CTM x ICA: Cyst, Alpha Maid, Europa

25th Sep 2026 25th Sep 2026 20:00 open end

Cyst

00:00

Alpha Maid

00:00

Europa

00:00

ICA London £25

Across two nights at London’s ICA, Berlin’s CTM Festival brings together artists working across experimental composition and electronics, punk and performance. From intricate new works and A/V weirdings to shattered club mutations, the program traces a range of approaches to contemporary sound.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

The second of two CTM x ICA 2026 nights explores composition as a process of constant mutation. 

Thriving on a shared fixation with synthetic biology and microscopic collisions of sound data, Cyst is a collaboration between Iglooghost and Daisy*. Maximalist digital beats are welded onto a hyper-viscous sonic palette. The resulting metamorphosis-heavy club organisms feel gelatinous, all ruptured breakbeats and bioluminescent aural textures.

  • ᲘᲘ, by Cyst

  • ᲘᲘ, by Cyst

Alpha Maid slices through shifting indie-punk soundscapes, dub currents nodding to her Jamaican heritage, hazy emo reverberations and the grit of experimental noise whispering across it all. Sparked by a growing fascination with particle physics, her work is informed by a fascination with the unknown; the vast, unexplored spaces of possibility beyond what we can currently perceive.

  • Is this a queue, by Alpha Maid

  • Is this a queue, by Alpha Maid

Europa's A/V works are birthed in the liminal: penned in jet-lagged twilight, forged in the groaning belly of planes, trains, and transit purgatories. His songs are restless, shedding old skins as new ones form, always on the cusp of somewhere else. Pop is rendered into pixelated shards, club anthems stretched to their breaking point, ambient tones leaking glittery viscera.

  • LAgoon, by Europa

  • LAgoon, by Europa

The ICA London (Institute of Contemporary Arts) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. They commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most progressive artists, inviting artists and audiences to interrogate what it means to live in our world today, with a genre-fluid programme that challenges the past, questions the present and confronts the future. 

Credits

Supported by the Goethe-Institut London.

Venue Address

ICA London
The Mall 
London, SW1Y 5AH

Event Access

Warning: This show will take place with loud volumes and stroboscopic lighting effects. Ear protection is available at the venue. Entry is 18+.

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