Reactor Halls E22 & Rammel Club #146
Yan Jun, Dirty Electronics, Jo Christman & Tom Carroll
Wednesday 2 April 2025, 8pm
Beam @ Primary, 33 Seely Road NG7 1NU

£10 advance / £12 on the door
Tickets: wegottickets

Yan Jun is a musician and poet, born in Lanzhou in 1973 and currently based in Beijing, He works with field recording, voice, electronic feedback and body movements on his many conceptual projects and live performances. Yan will perform solo and ‘some noises with no sound’ with Dirty Electronics.

“i wish i was a piece of field recording.” – Yan Jun

Dirty Electronics (aka John Richards) focuses on shared experiences and critical making. His work is rooted in sound, and combines music, performance art, electronics and graphic design.

For this event, a piece written for Dirty Electronics by Pauline Oliveros will be performed feat. Kit Banbury, Aimee Efemey, John Jenkins and Louie Perillo. Natalie Kay-Thatcher’s illustrated score of the piece will also be exhibited in the book shop.

Thomas Carroll & Jo Christman

Thomas Carroll releases music under his own name and Pressure Cooker Relief Valve; runs Free Music Lessons gig series in Leeds. Has collaborated with Territorial Gobbing, Mia Windsor, AJ Stillabower.
Jo Christman's explorations of hybridity and boundary through noisy electronics. Organiser for Float and Huddersfield Improviser Social, Researcher at University of Huddersfield developing approaches to hybrid creative and technical practice.

Reactor Halls E21: Monstrous Assemblage
Dirty Electronics + Special Guests
Saturday 6 November, 19:00-21:30
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A performance-installation and celebration of collective making, group work, physicalised algorithms, emergent-instruments-created-on-the-spot, messy materials and dirty sound. The group will build a performance environment using sound objects, found materials, electricity, DIY synthesisers, magnetism, flickering light and uncertain action.

There’s more

Ivan Poe Roll-Thru + Discussion
Thursday 13 May, 19:00–20:30
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A live performance roll-thru of the Ivan Poe video game, as this cuboid character keeps truckin’ on through the Cosmic Soup.

The Ivan Poe game has been developed in collaboration by Reactor, Bruce Asbestos and Jez Noond. For this event they will be joined by Kitty Clark, Mark Jackson and Jamie Sutcliffe to discuss video games, performance streaming and the myriad overlaps.

This event is part of Here, the Gold Ones meet, a residency and new video-installation by the art collective Reactor currently on show at Bonington Gallery, which documents the lives of a cohort of higher spiritual beings known as The Gold Ones.

The Gold Ones’ Dummies
Saturday 1 May, 17:00–20:00
Live Broadcast: YouTube 

Remote viewing provides access to the Gold Ones’ Dummies.

What can be seen here is an increasingly incessant transmission from within the Cosmic Care Home. As the Gold Ones move through cycles of activity – rest, care, affirmation, exercise, games, and treatment – we get to know each of them, their relations and woo-woo beliefs.

This event is part of Here, the Gold Ones meet, a residency and new video-installation at Bonington Gallery, which documents the lives of a cohort of higher spiritual beings known as The Gold Ones.