Billy Pleasant

Billy Pleasant is a musician, composer, sound designer and collaborator with other artists and singers.  He also create audio/visual installations using self-shot and found footage.

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Siren Becca Harbord and producer Billy Pleasant forge melodic beats into evocative landscapes.

Five Eye Face are a Visual Pop Art collective experimenting in multi surface projection mapping and audio design.

Rebecca Horrox

La Horrox is a UK based performer, visual artist, sound artist and composer, her work encompassing projects across music, dance and installation. She realises her compositions through visual performance, music and sound conjured directly and indirectly through voice, body, object kinesthesis and electronics. Her work binds characters and objets d’art in neoteric myth, sculpted costume and ‘props’ are sonified, given voice, creating atmosphere, ubiquitous noise and music.

La Horrox toured for seven years with Wet Sounds, performing voice and electronic music with Joel Cahen, and since 2013, sings with Candy Shop, an opera by sound artist Lina Lapelyte, in collaboration with seven voice artists and/or musicians. Her work has been presented by the Barbican Centre, Arnolfini, Glasgow Film Festival, Fierce Birmingham and Soundlands. She has performed internationally at Kunsthalle Praha, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Centro de Arte Dos De Mayo Madrid, Borealis Festival Norway, Fiac! Paris, and SuperSonic Manchester.

diz_qo

diz_qo, is a visual artist who creates transient art onto surface and air, employing light and projection installation for live performance, installation, kinetic art, and diverse perceptable media. diz_qo has over thirty years of visual practice in art, both in analogue and digital form.

diz_qo has recently collaborated with experimental musical artists such as Violeta Vicci, Rob Lewis, Kumo, Chocolate Hills, Metamono, Blackmoon 1348, Georgina Brett, Rippla_TV, Drumsoffchaos, and created installations at the Delaware Festival (UK), Tinderdust Festival (UK), 'Jaki Liebezeit: Life, Theory and Practice of a Master Drummer' (Germany), and Intrinsic (France).diz_qo has also created lighting, stage and video design for many mainstream musical artists such as Kanye West, Friendly Fires, Embrace, Cat Stevens, Yazoo, and Roisin Murphy.

Lia Mice

Lia Mice is a multidisciplinary artist whose works range from live A/V performance, composition, instrument design, installations and interactive sculpture to academic papers. Mice is a recipient of numerous residencies: Innovative Instrument Design Duxianqin International Workshop at China Conservatory of Music, Estalagem Residency for Music and Electronics at Ponta Da Sol Madeira, Automation and Me at Leeds International Festival, and Goldsmiths Palermo Summer Intensive Performance Practices in Sicily. Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally at events and venues including Ars Electronica, The Tate Modern Tate Lates, The Barbican Archives Residency, The V & A Museum Digital Design Weekend and Museum of Arts and Design. Mice has presented her work at IRCAM Forum, Computer Music Interdisciplinary Research, Technology in Music Performance and the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Mice's latest album The Sampler As A Time Machine is out on Optimo Music.

Nissa Nishikawa

Nissa Nishikawa works with performance, poetry, ceramics, glass and film. Her practice interprets traditional forms of dance, ritual and craft in ways that illuminate animistic and alchemical philosophies. Nishikawa often works in the open-air and studios equipped to house fire; interconnecting the layers of the arcane with the supra-sensual, the living earth and various conscious inhabitants. Nissa Nishikawa in a Canadian-Japanese artist based in Hackney, London.


Matt Spendlove

Matt Spendlove is an electronic musician and multimedia artist. His work operates at the intersection of art, technology and network culture, incorporating low frequency vibration, hacked code and optisonic experiments. He combines a preoccupation with emergent behaviour, rule based repetition and chaotic systems with an ability to shape dubbed out, cracked and reductive sonics into audible geometric form. Through textured intricate production, his releases, installations and live sets bring corporeal presence carved out with a minimalist’s scalpel.

 London digital arts festival between 2006 and 2011, is an associate director on London’s Unconscious Archives sound art and new media series and festival and produced numerous events whilst resident at the Apiary Studios arts hub between 2009 and 2018. Matt’s long-term work in composing and engineering new electronic music and designing innovative digital audiovisual experiences have included international solo and collaborative commissions.

Productions, exhibitions and performances have included Melbourne International Film Festival (AU), BBC Research & Development (UK), The Roundhouse (UK), Club Transmediale (DE), South London Gallery (UK), Sound and Music (UK), Future Everything (UK), Mutek Festival (CA), Serralves Museum (PT), Cafe OTO (UK), Digital Culture Centre (MX), Contemporary Art Madrid/CA2M (ES), Unsound (PL), Museum of Transitory Art (SI), High Zero Festival (US), E-FEST (TN), Tyneside Cinema (UK) and the SHAPE Platform (Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe).

Leslie Claire

Leslie Claire (UK/USA) is a multidisciplinary Artist, Director and Producer exploring Dramaturgy, Metaphysics and Embodiment. She has completed post graduate research and MA from Goldsmiths and RSSD with a focus on interactive media and Dramaturgy. As a musician and enthusiast of social sculpture she applies the principles of dramaturgy and collage to create multi-faceted images, films, labyrinths and laboratories. Her current research involves immersive techniques in Sound and Visual media with a focus on dreaming. She has toured her AV work in UK, USA, Germany, France, Mexico. 

Leslie is the founder and director of Apiary Studios since 2009. She has collaborated with countless productions and international artists, including Athens based FYTA. 

Leslie is the Editor of Antenna and the head of live broadcast development at Repeater Radio. She is currently focused on creative audience development with an emphasis on live experience. 

Unconscious Archives

Unconscious Archives presents artists at the forefront of experimentation exploring materiality and embodied liveness across sound art and electronic music, experimental media and audiovisual art. Directed by artist and producer Sally Golding, Unconscious Archives Festival 2017 featured over 40 musicians, artists and writers and was described as “a platform for women defying genres and breaking boundaries, raising the bar of opportunity for female-identifying and transgender artists internationally” (Resident Advisor), and as “a titanic program for an extraordinary festival” (Makery).

Sally Golding is a British-Australian artist creating live immersive audiovisual performances, sound art releases, participatory installations and critical writing. Her work considers participation and liveness in audiovisual art as a mechanism for shared experiences and dialogues examining the role of the audience within new technological contexts. Golding is a recipient of the 2017 Oram Award for women innovating in sound and creative technologies. In 2018/19 Golding undertook a period of Arts Council England funded creative research and development. Golding is part of 

 - a platform for innovative music and audiovisual art from Europe. 

Sally was a resident of Apiary Studios 2012 - 2015

Mark Pilkington 

Mark Pilkington is a writer, electronic musician and founder of the publishing house 

. Since 2004, Strange Attractor has published critically-acclaimed books from the outer edge, documenting lost, neglected, emerging and underground currents from areas including anthropology, psychology, science and magic, natural history, literature, sound and music, film and the visual arts. They regularly host events

Mark’s writing explores the intersections of culture, technology, magic, anomalous experience and folklore, and has appeared in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies. His 2010 book Mirage Men explores how the US government used and abused the UFO mythology to cover up their own advanced technologies and counter-intelligence operations. The companion feature documentary was released in 2013, directed by John Lundberg.

As a musician Mark has released albums and performed in the UK and Europe as part of Teleplasmiste, Raagnagrok, Urthona, The Begotten, Disinformation, as well as solo gigs and numerous improvised performances, with Canadian-American audio-visual artist Rose Kallal and others.

Mark was a resident at Apiary Studios from 20012 - 2017 and hosted and performed at numerous events there.

Joel Cahen

Joel Cahen is an audio and visual practitioner and curator and organiser of experiential art events. Since 2002 he has been organising multi-disciplinary art events in London such as Evil Art, The Wormhole Saloon at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Scrap Club and Wet Sounds.In 2019 Joel was commissioned to produce and curate 

, an extensive series of listening arts workshops, activities and events in public spaces and venues as part of the Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture 2019.

Joel’s long-running weekly radio shows on London’s Resonance 104.4FM (2005 – 2016) explored live improvised sound collage, cacophony and plunderphonics. He works on sound installations and performances in public spaces such as libraries, swimming pools and galleries. His work was exhibited/performed across Europe, Australia and North America at Red Bull Music Academy, ISEA, AV Festival, All Tomorrows Parties, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, Tate Modern, Ultima Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Macau Arts Festival, Helsinki Festival, Elektroni(k) and many more. 

Joel was a resident of Apiary Studios 2011 - 2016.

Miki Kemecsi

Miki Kemecsi is a musician and visual artist living and working in London. Miki Kemecsi has been involved in the underground music scene in London for over 15 years.

His past acts include AGASKODO TELIVEREK and MaSterS were released by London based ADAADAT RECORDS et al. Miki has toured Europe extensively and has played alongside acts like APHEX TWIN, LIGHTNING BOLT, SIOUXSIE SIOUX, FOETUS, HAUSCHKA, THE MAE SHI, FUCK BUTTONS, LES GEORGES LENINGRAD, MAX TUNDRA, KAP BAMBINO, DJ SCOTCH EGG & ROLO TOMASSI. He has collaborated with Damo Suzuki (CAN) Laetitia Sadier (STEREOLAB) MAX TUNDRA & THE REBEL amongst others.

Collagism

Holly-Anne Buck / Collagism is an Australian artist based in London for the past decade. Her practice centres around collage, it has taken form over a twenty-year practice through the media of video, musical composition, live performance and site specific interventions. Her recent work focuses on the intersection of performance, digital technology and spirituality.

Holly-Anne’s work has been exhibited and performed widely internationally including Art Athina International Art Fair (Athens, Greece), Tate Britain (London, UK), The National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), Chinatown Soup (New York City, USA), The Vaults Gallery (London, UK), The Glamour Bar (Shanghai, China), Eyesore (Tokyo, Japan), Huerto Verde Roma (Mexico City, Mexico), Liverpool Love at Liverpool International Art Fair, (Liverpool UK), Scream Gallery (London, UK), WIMMIN (Art Licks Weekend) among many others.

Collagism was a resident of Apiary Studios in 2016, 2018 and delivered workshops, exhibited and contributed to events between 2012-2018