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
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www.bedroomcommunity.net
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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.
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www.leafcutterjohn.com
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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.
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www.myspace.com/birdengine
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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.
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www.myspace.com/carolineweeks
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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.
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www.elizabethwalling.co.uk
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www.myspace.com/elizabethwalling
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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.
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www.ascandalinbohemia.com
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www.myspace.com/ascandalinbohemia
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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.
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www.myspace.com/kopekmusic
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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.
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www.myspace.com/buntylooping
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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.
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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.
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www.myspace.com/robertstillmanshorses
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