Daniel Bryden is an experimental musician and video artist from Newcastle upon Tyne, currently based in Berlin. He releases music as Days Like Television.
Using an array of dissaciated sound sources and fragmented synths, Bryden’s work delicately balance a viscerally intense heaviness with a melodic and nostalgic beauty.
His debut album- ‘This Will Have Been the Past’ (released 05 / 06 / 24 on Bonambi) acts as the culmination of 10 years of experiments within the noise, improvised, and electronic music scene. These include live AV performances at such venues as ICA (London), La Vallée (Brussels), ACUD MACHT NEU (Berlin), and VEKKS (Vienna).
As a founding member of ‘Kross Collective’, Bryden co-organises the experimental event series ‘CONVERGENCE’ which takes place at Lettrétage.
CV
EDUCATION
2015 - 2018: B.A. Hons, Contemporary and Popular Music, Newcastle University
COMMISSIONS / AWARDS
2022: INITIAL- Special Grant of the Akademie der Künste Germany for Long Term Artistic Projects 2021: DYCP Grant, Arts Council England 2021: Automatic Towards for Brighter Sound’s ‘Let’s Reconnect’ programme 2020: Sage Summer Studios Video Fund 2019: Bodies for BBC Radio / Sounds App. Commissioned as part of the BBC and Arts Council England ‘New Creatives’ Programme
RELEASES
2024: This Will Have Been the Past (Bonambi, UPCOMING) 2023: Not a Word, as part of ‘Bonambi x Nativitas’ V/A (Bonambi) 2022: Torn Clothes / Fiction, as part of ‘Concrete World' V/A (Opal Tapes) 2021: elKl, EP 2020: Moved By, EP 2019: You and Your Stable Children, EP
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2024: Lettrétage, Berlin w/ Andreea Hriscu 2023: LaVallee, Brussels 2023: VEKKS, Vienna 2023: Off The Ground, Middlesborough 2023: XXXTER, Berlin 2023: Untergeschoss der Pandora Galerie, Berlin w/ Andreea Hriscu 2023: Kingston University, London w/ David Spittle 2023: Madame Claude, Berlin 2022: Bridge Hotel, Newcastle w/ David Spittle
RESIDENCIES
2022: Petersburg Art Space, Berlin, Artist in Residence 2022: Nectar, Catalonia, Artist in Residence 2021: Slacks Radio, Resident 2020: Sage, Gateshead, Artist in Residence
EXHIBITIONS
2022: - ghosts go through you -, Petersburg Art Space, Berlin 2022: bloop, bloop, bloop, Nectar AIR Exhibition, Les Guilleries (Group Show) 2020: I’m as Old as The Internet Is, DigiArts Festival, Online (Group Show)
MUSIC FOR FILM
2022: RUBBLES (Dir: David Spittle) 2022: LAZARUS TAXA (Dir: David Spittle) 2021: Albatross (Dir: Sam Bond) 2021: YOU WERE / (Dir: David Spittle) 2020: Bear in Mind, Letters Bury (Dir: David Spittle) 2019: BLANK (Dir: Andrew David Robson)
PUBLICATIONS
2020: Buildings Across Stomachs, The Mass Collection (February Edition)
SELECTED FEAUTRES / PRESS
02/09/22: Sound Installation for HINTERRAUM BERLIN Open Studios Exhibition
10/04/22: LAZARUS TAXA presented at ‘Living Words: Catalan Poetry & Performance’ (Iklectik, London)
16/03/22: Audio Consultant on The Sound Grief Project
27/04/21: Q&A on Automatic towards with Brighter Sound, Reconnect Digital Festival
05/04/21: ‘In the Distance Lies the Future: Imagining New Models of Live Performance’, Artist Talk, Reconnect Festival, Iran
06/11/20: Interview with Voice Magazine, UK.
03/11/20: Review of Bodies in Voice Magazine, UK.
07/08/20: Instagram Takeover for Sage Gateshead, UK.
27/04/20: I’m as Old as The Internet is first published as part of the ArtConnect Magazine’s feature: ‘Transformation: The Nakedness’.
20/04/20: Bodies featured in ArtConnect Magazine’s ‘Favourite Projects of April’ article.