Dove Street South
Fri 25 Sept · 19:00 · £12
QWAK club #25 SUZAN PEETERS is a Brussels-based accordionist, composer and improviser. She is constantly searching for new timbres and sound textures within the accordion, pushing its acoustic spectrum to its limits by manipulating the interplay between her body and the body of her instrument. She transforms the accordion through extended techniques, objects, and live electronics. In Oct'25, Suzan Peeters released her debut album Cassotto on the Belgian label blickwinkel. The title refers to the “cassotto” — a small resonating chamber inside the accordion that warms, softens, and deepens its tone. Listening to this record feels as if you’ve stepped into that room yourself, enveloped in a velvety world where intimacy and grandeur collide. Following a much celebrated performance at this year's Rewire festival, Peeters is rapidly becoming recognised as one of the most promising names in Belgium’s experimental music scene. Her distinctive live shows — from leading venues across Belgium to a packed Café Oto in London — have earned her a reputation for combining accordion, electronics, voice and unconventional objects into a compelling whole where contrasts come together in an unexpected way. This performance will be her first in Bristol. AUGUSTĖ VICKUNAITĖ is a Lithuanian sound artist based in Belgium and Lithuania. For her mesmerising live performances, Auguste utilises multiple malfunctioning reel-to-reel tape recorders, manipulating scraps of tape which might hold fragments of field recordings, voice, musical instruments, objects or found sound to create intoxicating layered audio collage. A virtuoso of her own entirely unique and fully analogue process, her sets unfold with a dramaturgy reminiscent of cinema or theatre and might range from oneiric concrète music to stark noise. Augustė's performance at this year's Colour Out Of Space (a three-day festival of international experimental sound and music in Brighton) mesmerised the audience and was a "major highlight" ac
Not the same tradition as the lineage above — a genuinely different thread to pull, if you want one.