Weirdcore to design stage installation at Houghton Festival next month
The Aphex Twin visual collaborator will take on visual duties at the festival's Warehouse stage
Houghton Festival is linking up with visual artist Weirdcore for this year's event.
The festival's Warehouse stage will be set up as an audiovisual space featuring d&b audiotechnik's spatial audio system, Soundscape, and they've invited Weirdcore, a frequent visual collaborator of Aphex Twin, to design a special visual installation piece.
"This piece will be like a mirror into a fragmented, fractal version of the room the audience will be in at that time," the visual artist said in a statement. "It will feel like the room extends further into the screen."
He continued: "The lights in both the real room and the mirrored room will be animated to the music, so in combination with the fractalised extended room, the experience will feel like something between a Weirdcore version of 'through the looking-glass' and the 1982 supernatural horror movie 'Poltergeist'."
Donato Dozzy, DJ Nobu, Margaret Dygas, GiGi FM and Batu are all scheduled to DJ at the Warehouse over the course of this year's festival, while there will also be live sets there from Monolake, Deepchord, object blue, Bjarki, Higher Intelligence Agency, and Freerotation's Steevio & Suzybee.
Houghton returns to its home of Houghton Hall in Kings Lynn from 10th-13th August.
In April, the festival shared a recording of Saoirse's DJ set from the 2022 edition.
Revisit DJ Mag's review of last year's festival here.
