ESYA//Annie-Claude Deschênes at Just Dropped In Records

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We are delighted to announce Esya and Annie-Claude Deschenes will be playing at Just Dropped In records on Saturday 24th October 2026, in association with Sink or Swim Promotions.

Ayse Hassan is a British composer, musician, singer and bass player, best known as co-founder and co-writer of the post-punk band Savages, whose debut album Silence Yourself and follow-up Adore Life received widespread critical recognition and award nominations.

Alongside this work, she co-founded the experimental electronic duo Kite Base with Kendra Frost and has collaborated on the project 180db with Fay Milton.

Under the solo alias ESYA, she explores industrial-leaning, beat-driven electronic music shaped by themes of identity, transformation and psychological tension.

Multidisciplinarity is an integral part of the creative process of Annie-Claude Deschênes, who continues her perpetual personal quest of uniting music and performance art by bending the pre-established conventions of stage presence. A key figure on the Montreal independent music scene for almost twenty years, she made her mark as a singer, musician, songwriter, performer and visual artist with Duchess Says and PyPy, two bands that are renowned as much for their electrifying performances as for their artistic sensibility. Her exploratory approach to staging and sound design takes a new direction with the genesis of this solo project: the urgency that characterizes her work remains, but frustration and aggression give way to introspection and vulnerability. Annie-Claude Deschênes explores and reinvents herself under her own name, driven by a constant need to create outside her comfort zone.

Tickets are on sale now…

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The Persistence of Sound//audio-visual installation

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Originally commissioned as part of the Sampling Sounds of The Future project, The Persistence of Sound is an audio-visual installation consisting of three short films. Each focusses on different aspects of Coventry: Transport & Industry, People & Communities and Buildings & Environment.

The pieces are designed to be played alongside each other to create a sense of interaction. Soundtracks are generated from samples and field recordings collected from around Coventry with a theme to explore and predict the future sounds of the City. The project utilised a variety of vintage and modern equipment and methods, including sampling, tape loops, found sounds, field recordings, processing and a range of electronic instruments and effects.

Natsu are Rhiannon Bigham (Visual Sequence) & Ian Campbell (S-AMM), collaborative sound design artists based at Eastern Telephone Works, Coventry.

The City Is Full Of Noises//Elektro-Magnetika

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The City Is Full Of Noises//Elektro-Magnetika//MiMo X CFON

Rick Holt (Frequency Central) and Ian C (Synthcurious/s-amm) will be at The Herbert Art Gallery on Sunday 27th August from 12 noon for a tape based event using old technology.

Inspired by sonic pioneers like the Radiophonic Workshop, they will be exploring the use of magnetic tape and reel to reel tape recorders.

Link to event

Tim Seeley//Death to us All

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Tim Seeley will be playing live at the London Road Cemetery this Saturday.

Death to Us All – Is a sonic performance in the mortuary chapel. It will be a set of reflective films and music performances with no start or end. The listeners are invited to share a space that will be filled with sonic and visual media throughout the day. 

The music is a mix of recordings and live performance using modular synthesiser, acoustic piano, voice (Martin Green) and electronics. The films will be a set of non linear visual ideas relating to the basic elements and simplicity.

This is a reflection of what it is to just be here and now without modernity and its projected needs. A conversation with AI responses about life, the soul and death. A mix of Jung and other philosophies and theologies associated with us all and the soul.

FREE | Drop in
This event is free of charge and not ticketed.

Event link

CFON//Synthmeet//Manufacturers…

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List of manufacturers confirmed for the Synthmeet next Sunday…

Frequency Central – Eurorack, MU, Pedals, Kits…

Frequency Central

Pusherman – Eurorack, 4U, Synths, PCB’s, Panels, Components, Kits…

Pusherman

Future Sound Systems – Eurorack, Synths, 900 Series, parts…

Future Sound Systems

Beepboop Electronics Workshop – Eurorack, Contact mics, Accessories…

Beepboop

Modular Perfection – High quality modular synth cases.

Modular Perfection

CFON//Coventry synth meet 26/03/23

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Synth meet in Coventry on Sunday the 26th March 2023. This is part of The City is Full of Noises event running that weekend at The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum.

  • Synth meet – bring a synth and get involved.
  • Live demos – throughout the day.
  • Makers market – a number of top manufacturers have confirmed. So some along and try before you buy, or just look at what’s new and available.
  • Mechanical modular – Leon Trimble and The Gravity Synth.


To book a table for the synth meet contact thecityisfullofnoises@gmail.com or synthcurious@yahoo.com
Not essential, you can come along on the day, but recommended if you’ll need a bit more space.

The City Is Full Of Noises//Delia Derbyshire Film Screenings

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8 March 2023 12.00pm – 3.00pm

Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day with a look back at the ground-breaking work of Delia Derbyshire, the Coventry-born electronic music pioneer who inspired The City is Full of Noises Festival.

In honour of the occasion, we’ll be screening Kara Blake’s 2009 documentary The Delian Mode and The White Noise: An Audio Feature in Stereophonic Hell, produced for Delia Derbyshire Day 2019. 

THE DELIAN MODE (2009)

Taking its name from a piece of incidental music written by Derbyshire in the 1960s, The Delian Mode is an award-winning, experimental film profiling the pioneering Coventry composer Delia Derbyshire, who is now best remembered for her work on the Doctor Who theme tune. Created in the spirit of Delia’s unique approach to audio creation and manipulation, Blake’s 25-minute short illuminates her soundscapes on screen while paying tribute to a woman whose work has influenced electronic musicians for decades.

The film features interviews with Brian Hodgson and Dick Mills of the now defunct BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the founder of Electronic Music Studios Peter Zinovieff, musicians Peter Kember (Sonic Boom), Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Ann Shenton (Add N to X) as well as other friends and colleagues of Delia.

THE WHITE NOISE: AN AUDIO FEATURE IN STEREOPHONIC HELL (2019)

The White Noise: An Audio Feature in Stereophonic Hell is a collage of audio arranged and edited by David Butler with video by Andrea Pazos produced for Delia Derbyshire Day 2019, which honoured the 50th anniversary of An Electric Storm by White Noise (Island Records, 1969). The 23-minute film is made in the spirit of the four Inventions for Radio, a collaboration between Delia Derbyshire and the dramatist Barry Bermange. Using sounds and voices, the illustrates the story of White Noise’s album – how it came to be made, its distinctive qualities, cultural significance and ongoing influence on artists today.

All the voices were recorded from life and arranged in a setting of radiophonic sound in twelve movements. Drawing on music and sound design by Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus from the Kaleidophon years when An Electric Storm was made and released, the feature includes interviews with Ian Campbell, Chris Carter, Ian Heliwell, Suzy Mangion, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Adrian Utley, Martyn Ware and Mandy Wigby as well as an original arrangement and performance of ‘Firebird’ by Morris Clarke.

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