[{"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "promoting and celebrating the music of Wales"}, {"text_idx": "#000015", "text": "New Expectations provided an opportunity to work collaboratively, share practice, explore ideas and have fun. Through an afternoon and evening of open discussion and music making we investigated many of the issues important to Wales-based avant-garde and improvising music makers."}, {"text_idx": "#000018", "text": "15:15 Discussion session #2: How identity impacts on your work performing / playing / recording in Wales"}, {"text_idx": "#000020", "text": "19:00-21:00 Short performances (10-15 mins each) showcasing a range of experimental, sound art and improvisation"}, {"text_idx": "#000021", "text": "21:00 performance #1: artists TBA"}, {"text_idx": "#000023", "text": "Delegates had the opportunity to perform throughout the afternoon and the beginning of the evening sessions."}, {"text_idx": "#000024", "text": "Gwilly Edmondez emerged in the 1980s from Bridgend, where he was a founder member of Radioactive Sparrow, once dubbed \u2018the most legendary band you\u2019ve probably never heard of. Gwilly practices a form of composition that disavows fixity and rehearsal, preferring an approach that dissolves the line between \u2018life\u2019 and \u2018performance\u2019 in ways that compromise neither. Having coined the term Wild Pop to describe his aesthetic as both a solo artist and as Gustav Thomas in YEAH YOU (est. 2013), his embracing the age of evaporation is manifest in a relentless autopathology oriented towards devotional sublimation."}]