Folkestone Fringe alongside co-curators Hot Salvation Records and Phantom Limb, announce the return of experimental music & sound festival Profound Sound in April

Profound Sound, Folkestone’s experimental music festival returns with a vengeance, for an April weekender, and year-long prospects.

Folkestone Fringe, Hot Salvation, & Phantom Limb introduce the sixth instalment of Folkestone’s experimental sound & music festival, which will take place in the spring of 2022.

Profound Sound continues to platform local and international experimental sonic talent, inspiring and creating opportunities within Folkestone, and provoking with the intent to bring about collective joy through immersion in music.

This year’s edition will feature bold and highly anticipated headline acts from national and international artists, alongside plans that include intimate, DIY-esque workshops, performances, DJ sets, and interactive installations that both engage and playfully interact with our town and with those visiting and residing within it.

The weekend programme of headline shows holds a real spectrum of variety, with the curators of the festival feeling collectively, “represent the soundtrack to what we should all be experiencing as sentient beings…living, listening and learning in 2022.”

Additionally, the opportunity to experience diverse forms of music and sound art is being extended beyond April in order to develop and nourish the connections and learnings made at Profound Sound in the spring, as well as from its community that has been cemented across the years (dates & programme TBA).

APRIL LINE-UP

FRIDAY NIGHT

SENYAWA (21.15)

Embodying the aural elements of traditional Indonesian music whilst exploring the framework of experimental music practice, Jogjakarta’s Senyawa is comprised of Rully Shabara’s deft extended vocal techniques punctuating the frenetic sounds of instrument builder, paired with Wukir Suryadi’s modern-primitive instrumentation.

FRANKIE (20.30)

Working at the intersection of music, philosophy and performance - Berlin-artist Frankie’s (Franziska Aigner) craft usually consists of a solo cello & vocal set combined with a hyper-emotional lyricism. She studied at P.A.R.T.S., the school of choreography and dance in Brussels directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and has performed her own work at theatres and festivals across Europe.

COLOSSAL SQUID (19.30)

A solo project from producer/drummer Adam Betts (Squarepusher, Goldie, Three Trapped Tigers, Melt Yourself Down). 'Colossal Squid’ showcases Betts' unique approach to music combining his love for the irregularities in electronic music with his visceral connection with live drums. “Seeing is believing.”

BRASSICA (CLOSING DJ SET)

Friday night is rounded off with music that captures Balearic house, real electro, italo disco, new wave, psych, synth music, techno and rave nostalgia; without sounding consigned to any part of it - Brassica is music by UK producer Michael Anthony Wright, an artist that has gained supporters from the likes of Bicep, DJ Harvey, Maceo Plex, Andrew Weatherall amongst others.

SATURDAY DAYTIME

HELEN GANYA & SAPPHIRE GOSS | INTO THE OFFING (2022) (11.00 - 17.00)

‘The offing’ is the liminal part of the horizon between sea and sky. Experience this experimental audiovisual piece that explores these intangible borders to create a vivid portrayal of the very edge of England.

SATURDAY NIGHT

CLAIRE ROUSAY (21.15)

With music that zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life - voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations - exploding their significance, San Antonio-based, claire rousay, steps onto the Profound Sound stage. rousay’s music has received acclaim from NPR, who writes that rousay “enchants the ordinary,” and Pitchfork, who calls her music “quietly devastating.”

—__–___ (MORE EAZE & SETH GRAHAM) (20.30)

With compositions that touch upon myriad genres which often explore themes of gender, identity, perception, and the mundane, Profound Sound introduces more eaze - the long running, always inspiring, and ever-evolving solo project of composer/multi instrumentalist mari maurice. Known for deftly creating barrages of beatific computer music and blue-collar musique concrète, Ohio-based Seth Graham is an experimental musician, composer, and co-owner of Orange Milk Records, with an academic background in Philosophy thrown in there too.

The two together released The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid in 2021 - an “expression of Midwestern sadness, the entrapment of class and inexpressible discontent” - which will be spotlit especially for Profound Sound. The album is accompanied with commissioned instrumentation from Karen Ng, Nick Storring, Rob Mcgill, Meteronori, spoken word from Proxy.exe, and guest vocals from Recovery girl and Meteronori.

CHERIF HASHIZUME (19.30)

Producer, songwriter, and innovator - Cherif’s composition and production work has taken him into the world of AI, interactive installations and VR to create completely original works both in sound and in process. From having learnt as lead engineer and co-conspirator to Jon Hopkins for the last 10 years, Hashizume has worked with electronic music’s most revered protagonists including David Byrne, Brian Eno, King Creosote, Kelly Lee Owens and PVT amongst many others.

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