CTM x ICA: Tyondai Braxton + Rian Treanor with Rotherham Sight & Sound
Tyondai Braxton
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Rian Treanor with Rotherham Sight & Sound
00:00
ICA London £25
The first CTM x ICA 2026 night converges on the art of reconstruction, pairing meticulous avant-garde worlds with hyper-regional sonic archaeology.
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Braxton presents material from his forthcoming Erased Tapes album Splayed Werks. Across orchestral writing, electronics, and densely layered rhythmic structures, Braxton's work has long occupied a singular space between contemporary composition and experimental music. Splayed Werks extends that trajectory, bringing together intricate arrangements and shivering sonic architectures in a performance foregrounding accumulation and transformation.
UnFS, by Tyondai Braxton
UnFS, by Tyondai Braxton
Algorithmic instigator Rian Treanor splices custom generative software into the post-industrial backdrop of South Yorkshire, fracturing techno's conventions into ricocheting rhythmic grids. Partnering with Rotherham Sight & Sound, a local charity for blind and deaf people, he developed bespoke digital synthesisers over four years of collaboration, designing them specifically for the visually impaired residents who had no previous musical experience. This collaborative framework subverts standard timing structures, reframing a total lack of cultural conditioning as pure instinctual noise, metallic raggas swivelling in volatile frictions. Traditional ideas of accessibility are dismantled as community-led experimentation rebuilds them into a vehicle of destabilising futureshock.
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.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut London.
ICA London
The Mall
London, SW1Y 5AH
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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