cup is half full or empty?! Dreaming of a future less like the present?! To clear your mind and reconsider your hopes book now: Parable Of The Empty Cup... live!
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Brought to you by Music To Come and Bokeh Televisual®

For the fourth International Exchange between British Ceramics Biennial (BCB) and Indian Ceramics Triennale (ICT), Copper Sounds will be visiting India to exhibit their work and to explore the links between their sonic ceramics and the ghatam, a traditional Indian clay instrument.

They will be presenting their sonic installation 'Sequenced Ceramics' at Common Ground 2024, the second edition of the Indian Ceramics Triennale, their first international exhibition, which will take place
at Arthshila, New Delhi, from 19 January to 31 March 2024.

We're pleased to share that Jabu will be touring Italy in February, making stops in Rome, Bologna, Turin, and Milan for a series of six dates. During the tour, the band will be performing some songs from their latest release, 'Boiling Wells (Demos '19-'22)', now available on vinyl through Six Of Sword, as well as new and unreleased material.

Looking ahead, Jabu is open for bookings for the rest of 2024. If you're interested in hosting a performance, feel free to get in touch.

We are now officially working with three new artists: vocalist and improviser Dali de Saint Paul, DJ/producer YOKEL and industrial duo Harrga.

Music to Come and Sagome present a night of music at New River Studios London on the 8th of December.

Coming up dates for Jabu in Bristol, London and Berlin.

Mammoth Noods Radio takeover on the 6th of August!

Featuring guest mixes from Eleni Poulou & Drowned By Locals. Plus mixes from Music To Come members: Kelan, Cruelle, Viridian Ensemble, Jabu, i-sha, k-means.

Hosted by Kez Cochrane.

Bristol’s Music to Come coop invites friends and family for an evening of live sets and special collaborations. Featuring dystopian sound poet BIPED, heavyweight industrial-rap duo Kinlaw and Franco Franco, and an improvised performance between Dali de Saint Paul and Wojciech Rusin.

The programme kicks off late afternoon in the garden where percussionist Dan Johnson joins forces with Copper Sounds, along with Infinite Spirit Music and Avon Terror Corps on DJ duties.