Childhood pals form ridiculous band. Grow up to be gnarly, extraterrestrial skronk wizards from beyond.
Blood Sport hail from Sheffield, and craft sacred sonic geometry from a needle-sharp, mathematical approach - rooted in hi-life as techno as post-punk
A mysterious force from Italy, Father Murphy have become synonymous with the 'new Italian occult psychedelia' of lore and legend.
A riot of polyrhythmic interplay and melodic abandon, Trash Kit are a potent force in the London DIY underground.
From 'psychedelic hillbillies' to unreconstructed riff assassins, Ten Benson have brought delight through heavy amplification since the late-'90s, and we're delighted to welcome their brawny ballast to Braziers.
An electrifying collective of musicians led by Charles Hayward, dispensing electrifying rhythms and full-throttle experimentation alike.
The Independent Cinema Office and British Animation Awards present two compilations of award-winning cheerful short films for children featuring a dazzling variety of animation techniques and stories full of creativity and humour. Programme 1 is aimed at 4-7 year olds and programme 2 at 8-12 year olds.
A new Audio-Visual piece from this frequently costume-clad and always psychically disorientating troupe.
Hailing from Norway, Benjamin Finger utilises a classical approach to collage and musique concrète whilst maintaining a dreamlike and atmospheric allure.
Films and performance along with exciting visuals and projections make Exploding Cinema shows extra special. Come along to find out more.
Paul Purgas presents 909 Extrusion, an improvised performance using extreme time manipulation with the classic Roland TR909 drum machine.
From dada to grandma.... Granny Ludski considers what makes up moving image, art and performance through a stimulating assemblage of moving image and cabaret with At Home with the Ludskis #14
This duo blends musique concrète / radiophonic backing with vintage analogue synthesisers. Bringing to mind the new horizons of a bygone era, their electronic elegies ring out between and beyond the aeons.
Hailing from Sweden, this Hammond-organ-and-drums duo craft expansive instrumental extrapolations that hark back to the late-'60s yet remain at all times boundlessly optimistic and free in spirit, uniting the freak-out with the bliss-out in uplifting style.
This Brightonian shower of malcontents have been going for less than a year, yet in that time their inspired meld of full-throttle hardcore and unhinged aggression has multiplied their circle of friends, to what end we can only fear.
The Fall AND Black Sabbath only karaoke. Which do you wanna sing?
To prepare for their performance, Fallopé and The Tubes invite you to join them for a DIY prop-making and stagecraft workshop, suitable for all ages.
Deirdre Me presents her new one-woman show ‘It’s Time To Deirdrealize’….. If you could be any adjective, what would you be? she asks. It’s time to get brave. It’s time to wake up and Deirdrealize!
Formed by fabled photographer Steve Gullick, Tenebrous Liar are purveyors of a particularly brawny and black-clouded stripe of rock
Surfing an interstellar wave of heavy amplification and kosmische extrapolation, Liverpool's Mind Mountain are purveyors of a particularly potent brand of wigged-out abandon.
Charting a collision course between post-hardcore ballast, expansive songcraft and feverish guitar scree, Broken DC are as sharply angular as they are emotionally engaging.
Guapo shift shapes just as adeptly as they blow minds, taking progressive and jazz templates are mere springboards for voyages through nocturnal atmosphere and cinematic tension that marry prodigious chemistry with wild imagination with heart-in-mouth aplomb.
Carrying the traditions of '70s folk luminaries into the present day via both an improvised sensibility and a more amplified approach, Trembling Bells render the classicist eternal with affection and inspiration.
Levelling punk rock insouciance up against a glorious blur of opiated guitar drone, Bristol's Spectres make a racket that transcends past and present by attitude alone
Marrying drifting ambience with stern techno geometry, the US-born, London-based Gwyer has sculpted a singular and melancholic sound, as ghosts in her machines linger amidst the scything beats.
We're ecstatic that Supernormal 2015 will be hosting the first UK show in over twenty years from the maverick and mercurial force that is #A.R.Kane. Rarely has a band been more haunting, harrowing and heavenly – often all at once - than this one.
Be transported to other worlds through the power of your imagination
Stephen Cornford's work stems from a fascination with consumer electronics and the human relationship with technology. This manifests itself in the CRY Quartet as a performance for four CRT televisions.
потеряли-космонавт is a collaborative piece by three sonic and visual artists aims to sum up cold war space exploration, the terror and wonder of extra-terrestrial life, what the artists term "a plunge pool of the senses."
Fallopé and The Tubes have developed experimental techniques to create a collective energy. Look out for their performance including somewhat tasteless visuals, shameless zero-budget costumes, sculpture and visual props.
London-based experimental sonic voyager Andi Nixon will be bringing his live soundtrack version of the 1922 silent classic Nosferatu to Braziers Park, and effectively placing himself on a psychic continuum that unites the horror of the last century, the countryside of the present day, and the cephalic spectacles of the future.
Inhabiting a twilight world of consciousness that takes in the occult, the darker undercurrents of British history, magick, horror and metaphysical realms, English Heretic seer Andy Sharp recontextualises multi-media sources to "fecundate the imagination"
Benedict Drew is an artist who works across video, sculpture, music. Recent exhibition 'Heads May Roll' (Matt's Gallery, London 2014) was 'a total headfuck of flickering screens, pulsating lights and ear-splitting sounds', as reviewed by Time Out London. Benedict will be presenting a new performance for the Vortex.
Sharon Gal is a vocal experimentalist and multi-disciplinary artist whose list of accomplishments would take up half this website.
This audio-visual extravaganza will mark the first ever show outside of The Netherlands for Tilburg's Ggu:ll, who are purveyors of a particularly viscous, intense and demonic form of doom-laden dementia.
Films and performance along with exciting visuals and projections make Exploding Cinema shows extra special. Come along to find out more.
Sacred Harp singing workshop will teach Supernormallers singing the loud, strange folk hymns of nineteenth century America. Ever been told you can't sing? This is the workshop for you!
Make and play anti records with artist Jason Williams. This activity will enable participants to engage in the act of destruction and re-invention of the lauded vinyl record and test it's potential as a material to become a sculptural object.
Wild Bunch is a clubnight run BY people with learning difficulties FOR everyone
A gig especially for kids and their families, to introduce children to experimental music at an early age showing them the beauty of live music.
Wild Bunch is a clubnight run BY people with learning difficulties FOR everyone
Wild Bunch is a clubnight run BY people with learning difficulties FOR everyone
Marlene Ribeiro's potent dreamscapes are both sensual and somnambulistic, lulling the listener into a blissful realm with a haunting undertow.
This fresh project of Teeth Of The Sea members Sam Barton and Mike Bourne sees them utilising processed trumpet and modular synthesis to weave a web of constantly evolving sound that's as influenced by kosmische rapture as by noise-tinged abrasion.
Karaoke session of alternative and diverse sing-a-long-able tracks by female artists to celebrate music by women!
Early risers, come get your stretch on with the Supernormal morning Yoga sessions. Ommmmmmm.
Create prints using found materials and experiment with the printing process through intervening with drawing, marking or illustrating within the ink itself.
For her Soft Bomb workshop, Laurie will teach audiences how to make their own charcoal ‘Soft Bombs’ which will then be ‘launched’ at a white canvas where the impact will create a new artwork.
Workshop by artists Thoms and Hudson referencing British folk customs and traditions through costume making and folk-play. The workshop will result in a performative procession throughout the site.
The SSSSS will run workshops that think through, recreate and reimagine the history, prehistory and possible futures of Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research through workshops, discussion and action.
Poetry over improvised music over improvised poetry over music over, over.
A piano song cycle by legendary multi-instrumentalist Charles Hayward, to be performed in the drawing room on the Braziers house piano.
In light of his recent research, artist Angus Braithwaite will speak, demonstrate using props or both on a topic related to the act of dowsing and the a-cult.
Presented by Oxford Contemporary Music, join sound artist Max Eastley to listen to and create an ever changing sound world with Aeolian instruments.
Vocalist and artist Jennifer Walshe runs a workshop to create a volunteer opera that will be filmed for a future work. Come dressed in your most flambuoyant finery for a vocal warm up and you’ll be given text to sing/shout/scream/whimper.
Join virtuoso rummagers A+E to discover the elemental sound that junk makes .......
A fountain and a collective meander to the Thames upstream to gather water which will then be added to the downstream river water fountain on the field. Walk: gather at the main festival entrance gate on Sat 9.30am and set off at 10am. Maps and water collection bags: can be collected from the Supernormal 'merch' tent all weekend
Join Gill Ord and the artists taking part in the Plinth Project to discuss their work within the context of Supernormal. Meet at the Merch Tent at 3pm.
Join X Marks the Bökship to collectively construct a cardboard speaker sound system in the main field.
In the woods behind The Vortex, The Bonnacons present another of the site-specfic installations that have already taken this Merseyside collective to Liverpool Cathedral and its Psych Fest. They descend on Braziers with ritual and monomania on their mind.
Broken Glass is a sound and video sculptural installation with resulting live performance featuring multiple projections of fractional reflections from broken mirrors and spoken word. Path to the barn - installation from 9:30pm, performance at 10pm
'8-Bit Grunge' psychonauts WTVR's gnarly yet effervescently melodious ditties take a garage-rock aesthetic and plunge it screaming into the future, as barbed accordion, noise-rock flourishes, shredding guitar and insouciant attitude coalesce in gloriously bratty style.
Ill are malcontents on a mission, using extreme volume, righteous ire and unusual instrumentation as weaponry on a charge to decimate mediocrity.
Arguably the most obnoxious rhythm section on earth, Ghold's dynamically diverse riffage and roar stands giantlike amidst the heavily amplified hordes.
Arriving courtesy of this year's Supernormal partnership with Blue Tapes, this Tokyo-based self-styled 'electronic jam band' conjure up relentlessly experimental shapes that are as commonly beat-driven and propulsive as they are drifting and expansive.
One might say Sturle Dagsland's music resembles what a dweller of a mystical rural realm might make, were they banished to Norway with nothing but Boredoms, Björk and Residents albums for company. Yet even this sounds flippant and reductive when confronted with this fella's almighty sturm-und-drang.
Ushering in the sixth dimension via heady spirals of acidic guitar scree and telepathic band chemistry, Blown Out's extra-terrestrial extrapolations stand alone.
Running the gamut from monster-riffage to techno terror, Necro Deathmort are like no other experience we're likely to have in a field before the year 2250.
Somewhat like what Charles Baudelaire might have come up with on Amphetamine Reptile records, Arabrot's deviant noiserock and wilful perversity is sure to violate the countryside.
The Independent Cinema Office and British Animation Awards present two compilations of award-winning cheerful short films for children featuring a dazzling variety of animation techniques and stories full of creativity and humour. Programme 1 is aimed at 4-7 year olds and programme 2 at 8-12 year olds.
Karl M V Waugh, mastermind of Interior Architecture, is an oft-seen figure in the Brighton noise and poetry underground., This new project is a full sensory experience, simulating a psychedelic alien environment of indeterminate rules.
PLAYPEN is three hours of wilfully engineered chaos taking over the Supernormal Vortex: a lo-fi, hi-jinks meta-gig featuring a continuous flow of performances de/constructed in the moment and in your face.
Vicky Langan brings to the forefront primal emotions, corporeal actions, and charged audiovisual surfacings. Her recent work in the field of sound has earned her the title of 'Queen-Bee of Irish Noise'.
As part of this year's partnership with Blue Tapes and the Sasakawa Foundation, we're beyond thrilled to be welcoming Japanese sound-artist Hitoshi Asaumi, whose hallucinatory and surrealistic tapestries of electronic filigree reach for extremities and portals beyond the reach of the majority of experimental practitioners.
Gnar Hest shows weave a complex narrative with live audio reactive visuals and ritual performance, featuring music and comics by Matt Loveridge (Fairhorns, MXLX), movement by Dylan Mallet and visuals performed by Tara Pattenden (Phantom Chips).
Round out your weekend in the Vortex with a selection of weird and wonderful silent films
The Quietus' resident renaissance man John Doran invites adults and children alike on an afternoon flight to Venus, via interstellar and time-travelling tune age for those from 6 to 666.
Four arms, four legs, two heads, wood, metal and plastic; JOHN bring a unique strain of two-piece rock and roll from the capital
Hoofus is the project of the Suffolk-based Andre Bosman, who employs the disquieting atmospheres and feral realms of his homeland as inspiration for soundscapes that balance out vivid atmospherics and uncanny vibrations
Stream-of-consciousness drums, instant poetry, intuitive electronics combine to form something akin to rage abstracted into nonsense, ferocity transmuted into poetry.
Unleashed from the spectral savanna, Lions Of Rome fuse poly-rhythms with hypnotic wavescapes. Sound artists Jag Demuth and Lings Gomersall collaborate for the first time to present an intergalactic dose of spazz (space-jazz).
AAS will stage an improvised audio ritual actualising a rite previously performed in a dream.
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Align your body, breath, ears and mind in preparation for the days festivities with Rebecca e Davies and Ingrid Plum's morning Drone Qigong session.
Story-making workshop especially for Supernormal kids. Using the humble Fairy Tale as an initial source of inspiration, kids will contribute to creating a short story for a performance finale piece.
Fckn Bstrds and Phantom Chips collide and explode in a massive trash-heap installation-cum-performance. Build your own 'noistrument' from an array of 'trash' so bring along your broken umbrella and make your OWN Bstrds-like creations or just come and marvel at the spectacle.
The SSSSS will run workshops that think through, recreate and reimagine the history, prehistory and possible futures of Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research through workshops, discussion and action.
Laura Cannell & André Bosman perform improvised experimental fiddle music with a focus on exploring the interweaving sounds and textures of their instruments.
Songsmith and surfer of synaptic disruption Rosena Wenonoah terms her own style 'Fine Flesh Pop for Abstracted Humans'
How to built a set of working FM radio transmitters from simple components and broadcast from DIY transmitters to a set of portable radios constructing a temporary mobile multi-channel radio art installation.
A flexible modular workshop exploring, documenting and playing with the hidden sounds of the SN grounds (electromagnetic, hydro, micro, etc).
Meet at The Red Kite Tent for some semi (dis) organised, after-hours silliness.