Programme – Project DIVFUSE

Performance & Discussions:

Session One : 5 September 2026 Saturday 3pm [+ Rory Salter & Sam Andreae] [2 tickets left]
Session Two : 6 September Sunday 3pm [+ Luciano Maggiore] [Sold Out]

£10 | 9 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets
*£16 for attending both Saturday and Sunday

SATURDAY: IMPROVISED TIME, FEEDBACK & ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC SOUND
Group performance: Regan Bowering + Rory Salter + Sam Andreae
Discussion: Approaches to time and rhythm across electronic and acoustic materials
Feedback solo performance

SUNDAY: COMPOSED TIME & THE ORDERING / DISORDERING OF RHYTHM
Short compositions by Regan Bowering (titles tbc)
Discussion with Luciano Maggiore: Perspectives on Time and Rhythm
Performance by Luciano Maggiore

Percussionist, curator, and PhD researcher Regan Bowering presents two days of performances, composition, and conversations exploring Experiments with Time and Rhythm in the Arts at Project DIVFUSE. Emerging from her doctoral research, and shaped through collaborations with Luciano Maggiore, Rory Salter, and Caius Williams, the programme brings together artists working at the edges of experimental music and sound to reflect on how we experience, attend to and make sense of time through artistic process and performance.

Regan Bowering is a percussionist, improviser and sound artist based in London. Her solo work explores various combinations of drums and percussion, objects, amps, speakers, and feedback. Her debut album Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces (Bezirk Tapes, 2023) was described as “a play of contrasts, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance” (The Quietus). She is one third of a collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake, with two releases: 2 Movements (Feedback Moves, 2024) and Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers (Infant Tree, 2023). Her debut LP A Technology of Feeling was released on Infant Tree in January 2026.

Workshops :

Session One 10 October 2026 Saturday 2pm
Session Two 10 October 5pm
Session Three 11 October Sunday 2pm
Session Four 11 October 5pm

£12 | 8 places per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets
* £10 for students/unwaged

This workshop gives participants the chance to explore sounds of their own body from a point of curiosity rather than judgement. Tracing the history of auscultation, we’ll look at how medical tools have physically distanced patients from doctors and question our societal reactions to bodily noise. Using stethoscope microphones, pinard horns and other hand held tools the group will look at sounding together, building a trusting relationship with their own body and with others.

The workshop will be comprised of:
– An introduction to Body/Gut Listening, history of auscultation, gastromancy and attitudes towards the body over the centuries
– Participatory exercise using bespoke postcards challenging ideas towards the body
– Listening to the body (the self or others) with bespoke sculptures and microphones
– Sounding together in chorus
– Q&A

Duration: around 1.5 hours

Participants have the option of using stethoscope microphones which will amplify the sound from the body for everyone to hear. There is no pressure to do so, as we will have hand held acoustic versions as well as ambient microphones if you would rather not place instruments directly onto your skin. There are an infinite amount of interesting points to listen to on and with the human body. These include chest, joints, stomach and eyelids but we will encourage you to investigate others, including sounds you can make with movement (footsteps), body percussion and with breath which do not require use of an amplified microphone.

For any questions please feel free to email Joanna beforehand on pensostudio@gmail.com

Dorich House Museum 2024. Photo credit: Maliha Haider

Joanna Penso is a Yorkshire artist based in London. Her work centres sounds of the body and Gut Listening as a vehicle to understanding oneself, one another and the environment around us. Her research paper: The Body as Site was delivered at the Centre for Research into Sound Art Practice in 2024 and forms the basis of her on-going practice-based research. She previously performed Body Talks , an exploration of body amplification at DIVFUSE Sound Projects 2025 and has delivered workshops for Dorich House Museum, exhibited at Pushkin House, York Art Gallery, APT Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries and at St Ives September Fest.

Category: Programme

Experiments with Time : Regan Bowering

Listening to the Sounding Body : Joanna Penso