Ceremonial Laptop

22/08/2025

✨ GIG ANNOUNCEMENT ✨

📅 Saturday 13th September 2025
🕰️ Doors at 7pm
At where we belong.


Inspired by the symbiotic relationship that forms lichen, Lichon’s music is created using the biodata of plants, fungi, and lichen, alongside field recordings and improvised instrumentation on violin, violin, guitar and synths. The pitch, tempo and structures are all directly informed by biodata, culminating in a meditative exploration of our environment and our place within it. Each live performance is unique and immersive, exploring various sonic landscapes, largely dependent on the activity of the particular plants that join the duo on stage. The music is motivated by ecological, technological and social changes, with responses expressing vulnerability, power, destructiveness and peace. Lichon’s sound world is a reflection upon and response to the landscapes and intricate patterns found in flora and fauna. It encourages a shift in how humans think, how we relate to nature and how we are connected to this earth, our home.


R.dyer combines anything from found sounds, synth, musical saw, saxophone, nose-flute, folk harp, household objects, and light up shoelaces to create looped performances which move from baroque-pop to mesmerising soundscapes via acapella lullabies and stories about dogs in trainers. A regular performer in their home-town of Brighton, they’ve supported Sarah Angliss, Porridge Radio, Ana da Silva & PHEW!, Alabaster dePlume, Haiku Salut and Richard Dawson, as well being one of three early career artists to be awarded an Emergent Commission by Drake music in 2021.

+ .fins
Cederick Knox & Grow Fins will also be presenting a one-off collaboration featuring prepared piano, guitar loops and samples. They assure us that the attention of all those in attendance will be pilfered liberally, and none shall swoon.

£9 adv / £12 OTD

21/05/2025

✨️ NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT ✨️
🗓 Saturday 28th June, 2025
⏳️ Doors 7PM


Ceremonial Laptop and Nocturne present a triple headliner featuring: Pillow, Ben Roberts and Ceann Capaill, in a night of meditative strings and improvisation.

PILLOW - A contemporary classical group performing the dark and cinematic compositions of James Osler. Sighting influence from artists such as Jonny Greenwood, Harold Budd, Nick Drake, Max Richter and Olivier Messiaen.

Composer and cellist BEN ROBERTS' visionary new project 'Vi****or' harnesses sacred frequencies to elevate wellbeing and inspire a creative revolution.
Vi****or’s seven tracks correspond to the body’s seven chakras, sketching a beautiful cello improvisation around a core home frequency.

CEANN CAPAILL is a shape-shifting music project led by Irish multi-instrumentalist Declan Haughian. Born as a studio experiment, each song grows from immersive collaboration - sometimes lasting days, sometimes weeks - with a revolving cast of musicians, artists, videographers, and writers.





🎫 tickets available via website or the link in our bio

20/02/2025

✨ NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT ✨
📅 Thursday 27th March 2025
🕰️ 7pm doors


Ceremonial Laptop returns once more to The Rose Hill to present a triple-header of formal ambiguities. Imprognosticable meanderings and obnoxious hooting abounds.

FURROWED
Furrowed (producer / sound artist Dylan Beattie) ‘tattoos sound’ directly to blank vinyl records as multiple pickups trace evolving grooves. Using a handheld audio device he directly inscribes signals from tone generators, resampling the disc surface, environmental and other sounds. His unique performance approach creates unpredictable tones, rhythm and texture, whilst celebrating limitation in physical media.

VAN STONHOLDT
“guitar playing”
“i really don’t know how to describe other than guitar music”
https://vanstonholdt.bandcamp.com/

NEW GARDENERS SOCIETY
A discontinuous sequence of thumps and murmurs from the longtime Ceremonial Laptop house band. Time passes. Dust motes are redistributed. Somewhere a serviette sits unused. Potentially music.

30/10/2024

* SUPPORT ANNOUNCEMENT *
will be performing alongside and headliners and at our AV night next Wednesday at

"DRASS is an audio-visual work by the digital artist aka Eric Drass. Sinister, uncanny and unsettling, the performance consists of a bleak, electronic song-cycle performed live against AI-generated visuals. Treated vocals and disturbing lyrics add a brutally human element to a nightmare vision of the modern digital content-drowned world. The performance ultimately asks us what we find more disturbing – the AI generated visuals, or the man who created them?"

Tickets available from bio

18/10/2024

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT!
https://facebook.com/events/s/ceremonial-laptop-bkk-inmintco/519493884193932/

Welcome back to Ceremonial Laptop Bangkok, your new friend in experimental music and art.

This month at Jam, we are showcasing the best in experimental ambience, looping contemporary classical and live coded beats, from across Thailand...

inmintcontion
”inmintcondition“ is a Bangkok based Sound Engineer by day and a bedroom-music-producer by night. She draws inspiration from a wide range of musical genres and styles, Her musical medium is as varied as her influences, constantly pushing boundaries to explore new horizons. One of her most exciting ventures is the captivating world of ”Live Coding.“ Through this innovative approach, inmintcondition invites her audience to join her on a mesmerizing journey into the realm of real-time sound production with lines of code.
https://www.instagram.com/in.mintcondition_?igsh=MXBtdGVjcGlvdXRzYg==

Anna Maria Olsson
Multitrack violin performance of original compositions and improvisations with live looping and processing. Inspired by game soundtracks, minimalism and dark Scandinavian winters.
https://www.instagram.com/annaolssonmusic?igsh=MXd4emZwbzhzazVkdg==

Faianya
The harsh sound that pierces the air woven through a mixer, transmuting chaos into a soothing balm for the soul—a healing melody that resonates in the stillness of the present.
https://www.instagram.com/faianya?igsh=MWZ2eW0zdXhyYWhyOQ==

Artwork by Joseph Johnston (https://www.instagram.com/pink_turns_puke/)

Saturday 9 November
Doors at 8pm
Jam (BTS Surasak)
300thb

If you would like to submit work for future events please send an email to [email protected]

16/10/2024

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT!
https://facebook.com/events/s/ceremonial-laptop-bkk-experime/1044937304093395/

Welcome back to Ceremonial Laptop Bangkok, your new friend in experimental music and art.

For our first film night at Jam, we are showcasing the best of what the Ceremonial Laptop collective has to offer. A collection of films that range from abstract to absurd, this is conceptual cinema as only Ceremonial Laptop knows how.

Featuring films by
NINIT
(https://linktr.ee/ninit_polysicness)

Waverant
(https://www.instagram.com/waverantvisual/)

Cederick Knox
(https://www.instagram.com/cederick_knox/)

and much more...

Artwork by Joseph Johnston (https://www.instagram.com/pink_turns_puke/)

Sunday 27 October
Screenings start at 8pm
Jam (BTS Surasak)
Free Entry

If you would like to submit work for future events please send an email to [email protected]

01/10/2024

Thank you so much to Regionotes for this amazing write up of Narrative Death and our first show at JAM this Saturday! We can't wait to see you all.

30/09/2024

This Saturday people! Who's coming down?

Super pumped for my next show this Saturday! Who wants to know my set list? Any guesses?

26/09/2024

Welcome to the first of the new monthly night at JAM curated by Ceremonial Laptop. We are an experimental label, collective and your new best friend. Hit us up if you want to play!
ceremoniallaptop.bandcamp.com

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NINIT (rave/punk)
NINIT brings you banging beats and unexpected cover songs, sounds for the mosh, the rave and the bedroom; smashing together rave and punk. NINIT encourages everyone to continue doing what makes them happy and to not change for anyone but themselves. This is music for pets and other food.
ninit.bandcamp.com/

Narrative Death (poetry/indie pop)
Narrative Death is a musical project that vibrantly merges elements of poetry and indie-pop together in a form which can only be best described it as a dance of love, doom and drama.
narrativedeath.bandcamp.com/

Lamp Of Invisible Light (drone/techno)
Heavy drone to make you move. A new, many faced beast of a band. Live visuals, samples, noise, vocals, bass and beats coalesce into catharsis.

200THB on the door!

23/09/2024

* * SHOW ALERT ** Lost Communications 失絡之聲
An-Ting & Ian Gallagher with support from Cederick Knox + more TBC. 06 Nov 2024, 19:30

Tickets link in bio. 

We're delighted to welcome & to our first event at in the upstairs performance venue. 

“An-Ting is the one-to-watch in the world of composing.” Notion

“Classy Taiwanese electronica.” The Slow Music Movement

An-Ting will perform her new album, Lost Communications 失絡之聲, with live audio-reactive visuals from Ian Gallagher.

An-Ting 安婷 has led and co-created productions including HOME X (nominated for UK Theatre Awards, first presented in Barbican), CAN X Two Temple Place: Digital Exhibition and Immersive Performance (Arts Council England’s Digital Culture Award – Storytelling), Augmented Chinatown 2.0 (an app for AR, music and drama), Lao Can Impression (Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room) and Bats and Beats (Soundstate Festival, Shanghai tour).

Ian Gallagher studied Theoretical Physics at Edinburgh before completing a PhD in Complex Systems at Manchester University. His creative technology works have won Arts Council England’s Digital Culture Award (Storytelling) and have been nominated for the UK Theatre Awards (Digital Innovation). More recently his work has been presented at the East Kowloon Cultural Centre, Hong Kong’s flagship Arts-Tech venue and he has become a core contributor to the generative AI open source arts community.

Cederick Knox will be performing their new AV project ‘Pelican Knox’ featuring contributions from Pelican Man.

“... pleasantly unsettling… this is fantastic.” God is in the TV

“ immediately raises the question: “what is this?”. Outtallectuals

07/06/2024

Surprise! As promised on our last radio show, here is the long rumoured remix companion to Codex Serafini second EP Invisible Landscape. This should have been out a long time ago but life sometimes conspires against these things. Now, way past due, we are finally releasing this thing into the wild.

https://ceremoniallaptop.bandcamp.com/album/invisible-landscape-reimagined

Featuring remixes from:
Allsiah
By Bizzare Hands
Cederick Knox
Chaos LOL
Fane
Hákarl
Matt Upchuck
Nil by Nose
NINIT

and if you want more of the aforementioned Ceremonial Laptop radio show on Slack City you can...

LISTEN LIVE: slackcity.org
or
ON DEMAND: totallyradio.com/shows/ceremonial-laptop

See ya/Love ya

23/05/2024

Thank you to everyone who played and came down to our Fake Escape show last Saturday. Our next event is next Thursday featuring work made with and about plants -- a perfect way to celebrate the spring!

returns after her incredible solo piano performance last year. This time she presents new 'plant-based compositions’. Also some ‘potato music’. Recent work ‘linea naturalis’ is derived from bioelectricity in plants with medicinal and healing properties. Compositional processes were applied to these plant signals to create a unique piece of plant-derived music. The project was recently featured in and

Artist and gardener .carr made debut album ‘yew’ over two years whilst training in horticulture in the Essex countryside. Her music has been described as “tudorgaze” and “Burial meets Springwatch”. “Tape loops sampled from medieval cassettes found in charity shops in Essex, euphoric waves of distortion gleaned from field recordings and homemade instruments, and improvised responses on harp and violin.”

More info, clips and ticket link in bio.