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Vox Aeterna II : Robin The Fog

Tape Loop Workshop :

Session One : 17 May 2025 Saturday 3:30pm

Session Two : 17 May Saturday 6pm

£8 | 8 places per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

Following the success of Vox Aeterna I in 2024, Robin The Fog (UK) is returning to Project DIVFUSE to collect more materials for creating new work.

For this workshop and installation, participants will learn about the wonderful world of analogue tape, recording the sounds we find around us, creating loops and building up multiple layers of interlocking sounds and voices that blend, morph and disintegrate together before your very ears – although given that this is vintage technology, nothing is ever certain! What we can guarantee is that we’ll create sounds that nobody else has ever made before and we’ll create them together. The workshop will culminate in a performance featuring all the tape loops that have survived!

Robin The Fog is a Cumbrian-born composer and sound artist originally based in South London. He is the founder of Howlround, a project which creates music entirely from manipulating field recordings on vintage reel to reel tape machines with all digital effects and artificial reverb strictly forbidden, a process once described by Electronic Sound Magazine as ‘conjuring magic’.

Photo by T. Eigeland

@robinthefog

Project DIVFUSE EXTERNAL

19 August 2025 Tuesday 7:30pm

This is our first off-site event and we are thrilled to be running it at Café OTO.

Bringing together nine artists and musicians who have exhibited or performed at DIVFUSE micro art exhibition space in Lower Clapton E5 since its doors first opened to public in July 2021, this evening is to celebrate different aspects of the making of experimental sound and multi-media art as well as the 4th anniversary of the project.

Tickets can be bought directly from the OTO website:
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/project-divfuse-external/

PROGRAMME:

– Steve Beresford + Cath Roberts – improvising to film scores by Livia Garcia

– Blanc Sceol – live sound streaming from Channelsea River + performance

– Jez riley French + Pheobe riley Law – field recordings, microphones and objects

– Mute Frequencies – sonic signatures of sewing machines and radios

Passages : Andrea G Artz

Video screenings:

Session One 13 September 2025 Saturday 4:30pm (+ artist’s talk)
Session Two 13 September Saturday 6:30pm (+ artist’s talk)
Session Three 14 September Sunday 3:30 pm
Session Four 14 September Sunday 5pm

£8 for sessions with artist’s talk and £5 for other sessions | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

Running Time : 30 minutes approximately

This is an exhibition of a series of video work by Andrea G. Artz that were created during the period of 2020 to 2025.

For the artist’s talk, Andrea will speak about the progression of her artistic practice — from analogue works to immersive digital scenarios. She will share insights into her inspirations, working processes, and methodologies, concluding with a presentation of selected analogue pieces that laid the groundwork for her digital explorations.

The screenings will be showing the following pieces and more…

Video Still from *The Forest of Query,* video, virtual reality experience, 2020

The Forest of Query (2020)
HD Video with sound. Duration : 5 min 28 sec. Sound design and composition by Hutch Demouilpied. This piece of work was developed for a solo exhibition at the Foyer, School of Design, University of Leeds and with the help of an Arts Council England DYCP grant.

Visitors embark on a journey through a beautiful yet apocalyptic winter forest, home to creatures that are part human, part beast, and part mythological, transcending any specific race or gender. The Forest of Query is a timeless setting that could exist in either the past or future, emerged after a period of climate change or a nuclear disaster. This narrative was developed in collaboration with writer Veronica B., while the visuals draw inspiration from Caspar David Friedrich’s romantic and surreal landscape paintings, as well as an artist residency in a remote studio within the dark winter forest at the MacDowell Colony of the Arts in Peterborough, NH.

“All slums look alike, after all” : Rizki Lazuardi

Lecture performance:

Session One 12 September 2025 Friday 5pm
Session Two 12 September 6pm
Session Three 12 September 7pm

6 places only per session | Tickets

Running Time : Lecture performance 15 minutes approximately + 23 minutes video

Expanded from Rizki Lazuardi’s Mr Balangue’s Telex Report (2020), this spatial installation and lecture performance are an analytical speculation on the pre-production of 1982 Peter Weir’s feature The Year of Living Dangerously. Portraying the downfall of socialist-leaning Indonesian first president Soekarno, the motion picture adaptation of CJ Koch novel was going to be produced in Jakarta but had to be ultimately relocated to Manila as shooting permit was rejected, which led to Weir’s expression “All slums look alike, after all”.

The essay film and objects are artifacts “constructed” from the reconnaissance trip of the set director to Jakarta.

The film Mr Balangue’s Telex Report (2020) will also be shown at Close-up cinema on 6 September 2025 as part of After Gutta Percha: on Lab Laba Laba & Karel Doing.

This event is funded by The British Council.

Recent Sound Films : Guy Sherwin

Film screenings + Conversations with the artist :

Session One 17 October 2025 Friday 6:30pm [Private View – by invitation] [FULL]
Session Two 18 October Saturday 4pm [FULL]
Session Three 18 October Saturday 6pm [Private View – by invitation] [3 places left]
Session Four 19 October Sunday 4pm

£8 for both Private View and Open Sessions | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

Running Time : 30 minutes approximately + 45 minutes conversations

Poster by Livia Garcia. Drawing by Guy Sherwin.

Our curatorial line DIVFUSE Artist’s Journal presents Recent Sound Films by Guy Sherwin, where a selection of the artist’s latest short digital films will be shown. The screening will be followed by conversations between the artists and the audience.

DIVFUSE Artist’s Journal is a platform for artists, particularly those who work alone, to present their in-progress work with the aim to get some feedback and responses to help with further development.

‘Each of these films arrived at its form, and thereby any possible meaning, by a circuitous route, often starting with a single shot and then by attempting to understand those few seconds of film through the processes of digital video with its myriad possibilities.

Chill Out : Cameron Randall & Demelza Toy Toy

Sound Installation :

24 October 2025 Friday
Session One 6pm
Session Two 7pm
Session Three 8pm

Free Entry. To book a place, visit: Tickets

Chill Out is a reimagining of the chill-out rooms of 1990s club venues. Not merely a pastiche of these spaces, Chill Out is an attempt to resurrect, in a contemporary context, the ethos of experimental sound practice and listening to cultivate a community where value is assigned to social and sacred economies. How might we chill out in the era of grind culture and hyper-capitalism? And what might be the outcome of this speculative thinking?

The event presents composed pieces and sound installations specifically created for the evening, decentralising the spectacle of the human and encouraging curious contemplation. The first iteration will see Demelza Woodbridge AKA Demelza Toy Toy show Chronophonix, a sound piece where participants are invited to listen with their body as they are guided through time to meet their future selves. Cameron Randall will show Coral Orx, a quadraphonic installation of remixed chill-out, ambient, and IDM releases, primarily from the 1990s.