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About 'push.to.play'

'push.to.play' is a celebration of the creative community at the University of Sussex, curated by student collective PATCH.

In the auditorium, experience an explosive live display of experimental music, visuals and performance from students and alumni, featuring unruly sets from sound artist and producer Furrowed and electronic duo Noise Peddler.

In the Café Bar, we invite you to a DIY open-mixer sandbox where you can play with some of the gear featured in the show.

We aim for this pilot event to provide a platform to meet like-minded people and encourage collaboration with others. We want participants to feel part of a community and experience what can be achieved through curiosity and play.

This inaugural event held at ACCA, a dynamic creative arts space here on the University of Sussex campus, is designed for everyone to engage at some level. University of Sussex students, staff and alumni are encouraged to join us to experiment, try something new and come away feeling inspired and motivated by their own creative potential.

About PATCH

PATCH is a growing collective committed to producing an event that excites and inspires curiously inclined individuals. They are particularly focused on creating a space for students to interact with creative technology and express enthusiasm for how we can push the boundaries of live performance.

About Furrowed

Furrowed (Dylan Beattie) is a sound artist and producer making weird records and circuit-bending record cutting tools into musical instruments. Often starting with a blank disc, sound is inscribed live as evolving record grooves are performed by multiple pickups. As part of his unique approach, using a handheld device, he ‘tattoos’ sound directly to surfaces creating unexpected sonic outcomes involving locked grooves and sound fragments. His sonic palette ranges from electronic and melodic tones, environmental sounds, to hypnotic and cross-rhythms, analogue surface glitches and other process artefacts. Expect lo-fi looping, clicks, pops and crunch as records are made, celebrated and destroyed.

About Noise Peddler

Noise Peddler is the electronic duo of Brighton-based composers and guitarists Danny Bright and Lee Westwood. A symmetrical duo of no-input pedalboards, walking the line between composition and improvisation, experimental noise and melodic hooks, their music explores the limits of what can be achieved with the guitar pedal as instrument. The result is a performance where pedals are the signal generator, processor and sole interface.

More artists to be announced soon. Tickets also available on DICE.

Image: created using code by PATCH member Emily-Rose Chantrill-Cheyette, President of the Creative Tech Society at the University of Sussex.