Nottingham Contemporary

Satch Hoyt is a exhibiting artist in Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen. Satch's performance in our downstairs space will be linked to his newly commissioned artwork in gallery 1, part of a series called Un-Muting which breathes life back into Western museum collections of African instruments, playing them aloud (sometimes for the first time in decades or centuries) as an act of sonic restitution. For this special launch party performance, Satch will be playing traditional African percussion instruments alongside electric flute, acoustic sounds and spoken word.

Satch is a spiritualist, a believer in ritual and retention. A visual artist and a musician, his diverse and multifaceted body of work - whether sculpture, sound installation, painting, musical performance, or musical recording - is united in its investigation of the “Eternal Afro-Sonic Signifier” and its movement across and amid the cultures, peoples, places, and times of the African Diaspora. Those four evocative words (the term "Eternal Afro-Sonic Signifier" coined by Hoyt) refer to the “mnemonic network of sound” that was enslaved Africans’ “sole companion during the forced migration of the Middle Passage.” lt was, and is, a hard-won somatic toolkit for remembering where you come from and who you are - and maybe, where you’re going - against all the many odds. Of Jamaican-British descent, Hoyt was born in London and currently lives in Berlin. Having also spent time in New York, Paris, Mombasa, and Australia’s Northern Territory - all points on the many-sided and ever- expanding star that is the African Diaspora - he is an intimate observer of the sites of convergence where the Diaspora comes together to sing, shout, and be, reflecting itself to itself. Employing the shared toolkit to connect, express, and commiserate across centuries and oceans, Hoyt taps into aural and oral echoes as well as into those retained in the historical and material record.

Rewyld is a musical storyteller, curating somatic dream spaces, celebrated for her ability to blur genre boundaries and forge deep, magical connections on the dance floor. Her passion lies in crafting immersive musical visits to house, r&b, afro-fusion, garage, jungle, amapiano and more, delivering unforgettable energy with every set.

Trancesexuals is a multigenre Trans+ party by and for Trans people with the aim to create a safe and welcoming space for all Trans people, showcasing talented Trans+ DJs across the country with a focus on excellent sound, curated visuals and sensational vibes.

chimaera is the DJ alterego of Chan Hyacinth Fagan; a Nottingham-based Artist, DJ, Creative Programmer and co-organiser of Trancesexuals. His practice attempts to imagine and map future worlds, envisioning beings and spaces existing beyond oppressive ideology. Chan is particularly interested in dreaming up fictions about transsexual transhumanism, blending speculative technologies with queer biological life. Chan hosts Wyrd Wide Web, a monthly radio show streaming straight out of Swing Dash Radio Station with a chaotic collection of tracks from all over the web exploring genres from drone folk to latincore, donk and everything at 160bpm.

Soapy (Trancesexuals resident) is a power house in multi-genre mixing, seamlessly blending a multitude of genres like groovy techno with a latin twist, high energy bass music and leftfield sounds influenced by Bristol legends such as Pinch and Peverelist. Except punchy kicks, rolling bass lines and a soundscape that flutters between 130 and 160bpm - always going in unexpected directions, building a truly exhilarating experience.