Kirk Barley is a Yorkshire-born composer, producer and sound artist, also known for his earlier work as Bambooman and as one half of Church Andrews & Matt Davies.
Across his work, Barley creates organic, highly detailed music from field recordings, instrumental fragments, found sounds, digital synthesis and algorithmic processes. His compositions often resemble sonic dioramas, with layered textures, irregular rhythms and evolving forms that invite close listening. Drawing on jazz, minimalism, post-rock, hip-hop and experimental electronic music, his work folds alternate tunings, shifting temporalities and tactile sound design into dynamic sonic landscapes.
Under his own name, Barley has released music on 33-33, Odda and his own Health imprint, and has performed across the UK, Europe, Canada and Thailand. His live work has taken him to festivals and venues including Waking Life, Wonderfruit, Meakusma and Cafe Oto, with performances alongside artists such as Andy Stott, Beatrice Dillon, Christina Vantzou, Jan Jelinek, Oval and Pole.
As Bambooman, Barley released multiple EPs and an album through Matthew Herbert’s Accidental, with one track remixed by Herbert himself. During this period, he developed a distinctive approach to found sound & field recording-based electronic music, combining broken rhythms, warm melodic fragments and detailed, tactile production. He recorded multiple mixes for Ninja Tune’s Solid Steel, was interviewed by Gilles Peterson on BBC Radio 6 Music, collaborated with artists including Jehst, King Kashmere and Segilola, and performed internationally at festivals including MUTEK Montréal, Outlook and Dimensions (Croatia). He also supported artists such as MF DOOM, Madlib, Pete Rock, Moodymann, Jon Hopkins, Matthew Dear and Jon Wayne, and received coverage from publications including The Wire and Electronic Sound.
As one half of Church Andrews & Matt Davies, Barley explores rhythm-focused music through live electronics, analogue percussion, digital synthesis and algorithmic techniques. The duo have performed across the UK and Europe, appearing at Rewire, Waking Life, Meakusma and Tamsta Jazz Festival, as well as venues including ICA and Cafe Oto. They have filmed live performances for Fact Magazine, Worldwide FM and Slate + Ash, been featured on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and had their music played by artists and DJs including Aphex Twin, Thom Yorke and Gilles Peterson.
Across these interconnected projects, Barley’s work reflects a sustained interest in texture, tuning, rhythm and atmosphere, moving between detailed studio composition, exploratory electronic systems and dynamic live performance.
Stella Z, hailing from Fujian, China, has carved out her path as a
composer, producer, and DJ in London. Growing up in a mountainous seaside
town in China, she was immersed in Mandarin and Cantonese pop, post-punk,
and world music, an eclectic foundation that continues to shape her
sound.
Her sound fuses organic, tribal, industrial, and psychedelic textures
with contemporary electronic experimentation. Designed to engage both
body and mind, her music guide movement outward while drawing reflection
inward. Side A threads subtle, explorative experiments in immersive sound
spaces while side B bursts with wavy, tension-led intimate club energy.
Her sets also reveal a vast selections of suspense cinema, avant-garde
dance theatre, and fragments of spoken word left open to interpretation,
aiming to create the narrative imagination.
With two albums to her name, In The Woods, Will Be Late (Third Place,
2023) and Music to Watch Seeds Grow By 005: Stella Z (Fig) (Ransom Note,
2025) alongside multiple remixes, she is active in both DJ and Live on
European and Asian club and sound space circuits. She has open for Bolis
Pupul, Nosedrip, Mogwaa, etc and also performed live set at festivals
including Watching Trees (UK) and Abrupt Festival (Belgium).
Mixmag named her an Artist to Check Out in 2024. Her work has also been
featured in The Wire, The Vinyl Factory, Bandcamp Daily, and BBC Radio 6
Music, among others. Her live DJ sets have been highlighted as Mix of the
Day by Resident Advisor, with additional broadcasts on NTS, Kiosk Radio,
and Mutant Radio, etc.
Li Song is a musician and computer programmer based in London. His work explores networked computer music systems, acoustic phenomena, percussion and portable & laptop built-in speakers. Recent works include Two Movements (with Conal Blake and Regan Bowering, Feedback Moves 2024), 28th Dec, Arakawa (with Maeda Yasuyuki, Ftarri 2023), Two Snare Drums (Infant Tree 2022).
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James M. Creed is a composer and guitarist based in London making music that tends to be quiet and slow-changing. He collaborates regularly with artists affiliated with the Wandelweiser group, and with ensembles and series including Standard Issue, The Listening Project, To Your Ear, 840, Music We'd Like to Hear and Music for a While, and he curates the occasional series Nice to See You. An album of his chamber pieces, "Tending", released on Another Timbre in spring 2026.
Based in London, Francis Moore is a music curator and practitioner of the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi. For 4 years he has explored the instrument through improvisation in London, and its traditional practice in Japan, when in 2023 he travelled there to discover its dwindling but widely known place in the culture today. Largely self taught, he also plays a myriad of other strange wind instruments, including bagpipes and bicycle handlebars.
Teendrum is the DJ alias of shen ao. His music is full of fragmented sounds and vibrant melodies, while attempting to use music as a way to escape the so-called mature world. He released his album on May 2026 "cyberspace / bug party" via Kit Records.
