Free

6 Jun 2025

The Underground

Bantam’s Drift

Brighter Sound

9.15pm: The Underground
Immerse yourself in the deconstructed soundscapes and images drawing on Bradford’s South Asian youth culture.

Bantam’s Drift, from artists m3UNTITLED and GOMID, deconstructs Yorkshire club music to examine Bradford’s South Asian youth culture.

Visceral, immersive and speculative, the work dismantles Yorkshire club music through soundscapes and visual experimentation, using haunting refrains of bassline and images of dogs and cars to mythologise Bradford’s South Asian working-class youth culture.

Bantam’s Drift is a music and multimedia collaboration between Bradford multimedia artist m3UNTITLED and Manchester experimental duo GOMID.

Genre: Sound art, UK bass

About this event

This New Music Biennial 2025 event is free, but ticketed. Standing tickets are unallocated and tickets don’t guarantee entry: admission is on a first-come, first-served basis for those with tickets. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

This event includes two performances of the same work and a short interview with the creative team in between the two, enabling audiences to experience the second performance with greater insight into the creative process.

About New Music Biennial

New Music Biennial is a three-day festival celebrating the best new music across all genres from the country’s most exciting composers – and in 2025, for the first time, it’s coming to venues around Bradford.

Credits
Presented in partnership with PRS Foundation, Southbank Centre, BBC Radio 3 and NMC Recordings, and supported by Arts Council England.

Commissioned by Brighter Sound and supported by Opera North.

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