Lichon is the music project of Anisa Arslanagic (string player for Beth Gibbons, Bonobo, Portico Quartet, Floating Points) and composer/multi-instrumentalist Alex H Duncan (interviews given for Electronic Sound, Lauren Laverne, Elizabeth Alker).

Inspired by the symbiotic relationship that forms lichen, their music is created with midi data collected from the environment - field recordings and the biodata of plants, fungi and lichen. These soundscapes are accompanied by mostly improvised responses on violin, viola, guitar, live electronics and discarded 80s musical junk.

Moroccan gnawa, haunting guembri melodies and krar riffs - with shoots of house and electronica and krautrock grooves

Ever since putting a hydrophone into his mouth (followed by some popping candy and a tuning fork) Al Strachan has nurtured an interest in how the human body can be utilised by musicians and sound artists. For Listen Club #27 he will delve into the early history of this practice, with artists incorporating heart beats, digestive gurgles and more into their sonic adventures.

An informal gathering for performance makers to share new ideas in front of a live audience, the night showcases performance of all kinds and might include theatre, spoken word/poetry, comedy, dance, music, film, performance games, sounds - and more.

Brighton EMOM brings you open mic for electronic and experimental musicians, plus 3 headline acts tbc. get in touch if you are interested in performing, either via Instagram @Brighton_EMOM, or email us at BrightonEmom@gmail.com.

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.

Synch Pulse returns to guide the viewer on a strange journey into a beguiling world of experimental short films, featuring a weird and wonderful selection of enigmatic shorts from the past and present. Taking in the arcane and unclassifiable, this month's theme is a natural fit for avant-garde movies, and the programme will include animations, offbeat documentaries, and vintage adverts and trailers, to accompany some uncanny experimental creations.

"Hybrid of out-of-time, out-of-place psychedelia and vintage electronica..." Portuguese group influenced by English acid folk, Brazilian Tropicália and contemporary electronica.

Kicking off the second year of Mehfil programming of south Asian classical raag music at The Rose Hill: a double bill of Khayal vocalist, Mandar Phatak and carnatic violinist, Aparna Raguraman - accompanied on tabla by Junaid Ali. Committed to offering quality music from South Asia, The Mehfil Space is delighted to bring you three performers who will delight and inspire you.

This event by The Mehfil Space @mehfilspace, set up by local curator Atiya Gourlay, is collaborating with the Brighton community arts venue, The Rose Hill and Zeroclassikal.

Bob Drake (solo) with support from Crayola Lectern (with Al Strachan on cornet, organs and effects and Damo Waters on percussion and synth)

Darkroom festival presents a dynamic selection of experimental and documentary film and video art. Originally created as a fringe event for Deptford X, over the years it has evolved into a multidisciplinary event focusing on experimental and documentary film and video art.

Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation - come down and test things out, and hear what others are creating.

A relaxed early music open mic and jam session led by Emily Baines

The MEMLNauts are exploring new ways to be creative with machine learning, with impish algorithms powering freshly designed instruments . Expect fractious brass, wayward woodwind, unruly vocal processing, and indecorous string feedback.

An evening of six formations composed by Gus Garside, Annie Kerr and Andrew Greaves performed by 14 great musicians.

Join The Sandpit Collective and the University of Sussex under the Hunter’s full moon for Black Medusa (2021), a genre-defying feminist noir set in post-revolutionary Tunis.

A haunting portrait of silence, vengeance and fractured femininity, the film follows Nada, a mute office worker by day and femme fatale by night, as she moves through a dystopian cityscape, carrying out acts of brutal retribution.

After the screening, stay for Dance the Pain Away, a ritual of release with an all-Tunisian music mix. Let rhythm, breath and movement help you process the intensity of the film in shared defiance.

Part of Aswaat / Voices, a season exploring feminist and postcolonial cinema from the Maghreb, presented by the Other Asias film programme.

The Brighton launch of Rosy Carrick's new poetry collection; featuring tarot readings, a tattoo parlour, aphrodisiacs, polaroid kiss cams and more, expect an immersive, theatrical, music-filled night of madness, memory, hope, lust and – above all – love.

Absolutely brilliant!’ Dawn French

Magz Hall will play a selection of radio art works she has produced for installations over the last few years investigating air pollution, and will be discuss her practice and thoughts on expanded radio and sound art.

Mandy Sweats, surrealist Nightmare of 1000 Faces / Brighton Based Cabaret Performer, writer and Mask Maker, brings their debut full length show to the Rosehill Tavern for two performances.

“Superbly charismatic fiddle playing & once-heard-never-forgotten singing” KLOF Magazine. Liverpudlian troubadour plays a joyful, energetic and thoroughly unique take on trad fiddle music - surreal songwriting, virtuosic violin & brilliant banter, all accompanied by Hannah Moule on cello & Michael Paul Metcalf on drums, what a line up!!

Brighton Early Music Festival's annual BREMF Clubnight at The Rose Hill. Short sets of music from the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods, performed by ensembles who are part of the Festival's Emerging Artists scheme.

They are back! For lovers of Flamenco music, this is the real deal - unmissable masters of their craft! Trio of guitar, percussion & piano .Also these shows sell out quick so get innnnn…

Experimental film night compiled and presented by Ian Helliwell, screening alternative and unusual shorts based around a specific theme - this month focussing on railways.

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’.

Brilliant contemporary Jazz & more string Trio present their new boundary pushing album . “adventurous improvisers… their group interplay is imaginative and engaging” - Peter Edwards, Nu Civilisation Orchestra Director ****

The brilliant Turntablist, sound artist & musician Furrowed will embark on a deep exploration of his new instrument ( modified tunrtables) featuring multi collaborations and two back to back shows in one week! From piano to tape loops, vocalists to scratch DJ, synth fantasies to cello magic and a really epic drummer.

During the final night of his residency, sound-tattooing record-maker in residence, Furrowed will be performing new work exploring collaboration with Bunty (vocals /FX), Rival Self (Turntables), Alexander Painter (cello/sax/FX) and FROST (Drums).

This Guy Fawkes week, while fireworks echo stories of revolt, join The Sandpit Collective and the University of Sussex for a different kind of resistance. We present Silences of the Palace (1994), Moufida Tlatli’s groundbreaking feminist masterpiece exploring memory, trauma, and voice in postcolonial Tunisia.

Alia returns to the palace where her mother once worked as a concubine, uncovering layers of gendered violence and colonial control. In this haunting space, silence becomes a form of survival, and a legacy passed down.

After the screening, stay for Move the Silence, a gathering with North African music selections that invite you to reflect and move. Through rhythm and conversation, we explore the space between silence and voice, grief and resilience.

Part of Aswaat / Voices, a season exploring feminist and postcolonial cinema from the Maghreb, presented by the Other Asias film programme.

Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation - come down and test things out, and hear what others are creating.

ChopChop's music has been described as “veering from super-bumping agit-funk to angular jazz-punk and beyond", and comparisons have been drawn with Talking Heads and No Wave bands. They've had tracks played on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, played festivals such as Supernormal and Acid Horse, and have been described by 6 Music DJ Tom Robinson as “a fantastic life affirming noise… a wildly original quintet from Brighton”.

They are joined by Fuck You and Your A-Sides - "unauthorised feminist lo-fi indie pop from Brighton - surreal, forceful and at times deeply upsetting".

Chris Cutler (Henry Cow, Pere Ubu, Gong) explores the history of mechanical music - music composed for and enacted solely by mechanical devices, a practice can be dated back to at least ninth century Mesopotamia. Listen Club 29 starts from the point where machines began to be used to exceed human possibilities, adding an inhuman dimension to the production of musical sound.

Contemporary improvised dance and music from Japan and the UK

Latvian folk songs and album launch of Montague Armstrong LP 'Modern Classics' in association with Dimple Discs

Slovenian 'imaginary folk' trio Širom make epic and transportive music powered by acoustic and often handmade instruments. Their expansive compositions echo the borderless, collective spirit of groups like Don Cherry's Organic Music Society and Art Ensemble of Chicago.

"Episodic, dreamlike voyages" - The Guardian

Firelight Trio play European folk music that is evocative, inventive, and endlessly exciting. Driving fiddle and gorgeous nyckelharpa meet deep accordion grooves in a rich tapestry of lively Swedish polskas and Scottish reels, lilting French waltzes, toe-tapping klezmer, dazzling original tunes and more.

“Like all the best punk, Avalanche Kaito's music is confrontational and abrasive, but also playful and with a great sense of fun.” Songlines

Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation - come down and test things out, and hear what others are creating.

Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation - come down and test things out, and hear what others are creating.

Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation - come down and test things out, and hear what others are creating.