a two-week immersive arts programme hosted in the Delia Derbyshire Building, combining:
//curated narrative VR & mixed-reality experiences
//animation screenings and artist talks
//hands-on sound, listening and making workshops
//experimental dj sets
//projections and visual work responding to sound and space
DOT DOT DOT - Industry Night
Coventry University
14th May - Delia Derbyshire Building
Deliaphonic present Andy Votel + DJ Food & Putty Rubber
5.00pm - 7.00pm Andy Votel ((Finders Keepers / Twisted Nerve) DJ Set
7.00pm - 9.00pm DJ Food (Ninja Tune) & Puttyrubber DJ/VJ Set
This eagerly anticipated evening brings together employers, creative organisations, and industry partners for networking and a first look at our graduates’ work in the award-winning Delia Derbyshire Building.
Free tickets are available for Deliaphonic audiences via ticket link here -
Register for entry to the night 5pm to 9pm - free
DJ Food
+ PuttyRubber.
"A sound + light collaboration - building on their existing history, DJ Food and PuttyRubber return to Coventry for an improvised DJ and visual set that expands on their previous 2024 Deliaphonic performance."
Andy Votel
For over 30 years Andy Votel (Finders Keepers / Twisted Nerve) has built a global
reputation as a DJ, music producer, artist, graphic designer, writer, radio presenter,
events organiser and record label boss whilst successfully packing more multi-task
mayhem into a day at the office than most other workaholics can write on their
annual calendars.
Initially cutting his teeth as a teenage Mancunian beat-maker and club DJ, Votel’s
growing commitment to maligned multi-lingual music soon placed him as one of
the first-detectives-at-the-scene when re-contextualising lost pop, jazz and folk
music from Turkey, Thailand, Pakistan, Iran whilst celebrating minority languages
like Welsh And Occitan amongst others. His Finders Keepers label subsequently
became a renowned go-to sample source for a wide range of major Hip-Hop
artists such as Mos Def, Jay Z, Nas, Action Bronson, Madlib and Erykah Badu.
Impossible to pigeon hole, Votel has amassed hundreds of discography credits, in
varying capacitys over multiple genres. From the late 90’s his remix work ran like a
breadcrumb trail through British independent pop history while his production folio
for Gruff Rhys, Travis Scott, Badly Drawn Boy and Jane Weaver conceals at least
two platinum selling albums in contrast to his endless one-off limited art projects,
compilations and coveted mixtapes which have allowed him to relentlessly tour the
world as a DJ. His own record collection has been the subject of multiple book
features and filmed articles.
Consistently evolving and evading music industry norms Votel’s unquenchable
penchants are best savored via his regular long running radio shows,
documentaries and appearances for outlets like NTS and BBC which compliment
his work as a writer of multiple books, sleeve notes and magazine features (as a
published authority on selected works by Serge Gainsbourg, Jodorowsky, Robert
Downey, Jean Rollin). Whilst still holding down a daytime job as a trained designer
of over 250 record sleeves for the likes of David Holmes, Gilles Peterson and the
identities of various returning independent labels, Votel’s artistic zeal and
intercommunal outlook has also seen him curate a long list of stages and festival
events at the request of Jarvis Cocker, Festival No.6 The Green Man,The
Barbican Theatre and other international institutions. Driven by a fastidious self-
sufficient DIY attitude and exploratory infatuation there is little evidence that Andy
Votel’s foot will find the break pedal any time soon.
Register for entry to the night 5 pm to 9 pm - free
Max Cooper
is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, music label founder and former scientist who has carved out a unique space in music and visual art.
He holds a PhD in computational biology at the same time as being the first contemporary electronic musician to perform at the ancient Acropolis theatre in Athens and one of the first clutch of musicians to produce in Dolby Atmos.
Cooper has enquired for over 15 years through music, collaborations, and his label Mesh, to explore the intersections between the arts and sciences with installations, performances, immersive experiences, online media, music videos and live events. Anchored throughout is his emotive approach, connecting how ideas and forms feel, in a manner accessible to us all.
"I've always had a strong emotive bond with aesthetics, and found at an early age that the purified forms of electronic music carried a lot of weight for me, as did the reductive natural aesthetics of the sciences. That felt connection to both opened up a world I've been lost in ever since."
Pivoting from computational biology to electronic music might not seem like the most natural career transition, but for Cooper the commonalities are obvious: "In both fields, you're in a sense, free. Free from the limits of living systems, free from the limits of corporeal sound. The only constraints are in your mind."
Max Cooper has collaborated with Zaha Hadid Architects, Dolby, L-Acoustics, 4DSOUND, Barbican Centre, W1 Curates, The Babraham Institute and exhibited work at museums including the Pompidou Metz, ZKM Karlsruhe, Museum Wave Seoul and The Science Museum London.
"Go see him live, it's just an absolute wild experience"
Thomas Ravenscroft, BBC Radio 6 Music
"Beautiful electronic music inspired by the natural world"
Vogue
Support Act - Michael Diamond
Michael Diamond(opens in a new tab) is an experimental electronic-jazz producer, musician, clinician and researcher whose work lies at the meeting point of these seemingly disparate worlds. Informed by this rare background, Michael creates finely-detailed music that moves between deep listening and dancefloor energies. His work is underlined by his expanding interest in how music can influence mind, body and wellbeing.
Michael's records have been sold around the world, and he has performed at leading venues, radio stations and festivals globally. He founded and runs the label and creative outlet Vāsuki Sound.
Foyer Takeover
We are also proud to be presenting Max Cooper in conjunction with DeliaPhonic who will take over our gallery foyer from 7pm with DJ set from Sean Graham and interactive sound experiments with School of Noise DeliaPhonic is an annual celebration of the life and work of Coventry-born electronic music pioneer and composer Delia Derbyshire.
Tickets - link here
Duration
3 hours (including interval)
Date
Fri 15 May 2026 8pm
Venue
Butterworth Hall - Warwick Arts Centre
DeliaPhonic Immersive 2026
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We founded DeliaPhonic in 2017 after realising that many people in Coventry—the city where Delia Derbyshire grew up during the Blitz—were unaware of how the sounds she heard as a child, from air-raid sirens to the all-clear, profoundly shaped her later love of abstract sound and electronic music.
Since then, DeliaPhonic has grown into an ongoing programme of events and commissions exploring sound, place and experimentation, including sonic performances, installations, immersive and spatial sound works, talks, workshops, projections, film screenings, kids raves, DJ sets, documentary projects and school programmes.
In 2026, the project will explore Delia’s techniques and how they can be translated into VR, supported by CreaTech Frontiers and developed in collaboration with Coventry University’s Immersive Team.
Over the years, we have worked with a wide range of artists, composers, filmmakers, organisations, designers and thinkers, including:
Julian House // Hannah Peel // Cosey Fanni Tutti // Natalie Sharp (Lone Taxidermist) // Jerry Dammers // Halina Rice // // Panda Bear // Loraine James // David Holmes // Stealing Sheep // Lia Mice // Richard Fearless // Sonic Boom // Cristinana Llie // Loula Yorke // DJ Food // Fennella (Jane Weaver) // Yuri Suzuki // NikNak // Snapped Ankles // Lisa Rovner (Sisters With Transistors) // Caroline Catz (The Myths & Legandary Tapes of Delia Derbyshire) // White Noise // LoneLady // Bill Drummond // Madelon Hooykaas // Radiophonic Workshop // Selena Godden // Jonny Trunk // The Orb (Dr Alex Paterson) // Indira Prasad // Stewy Stencils // Squidsoup // Nik Ramage // Venus Ex Machina // School of Noise // Brian Hodgson // John Higgs // Dr David Butler // Andrew O’Neill // Stuart Maconie // Jude Rees is Madrigirl // Beautify Junkyards // Neil Kulkarni // Ian Helliwell // Richard Norris // Cries From The LTN // Big Fish Little Fish // Cosmic Neighbourhood // Stone Anthem // Echo Juliet // Rosie Tee // Pram // Paul Toller // Cites Prepare For Attack // Paddy Steer // Howlround // The New Obsolescents // PuttyRubber // Aja Ireland // EYSA // Matekio - Daisy Dickinson & Maxim Baron // Looking Glass Alice // George Shaw // Vanishing Twin // Peter Zinovieff // Alex Miles // Hassan K // Mark Ayres // Neil Seely // Innerstrings // Sm^sher // Delia Derbyshire Day // The Oram Awards // The British Council // Sensoria // GhostBox Records // Supersonic // Loss<>Gain //Journey To Nutopia // Coventry University // Flatpack // Coventry Cathedral // Arts Council England // Heart of England // Coventry City of Culture // Intro // National Lottery Hertigage Fund // IKO Spatial Aesthetics - University Of Greenwich // Anti/Type Films //
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