The Zero BPM team is delighted to present some of Norfolk’s most innovative and exciting performers (in no particular order).

.astriDrift

.astriDrift is an experimental duo navigating the tides between dream and form. Voice, synths, and found sound drift through layers of drone, breath, and distortion – a sonic landscape where myth, nature, and identity dissolve into one another.

Two Way Mirror Rehearsal

Embers Choir

Embers are a Norwich-based community choir who really must be heard to be believed. Bringing the folk traditions of Europe to the Fine City, they perform everything from raucous Bulgarian ditties, to evocative Corsican paghjellas and brassy Ukrainian celebration songs. In a set especially selected for Zero BPM, they will take us on a drone-based journey that is sure to be joyful, exhilarating and moving. They are absolutely not to be missed.

Embers - So Centu Voce Di'lesse (I Pastori)

Mark C Sargeant

Mark is a bit of a legend on the local festival circuit. He’s a regular at Woodbridge Ambient Festival and if you’re lucky you’ll have caught him at Norwich or Yarmouth venues, layering samples and synthesisers over ambient guitar drones to sculpt big washes of complex harmonic sound. His music is deeply hypnotic. We mean deeply hypnotic. You will be unbelievably chilled after his set.

Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival 22/09/2024

Megan Vaughan Parry & Friends

Megan Vaughan Parry has one of Norfolk’s finest folk voices, no question about it. We could describe it as powerful, yet intimate and captivating. It is all those things, but these words don’t do her justice - just listen to her YouTube clip below. Megan will be performing with Norwich-based modular synth artist Revolutionary Biscuits (Martin Noble-James), who is more used to collaborating with water, plants, and fungi to write music (no, really). Completing the trio is Alex Hobbs an accomplished classical and folk cellist (and co- organiser of the Norfolk Music Festival) . Come with us on what promises to be musical journey for everyone – not least the band.

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Venatus

Does a drum drone? What is a bodhran doing at a festival called Zero BPM anyway? Sam Rushford & Barnaby Andrews take a traditional Irish instrument and sample it, modulate it, harmonise and generally mangle it through a modular synthesiser and other assorted electronic toys. The result is sometimes challenging, often beautiful, always compelling.

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the church piano bar, Redwell St. Norwich

25th May 2026

Zero BPM reserves the write to change this line up but we promise we will only do so if it’s really really necessary.