This third collaboration between CTM x ICA will again immerse visitors into the intersections between music, visuals, and performance, highlighting both organisations’ longtime commitment to pushing artistic dialogues across forms and practices. With: Lyra Pramuk, aya x MFO, Emptyset, Tarta Relena, Violent Magic Orchestra, and KAVARI. Supported by the Goethe-Institut London.
Programme
CTM x ICA Night 1: Thursday, 4 September 2025, 19:30
Emptyset: »Dissever«
KAVARI (live)
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CTM x ICA Night 2: Friday, 5 September 2025, 19:30
Lyra Pramuk
Tarta Relena
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CTM x ICA London Night 3: Saturday, 6 September 2025, 19:30
aya x MFO
Violent Magic Orchestra
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The first night invites mind and body into a deep dive through visceral bass, improvised futures, and A/V disintegration.
English-born, Scotland-based artist and producer KAVARI brings her high-energy, genre-defying live show. Aurals rooted in brutalist bass, industrial, dubstep, and deconstructed club charge KAVARI’s performances with the nastiest rhythms and drums, intricate sound design, and bleakly emotive interludes. Drawing inspiration from found-footage horror and video games, her music summons an atmosphere both visceral and cinematic to push the mind onto the subway tracks of imagination.
Experimental duo emptyset present »Dissever«, a live iteration of their sixth album exploring the intertwined histories of cosmic rock, minimalism, and electronic music. Initially performed at Tate Modern as part of the »Electric Dreams« exhibition, »Dissever« reimagines sonic futures through raw improvisation and early studio techniques. The project draws from the duo’s broader research and collaborations as well, including Purgas’ investigations into South Asian sonic histories and Ginzburg’s work with experimental ensemble Osmium. With recordings captured in single takes at Mat Sampson’s Bristol studio, the performance connects foundational 20th-century production methods with transcendent soundscapes—hypnotic, expansive, and transformative.
The second night explores mythic resonance and transcendent folk futurism.
Berlin-based artist Lyra Pramuk presents her new album »Hymnal«, a 14-track exploration inspired by the natural world and the communal roots of pre-industrial folk cultures. The album integrates visuals by Lucy Beech and conceptual inspirations from poems by Nadia Marcus restructured by Pramuk, and features collaborations with the Sonar Quartett string ensemble. Emphasizing themes of anti-exploitation, environmental consciousness, and holistic living, »Hymnal« reflects Pramuk's desire to interrogate societal norms and promote a belief system rooted in innate beauty and universal connection.
Catalan duo Tarta Relena blend traditional and modern elements in their vocal-driven sound. Their latest album »És pregunta« explores themes of mystery and tradition, connecting with generations past and present through a combination of folk and electronic sounds. The album incorporates musical and literary references from various Mediterranean civilizations, performed with clear and emotive vox: a presence both opaque and ancestral.
The final night is an unexpected meeting of relentless intimacy and Death Rave delirium.
British producer aya collaborates with German light artist MFO to present an audiovisual performance interweaving vocal intimacy with abstract sounds. Drawing from her new Hyperdub album »hexed!«, aya's performance features autobiographical texts set to clattering beats and growling basslines, complemented by MFO's acclaimed light and visual designs. This feral collaboration has been showcased at various prominent festivals including CTM.
Japanese collective Violent Magic Orchestra (VMO) fuses howling black metal, techno, and visual art to create an intense and abyssal dance experience. Their latest work on Gabber Eleganza's Never Sleep, »DEATH RAVE« doubles down on dance mayhem, incorporating all the good stuff: claustrophobic guitars, throat-annihilating screams, frantic synth stabs and machine beats, pushing towards extra-dimensional hardcore and gabber—a unique alchemical space where the language of metal is transmutated into rave. Get ready to have your body and mind thrashed.
With special thanks to Goethe-Institut London, who have provided ongoing support throughout the three-year collaboration.