DIVFUSE Sound Project : Open Call

Deadline : 23 January 2026 [This Open Call is now closed. Results have been announced. Congratulations to Simon Whetham, Arconic Sound and Soundcamp. Details of the exhibitions/events can be found under Programme.]

This is an Open Call for sound based work that may come in the form of:
Field Recordings
Composition
Installation
Performance
Mixed media
Video
or a combination of the above

WHAT TO INCLUDE IN THE SUBMISSION:

1) Text on the each piece/series (300 words maximum). This shall include the name, year and duration of the work.

2) Artists’ bio (200 words maximum)

3) A link to the work. It could be a link to Vimeo for example but please do not send us the file to download.

4) Send the submission through by email to divfuse@gmail.com on or before 23 January 2026.

5) Processing Fee (Non-refundable) : £8. Please put your name as reference and transfer the fee to the following account. You may wish to include a screen shot of payment for record:

Project DIVFUSE
Sort Code : 40-18-00
Account Number: 30149381
This is a Business Account

OTHER CONDITIONS:

1) Up to two proposals can be made by each artist (or group of artists who work together).

2) The work or series of work shall be between 40 and 60 minutes long and can be made up of different pieces/parts. An example would be 20 minutes diffusing recording materials plus 20 minutes performance.

3) Selected work will EACH be shown in multiple screening sessions for a weekend (Saturday and Sunday) for free between March and June 2025 at Project DIVFUSE micro digital and multi-media project space, London. There is no payment to the artists but we will offer the following:

* micro gallery space (4m x 2.8m) for exhibition.

* basic equipments for use for the screenings inside the gallery, including 2 x small Genelec speakers on stands, a Genelec subwoofer, a projector and a laptop to play digital file(s) from.

* management of the exhibition including invigilating the space, ticket sales and promotion on social media.

4) Artists whose work is selected will have to make sure that any digital files reach the project space at least a week before the exhibition.  Additional information such as images from the work will also be required for social media posting.

5) Artists will be invited to design a poster for their event.

6) Artists who are based in London may be invited to do two sessions of artists talks. Income from the artist’s talk will be split 70/30 between Project DIVFUSE and the artist. This will help to cover some of the overhead costs for running and managing the events.

7) If the work entails performances, again income from ticket sales will be split 70/30 between Project DIVFUSE and the artist.

8) If the work does not require the artist’s presence e.g. only requires diffusion or screening, then all income that may come from ticket sales will go to Project DIVFUSE.

9) No drilling onto the walls is allowed. We can work out other ways of hanging the work if this is required but please bear this in mind when making a submission.

Why is Improvising Important : Caroline Kraabel

Session One Friday 19 December 2025 6:00pm
Session Two Saturday 20 December 2025 4:30pm

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

Lecture with demonstrations. Duration : approximately one hour

Photo by Tom Ward

“What we know is constrained by interpretive frameworks, which, of course, limit our thinking: what we can know will be determined by the kinds of questions we learn to ask.”

Michelle Z. Rosaldo[1]

Improvising is something we all do in life, to a greater or lesser extent, and also in art and music… but wittingly or not we may fall into unhelpful or limiting patterns in our improvising – what are they and how could we avoid them?

Some creators adopt improvisation as one strategy among many; for others it becomes the primary focus of their practice. What is the relationship between improvisation and control? Which comes first, awareness or improvisation?

What does it mean to give oneself over completely to improvisation? Is it even possible to do so? What does it require  of us, and where does it get us? How may we use it to extend our selves and break open our assumptions around what we think we know about art, about our own identities and those of others, and about how we relate to each other?

If we don’t continually attempt this, what happens to our improvising?

This talk draws on Kraabel’s work-in-progress, ‘If it works, stop. If it doesn’t work, do it again’, a long text on improvisation.

Informal Formats : Sue Lynch & Douglas Benford (& Iris Colomb)

Acoustic Improvisations + Recording :

Day One – Formats [Sue Lynch & Douglas Benford]
Session One 29 November 2025 Saturday 4:30pm
Session Two 29 November Saturday 6:30pm

Day Two – Informals [Sue Lynch & Douglas Benford & Iris Colomb]
Session Three 30 November Sunday 3:30pm
Session Four 30 November Sunday 5:30pm

£8 | 6 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets


Running Time : 45 minutes approx.

Acoustic improvisations and explorations flowing from artwork and experimental poetry.

Over two days this Sue Lynch and Douglas Benford collaboration is based around performances, incorporating Lynch’s own projected visual art and Colomb’s found text improvisations.

Lynch employs saxophone and flute, whilst Benford uses tenor recorder, accordian, objects and melodica. Performances would encompass accidents and expressions with a multi media slant, as both musicians react to the visual aspects and surreal poetic excursions by Iris Colomb on Day Two. 

Stewart Morgan will be recording the performances on Sunday. The concept of Project DIVFUSE curatorial line DIVFUSE Recording Room is to provide an intimate space for live recordings to be carried out, where sound from the outside working yard and the audience might come into the mix.

Sue Lynch
Douglas Benford

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.

Cameron Randall
Demelza Toy Toy

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.

Cabledance (2025)

‘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.

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