About Listen Club
A programme of unusual sound-works, soundscape composition, and music from the present and the past. The 2026-2027 season has been curated by Joshua Le Gallienne.
Listen Club is a monthly event where we can come together to listen to sound and music with the possibility of sharing impressions and casual discussion afterwards. Listen Club hopes to provide a counterpoint to the quick paced personal consumption of music with a more patient shared experience; a deep listen, together, in order to foster community.
Each event is hosted by an artist who will guide the experience – briefly discussing the details of the selections and providing background on the music and artists chosen. We aim to present a variety of styles and listening experiences that may include anything from long duration singular sound works to a series of work on a particular theme. On average we will listen together for 45 min to an hour, with time for discussion and conversation afterwards.
Listen Club #38 – hosted by Timothy Didymus
Timothy Didymus (b. 1966) is a British artist and musician based in Brighton. Didymus has a long history of working with sound in unconventional ways: he has burnt pianos, created aleatoric audio systems, mechanically excited glass, rigged 250,000 watt sound systems on the banks of the Danube, and worked directly with vinyl records as a medium. Float, his 1997 release utilised the Koan music environment and is considered a landmark in the history of generative music. Didymus has spent years refining Kosmische Glass, a unique instrument and musical automaton that produces acoustic tones from glass by means of friction. The instrument can be considered a technical development in the centuries-long lineage of glass harmonicas, glass harps, and wine glasses played with wet fingers. The work employs glasses filled with precise amounts of water which are spun on modified turntables powered by electronics, MIDI-controllers, and a customised generative software environment. An LP titled Kosmische Glass was released by Beatabet in 2017 and showcasing the sounds of the instrument. Last year Didymus released Ulla on Subexotic Records, a collaborative album produced with Foster Neville. The record draws inspiration from writer Alan Garner’s 1967 novel The Owl Service and ancient Welsh folklore. For Listen Club, Didymus will lead a session on sounds produced with glass.
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Image: Timothy Didymus’ Kosmische Glass, Fort Process festival, Newhaven, 2014. Photo credit: Agata Urbaniak.
About Sound Art Brighton
Sound Art Brighton is an independent initiative that celebrates the presence of sound art in Brighton, UK. Building on the wide interest this art form has attracted in the city, we promote the diversity of sound in its intrinsic relations with other arts and the everyday. We reach out to all practitioners and facilitators engaged in this hybrid art form and who contribute in their sonic ways to Brighton’s urban environment and communal life. Our activities include city-wide events, a partner network, an interactive website and research projects.