Threshold: (Un)naturally

Natural: voice, breath, tape recorder, birdsong, dawn chorus, trees, insects hum, river, a creaking door, footsteps through mud, banging, scraping, crushing cardboard, choirs, flutes, lutes, cellos, laughter.

Unnatural: mutilated sine waves, edited, distorted and compressed, repeated, extended, the transformed or transforming, the artificial, the celestial, undead, robotic, mermaids and hags, sampled screams.

In experimental soundscapes, the rooted vulnerability of ‘natural’ meets the warp of ‘unnatural’. This is the theme Pasta Now affiliated artists – curated by Rosey Morwenna, Rowan Campbell and Pam Rose Cott – will be exploring for the second edition of Threshold.

Four artists and ensembles from Wales will use the night to test methods, collaborate and intersect.

All are welcome: join us and stay afterwards to peruse pedal boards and meet the artists.

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About the artists

Pasta Now began as a listening group for experimental music, inspired by Fanny Chiarello’s book Basta Now: Women, Trans and Non-binary in Experimental Music (with additional pasta for good measure). The group has been created to be a supportive and informal space for women, trans and non-binary people to come together and listen to the extensive catalogue of experimental music created by women, trans and non-binary artists that can often be sidelined or overlooked.

Rowan Campbell is an activist and organiser by day, and a DIY art and weird music enjoyer by night. Sometimes these worlds collide in the form of zine-making workshops or the recent Pasta Now listening group events, which have aimed to foster an inclusive space for marginalised genders to explore and enjoy experimental music.

Rosey Morwenna is interested in all forms of access to music; she currently runs Tŷ Cerdd’s Bwthyn Sonig scheme, creating development pathways for learning disabled musicians, and works in Bristol running a grassroots music fund. She also works as an occasional sound designer for dance, theatre and animation.

Pam Rose Cott is a performance artist and vocalist combining experimental sound, writing and performance. Part of Pasta Now, a collective of women, trans and non-binary people delving into experimental sound. She also works with textiles, embroidery and weaving and their historical significance as a matrilineal art form.