Landing on the moon and travelling through space remain awe-inspiring achievements, and are reflected here in experimental films, offbeat documentaries, vintage adverts and movie trailers. From Gemini and Apollo missions with electronic soundtracks, to space oddities and animations, prepare for lift off as Synch Pulse blasts its way across a galaxy of unusual and rarely seen shorts.

Debut UK show from Beirut-based duo Snakeskin, fresh off the release of their acclaimed sophomore album ‘They Kept Our Photographs’ via London’s Mais Um.

Hey everyone , we mean you! Feel the need to let loose, shake it out and party ?

Come and dance together with your community to the best selection of DJ’s in town. Rose Hill Dance Party is our new inclusive friendly night for moving to !

Comedy PowerPoint presentations from Chris Parkinson and Ben Bailey, taking a nerdy deep dive into the minutiae of politics and pop culture.

Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.

Experimental night with David Sappa from London and two local artists: J. Josephine and Van Stonholdt.

Part 1 of 8 || Start the weekend at our Mehfil – e – Rose Hill experience with four distinct performances from seven artists, from the north to the south of South Asia.

Part of Brighton Festival 2025

Part 2 of 8 || You are invited to come and get to know some of the fundamentals of South Asian raag melody and rhythms. You will learn about melody, structure, form and mood pertinent to individual raagas.

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Part 3 of 8 || Start the evening gently with a double bill performance by renowned 'Khayal' vocalist Prabhat Rao, who will be accompanied by Himmet Bahra on tabla. Jonathan Meyer, UK leading sitarist will perform a raga to the mood of the early evening. A sensitive and masterful expression of sitar by Jonathan, accompanied by the artful Denis Kucherov. Expect fabulous melodic improvisation by Jonathan and Denis’ mastery of tabla.

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Part 4 of 8 || Get immersed as we go into the late evening with two distinct performances of artful South Asian sounds, led by two British women of Bangladeshi origin.

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Part 6 of 8 || Be gently invited into the sun with the bansuri, bamboo flute of south Asia. A morning’s programme of bansuri, veena, sitar and sarod, tabla and mridangam – with accomplished artists of diverse backgrounds offering you a delightful way to start your day.

Part of 8 Mehfil events taking place at The Rose Hill for Brighton Festival 2025.
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Part 7 of 8 || Come and learn from leading exponent of Khayal training in the UK. Prabhat Rao will show you the fundamentals of khayal / ‘imagination’ singing - one of the main elements of vocal tradition south Asian musical tradition.

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Part 8 OF 8 || Experience a true ‘Mehfil’ - a purposefully small intimate setting for South Asian classical music - where a musician and their audience aim to reach the ‘rasa’ – a state of engagement when they become ‘one’ in emotion and intent. Performance and jam session with Mehfil – e – Rose Hill artists: Guiliano Modarelli and friends 

Since winning NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2016, violinist, singer and songwriter Gaelynn Lea has captivated audiences with her haunting original songs and new takes on traditional fiddle tunes.

Comedy PowerPoint presentations from Chris Parkinson and Ben Bailey, taking a nerdy deep dive into the minutiae of politics and pop culture.

Experimental film and video provides a platform to play with and reorder both picture and sound, by using fragments of pre-existing material to generate new combinations and meanings. Found footage from the amateur or commercial world is repurposed and reimagined, and regular soundtrack conventions are disrupted. This Synch Pulse will focus on a range of short films which recycle existing film and video, and explore audiovisual cut-ups and collage.

 Two duos from well-seasoned improvisors visiting from London and Hastings: sax and cello, and electronics and cello.

Cult film programmers Glue Gun present one of the most idiosyncratic and visually stunning American horror films of the 1970s.

In this edition of the Listen Club, Joseph will include recordings from his recent album "Sonic Hauntings in a Big House" released in December 2024 on Irish sound art label, Farpoint Recordings. As a starting point for this investigation, the curation will then ripple outwards as we listen to its circles of influence.

Edith WeUtonga is a groundbreaking bassist, mbira player, singer, and songwriter from Zimbabwe. Leading her band, Utonga, she delivers an authentically Zimbabwean sound infused with Jiti, Chimurenga, Shona folk, and global music flavours like Rhumba, Reggae, Calypso, and Jazz. She has twice been nominated for and won the Best Female Musician at Zimbabwe’s premier NAMA Awards, as well as the Zimbabwe Music Awards.

Celebrate the start of summer! Exchange your pre loved party clothes for a new (ish) outfitGet yourself some amazing new clothes while saying 'no thanks' to fast fashion. Join us for a Party Clothes Swap at The Rose Hill with Sew Fabulous and Brighton Fashion Collective.

Hailed as “the most danceable Latin band on the South coast”, Pollito Boogaloo has its roots in Colombian Cumbia, Vallanato, Salsa and a host of Latin American Styles.

Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation. Put your name down when you enter, and then 4 names are picked out of a hat at random, and that quartet has 10 minutes to improvise together.

Two trios featuring renowned players from Brighton's free music scene.

A free event showcasing work from a day long residency with students from the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance London

Brighton's unique night for performance makers of all disciplines to share work in progress and connect with each other

ERIC CHENAUX is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter, singer and sound sculptor. He has released seven solo albums of experimental song on the Montréal-based imprint Constellation. “This guys sounds like nothing else we had heard before - his vocals sound as sweet and perfect as Chet Baker mixed with Nick Drake and a bit of beloved Stevie - and a whoozy groovy guitar that draws you into a spellbinding deep listening experience!”

Eva Lunny is a London/Brighton based harpist, inspired by ambient greats such as Brian Eno, Laraaji and Aphex Twin, as well as jazz harpists Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. Eva uses drones, looping, layering and improvisation to build soundscapes and bring audience members on an introspective journey, infusing neo-classical melodies with modern electronic production techniques.

An evening of invocatory sound and song to herald the solstice.

Lava Elastic is the UK's first openly neurodiverse comedy & poetry night. Hosted by it's founder, late diagnosed performer (Autism/ADHD) Sarah Saeed expect a warm and welcoming night of hilarity!

Experience the soul of the Afro Colombian bullerengue tradition as master Colombian percussionist and vocalist Álvaro Llerena Martínez joins forces with London-based collective Akolá Tambó for an extraordinary show

Cult film programmers Glue Gun present a classic of 60s psychotronic cinema. An uncanny masterpiece of low-budget horror, Carnival of Souls' dreamlike atmosphere and dark Americana prefigure the work of directors like David Lynch.

Appearing in avant-garde short films far less often than in commercial mainstream cinema, there are nonetheless various examples of androids in offbeat documentaries and animations backed by experimental electronic sounds. For this Synch Pulse the focus will be on a mix of vintage and contemporary shorts where robots and cyborgs take centre stage.

Electric Jalaba explore the entrancing overlap between electronic dance music and traditional Moroccan gnawa with Lead singer Simo Lagnawi at the helm.

A catalyst in London’s experimental scene and on a sell out roll for two years, From the Lips to the Moon has been at the forefront of a growing movement where music and poetry collide. Their debut Brighton performance at the Rose Hill will see Live-electronic music wizard Pouya Ehsaei and voice-shifting performer-writer Tara Fatehi joined by some of Brighton's finest musicians and poets. Full line up TBA.

Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation. Put your name down when you enter, and then 4 names are picked out of a hat at random, and that quartet has 10 minutes to improvise together.

Join us to celebrate the release of 'Monte Carlo' the self-titled album by Monte Carlo, aka Matthew Collins, aka Grunder, which is being released on 10th July 2025 on In Suspended Animation Records.

Glue Gun presents a rare screening of this cult 70s horror. Following her stay in a mental health facility, Jessica and her husband move to an isolated farmhouse in rural Connecticut in order to help her ‘get better.’ But their new life is threatened…

An exciting night of poetry readings from: Verity Spott, Kat Addis, Sabeen Chaudhry, James Goodwin and Joseph Minden.

Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.

One of the original torch-bearers for the revitalized young British jazz scene, Led Bib released their twelth album in August this year. Previous Mercury Prize nominees and this newly down sized four-piece pride themselves on side-stepping convention with incendiary results, tearing apart the jazz world with their avant-jazz-euphoric-rock explosions of improvisation.

With her Right Here, Right Now Quartet Charlotte Keeffe enables raw musical ingredients and individual expressions to come together and flow. She is captivated by trumpeters like Jaimie Branch, Peter Evans, Tomasz Stańko, Nate Wooley and Lester Bowie, and inspired by abstract painters – referring to her horns as ‘Sound Brushes’.