Simon Bookish

The De La Warr Pavilion's Random Fridays evenings returns this week, for a new season of musicians, artists, performers and installations.

This Friday (February 12), brings a headlining performance from Simon Bookish (real name Leo Chadburn), an experimental composer and musician, whose collaborations include writing the libretto for Richard Grayson's The Golden Space City Of God (currently featured in the De La Warr's major retrospective exhibiton of Grayson's artwork). For Random Fridays, Bookish will perform with a string quartet.

The evening also features House Music: a new installation by Matt Watkins (Beat 13) and Caleb Madden (Spirit Of Gravity).

Inspired by the 1970s electro-acoustic work of David Tudor and John Cage, Watkins and Madden have created a part sculptural, part performance piece in the Pavilion's North Staircase. The building's latent electronic sounds are captured by tiny homemade microphones and magnetic pickup coils, then processed and played-back through household items, including bedsprings and strip lights. House Music also features other pieces plucked from the home, including obsolete games consoles, LCD screens and mobile phone stations, creating an array of suprising amplified sounds and lights.

Admission to Random Fridays is free. The evening begins upstairs in the De La Warr galleries at 7pm.