Reactor Halls E23: Jaap Blonk, YappiScope
Saturday 14 June 2025, Doors 6pm / Performance 7pm
Primary, 33 Seely Road NG7 1NU

£8 advance / £12 on the door
Tickets: wegottickets

Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist Jaap Blonk presents the UK premiere of his absurb performance YappiScope. It is Jaap Blonk's show with visual projections.

It is in ongoing progress, new inventions being added frequently.
It contains short videos, scores he wanders through,
interactive animations, live soundtracks to silent films
and other new multi-media work, with a lot of extended voice work as well as live electronics.

“Blonk’s avant-garde performances channel the provocatively pioneering nonsense of Dadaism. His work is tremendously complex, but his brilliance makes it easy to think the opposite.”

San Francisco Weekly

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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
Book here

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.

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Reactor Halls E20: The Gold Ones' Dummies
Reactor
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

The Gold Ones have existed across time, and now reside in the Cosmic Care Home (CCH). On this higher astral plane they are cut off from a wider community, and lead a bureaucratically controlled existence, cared for by elusive 'Helping Hands'. What can be seen here, is a broadcast of The Gold Ones as they move through cycles of activity - rest, care, affirmation, breakfast, exercise, games, and treatment. Or, if and when you’re ready, Dummies can visit the CCH for a period, joining The Gold Ones in the main gathering room.

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Reactor Halls E19: TEK-ANIMAL-LIFE Rendezvous
Plastique Fantastique
Saturday 15 February, 18:30-22:00

Tickets: BOOK HERE

Performing @ Rendezvous: Plastique Fantastique, Benedict Drew, Reactor, Frankie Roberts.

TEK-Life: The animal-arm is cyber-extended through the mouse-animal; the animal-object is surface-extended through the contact-microphone-animal, the animal-voice is amplified-extended through the dynamic-microphone-animal, the word-animal is double-decay-extended through the delay-pedal-animal, the animal-song is made sweet-sour-blended-extended by the mixer-animal, the animal-communication is earworm-extended through the speaker-box-animal (and all in that order). The animal-eye is light-extended through the projector-animal, the animal-sight is lens-focus-extended by the 4K-click-record-animal; the animal-brain-image is pixel-extended by the screen-animal. For TEK-ANIMAL-LIFE Rendezvous, all come together in one big loop of the fairyland of TEK-Folk. No human-masters here, only TEK-Animal-Kin!

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Reactor Halls E18: Under the Radar
Friday 11 August, 18:00-22:00

Join us for an evening of pirated films and hillbilly moonshine

You know what this is ;-)

If you don’t know what this is, have a chat with a Rector member.

This event is free - open to Reactor members only, click here to obtain a one day membership.