Wavetable #16

Featuring:

• Polypores
• Field Lines Cartographer
• Wavetable All-Stars

BYOB

Doors 7:00pm. Performances begin around 7:30pm. (NB earlier start than usual.)

Video archive of past performances here.

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Polypores (aka Stephen James Buckley) paints music with a modular synthesizer, drawing influence from ambient, new age, and experimental electronics. It soars, bubbles, crackles, and soothes, in ever-shifting, immersive cosmic landscapes. Dream environments and sonic sculptures. He has had sold-out releases on labels such as Castles In Space, Polytechnic Youth, Behind The Sky, Front & Follow, Miracle Pond Records, Frequency Domain, Woodford Halse, Golden Ratio Frequencies, and Concréte Tapes.

Uncut magazine described his 2022 album Hyperincandescent as "intensely absorbing, ever shifting through static squiggles, warm blooms of texture, bioluminescent glimmers, and rattling chimes... like a dance of fireflies in the dark".

In a review of his 2019 album 'Flora', Electronic Sound magazine wrote "his music seems to seep up from the soil, from in amongst the nooks and crannies, before grasping towards wide and starrry skies. From this claustrophobic murk, Buckley is always able to summon sections of soaring sonic flabbergast".

A captivating and engaging live performer, Polypores has played at Liverpool's Capstone Theatre (supporting Ian Boddy), and festivals such as Future Yard and Subliminal Impulse. He also performs regularly at local venues like The Ferret, The Continental, and Plau in Preston, as well as events further afield like the Delaware Road festival in Somerset, and once on the roof of the Stretford Mall car park.

https://polypores.bandcamp.com/

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Field Lines Cartographer is the ambient & drone project of Lancaster-based electronic musician Mark Burford.

FLC has released albums on Castles In Space, Woodford Halse, Preston's Concrete Tapes label, experimental Manchester-based imprint Front & Follow, as well as featuring on numerous electronic & ambient compilations for various independent labels such as DiN, Soundtracking The Void & Modern Aviation.

Using modular & semi-modular synthesisers,the Cartographer creates sometimes dark, occasionally bucolic soundscapes, described in The Wire magazine as "shimmering...unsettling" & "a swirling vortex of darkness...The sound of big, strange worlds" by Electronic Sound magazine.

https://fieldlinescartographer.bandcamp.com/

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