Category: Music

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.

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

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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

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

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.