The Experimental Sound Society New Music Norwich

Step into the sonic unknown with The Experimental Sound Society: New Music Norwich - a bold, immersive series pushing the boundaries of electroacoustic and experimental music. 

Funded by Arts Council England, in conjunction with Norwich Puppet Theatre this ongoing series of gigs curates radical soundscapes, avant-garde performances and genre-defying collaborations, inviting audiences to experience music at its most innovative and thought-provoking. 

Whether you’re a devotee of the unconventional or a curious newcomer, prepare to be challenged, inspired, and transported by artists redefining what music can be. 

Join us as we celebrate the cutting edge of contemporary sound in one of Norwich’s most unique and inspiring venues.

Event Programme -

12th June 2026 

Una Lee + support

Una Lee is an artist working with sounds, stories and sensations, in perpetual pursuit of alternative storytelling.
She likes to play with the notion of a contemporary marriage between performance and poetry. Una explores human condition, memory, time, and our relationship with art and ecology through narratives, often drawn from autobiographical events as a non-native in her current habitat.
Una has performed and exhibited extensively including at Sonorities Festival (Belfast), Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, International Summer Music Festival Darmstadt, Oslo Internasjonale Poesifestival, Espace Niemeyer (Paris), Osaka Electroacoustic Music Festival, apex art (NYC), Oil Tank Culture Park (Seoul), and Cafe OTO (London). She has received an Oram Award and two Ivor Novello Composers Award nominations.

17th July 2026 - To Be Announced

4th September 2026 - To Be Announced

16th October 2026

The Last Toadsmen of the East (John Bowers and Liam Wells) + support

John Bowers (UK) works with modular synthesisers, home-brew electronics, feedback systems, self-made software, field recordings, esoteric sensor systems, experimental film, and spoken text. He often combines performance with walking and the investigation of selected sites to research an imagined discipline he calls ‘mythogeosonics’. He has performed at festivals including the Venice Biennale, Experimental Intermedia New York,Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel Berlin, Piksel Bergen, Electropixel Nantes, BEAM London, Faster Than Sound Aldeburgh and Spill Ipswich, and toured with the Rambert Dance Company performing David Tudor’s music to Merce Cunningham’s Rainforest. He contributed to the design of The Prayer Companion - a piece exhibited twice at the Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and acquired for their permanent collection

20th November 2026

Adam Weikert + Phil Archer

Adam Weikert is a Contemporary Musician, Producer, and Artist from Oxfordshire, residing in Leicester, England.With over 60 million streams across his solo projects, various pseudonyms, and the acclaimed post-rock group "Her Name is Calla", his work spans a vast sonic landscape—from folk and classical to cutting-edge electronic. An award-winning multi-instrumentalist, Weikert explores the intersection of digital performance and traditional acoustic pedigree. His live work centres on Dionysian dynamics, utilising asynchronous looping, randomised field recordings, and evolving performance environments to scaffold moments of happenstance amoungst traditional practice.In the studio, his work delves into themes of identity, historical figures, science, and folklore, informed by unique production palettes developed over decades of experience. His recent explorations have focused particularly on quadraphonic improvisation and the expressive potential of MPE controllers.

Phil Archer's main areas of interest are circuit-bending and hardware hacking, the creation of electro-mechanical musical instruments and interfaces, and the use of these in live performance situations.Past works have involved modified CD players, electronic music boxes, and the live circuit-bending of a mains-powered Yamaha keyboard by dripping water onto the circuit-board. His music has been played and broadcast around the world, and he has performed with artists ranging from Nic Collins to Dat Politics.Phil also played guitar in the Anglo-Japanese electro punk-pop band Hyper Kinako, makes solo recordings, and is a member of Transept.

18th December 2026 - 

Navigator + support

5th February 2027 - 

Ingrid Plum + support

Ingrid Plum (UK/DK) is a singer and sound artist who uses their voice with field recordings, percussion and electronics. Described by The Guardian as “gorgeously atmospheric vocal techniques woven around field recordings & electronics” they have performed and exhibited internationally since 2002, creating work that combines Folk Music, Contemporary Classical Music and Sound Art. Incorporating their research into folk traditions withstudying directly with Meredith Monk, their recent performances have been described as “succinct and nourishing... a luxuriant space between almost excessive precision and looser improvisation" by The Wire. Their work has been played by Late Junction on BBC Radio 3, where they were also invited to perform in session at Maida Vale Studios. Plum took part in Radio 4’s New Weird Britain and was commissioned to compose and perform a new work for International Womens Day 2019 for The Verb on BBC Radio 3. Their self-soothing sculpture, sound and scenes series of compositions ‘Dulme’ were featured on Radio 3’s Unclassified. Their latest album ‘Corporeality’ was commissioned by Ryoanji Records and the Lily Greenham Archive.

12th March 2027 - To Be Announced

16th April 2027 - 

Kar Pouzi + support

Further Information

Seating is unreserved

Doors: 7pm

Start: 8pm

There is a fully stocked bar at the venue serving drinks and snacks.

Additional Access

All performances have unreserved seating. Please note that there is a flight of stairs to get into the auditorium. If you require the front accessible row or step-free access, please book Accessible Tickets.

Tickets

General Admission - £10.00

Student Ticket - £5.00 (please show your student card at the door)

Carer Ticket - £8.00

Full Programme Ticket General Admission - £75.00  - Click on any of the gigs to book your Full Programme Ticket and enjoy all nine gigs at a discounted rate.