David Sappa works between D.I.Y sound sculpture, improvisation and field recording- with a dense smudge between.
Their projects emerge via site-responsive processes, exploring found and discarded things - reconfigured, animated and resonated to reveal instability and leaky thresholds between bodies, material and place.
arranged themselves into new forms and begun to dance...’
- Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival review
Cafe Oto - July 2026
Goodwood Art Foundation - July 2026
Horse Hospital - August 2026
Countdown Grabowsee - August 2026
Raleigh Chapel - September 2026
Infant Tree (w/Caroline Kraabel) - June 2026
Deptford Beach - Rocca - June 2026
By hand, by eye, by ear - June 2026
Sadie Coles HQ - June 2026
Spanners - April 2026
Tate Britain - March 2026
No Clique - March 2026
Spring Tide Festival (w/Caroline Kraabel + Regan Bowering) - March 2026
On Conjuncture - Filet Gallery - Feb 2026
Of Noise - Late Works - Performances - Jan 2026
Of Noise - Late Works - Limited Edition Vinyl - Jan 2026
Of Noise - Late Works x State51 - Jan 2026
Ealing Arts Centre - Jan 2026
12 Hour Improvisation - Horse Hospital - December 2025
Ecotones - Radio Alhara - December 2025
Southwark Park Galleries - November 2025
Resonance.FM - live session - November 2025
Horse Hospital - October 2025
Brak Improvisation (w/ Cath Roberts) - September 2025
Cockpit Arts - Deptford X - July 2025
Uk Jazz News - 2025
Written in Music - 2025
Moers Festival - Foreshores Rising - Solo - 2025
Moers Festival - Duo (as slowturn) 2025
Moers Festival - Quartet (w/ Charlotte Keefe/Bella Comsom/Bruna Cabral) 2025
Quarry of Sound - Radio Alhara 2025
Happening @ Rosehill Brighton//Pencil Head 2025
International Sound Art Exhibition - Morley Gallery 2025
Radiophrenia Glasgow - Fig Memory - 2025
Radiophrenia Glasgow - The Walker in the Landscape w/Caitlin Kiely - 2025
Winter Sculpture Park - Gallery No 32 2025
Arts Council England - DYCP - Grant 2025
Alapam - Slow Dense 2025
5 against 4 - 2024
No Clique - Folklore Hoxton 2024
Foreshores Rising - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2024
Inertia Instruments - Project DIVFUSE 2024
HCMF - Fielding Talent - 2024
Sound and Music - Seed Award 2024
Hard Return Compilation - 2024
Don’t Look Back Records - Compilation - 2024
Fielding Talent - HCMF - 2024
Seed Award - Sound and Music - 2024
Funded Scholarship - Field Kitchen Academy - 2020
Labs Award - British Library - 2020
Funded Scholarship - Embodied Design School - 2019