YARMONICS continues in 2026 with more exciting news. Partner organisation, originalprojects; have acquired a new venue (St John’s church, 38 Lancaster Rd, Great Yarmouth NR30 2NG) and from spring 2027 we will work with our community to build a site-specific sound system and dedicated listening space at St John’s.

Informed by this exciting venture this years festival introduces a day of talks from artists working in community listening practice, grassroots sound system culture and sonic storytelling on Sunday 27th September. On Saturday 26th we have selected some brilliant artists to create new performances for specific spaces and sites, on the themes of (positive) disruption and interference.

Tickets are free but must be reserved via Eventbrite here.

Venues and FAQ are detailed here.

Schedule is detailed here.

YARMONICS is supported by Arts Council England, The Ranworth Trust and Play Produce Promote. If you wish to support our work to help us do more then you can donate using PayPal or via bank transfer here.

Big Ears

Big Ears are a team spanning makers, designers, sound engineers & curators. The team will join us to talk about their brand new hand built ‘Hive’ system, and their place in contemporary sound system culture.

Talk | Sunday 27th - 2.30pm | St John’s Church, NR30 2NG

e.m.arson

e.m.arson is the moniker of Emmally Parsons, a British experimental producer, musician, and sound/visual artist based in Norfolk, UK. She blends field recordings, electro-acoustic instruments, tape loops, and improvised vocal and guitar textures into raw, DIY soundscapes. For this performance, e.m.arson will present a new site-specific multichannel, multisensory performance which explores the de-centring of performer and investigating how the body processes sound when visual information is reduced.

Performance | Saturday 26th - 3pm | Royal Hotel, NR30 3AE

ECHOS MONDE

Dana Sousa-Limbu is a creative researcher and cultural producer working at the intersection of sound, cities, participation and collective listening. 

Her work explores how sound can be used as a method for understanding urban life, cultural memory and social relations. Through research, public programming and documentary practice, she develops projects that bring together communities, artists, academics and institutions to investigate how people experience and shape their environments through listening.

Dana is the founder of ECHOS MONDE, a creative research and cultural strategy practice exploring sound, place and collective experience through research, public engagement and events. Dana is currently directing The Urban Listening Room, a participatory research and public engagement project developed in collaboration with Charlie Dark MBE, David Chen and Passa Productions. The project explores sound system culture, collective listening and urban belonging through the co-production and activation of a functional sound system.

Talk | Sunday 27th - 12.30pm | St John’s Church, NR30 2NG

Hannan Jones

Hannan Jones works across sound, film, installation, sculpture and performance, engaging with hybridity, rhythm and psychogeography in relation to cultural and social migration. Her practice is shaped by questions of continuity and rupture, often working through analogue processes at the intersections of sound, moving image and installation.

Projects trace free speech movements, survival tactics and ritual practices, alongside embodied strategies for navigating public space under conditions of economic and environmental precarity. Her work foregrounds personal and collective histories, drawing on Welsh and Algerian heritage, and examining how positionality shapes memory, belonging and selfhood.

Sonically, she works with sampling, electronics, musique concrète and archival fragments to construct layered, associative audio forms that reframe fragmented histories.

Performance | Saturday 26th - 1pm | Hippodrome Circus, NR30 2EU

On Yee Lo

London-based multidisciplinary artist and cook On Yee Lo (b. Hong Kong), creates and constructs ‘Cooking Instruments’- physical systems where common meals are prepared and consumed which encompass gestures, labour and hospitality. Her performances fold together with experiences of working as both cook and musician within the experimental music communities.

These systems unravel her research in culinary techniques and open transformative processes across a variety of social settings. She has exhibited and performed her work at Counterflows Festival Glasgow, LUFF - Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Cafe OTO, Ikon Gallery, ICA London, Camden Art Centre, Bloomberg New Contemporaries and ARTISSIMA Turin.

Performance | Sunday 27th - 12pm | St John’s Church, NR30 2NG

Pauper Palace

Pauper Palace is a new improvising duo of Jackie Montague (voice) and John Bowers (electronics).

At Yarmonics 2026, we will present St John's Resonance - an exploration, developed on-site during the Festival, of the acoustic properties of St John's Church while intertwining our personal entanglements with the history of Great Yarmouth and the East Anglian Coast. Combining text, image, live action, and drawing on traditions of psychogeography and experimental music, we will offer a psychedelic performance-séance that channels both the historic past and a future fantasy of where we all are.

Performance | Saturday 26th - 5pm | St John’s Church, NR30 2NG

Regan Bowering

Regan Bowering is a percussionist, improviser and sound artist based in London. Her solo work explores various combinations of drums and percussion, objects, amps, speakers, and feedback. Her debut album “Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces” (Dec 2023 on Bezirk Tapes) was described as “a play of contrasts, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” (The Quietus).

Her debut LP A Technology of Feeling was released in January 2026 on Infant Tree. She is one third of a collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake, with two releases: “2 Movements” (Feedback Moves, 2024) and "Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers" (Infant Tree, 2023). She is currently doing a practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Performance | Saturday 26th - 4pm | Hippodrome Circus, NR30 2EU

Russell Haswell

Russell Haswell is an electronic musician and visual artist, most well-known for his extreme computer music. He currently lives in Glasgow, having worked together with Aphex Twin, Florian Hecker, Merzbow, Mika Vainio, Yasunao Tone and Peter Rehberg and released on labels such as Warp, Editions Mego, and Diagonal.

For YARMONICS Russell will be giving a version of his Intensity Mapping workshop (public booking open soon) alongside a performance shaped by the workshop.

Performance | Saturday 26th - 6pm | St John’s Church, NR30 2NG

YEAH YOU

To you YEAH YOU are to you a father daughter duo who let music invade the family context. Who let music dismantle the family car, using construct absurdity to redeem resented weekly Tesco shops and traffic jams. YEAH YOU are not who you said we are, but we are that inverted, and battery op. The content shifts depending on how many supermarket discounts we found. Known for their sneak-up picnic public invasions, perform mostly when uninvited but will always jump on chance to berate a strobe-cut stage, brawling electronic dirt pop, words and feet exert integral (instagram) distrust: you won’t hear what you see.

Why who? They only ever wanted to take back their solidarity with inertia. Creeping up behind a ‘don’t bite the hand that feeds you’ cultural climate, striving to unbuckle the gift economy. You let the lesson be yearn inappropriately. Warped into identity politics this could be an anti-formulaic deconstruction of the nuclear family and of psychic uniform, which normative roles serve to sustain. But in itself is just an improv life stream of the bottom 40: from 0 to -40. Diving in with an admittedly involuntary entropic approach, they provide something for all the family to enjoy/not enjoy.

Performance | Saturday 26th - 2pm | Car Park tba