Safehouse Open Session
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
Trio Sowari is an English electronics specialist, a Swiss/French saxophonist and a German percussionist, all of them play an important role in the European contemporary experimental music scene.
In line with their rich history of genre-bending and melding, Chinabot presents an evening of enthralling and diverse electronic music from Asia. Combining live sets from Jaeho Hwang (South Korea), Ayankoko (Laos), Neo Geodesia (Cambodia)
Ben and Chris have discovered the internet and now they can’t stop. Join them for a whimsical tour of pop culture’s lesser-known niches as they brain-dump their gratuitous "research" in a series of hilarious PowerPoint lectures, with different bizarro topics each night.
Stacked saxophones, electronic beats and bars that have more than four beats in them. Fans of Comet is Coming, Charles Mingus and Aphex Twin will want to wrap their ears around this new solo project from Brighton based Leroy Horns.
The UK launch of Keston Sutherland's new poetry collection Meditations, published by The Last Books.
Showcase of experimental and electronic sounds from Digital Music & Sound Arts students at the University of Brighton.
Ben and Chris have discovered the internet and now they can’t stop. Join them for a whimsical tour of pop culture’s lesser-known niches as they brain-dump their gratuitous "research" in a series of hilarious PowerPoint lectures, with different bizarro topics each night.
Through archive footage, music, live story-telling and open discussion, join Toad Lickers Collective to examine alternative May Day traditions and the historical significance of the Maypole.
In this edition of Listen Club, radio artist Ed Baxter will play a selection of his sound works to bring us impossibly close to far away beings…. sounds mysterious doesn’t it? come to listen and find out more!
Network your face dry ! The Rose Hill + Ceremonial Laptop bring you two floors showcasing over 5000 up and coming acts. Live music, DJ's and performances + more .
Open Mic for electronic musicians. If you are into electronic music or are on the experimental side of things, come down and perform!
Singer, experimental composer and researcher of the Latin American voice, Argentina's Soema Montenegro mixes the sounds and images of the jungle and mountain landscapes with her original poetry, creating a new and unique voice in the current South American music scene.
Bristol based collectives Beanpig Puppets & Liquid Library join together to bring you a noisy puppet show with live sound and movement.
Electric Blue presents Jane Campions 'In The Cut' a post 9/11 psychological thriller, alongside a series of feminist paranoia infused shorts.
Plastics, electronics, steam engines, a shipyard, and a coal fired power station, all feature in a programme of short films highlighting the industrialized and technological world. Electronic music soundscapes illustrate an age of heavy machinery and industrial processes.
Ceremonial Laptop presents a night of plant-based music to celebrate the spring. "Edible and toxic electro sounds from the natural world", featuring Helen Anahita Wilson and Rosie Carr.
Join 1BTN DJs Nick Subtle and Chicha Morada for a tropical trip through Afro, Latin, Funk, Soul and Disco Grooves with the help of psychedelic visuals by Benedict Sheehan.
What is the relationship between sound and social justice? The Sonic Rebellions network brings activists, academics, and artists together to explore this question. This event will launch their exciting new book – expect creative explorations of how we are or can become sonic rebels.
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
A night of small acts: short stories, music, dance, song, readings and performance, which through their ordinariness or extra-ordinariness gesture towards a freer, more liberated, alternative or utopian way of life – what in a small way we might speak of as revolutionary.
Earlier last year, Séance put on a really special vibey night of other worldly experimental, & ritualistic music and we are really happy they are back - this time with an all dayer event!
A unique opportunity to see incredible flamenco artists from Spain.
Improv veteran Steve Beresford brings his uniquely playful style to this trio with Faradena Afifi on strings and Paul Khimasia Morgan conjuring electronic noises out of a guitar body. The trio have a new CD coming out on Discus Records which will be available at the gig.
Musical collaborators for the past decade, Paul Jones and Stephen Black are together known as the woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat-wearing Group Listening. Piano and Clarinet players, composers and artist duo!
A new community party inspired by the 1970s’ ‘utopian’ dance scene including David Mancuso’s The Loft, the Paradise Garage and the Gallery. Love is Everywhere’s parties aim to offer an experience of collective joy that celebrates community and solidarity on the dancefloor. Expect sultry disco divas, afrobeat, euphoric house, funk, soul, balearic, balloons, disco balls, apricots, bubbles, ‘lofting’ and love.
An evening of readings undertaken by emergent, Brighton-based, poets, thereafter ascending to a couple of very salutary DJ mixes.
Experimental-folk string duo Fran & Flora return to The Rose Hill to celebrate the release of their 2nd album, Precious Collection.
Subcutaneous Fat Promotions Presents UNWANTED ATTENTION IX. An evening of experimental soundscapes, noise, sonic exploration and static with live visuals.
Jinn Records invites uber talented Ghanaian poet Mr Poetivist to collaborate, work in residence and perform at The Rose HIll. Don’t miss their debut show fresh from their residency here!
The Brilliant La Horla Collective are back again to takeover every corner of The Rose Hill with stalls of art, weird crafts, visuals and live music.
Patchworks brings you an afternoon and evening of locally sourced premium electronic music to celebrate the launch of their compilation and fanzine Metronomic Underground.
We are very excited to present Eve Maret for the first time in the UK! Eve employs a wide array of electronic media and techniques in her various disciplines, exploring the possibilities of personal and communal healing through creative action.
Hive Mind Records invites you to an evening of wonky fifth-dimension exotica and aquatic swamp bass with bleeding-edge mondo pranksters from Milan, Babau.
Ustad Noor Bakhsh is an 80-year-old traditional musician hailing from Pakistan’s remote Balochistan region and plays an unusual instrument with keys the locals call a "Benju", originally a musical toy from Japan called taishōgoto that had been brought to Pakistan by sailors. His highly spiritual and uplifting sets are currently enchanting audiences all across Europe. He recently played at top festivals on the continent, like Le Guess Who? or Roskilde and sold out Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on his first ever UK appearance in March.
Award-winning company ThirdSpace Theatre (formerly Windmill Young Actors) presents a startling new version of the classic Shakespearean tale, with surprises awaiting around every dimly lit corner.
New York-based Marija Kovačević has released three volumes of her Music for Broken Violins project, and has a release out on the Brighton-based Chocolate Monk label. CRUSH!!! are an improv marvel, with Sonic Pleasure playing masonry and metal tools, Mark Browne on sax and rubber chickens, and new member Paul Twine on guitar.
Stepping back onto stage with a new live set-up to unveil tracks from her acclaimed album alongside new unreleased gems, combining technology and soulful melodies with electronics and heartfelt expression.
Come and celebrate the launch of ChopChop's second album!
Celebrating 50 years of Jimmy Bullet! Brilliant local musician and character will play alongside his friends old and new. Expect many special guests :)
Composer, percussionist and instrument-maker Limpe Fuchs makes a visit from her native Germany to improvise piano set against the sounds of rainfall. Loup Uperto may be familiar to Rose Hill regulars - he plays with the incredible French 4-piece Bégayer, and will bring to this solo show some similar magic: ancient French folk songs, bagpipes honed out of balloons and plastic bottles, transister radios and much more. Plus vibes and guitar boy explorations from Adam Bushell and Paul Khimasia Morgan.
Veteran drummer Eddie Prévost was a founding member of AMM in the mid-1960s and has continued on a long journey exploring improvised music since then. Here he is joined by Swiss trumpeter Silvan Schmid and UK bassist Tom Wheatley.
Explosive trio colliding sour scatter-skronk with sludgy doom inspired riffs, wild improvisation and wonky rhythmic compositions.
Safehouse presents a special night of improvisation, free Jazz and contemporary music featuring Japanese pianist Yoko Miura.
John Butcher, known for conjuring extraordinary harmonics from the saxophone, in a trio with multi-instrumentalists Phil Durrant and Mark Wastell.
Comics creator Adam Reeves presents the first issue in his comic book series about doomed Jamaican ska trombonist Don Drummond, a founder member of '60s ska giants the Skatalites. Incorporating short films and comic art, Adam will discuss his journey into the world of comics production, with Q&A and book signing, followed by a DJ set from Chichester's Ska-Beat-Soul.
Scratch|Meet, Brighton's unique night for performance makers of all disciplines to share work in progress.
Hill Collective launch their experimental jazz album "Tonal Prophecy". Vinyls and zines available on the night.
Jali Bakary is the grandson and son, respectively, of the legendary Gambian kora players Alhaji Bai Konte (who helped to bring kora music to the wider world with his iconic album Kora Melodies From the Republic of the Gambia, West Africa in 1973) and Dembo Konte. As Banning Eyre has put it, “it is difficult to overstate the regal, nearly divine, stature” of the Konte family in the echelons of West African music.
Experimental silent disco? Light installation? Live performance? possibly all these things and more….An opportunity to come and see some exciting new work!
A mind-boggling journey into the psychedelic realms of experimental film and video, with a programme of shorts featuring clashing colours, distorted images, hypnotic sounds, eye-popping visuals, video feedback, and a platoon of British army soldiers on LSD.
Texture is a new multi-disciplinary performance exploring texture, nature & psychedelia. Featuring harpist Reanna Valentine, poet Sekinue and artist / musician Aoife. A musical and visual journey combining live music, painting and installation.
Immersive, blissful music... liquid light show projections... art materials available.
Come join us for this monthly listening session, programming unusual sound-works, including music, from the present and the past curated by Sound Art Brighton. Guest speaker : philosopher and artist Andrés Saenz de Sicilia.
Join us for a cosy screening of Anna Hints's award-winning documentary Smoke Sauna Sisterhood.
Palestinian oud master and singer Saied Silbak joins forces with British singer/songwriter and composer Ana Silvera. Together they connect the Maqams and intricate melodies of Arabic song, and Ladino music, carried by Iberian Jews as they fled the Inquisition, all elegantly reimagined with a twist.
David Preston is an acclaimed London-based guitarist & composer, Elliot Galvin, member of Mercury-nominated band Dinosaur, and the Mercury-nominated drummer & composer Sebastian Rochford (Sons of Kemet, Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear).
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
Showcasing a selection of short films to the theme of hope.
Yes! All us musicians, DJ's and artists who run the rose hill are throwing you are party! Expect live music, DJ sets and surprises feat. Bunty, Mafu, Chicha Morada, Jinn Records, DJ Dawney and more. From Brazilian tunes to Chicago footwork, our favourite hip hop tunes and electronic joy to African dance music and rare gems from all around the globe.
Daisy Rickman & Her Band perform the music from her new Record 'Howl'. This album is a homage to the Sun, the Stars, & explorations of the cycles both within ourselves & throughout the turning wheel of the year.
Synch Pulse No. 4 - Direct animation. A monthly night of experimental short films with a connecting theme, featuring electronic music soundtracks. Programmed and presented by artist-filmmaker Ian Helliwell
Brighton Folk choir is a community choir specialising in the songs of the rituals and customs of the turning year. We sing bespoke arrangements in full four-part harmony. Come join in the sessions!
A special afternoon of Yiddish songs guided by the cultural activist, performer, and educator - Polina Shephard!
“Like riding an electronica AV high speed train through a dystopian future” DJ Mag Editor Carl Loban’s label Out Yer Box present local band Third Bloom and sets from label DJ’s.
OBTRAM 3 is a new trio put together by Anthony Moore, who was a founding member of the German/English avant-pop group Slapp Happy, and a collaborator with Henry Cow, This Heat and Pink Floyd.
Electric Blue Cinema screen ‘Mikey and Nicky’ 1976 Dir. Elaine May
Brighton Folk choir is a community choir specialising in the songs of the rituals and customs of the turning year. We sing bespoke arrangements in full four-part harmony. Come join in the sessions!
An afternoon with the local Ukrainian community, sharing music and friendship with the wider Brighton and Hove community. Come and enjoy the warmth, songs and good company! Children very welcome.
This is going to be special! Mohammed is a Syrian/Kurdish singer and Bouzouki player whose brand of ecstatic music takes elements from Middle Eastern and North African music to create an atmosphere of joy, love and happiness. Plus support from excellent local Cuban artist Adriana Lord
Open Mic for electronic musicians. If you are into electronic music or are on the experimental side of things, come down and perform!
Listen Club #11, curated by Olivia Louvel on the theme of tectonic plates and the shifting of sea, land and vision. She will play tracks from her latest release, doggerLANDscape and from Acoustic Cameras, a project which invites sound artists to use the real-time webcams located in various places around the world, in this instance, Iceland.
A celebration of women & gender minority filmmakers and narratives showcasing the New Voices that are creating work in the UK.
Brighton Folk choir is a community choir specialising in the songs of the rituals and customs of the turning year. We sing bespoke arrangements in full four-part harmony. Come join in the sessions!