Evicshen Slikback KAVARI Carlos Giffoni

In this late season opening, we brought together a bunch of artists who, each in their own way, explore aesthetic categories (noise, experimental, ambient, dub, etc.) that, in a conscious sense, allude to fracture, malaise, trauma, oblivion, prohibition, darkness, queerness; that, operating as destabilising elements of systems, like parasites, ooze the unnameable, the undead, the unsound, the unheard, the neglected, the disturbing, the difference.

Evicshen premieres in Madrid one of her rattling harsh noise live performances imbued with confrontational DIY tropes. Her Needle Nails—acrylic nail devices embedded with turntable styluses whose authorship had to be acknowledged by Vogue after being plagiarised in a Beyoncé cover story for the magazine—are just one of the many appendages, prostheses and artefacts designed or used by the intense San Francisco-based experimentalist to deconstruct the concepts of materiality, value and mass production.

For the very first time in Madrid, Poland-based Kenya-born producer Slikback will blow us away with one of his overwhelming live sets. A gifted student of the innovative Nyege Nyege school, last July he released the album Attrition on the leading label Planet Mu, a milestone in a sonic guerrilla that builds an alternative future for African music through the highly imaginative use of mostly club forms from all over the world.

Glasgow-based occultist KAVARI makes her debut in the city to unfold a special DJ set centred around the not-hidden-reverse of her morbid and cavernous side. Producer of “brilliant stuff” that—in the words of Aphex Twin—is the “most interesting kicking electronic music ive heard recently”, expect a succession of her wrecking and brutalist ear-splitting bass sounds, which combine jungle paraphilia with British industrial music and sensual bondage distortion à la Merzbow.

Recently relocated to Valencia after spending thirty years in Miami, New York City, and finally Los Angeles, Venezuela-born Carlos Giffoni is often mentioned as one of the key agents in the American experimental scene for the commitment—rare these days—of his No Fun offspring and an oeuvre boasting an impressive list of collaborators. In 2024 he published Dream Walker on Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ and this year joined the list of fortunates who have worked with the grand INA GRM Acousmonium.

Finally, Intento Fallido, the duo formed by Alan Lana and Tendencia Imposible, will set the mood for the night with a live performance created especially for the occasion, generating tension through the use of infrasound, black noise and psychoacoustic techniques.

Poster by @_godiero & @toa3__.