Tuesday, 9 September 2025
HAPTIC / Sarah Hughes / Paul Khimasia Morgan Friday 3rd October 2025
In partnership with Lost Property, Aural Detritus present an evening of sound art / improvisation
Venue: atthecoachhouse, Kemptown, Brighton
Tickets here:
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Haptic
Across two decades of restless experimentation, the Chicago trio Haptic has earned a reputation for meticulously assembled recordings that are complemented by unpredictable, often riveting live performances. Consistently blurring the line between different genres and disciplines, Haptic’s practice has expanded to include collaborations with dancers and filmmakers, soundtracks, installations, and unique site-specific performances, and they are as likely to be found performing in a gallery or museum as a bar or concert hall. Throughout the fall of 2025, the group will stage a series of unique events to celebrate their 20th anniversary, beginning in Chicago and continuing with a tour of the UK. In concert, the trio is frequently joined by a different rotating fourth member, and here they will be accompanied by artist, composer, and performer Sarah Hughes.
“Indescribably beautiful” –The Wire
“Mesmerizing, totally engrossing” –Boomkat
“Sheer artistry, plain and simple” – Decoder
Sarah Hughes
Sarah Hughes is an artist, composer and musician producing work that explores the boundaries of compositional practice, moving between drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance. Her work has been performed internationally, often played by and with musicians similarly interested in the mutability of disciplines. She has written for numerous experimental music ensembles, including Apartment House, Extradition, Southland, Ordinary Affects, and Distractfold. Across exhibitions, performances, residencies and commissions, Hughes has worked with London Contemporary Music Festival; Counterflows; Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival; South London Gallery; Musée d’Arts de Nantes; Cafe Oto; King’s Place; and Holywell Music Hall, among others.
Paul Khimasia Morgan
Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improvising musician, recording engineer and visual artist. As well as being a third of Bee Reiki Trio with Faradena Afifi and Steve Beresford, he has worked creatively with Blanca Regina, Jason Kahn, Charlotte Keefe, Cristiàn Alvear, Klaus Janek, Ryu Hankil and Simon Whetham; is a participant in the groups TIDES (with Paul May, Peter Marsh and Daniel Spicer) and Mark Wastell's THE SEEN. He pursues a duo with Adam Bushell which “…continue their explorations in dialogue between vibraphone and acoustic guitar body and electronics…” They are currently recording an album for Rose Hill Records.
Paul has previous work available on Discus, Hard Return, Minimal Resource Manipulation (MRM), Lonely Impulse, Linear Obsessional, Crónica, The Spirit of Gravity, Korm Plastics, Con-V, Absence of Wax, TSOKL and Confront Recordings.
Since 2010, Paul organises Aural Detritus Concert Series (adcs) events; heading a team that organised three “micro-festivals” of improvised music, composition and sound art at Brighton Phoenix art gallery from 2012 to 2014. These “micro-festivals” will resume in April 2026.
Paul hosted the podcast The Archive of Aural Detritus during Covid Lockdown. He writes about new music for The Sound Projector magazine and Honest Music For Dishonest Times and in 2022 contributed writing on contemporary Chinese sound-artists to the book Perfection Of Understanding.
“…feedback-like tones rising carefully amid a cloud of metal thorns…more physicality than most you hear, which gives the performance some nice faux visual weight…” – Byron Coley in The Wire magazine.
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
A Walk To The Chattri out now - free download
https://auraldetritus.bandcamp.com/
This is a short album of what I refer to as "process sound walking", whereby I freely interact verbally with a pair of portable recording devices while exploring a location in what is to me a kind of rural mini-dérive.
The possibilities afforded by a pair of recording devices is explored most thoroughly in "Back Toward The South Downs Way A Skylark Nesting" where the waves of feedback, wind-noise, birdsong and distant narrative were created by overdubbing from one device to the other in real time. My motivation for this activity is to make my own record my perception of a gradual insidious encroachment of development of landscape, and subsequent potential loss of wild habitat in rural and semi-rural areas. Although the South Downs is protected from development having been given the status of a National Park, planning permission had been granted for 500 new houses less than half a mile away from the site of the start of this soundwalk. At the time of release, that housing development is nearing completion, with the total eradication of a meadow habitat essential to ground-nesting skylarks and other birdlife.
Additionally - simply for my own entertainment possibly - I wanted to present material evidence of me talking to myself; something I catch myself doing more and more these days.
My narrative is deliberately banal - factual descriptions of the landscape I was seeing ahead of me, around me or on the ground as I walked, along with the occasional brief interaction with other walkers. My intention was to produce a simple document. Sometimes there is the sound of a gate opening and closing. Despite passing a livery at the start of the walk, no horses were encountered this time, sadly.
Recorded January 2022.
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Tim Hodgkinson, Ken Hyder, Jason Kahn, Paul Khimasia Morgan cd / dl
Document of a live outdoor performance in Sussex, UK before an invited audience in October 2021.
Tim Hodgkinson - Klarnt, occasional voice, small percussion
Ken Hyder - voice, dungur shaman drum, ting-sha small cymbals, rolmo cymbals, small percussion
Jason Kahn - voice
Paul Khimasia Morgan - feedback, transducers, contact mics, stereo pre-amp, small objects
Recorded by Will Montgomery.
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cd / dl
Saturday, 11 December 2021
Incoming January 2022
Dennis Wong aka SIN:NED
Vivian Xiaoshi Qin & Hui Ye
Echo Ho
Sheng Jie
Sun-Wei
Joseph Young
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Monday, 13 September 2021
Jason Kahn in Brighton October 2021
JASON KAHN - modular eurorack synthesiser
PAUL KHIMASIA MORGAN - guitar body & feedback system
DANIEL SPICER & SALLY MEGEE - piano, bamboo sax, percussion, words
dj Fiery Biscuits
£8 / £6 concs plus booking fee
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/525494/
ALSO:
A quartet of
JASON KAHN - voice
KEN HYDER - percussions
TIM HODGKINSON - objects
PAUL KHIMASIA MORGAN - objects
Free / donation
Information is at Sat 30th October tab on this site
Monday, 5 July 2021
Tribute to Embla Quickbeam
Embla Quickbeam at Aural Detritus Concert Series microfestival, Phoenix Brighton, June 2013
photo by Geoff Reader
All of us at Aural Detritus are very sad to hear of the passing last month of Rowan Forestier-Walker who performed and recorded under the name Embla Quickbeam.
Jez riley French has written about her work here:
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/rowan-forestier-walker-1977-2021
On Embla Quickbeam
In November 2020, Rowan contributed her piece "to the centre" to the "JOY Of Isolation" cassette release. Originally intended to be a series of performances at Brighton's The Ceramic House art gallery, due to the pandemic this project became a file-sharing exchange with all artists producing material for it remote from each other. Rowan transformed household sounds from her kitchen into an intriguing soundworld as if by an alchemical process. She performed a beautiful solo set at Aural Detritus Concert Series microfestival at Phoenix Brighton in June of 2013, and I performed on the bill with her at Simon Whetham's Active Crossover at Sanctuary Cella, Hove in February 2010. I first met her when she performed with her friend Aimie as Walpurgis Night in February 2007 at a Slightly Off Kilter event with Lee Patterson & Jez riley French I organised at Westhill Hall in Brighton. I think this would have been around the end of the improvising group Leopard Leg which she was a part of. The pair produced interesting, well thought out work; and I was impressed by the beauty and sophistication of their music.
Although I did not know her in a social sense, I know she was well-known and well-liked in the Brighton musician's community and further away. Her sound practice, being a sensitive amalgam of field recording and tape music, drew many admirers. For a while she co-ran The Magic City record shop in Todmorden. In my experience, she was always friendly and easy to work with in a professional sense, and I always found her work to be unique and absorbing.
Rowan has work released on labels including Chocolate Monk, Tadpole Records, Crow Versus Crow (with Graham Dunning) and Third Kind Records.
Our condolences to her friends, family and husband.
- Paul Khimasia Morgan, July 2021
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