Friday 25th April 2025 6pm – 8:30pm
Merkaba Macabre [Live]
Lynne [DJ]
£9.2 (including booking fee) | 10 places only | Psyché Tropes Three-day Residency at Project DIVFUSE [Day 1]
Saturday 26th April 6pm – 8:30pm
Experimental Film Screening
in Surround Sound
£9.2 (including booking fee) | 12 places only | Psyché Tropes Three-day Residency at Project DIVFUSE [Day 2]
Sunday 27th April 3pm – 7pm
Live Spatial Audio w/
Matt Spendlove & Amanda Butterworth
Georgina Brett
Merkaba Macabre
Pagan Red
£6.5 (including booking fee) per session | 10 places only | Psyché Tropes Three-day Residency at Project DIVFUSE [Day 3]
For this three-day event at Project DIVFUSE, Psyché Tropes will present a curated programme of live audiovisual performance, experimental film, and immersive sound. Conceived exclusively for the space, the residency features the work of Merkaba Macabre, Lynne, Georgina Brett, Pagan Red, Matt Spendlove & Amanda Butterworth, alongside a Psyché Tropes experimental 16mm film sequence.
Friday 25th April | 6pm – 8:30pm
For the opening night of the Psyché Tropes Three-day residency at Project DIVFUSE, Merkaba Macabre will perform a new sonic-light composition, experimenting with controlled voltages of colour, optical effects, and synchronised sound and image. This work is part of the artist’s continued research in audiovisual entrainment and subjective time dilation through the observation of rapid stimuli. This performance comes with a photosensitive warning. Viewer discretion is advised. Doors open at 6pm with an ambient experimental set by Lynne.
Merkaba Macabre [Live]
Merkaba Macabre is a multimedia project by Psyché Tropes founder Steven McInerney, combining film, digital media, and sound spatialisation to create expanded forms of cinema, live performances, and installations. McInerney’s work investigates emergent phenomena, using the time-variant systems of media for exploration. Their cinematic work draws upon dichotomous energies, meditating between the sacred and profane. Live performances utilise multi-channel systems, employing a structuralist methodology that values error and reappropriation. From here, speculative narratives take form, often blurring the lines between science and fiction.
Lynne [DJ]
Lynne is a Japanese artist residing between Tokyo and London. Her ever-evolving sound builds immersive atmospheres with textural, obscure and experimental layers. As a resident of Astral Industries and Unknown Species, Lynne is most comfortable in the grey space between genres, where her rhythm is a gravitational force pulling her audience in all directions.
Saturday 26th April | 6pm – 8:30pm
Experimental Film Screening
Day two of the three-day residency at Project DIVFUSE will feature a sequence from the Psyché Tropes experimental film archive. These films will be presented on 16mm with surround sound. The programme includes an extended version of A Monster with Its Mouth Agape, including new works created for this event. Founded in 2014 by Steven McInerney, Psyché Tropes has established a platform for the creation and dissemination of experimental film and audiovisual research. Internationally recognised with awards, the label engages through its events, physical releases, and hosts a monthly radio programme on Resonance 104.4 FM. Recent exhibitions include: the 54th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam, Beijing International Short Film Festival, and Family Film Project 13. This programme contains flashing images.
Sunday 27th April | 3pm – 7pm
Live Spatial Audio Compositions
For the final day of the three-day residency at Project DIVFUSE, Psyché Tropes will present four live compositions by artists working in the field of expanded and immersive audio. Each session will be presented in a 6.1 configuration in the absence of light or visual stimuli. Due to limited capacity, individual show tickets are available only.
Georgina Brett
3:30pm
Georgina Brett is a composer, vocal live-looper and event organiser, founded Tuesdays Post : Live Progressive Ambient in 2012 and has curated a number of multispeaker concerts in London and worked on many ambisonic and surround sound compositions. Since 2003 Georgina has explored the territories of the voice and delay pedals making collages of vocal sound, often but not always non-verbal. She continues to innovate and develop her live vocal collages including transferring outboard live techniques to computer based programs and 3D Ambisonic spatialisations.
Pagan Red
4:30pm
Pagan Red is the experimental and electroacoustic alias of Rory Donohue, an electronic musician and field recording artist originally from Galway, Ireland, now based on the South East coast of the UK. Under this moniker, he explores the intersection of synthesis, processed acoustic textures, and environmental recordings, shaping intricate sonic environments that invite focused and meditative engagement. While Donohue has produced music for over a decade under his o.utlier alias—releasing on labels such as Appian Sounds, Soul People Music, and Animalia—his work as Pagan Red delves further into textural experimentation and spatial sound design. His release Materia on Titrate Records, the label he co-runs and curates, embodies this shift, drawing from modular synthesis, custom-built effect chains, and non-traditional recording techniques, including electromagnetic and seismic sensors.
Matt Spendlove & Amanda Butterworth
5:30pm
Matt Spendlove is an artist from London who creates immersive installations, audiovisual performances and sonic artefacts. Across these situations he explores spatial ambiguity, structural form, waveform materiality and the illusory contours of psychophysics.His work channels the dynamics of sound system culture by incorporating low frequency vibration alongside hacked code and optisonic experiments. He combines a preoccupation with emergent behaviour, rule based repetition and chaotic systems to generate enlivened visual stimuli and shape dubbed out, cracked and reductive sonics into audible geometric form. Through textured intricate production, his shows bring corporeal presence carved out with a minimalist’s scalpel.
Amanda Butterworth is a sound artist, composer and performer exploring sound, space and deep listening. Drawing on her background as a vocalist, yoga teacher and trained actor, her research explores themes of embodiment, phenomenology and deceleration to create immersive artworks that foster deeper connections to our environment. As a composer she works across spatial sound technologies to create active listening experiences that transform the listener’s relationship to space, using sound as an intervention to enliven everyday spaces and multichannel works that reimagine performance spaces and artist/audience dynamics.
Merkaba Macabre
6:30pm
Steven McInerney’s multimedia project Merkaba Macabre draws upon dichotomous energies, meditating between the sacred and profane. Their live performances utilise multi-channel systems, employing a structuralist methodology that values error and reappropriation. From here, speculative narratives take form, often blurring the lines between science and fiction. McInerney has composed surround sound compositions for film, live performance, and installation.
Images from Merkaba Macabre
@psychetropes