SoundCirque is an occasional music night founded, curated and hosted by musician and composer Elizabeth Walling (who also performs at the events).

Each SoundCirque night aims to present both established and upcoming artists who write in the vein of experimental, classical, electronic and folk music. SoundCirque usually takes place in a different venue for each show, always in Brighton.

See SHOWS for upcoming and past events.

FEATURED ARTISTS 2007 - 2009

VALGEIR SIGURÐSSON
Valgeir Sigurdsson is an icelandic artist studio-collaborator in the broadest sense and an artist in his own right. Valgeir has been honing his craft in the recording studio since finding a home in a small basement studio in Reykjavik as a teenager. He studied classical guitar and attended the SAE college in London, and upon return to Iceland he was active with various local bands and as a freelance engineer and producer.

"Valgeir Sigurdsson was at the recording controls for eight years as his Icelandic countrywoman Björk conducted her most crucial experiments. He has also brought other ground-breaking artists – Bonnie "Prince" Billy, CocoRosie, Maps – to his home studio in the Reykjavik suburbs, where they live till their work is done. Now, Sigurdsson has stepped out of the shadows – first with his own label, Bedroom Community, and ith his solo debut, Ekvilibrium, which distills his warm, liquid, organic-electronic sound."
THE INDEPENDENT

| www.bedroomcommunity.net | www.myspace.com/valgeirs

 
LEAFCUTTER JOHN (Staubgold, Planet Mu, Schematic, Tigerbeat6, XL)
Leafcutter John is the recording name of John Burton, a UK-based musician who also plays with Mercury nominated Jazz group, Polar Bear.
| www.leafcutterjohn.com  | www.myspace.com/leafcutterjohn  

BIRDENGINE (Drift records)
Based in Brighton , birdengine’s live shows vary greatly, from purely electronic sets using toy keyboards with dying batteries and a tape recorder to sets with just nylon guitar, vocals and a cello. His body of work ranges from soft and slow waltzes to thick electronic dirges all retaining that distinctive weird, sad and isolated birdengine sound.  

| www.myspace.com/birdengine |

CAROLINE WEEKS (Manimal Vinyl)
Caroline Weeks is otherwise known as Ginger Lee (musician in Mercury Nominated band Bat For Lashes). Her solo act is inspired by the poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay to which Caroline writes her delicate and magical music, usually self accompanied on acoustic guitar. 

| www.myspace.com/carolineweeks |

ELIZABETH WALLING (unsigned)
My background is in classical composition, experimental, electronica and film. I'm also the vocalist, flautist and autoharpist for my experimental band A Scandal in Bohemia who also co-curated the SoundCirque show in July 2008. My solo work takes inspiration from diverse musical and visual sources with a strong focus on Elizabethan song; converting early song texts into haunting and obscure new settings which occasionally traverse the realms of contemporary classical, electronica, post-rock and a sprinkle of early folk.

| www.elizabethwalling.co.uk | www.myspace.com/elizabethwalling |

A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA (unsigned)
A Scandal in Bohemia are a 6-piece experimental band with a diverse range of musical influences from post-rock to electronica, post-punk avant-garde classical. Their songs combine a near orchestra of electronic and acoustic instruments. Often likened to film soundtracks, their songs often develop and transform like a symphony, from a single improvised, delicate musical gesture progressing into an immense, pulsating rock-out.

| www.ascandalinbohemia.com | www.myspace.com/ascandalinbohemia |

KOPEK (shels music)
After a debut performance supporting Mechanical Bride, Kopek have already played with the likes of The Blow, David Thomas Broughton, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and Vic Chesnutt with the A Silver Mt. Zion and Guy Picciotto of Fugazi and Rites of Spring. Kopek have also headlined shows both in and outside of Brighton, Kopek's home town. Bass-player Jacob and guitarist Marcus also play in Sons of Noel and Adrian and drummer Danny plays as Laish and with the Laish Quartet.

| www.myspace.com/kopekmusic |
 

BUNTY (beatabet)
Bunty is a Brighton based musician and visual artist. Bunty is a member of beatabet music and arts collective. Bunty uses one mouth, one mic, a Boss loop station and a dd5 delay. Bunty performs solo vocal looping sets which are a mixture of improvised and composed music. She is currently collaborating with VJ Adam Hender to play games with visuals.

| www.myspace.com/buntylooping |

JUNKBOY (Enraptured Records)
Junkboy are an, experimental post-rock and electronica band that originated from Southend-on-Sea, Essex in the late nineties. The core members of the band include brothers Mik and Rich Hanscomb. Through Moshi Moshi records, Junkboy released an EP entitled Robot and Proud in 2000. The band went about recording their first album for Moshi Moshi Records entitled The Dynamics of Modern Communication released in the summer of 2002.Junkboy finished their second album in late 2004.

| www.myspace.com/junkboymusic  |

ROBERT STILLMAN'S HORSES (millpond records)
HORSES is wordless music and sound by Robert Stillman. The spirit of 'Horses' music is somewhere between the fairground, the rural parlour, and the stars; while the shrewd listener may be able to pick out hints of Stillman's influences, (among whom he counts John Fahey, Kurt Weill, Scott Joplin, and Maurice Ravel), his music exists on its own terms, a detailed musical territory unto itself. Attendees of Stillman's live shows have come to expect the unexpected; a 'Horses' performance can mean a one-man-band, tape-based sound collage, live accompaniment of silent archive footage, or a full ensemble event.

| www.myspace.com/robertstillmanshorses |