PAN showcase at Arnolfini, Bristol
18 April 2013
At the PAN showcase in Bristol’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, the Arnolfini, the noise/dance crossover is in full effect. After a bout of silence from the noise scene and decreased activity in pop-up tape labels, gradually there has been a exodus of noise artists (or are they now producers?) creating abstract music with the structural and genre conventions of contemporary dancefloor orientated electronica. The music at the PAN showcase is not ground breaking by any means, but what is significantly different is the situation in which the music is received. A floor show, in an art centre, featuring artists form a noise label who’ve recently been making waves with jungle mixtapes; it’s no wonder the audience’s expectations are skewed from the outset.
