Ahead of her performance for Rewire, we had a chat with Venus about storytelling, perfumes and blurring zeitgeists.  Letting Venus Ex Machina’s ominous post-industrial music fill the corners of our office, I can’t help but fantasize of both nightclubs and cinematic epics from eras yet-to-come. After all, the composer envisioned her latest album,...

3 x 2 tickets! In April, Rewire opens their festival with a spectacle by an audiovisual supergroup, who will present an hour-long live performance, crossing dance, video, music and spoken word. “Almost all that’s left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness. Across 2,000 million years, these last humans...

For Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 Sarah Davachi and Ï Î present Diptych. To put it rather simply, Sarah Davachi has been droning for well over a decade. Davachi’s music is inventive and exploratory, while and by employing both modern and archaic techniques, instruments and symbolism. The prolific composer and performer’s centers of attention are the “close...

This year marks Sonic Acts 30th anniversary, themed The Spell of the Sensuous. This year marks Sonic Acts 30th anniversary, themed The Spell of the Sensuous. Congrats! All across Amsterdam, from February until March, Sonic Acts Biennial 2024: The Spell of the Sensuous will present “an exhibition, a multichannel sound programme, club nights, large theatrical...

Multiple voices carefully attuned, listening together for the roots of a better future. Interdisciplinarity, emergence, embodied practices – in the arts, these buzzwords can sometimes wear thin. Not so for the Shock Forest Group, an artistic collective whose work vigorously embraces uncertainty, radical empathy and conscious practices of listening....

Behind every technology lies hidden a web of interconnected histories. Behind every technology lies hidden a web of interconnected histories – whispered stories linking together the fabric of our natural world, and the violence repeatedly visited on it, and on us. If only we listened a little better, we might hear them. Enter the Shock Forest Group....