No Bounds 2026 begins by transforming Peddler into something else entirely.

For our opening concert, Max Cooper brings his immersive 3D/AV Live show to Sheffield, building a world of light, sound and movement around the architecture of one of the city’s best grassroots venues.

Featuring music from his latest album Feeling Is Structure alongside work from across his catalogue, the performance brings scientific ideas and deeply human stories into the same space. Intricate electronic composition meets generative visuals as images move beyond the screen, wrapping the room in shifting sculptures of light and sound.

Joining him are The Black Dog, one of the foundational forces in Sheffield’s electronic music story. Formed close to the birth of techno itself, their records helped define a distinctly British strain of machine music, intricate, emotional and strange, sitting somewhere between techno, ambient and a future nobody had quite named yet. Nearly 40 years on, they’ve never been interested in behaving like a heritage act.

For this special No Bounds performance, they present a live A/V version of Loud Ambient, pushing ambient music out of the background and into something huge, physical and slightly overwhelming. Their relationship with No Bounds runs deep, from commissioned work to live shows, and with Peddler’s Danley subs involved, we’re expecting the foundations to get a proper test.

Emergence Collective complete the bill with a very different kind of intensity, creating slowly unfolding improvised sound worlds shaped by the acoustics, history and character of the space around them.

Three distinct approaches to live electronic performance, brought together for an opening concert that sits right at the meeting point of music, art and technology.

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