St Paul’s URC ChurchLondon, England
Saturday, May 30 • 7 PM - 8:30 PM.
The greatest of instruments, accompanied by live visualizations and prepared piano!
Madil Hardis’s @madilhardis ethereal, and unsurpassed, vocal technique melds into Pat Grimm’s @patgrimm Liquid Lights and Cheslav Singh’s @lightsoundsfestival prepared piano.
Tue 26 May, 19:00 — Riverside Studios, London, W6 9BN
So excited to share this event I'm curating with LightSounds!
Peek into Black Wasteland — three distinct sets unfold, fusing experimental theatre, live instrumentation, and projection art into a single aesthetic whole. An uncompromising convergence of analogue and digital music, visual arts, and mixed media.
The performance draws together powerful cinematic storytelling about the alchemical transformations driven by humanity's deepest fears and desires. Building on Lychen's Black Wasteland (2025), which examined how symbols and signs participate in the constitution and reconfiguration of the world, it reconstructs notions of Time, Body, Language, and Existence through the lens of a new central proposition: becoming — how the subject generates itself.
The journey begins with the layered liquid light projections of Pat Grimm, intertwined with Reuben Sutherland's performative electronics. This textural landscape then shifts, making space for the dynamic brass and woodwinds of Charlotte Keefe on trumpet and Rianna Henriques on flute and saxophone, their live improvisation set against the striking experimental films of Pierre Bouvier Patron in a masterful interplay of visuals and sound. Finally, the night culminates in two movements from Black Ash — the latest chapter in the Black Wasteland series — conceived through a collaborative dialogue among Hangrui Zhang, Yuchen Li (Lychen), and the Rothko Collective.
🎟️ Read more and find tickets at riversidestudios.co.uk (link in bio).
Expect a relentless, beautiful collision of improvised electronics, traditional acoustics, analogue projection, and pre-composed art music. Come in, strap in, and surrender to the experience.
Image credit: Lychen and Pat Grimm
Tue 26 May 19:00 at Riverside Studios, London, W6 9BN
Peek into Black Wasteland — three distinct sets unfold as experimental theatre, live instrumentation, and projection art fuse into an integral aesthetic whole. An uncompromising convergence of analogue and digital music, visual arts, and mixed media.
The performance draws together powerful, cinematic storytelling about the alchemical transformations driven by humanity’s deepest fears and desires. At the convergence of experimental theatre, music, and powerful visualizations, it explores the grand narratives of metaphysical adventuring and reconstructs notions of Time, Body, Language, and Existence.
The journey begins with the layered liquid light projections of Pat Grimm, intertwined with Reuben Sutherland’s performative electronics. This textural landscape then shifts, making space for the dynamic brass and woodwinds of Charlotte Keefe on trumpet and Rianna Henriques on flute and saxophone, their live improvisation set against the striking experimental films of Pierre Bouvier Patron—showcasing a masterful interplay of visuals and sound. Finally, the night culminates in its namesake: selections from Black Wasteland, conceived through a collaborative dialogue between Hangrui Zhang, Yuchen Li (Lychen), and the Rothko Collective.
🎟️ Please read more and find tickets at riversidestudios.co.uk (link in bio).
Expect a relentless, beautiful collision of improvised electronics, traditional acoustics, analogue projection, and pre-composed art music. Come in, strap in, and surrender to the experience.
All images are film stills from BLACK WASTELAND (2025)
Image credit: LYCHEN, director of the Film.
Phenomenology, the debut album by UK duo @sand.scape (@dansonabend and @elizashaddad ) is now available for pre-order on vinyl and digital. Link in our bio.
“Rooted in the philosophical study of experience itself, ‘Phenomenology’ unfolds as a guided arc: an invitation, a dissolution, a wobble, a reckoning, and a return. Across eight interconnected pieces, the album explores what it feels like to inhabit uncertainty, presence, dread, recovery, and recognition - not as concepts, but as states of being, and rather than offering resolution, Sandscape allow these states to coexist, overlap, and breathe.”
Limited edition 12” vinyl will include a 12-page booklet of artworks by @patgrimm , photographed by @lookashhh and designed by @lucymettyear and @edwinmingard
Phenomenology will be out 5th June via @octopoda____records and @bored.of.works
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The visualiser for our latest @dansonabend + @elizashaddad track Half Closed Eyes is now on YouTube - link on our bio.
Liquid art by the wonderful @patgrimm
Expertly shot by @lookashhh
First track from our upcoming debut album Phenomenology, out 5th June on @octopoda____records and @bored.of.works 👁️
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#debutalbum #newmusic #halfclosedeyes #phenomenology
Pat Grimm and Reuben Sutherland have been part of the Unknown Species story since the very beginning, shaping the visual language of our ambient spaces. Together, they merge analogue projection, tactile experimentation, and a deeply intuitive approach to image-making, from liquid, hand-played colour compositions to richly layered mixed-media visuals.
Pat, an East London–based “visual chef,” creates immersive, liquid worlds through hands-on projection, using colour, light, and physical materials to craft something playful. Her work has appeared at places like festivals Glastonbury’s Shangri-La and event spaces, theatres and churches, always rooted in experimentation. Alongside her, Reuben, known for his work with award-winning direction across music and global brands, brings his distinct language of analogue collage, motion, and rhythm which is rooted in his intricate visual performances practise using zoetropes in AV show as Sculpture with Dan Hayhurst. Together with Pat, they create something truly special: tactile visuals that feel alive and in constant dialogue with the music giving a psychedelic experience of expanded cinema.
Concert in London - 12 April in Kensington United Reformed Church from 7pm.
Concert by @aliyalark Aliya Lark and Pavel Doronin @scalywhale . Will be presenting solo projects for the first time in London — and of course, it’s both meaningful and exciting!
The concert will be accompanied by a visual performance by Pat Grimm @patgrimm . It will be evening as a warm, atmospheric experience in a church
- surrounded by beautiful visuals and sound waves intertwining with the piano’s voice.
We can’t wait to see you there! You can buy tickets via link in bio.
