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About 'push.to.play'

'push.to.play' is a celebration of the creative community at the University of Sussex, curated by student collective PATCH.

In the auditorium, experience an explosive live display of experimental music, visuals and performance from students and alumni, featuring unruly improvised sets from Furrowed and Noise Peddler.

In the Café Bar, we invite you to a DIY open-mixer sandbox where you can play with some of the gear featured in the show.

We aim for this pilot event to provide a platform to meet like-minded people and encourage collaboration with others. We want participants to feel part of a community and experience what can be achieved through curiosity and play.

This inaugural event held at ACCA, a dynamic creative arts space here on the University of Sussex campus, is designed for everyone to engage at some level. University of Sussex students, staff and alumni are encouraged to join us to experiment, try something new and come away feeling inspired and motivated by their own creative potential.

About PATCH

PATCH is a growing collective committed to producing an event that excites and inspires curiously inclined individuals. They are particularly focused on creating a space for students to interact with creative technology and express enthusiasm for how we can push the boundaries of live performance.

About Furrowed

Furrowed (Dylan Beattie) is a sound artist/producer making weird records and circuit-bending record cutting tools into musical instruments. Often starting with a blank disc, sound is inscribed live as evolving record grooves are performed by multiple pickups. As part of his unique approach, using a handheld device, he ‘tattoos’ sound directly to surfaces creating unexpected sonic outcomes involving locked grooves and sound fragments. His sonic palette ranges from electronic and melodic tones, environmental sounds, to hypnotic and cross-rhythms, analogue surface glitches and other process artefacts. Expect lo-fi looping, clicks, pops and crunch as records are made, celebrated and destroyed.

Image: created using code by PATCH member Emily-Rose Chantrill-Cheyette, President of the Creative Tech Society at the University of Sussex.