The Klinker Club returns to Frome on the 28th November at The Bennett Centre, Vicarage Street, Frome BA11 1PU. Doors 7:45pm for a roughly 8pm start. £10 or £6 concessions (pensioners, students, low wage). Cash or cards on the door / BYOB!

Featuring:

• Tonecrop: Acoustic sound collage using broken, warped and modified records, wind-up gramophones and everyday objects. ‘I am a maker of sound sculptures and experimental musical instruments with a focus on acoustic, low-tech and mechanical approaches.’   

• Kristen Lindop and Gerry Barnett: Troubling Klinker Club: Troubling is a live site-responsive experimental performance from musician Gerry Barnett and multimedia artist Kristen Lindop. The performance explores complex ecologies and wilding, through collaboration and audience responses. Creating non-verbal thresholds where all presences are welcome, challenging normative systems by embracing diversity of experience.

  Troubling incorporates three microphones: one for Kristen, one for the audience (including human and non-human, organic and inorganic, tangible and intangible presences) and another to capture sounds outside the building (most often birds, human passers-by and traffic). Gerry and Kristen respond synergistically to all of these and each other, while Kristen spontaneously moves and vocalises and Gerry improvises a variety of effects using electronics.

  Kristen’s practice investigates diversity, ecology and our relationships to ourselves and other through lenses of neuro-nonconformity, activism and somatic responses. Engaging in site-specific collaborations with human and nonhuman beings, Kristen layers ink painting, film, performance, alternative photography, animation, poetry and found sound. These mediums interact to produce uncanny audiovisual experiences that navigate tensions between communication and ambiguity, entanglement and withdrawal.

  Gerry is a multi-instrumentalist (cello, keys, percussion and voice) who uses improvisation to explore where sounds, noise and music meet. She is inspired by deep listening with its implied ecological mindset and, for her, hyperfocused fascination with place. Her pieces explore sound worlds and she is particularly interested in the tension between human generated and non-human generated sounds. Gerry produces electronic pieces using found sound and poetry, sometimes weaving them into live performances. 

• BEEF (Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film): Artists Melanie Clifford, Matt Davies, Shirley Pegna and Vicky Smith present: INOUT for 16mm Projectors, tape loops, found objects, buckets, geophones and hydrophones, performance. 

  Melanie Clifford works in translation between moving image, sound, drawing, broadcast, material and site, soliciting sensitivity to detail, to minor fluctuations and structural disintegrity. 

  Matt Davies works with the act of listening, live performance and the exploration of chance-based composition via the prism of 16mm experimental and expanded cinema.

  Vicky Smith has been working in the field of experimental animation since the early 90s her work has screened internationally in cinemas and galleries.

  Shirley Pegna is a musician and sound artist interested in sound as a material. Her work has been exhibited in many national and international contexts. 

Klinker: Musics / film / performance / noise / jazz / improv / unclassified / declassified / ossified