GRIT // 08 Sept
VENUE: multistory, peckham levels
This is an event for flinta people who make or are curious about experimental, noise, heavy electronics, and industrial music. We exist to build a community that's beginner and budget friendly, non-hierarchical, and genuinely welcoming, for people who love difficult sound.
This is a FLINTA-only event. If that's not something you identify with, or you'd like to chat it through with us first, please get in touch before booking a ticket. Message us here or on instagram - @GRIT_noise
7–8pm — Mixer: come early, meet people, have a drink. Bring gear if you want to talk it through with others, or just come for a chat. This is where we get to know each other. Sign-up for the showcase, if you want.
8–9pm — Workshop with LOCKHART
We are beyond excited to bring Lockhart to GRIT. Fold resident, genre-dismantler, and someone whose taste we've been in awe of for a long time.
In this workshop you will explore how to use 3 to 4 CDJs as an instrument for creating noise, tension and ambience within a DJ set.
Rather than treating the decks simply as a way to move from one track to the next, we’ll look at how multiple CDJs can be layered, manipulated and pushed against each other to create unexpected textures, clashes and moments of controlled chaos.
We’ll experiment with overlapping rhythms, tonal conflicts, incorrect loops, feedback-like textures and deliberately “wrong” combinations - using dissonance as another tool for building atmosphere, pressure and movement.
Throwing out all conventional “rules” about DJing, this is about finding the spaces / sounds within tracks that can be bent and broken to add an extra layer of depth and disorientation to your sets.
Open to everyone — beginners, experts, and non-DJs too. You don't need DJ or producing experience to take part, just curiosity about how sound can be layered and what this means / looks like in action.
9.15–10.30pm — Showcase: Three 10 minute slots available — sign up during the mixer. bring a track and get feedback (pun intended), run part of a live set with sound and tech support on hand, or do something else entirely. Feedback is there if you want it, no pressure if you don't.