FORM presents The Orielles peforming in the round at ICA, plus support from Shaking Hand. “You’ve got to die and be reborn between albums,” begins Henry Wade, guitarist for The Orielles, describing the foundations of the band’s fourth studio album, Only You Left. “It comes naturally,” adds singer and bassist Esmé Hand-Halford, “it’s not something we consciously do.” Through this process of creative renewal, the Manchester-based trio - completed by drummer Sidonie Hand-Halford - have managed to weather a pandemic, defy the fickleness of a trend-led music industry, and emerge, phoenix-like, with something familiarly Orielles, yet altogether different. Recorded in two locations - Hydra and Hamburg - over the summer of 2024, the 11 tracks of Only You Left sees the band consolidate the bold experimentation of their previous LP, Tableau (2022), with a return to the more stripped-back, song-led approach of their early origins. Presented by FORM. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Formed when they were still teenagers, the Orielles make music with the eagerness and abandon of youth, while also looking to the past for inspiration. The group's highly danceable sound is informed by the lighter side of '80s post-punk, the loose-limbed rhythms of Afro-funk, the trippy textures of late-'90s indie dance, and the sweet melodic sense of classic indie pop. Their debut album, 2018's Silver Dollar Moment, saw them already in full stride as a band, and 2020's Disco Volador expanded on their template by adding new sonic elements and a healthy dose of lyrical weirdness.

Ghostwoman is a psychedelic rock project led by Canadian musician and producer Evan Uschenko. Formed in the late 2010s, the band blends gritty garage rock, hypnotic psychedelia, bluesy minimalism, and lo-fi textures into a sound that feels both vintage and otherworldly.

White Flowers present an evening of new material. Trialling out new works as well as a previously unseen audio-visual performance, tickets for these intimate shows will sell out quickly. Upon arrival, attendees will also have the opportunity to access two unheard tracks. These will be limited solely to the event. Special guests to be announced in due course. Presented by Now Wave. This is an 18+ event

Scott Morgan is a composer, sound designer and multimedia artist living in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Morgan’s dual background in Vancouver’s independent music scene and academic composition studies at Simon Fraser University culminated in the creation of his Loscil project in the late 1990s. With Loscil, Morgan explores the marriage of electronic and acoustic instrumentation to create “…stark landscapes that are evocative, earthly, anything but abstract, and so much more than merely ‘ambient’.” (The Quietus). + Marconi Union

Horse Lords co-presented by ICA and Baba Yaga's Hut. Horse Lords were founded in Baltimore in 2010; they evolved from the experimental collective Teeth Mountain and began as a trio with drummer Sam Haberman, guitarist Owen Gardner, and bassist Max Eilbacher, soon adding alto saxophonist Andrew Bernstein to the core ensemble. Though Horse Lords grew out of the fertile Baltimore noise and leftfield rock scene, a storied environment for artists and weirdos that has nurtured many an influential outsider band (Lungfish, Matmos), their approach is more omnivorous than the stippled rhythms of instrumental electric rock would indicate. Across sixteen years of frequent touring, Horse Lords have released ten studio, live, and collaboration albums in addition to a split EP with fellow Baltimoreans Lower Dens, a handful of singles and compilation tracks. For RVNG’s FRKWYS series, the band collaborated with Berlin-based composer Arnold Dreyblatt, a onetime student of La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros whose just intonation chamber music was a crucial part of the post-Fluxus Downtown New York City environment. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Bristol-based experimental band known for blending trip-hop, jazz, chamber-pop, and psychedelia with a "warm," "textured," and "deliberately lo-fi" aesthetic.

Alejandro Sanchez, better known as Chezile, has had the kind of overnight success that would give anyone whiplash. After 2023 psych-pop single “Beanie” went viral on TikTok, giving Sanchez 1.6 million monthly listeners in under two months, he went from living out of his car in Los Angeles to getting calls from labels. A sensitive soul, the Albuquerque-born multi-instrumentalist and child of Mexican regional musicians is now based in San Diego, where he’s hard at work on a full-length debut.

ICA presents BEA1991 + Joviale in the round. Witness both artists performing live from the centre of the room, and working with the venue's state-of-the-art 360° soundsystem. BEA1991 is an Anglo-Dutch mixed media artist with a background in aerial acrobatics. She calls herself a pantheist, polyfocal artist. Her practice reflects and transposes an ongoing personal investigation into the “Human Creative Existence”. She's collaborated and written for artists such as Dev Hynes/Blood Orange, Jump Source, Sassy 009, Sega Bodega, Amnesia Scanner and more, and toured with Robyn, Caroline Polachek, Blood Orange and Yves Tumor. Joviale makes music that feels like a show; drama lies in the tension between pop impulse and something more cerebral and sensorial. A multidisciplinary artist from North London, they came up as a theater kid and now harness their prismatic creative expression across mediums, fusing components of visual art, performance, and recording into a singular world. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

upsammy & Valentina Magaletti present their new collaboration as part of our in the round series in June. Support from Anton Pearson (Squid). A shiver of mischievous vocal snippets, disorienting rhythms and collapsing sonic architectures, upsammy and Valentina Magaletti’s first collaborative album prioritizes motion, modulation and variance. The seeds of ‘Seismo’ were sown following a commission from Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to soundtrack an exhibition of work from the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam and the duo didn’t want to approach their collaboration flippantly. So, wandering the museum’s maze of rooms, they recorded various improvised percussive sounds with their arsenal of microphones, using the space to inform various rhythms and textures that were sculpted later into electroacoustic vignettes. This was just the starting point, though; as Magaletti and upsammy began performing together, the project evolved and ‘Seismo’ began to take shape. The duo had struck on a salient aesthetic concept, using mostly digital and acoustic mallet instruments to blur the boundary between their roles and create friction between the synthetic and the authentic. And the finished record is a phantasmagoric push-and-pull between its various conflicting elements: harmony and dissonance, randomness and predictability, openness and constraint. Anton Pearson is best known as one of the guitarists in respected post-punk outfit Squid. On his debut solo album Driving Through Belgium, Pearson leans into atmosphere, texture and space. It is ambient in spirit, adjacent to contemporary classical in feeling, but composed less with notes in mind than with sound itself. Supported by d&b audiotechnik. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

One Leg One Eye is the project of Ian Lynch (founding member of Irish group Lankum) and George Brennan, exploring submerged leylines of music and song, drawing on the raw aesthetics of black metal, noise and drone, while also being deeply imbued with a sense of history and myth Their debut album ...And Take The Black Worm With Me (released on Nyahh Records in 2022) is a slow burning suite of five expansive songscapes that has found its audience largely by word of mouth. Partly recorded in an abandoned Dublin factory where his father worked when he was a child, Lynch’s harrowing vocals are underpinned by vast pillars of uileann pipe drones, overlaid with effects and field recordings to conjure up a sound that is at once dark, mysterious and ultimately transcendental. Support from Daniel Foggin (Smote/Bong II). Daniel Foggin, most notably known for his work as Smote and as part of Bong II, offers a rare solo endeavour. Foggin takes a departure from his usual favoured medium of blown out none-master volume amplifiers and seeks the warm embrace of sub-heavy analogue synthesis. With all concepts of time and tempo well and truly thrown out of the window, this new work promises durational, immersive worlds through the use of microtonal oscillators, none linear composition and glacial distortion. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

A sublime summer solstice double header with queer goth-folk trio Tristwch y Fenywod and the surreal Americana of Jennifer Walton who will perform a rare full band show. Tristwch Y Fenywod is a band of three queer women who play avant garde Gothic rock using folk, rock, and digital instruments, with lyrics sung entirely in the Welsh language (Cymraeg). Sapphic love and desire, existential darkness, political and environmental anguish/celebration, psychogeographic romance, pagan mysticism, imaginal explorations of Celtic history and myth, psychedelia, and myriad other variations of reverie are conjured through the music of Tristwch Y Fenywod. They were formed in 2022 in Leeds, which is where the band is primarily based. Jennifer Walton is a London-based musician whose debut album Daughters explores grief, memory and surreal Americana. She’s also known for her work witl Cryalot, Microplastics, Iceboy Violet, BABii, and remixes for Metronomy. The album featured on many end of year lists and received widespread critical acclaim from the likes of The Guardian, Pitchfork and The Quietus upon its release. For this special performance Jennifer expands her usual live show to a full band. Not to be missed. This show marks the conclusion of the ICA's June In the Round series, with artists performing live from the centre of the room in 360° spatial audio. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Like their name suggests, Model/Actriz seek to channel raw emotions into striking new forms. The band’s surface glamor is supported by nerves of steel, leveraging their focus into moments of wild abandon. Since their songs roar to life off the back of blistering guitar, relentless drums, and pummeling bass there’s an expectation that Model/Actriz aim first and foremost to be shit-starters. But their instrumental muscle couches a searching heart and the Brooklyn quartet have long made a mission to reconcile undefinable feelings by charting a ferocious new path through sound, one that brings jagged emotions back into full, sweaty alignment with the listeners’ bodies. Co-presented with Bad Vibrations. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Like their name suggests, Model/Actriz seek to channel raw emotions into striking new forms. The band’s surface glamor is supported by nerves of steel, leveraging their focus into moments of wild abandon. Since their songs roar to life off the back of blistering guitar, relentless drums, and pummeling bass there’s an expectation that Model/Actriz aim first and foremost to be shit-starters. But their instrumental muscle couches a searching heart and the Brooklyn quartet have long made a mission to reconcile undefinable feelings by charting a ferocious new path through sound, one that brings jagged emotions back into full, sweaty alignment with the listeners’ bodies. Support from Tommy Barlow. Co-presented with Bad Vibrations. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Superchunk + Oblivians (14+ under 16's with and adult) Superchunk After the shocking, and for many, demoralizing result of the 2016 election, “I didn’t buy the silver lining some were promoting that ‘well, at least art and music will be great now!’,” says Superchunk co-founder and frontman Mac McCaughan. “Obviously, any sane person would gladly trade four to eight years of terrible music for not having our country dismantled to satisfy the whims of a vengeful child and his enablers.” That said, good music and art still have a lot to say, and the urgency of current events gave Mac, Laura, Jim, and Jon the momentum to make something new sooner than later. “It would be strange to be in a band, at least our band, and make a record that completely ignored the surrounding circumstances that we live in and that our kids are going to grow up in.” Enter What a Time to Be Alive, Superchunk’s first album in over four years. It’s a record, says Mac, “about a pretty dire and depressing situation but hopefully not a record that is dire and depressing to listen to.” Indeed, like so much of Superchunk’s music in the band’s nearly three decades together, the songs on What a Time to Be Alive meet rage and anxiety head-on with the catharsis and exhilaration of loud punk fire and vulnerable pop energy. Like 2013’s I Hate Music, which focused on death, loss, and the role of music in an aging life, the new record brings spirit to the frontlines of pain—it’s as defiant as it is despairing, as much a call to arms as a throwing up of hands.

Bad Vibrations present Modern Woman. Modern Woman, the London art-rock outfit fronted by primary songwriter Sophie Harris, are set to release their anticipated debut album ‘Johnny’s Dreamworld’ on May 1st 2026 via their new label One Little Independent Records. ‘Johnny’s Dreamworld’ represents the culmination of Modern Woman’s journey from Harris’s early, intimate songwriting project into a full-bodied band capable of folding post-punk, avant-garde, and folk traditions into a live force of dynamic originality. At its heart, the record explores the strange poetry buried within the ordinary. Harris’s lyrics, steeped in literary detail and filmic atmosphere, draw from a fascination with the dark underbelly of the everyday and the contradictions of womanhood. Harris explains, “A vital theme I’ve always wanted in Modern Woman is the idea of conflicting things, of the tender/harsh, loud/quiet and scrappy/polished. The style of everybody’s playing, drawing from a melting pot of influences, coming together to form something new.” Modern Woman’s sound emerged from years of creative refinement. The band coalesced when Harris met violinist and composer David Denyer, who brought a background in experimental composition and textural sound work. Joined by Juan Brint-Gutiérrez on bass and saxophone and Adam Blackhurst on drums, the group forged a style that values the contrasting harsh edges of folk lyricism and noise that collides with melody. Working with producer Joel Burton (Naima Bock, Katy J Pearson, Vanishing Twin), they found a live immediacy that channels the raw intensity of their performances into a sound that is both rich and unpredictable. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Hilary Woods is an Irish musician, composer and analogue filmmaker whose work spans a wide range of sonic, compositional, improvisational, filmic, literary and experimental practices. Her new album, Night CRIÚ, released on Sacred Bones at the end of 2025, features additional production by Dean Hurley, David Lynch’s longtime sound designer, and has received outstanding critical acclaim, including a three-page feature in The Wire. After two critically acclaimed instrumental records, Night CRIÚ is a disarming and unflinching dirge of feeling weaving Woods’ sonic sensibilities in processed noise, tape and field recordings through the form of seven exquisitely crafted songs where her voice and lyrical prowess emerge to the fore. Live, Hilary has already confirmed key festival appearances at CTM and Rewire 2026, after her sold-out Cafe OTO show in London, with tickets selling out one month in advance. Hilary is a truly multidisciplinary artist. She thrives in projects that allow her to seamlessly cross artistic disciplines. On stage, she performs in multiple configurations; she’s currently focusing on performances of her new album, blending structured compositions with improvisation, all within a striking visual framework. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Upset the Rhythm presents Carla dal Forno at ICA. CARLA DAL FORNO is an Australian composer, songwriter and producer based in Castlemaine, Victoria. Working between post-punk minimalism, experimental pop and atmospheric electronics, she has built a dedicated international following through a series of acclaimed releases and extensive touring across Europe and North America.Her albums have been praised by outlets including Pitchfork, The Quietus and Resident Advisor, alongside airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music. Beyond her recorded work, dal Forno hosts a monthly radio program on NTS Radio, where she curates eclectic selections spanning experimental electronics, dub, post-punk and leftfield pop - offering insight into the wide-ranging influences that inform her own practice. She has performed headline shows and festival appearances throughout the UK, Europe and the United States, including dates in London, Berlin, Paris and New York City, as well as appearances at Unsound Festival and Le Guess Who? Her fourth studio album, Confession, expands her signature sound while maintaining the minimal, immersive qualities that have defined her work to date. On stage, dal Forno delivers a focused and atmospheric set that moves between brooding electronics and melodic immediacy - a performance that is both restrained and quietly powerful. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

A double bill with songwriter and composer Samba Jean-Baptiste, and a performance of choreographer Samara Langham’s most recent piece “Nacre”. Samba Jean-Baptiste is a songwriter and composer whose music bridges a classical cello background with electronic production. Samara Langham is a dancer, choreographer and artist based in London. Her quality is mothlike: she is drawn to things behavioural and liminal. Working with improvisation, choreography, symbolism and experimental music, she approaches performance as a process of dissolving. Her works include angels’ mumble (Brunel Museum, Totally Thames Festival 2025), Erase Your Name (Les Urbaines Festival 2025), SKYE ZONE Burial (Resolution Festival 2025), Okaeri (2025) and Haku (Théâtre Paris-Villette 2024). Nacre A live dance work by Samara Langham, newly commissioned by The Place through Choreodrome in 2026. Four figures move between polar forces. As they endure cycles of effort, they feel the edges, and what may exist beyond them. A dark mass moves quietly. Eyes become stars as mouths, ears, tears, and fingers are bound together. The word ‘nacre’ describes the iridescent substance of a pearl. When a parasite enters an oyster shell, the oyster produces nacre and engulfs it. This becomes a pearl, nestled inside its own body. The pearl remains forever unknown to its maker. Lying shut on the seafloor, it never sees light. Mix of seating and standing Nacre contains haze, strobe and moments of loud noise Choreography: Samara Langham Music and Sound Design: Shimz343 and Samara Langham Lighting Design: Edward Saunders Costume Design: Zelda Attard Rehearsal Director: Jesse Baggett-Lahav Performers: Jesse Baggett-Lahav, Elvi Rose Christiansen Head, Sophia Morton, Lydia Walker Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

dollop presents HYD at ICA. Critically acclaimed artist HYD creates dynamic, seductive pop that blends experimental sound with striking visual worlds. Led by artist Hayden Dunham, whose debut album Clearing (2022) quickly gained attention for its bold mix of art, music and performance. Dunham first became known for boundary-pushing art projects like QT and the viral “Hey QT” energy drink collaboration, as well as large-scale public artworks across New York City. Praised by critics, W Magazine called Dunham “the art world’s new ingénue, ”while The New York Times described their work as “art you can inhale and drink.” With HYD, Dunham brings multidisciplinary vision into the pop arena, treating sound, visuals and performance as one immersive experience. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

ICA and Bird on the Wire present Loraine James + support from Eden Samara. Loraine James - not Lorraine James, Loraine Jones, or any other common misspelling - began developing her musical language early in life. Growing up on Enfield's iconic and colourful Alma Estate in North London, she was surrounded by a plethora of parallel cultures, and thanks to her mum's obsession with anything from heavy metal to calypso, James was able to experience music from the driver's seat. She learned to play the piano as a teenager, frequenting emo, pop and math rock shows before teaching herself electronic music production with a MIDI keyboard and a laptop. In her low-key home studio, James channeled her wide range of interests into a personal sound that in time evolved into an identifiable signature. That signature began to emerge on 2017's "Detail", and James refined it over a run of releases that netted global acclaim, subtly hybridizing R&B, drill, pop and IDM forms. Her breakthrough album "For You & I" (2019), its intimate follow-up "Reflection" (2021), and the personal “Gentle Confrontation” (2023) were released on iconic British label Hyperdub and praised for their vital narratives that accurately portrayed her reality as an independent queer, Black, British artist. Alongside this output, she explored another path entirely, adopting the moniker Whatever The Weather for her ambient music-inspired Ghostly International debut in 2022, which was explored further in the follow-up ‘Whatever The Weather II’. 2026 sees Loraine release ‘Detached From The Rest Of You’. Succinct and direct, often with not much more than sparse keyboard chords to fill in with subtle colouring, she uses the space around the sounds and vocals to draw in the listener. Constantly shifting, James is an unpredictable force whose experimental approach is struck through with vulnerability, curiosity and hope. Support from Eden Samara. Eden Samara grew up in the mountains of western Canada writing folk songs, performing in choirs, and discovering underground rave culture, before relocating to London to pursue her love of dance music. Her 2022 debut on Local Action Records established her as a name to watch in contemporary club music, and her upcoming material heads deeper into experimental club pop territory. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Bird on the Wire presents Discovery Zone. Discovery Zone is the experimental pop project of New York musician and multimedia artist JJ Weihl. After the slow-building but undeniable fervor around her debut album Remote Control, Discovery Zone released her second album Quantum Web on RVNG Intl. and Mansions and Millions in 2024, followed by an expanded version in 2025. On Quantum Web, Discovery Zone plunged into an uncanny valley, where the distinctions between the earnest and the ironic blur in tandem with the human and the post-human. On stage, Discovery Zone explores a widescreen pop sound speckled with luminous vocal performances and baroque instrumental flourishes. She utilizes a laboratory of instruments and 3D visuals to explore the universe as a source of information. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

ICA presents HTRK. HTRK \[‘hate rock'\], the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang, have an uncanny ability to elevate musical mood to a singular, smouldering supremacy. Their songs are often coded as fantasies, venturing deeper into the heady expanses of dub dream and memory. They make music that channels not just the heaviness and beauty of the world, but the surreal humour and inexplicable serendipity of it too, cataloguing desire, intimacy and spirit like few others. HTRK’s albums have been released by labels including Fire, Blast First Petite, Boomkat Editions and Ghostly International. For their most recent full-length, Rhinestones, they founded their own imprint, N&J Blueberries. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Bad Vibrations present Faux Real. Franco-American brothers Elliott and Virgile Arndt return as Faux Real with new single 'That Far' and its official video (out May 20), alongside the announcement of their second album Poison Time, due September 4 via b4. Known for idiosyncratic, high-energy live shows combining choreography, showmanship, and practical effects with an intentionally unfiltered physicality, the duo have toured with Wet Leg and Metronomy, played major festival stages, and landed on BBC Radio 6 Music's Albums of the Year in 2025. Formed between Paris and London, now based in LA, Poison Time pushes further into the tension that defines Faux Real: precise, theatrical, and just out of reach. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Smiling With No Teeth marks Genesis Owusu’s first extended release since 2017’s debut Cardrive ep. Arriving in 2019, Aa Side “Wutd” & “Vultures” emphasised his thrilling adaptability, going on to land his first Aria-Nomination for best r&b/soul release and gain attention from tastemakers Sir Elton John, Triple J, Mixmag and more. Since then he has received a second Aria Nomination for the album's debut single, "Don't Need You", which has collected over 1.3 million streams and landed at #73 in Triple J's hottest 100 in 2020.

We're delighted to be working with H!M favourite Alabaster DePlume plus special guest Paddy Steer and DJ Coops! Following 12 monthly development residency concerts and three viral video clips, this ruthlessly creative approach to experimental pop music delivers eastern-influenced anthems, under spoken elements that attempt to challenge and address divisive rhetoric recently prevalent in society. Ahead of an LP release on Lost Map Records, produced by Danalogue (Comet is Coming) and Kristian Capitol K in early 2018, the show described in the Guardian as 'a reminder of how vital and adventurous music can be' enjoys an emphasis on candid interaction, humility and warmth. Based in underground East London's Total Refreshment Centre, saxophonist and spoken word artist Alabaster DePlume creates a new band each month in his development residency Peach.

London-based saxophonist, singer, composer and poet Alabaster DePlume brings a special residency to the ICA: Both Sides. With a fresh band curated per night, he gathers an international cast of improvisers, guest vocalists and collaborators around questions of responsive action, mutual support and the role of creativity in dismantling oppression. Across a series of evenings, guest vocalists will be supported and answered with fresh interpretations of DePlume’s compositions, while each night opens with a musically accompanied invocation from a renowned political speaker. Equal parts concert, gathering and provocation, Both Sides continues DePlume’s ongoing practice of using music as a space for courage, vulnerability and collective possibility. Drawing from folk, punk, jazz, electronic music and indie, DePlume creates experimental pop that feels emotional, joyful and intensely alive. His breakthrough came with To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 (2020), followed by the critically acclaimed Gold: Go Forward In The Courage Of Your Love (2022), Come With Fierce Grace (2024), A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole (2025), and this year’s companion Epilogue release. Presented by Form. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Following one of our most memorable In the Round shows so far with Milkweed last year, we’re pleased to team up again with the good folk at Broadside Hacks for another collaboration, this time featuring 4 artists from their roster. Headlining are the 11-piece folk ensemble based in south Manchester, Brown Wimpenny, who will be joined by Sam Grassie, Myer U Clark and Spitzer Space Telescope. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

American performer and composer, Shane Parish, presents an intimate in-the-round performance of his album Autechre Guitar. An album that arguably shouldn’t exist, due to the wildly different music worlds in which Autechre and Shane exist. With this record, Shane demonstrates how porous the boundaries between mediums and genres can be. With just six strings, he captures the unparseable rhythms, cryptic riffs, and shapeshifting timbres that define the electronic duo’s sound. The ICA is the perfect London debut for this performance, as Shane invites his listeners to take part in a process of translation and interpretation- with a performance that makes the unfathomably difficult seem effortless. Presented by The Hydra. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Collective lovemusic - acclaimed Strasbourg-based music group - join with experimental composer-performers Jennifer Walshe and Neil Luck (aka WACK) for two UK premieres exploring radical experimental performance, unpredictable choices, and one of Britain's most exalted movie directors. Lovemusic, known for their courageous explorations of new configurations of collaborative performance, are joined by WACK for a live collage in the round. Across their collaborative 45-minute new work, they’ll move between composed material, spoken text, visual elements and real-time decision making, creating a maximalist coming together of multilingual voices, acoustic instruments, live electronics, esoteric invocations, telepathic madrigals, dense noise and deep relaxation tapes. The gig will also feature a new piece by Neil Luck: an epic fan-fiction monologue that cinematically deconstructs the identity of acclaimed British film director Christopher Nolan. Co-presented with Nonclassical. Supported by the French Ministry of culture - DRAC Grand Est, the Conseil Régional Grand Est, the City of Strasbourg; Diaphonique, Franco-British-Irish fund for contemporary music, in partnership with the SACEM, the Friends of the French Institute Trust, the British Council, the Institut français, the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, the Centre National de la Musique, Culture Ireland and Salabert Fondation. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts and Nonclassical. This is an 18+ event

Eat Your Own Ears Presents: Gold Panda

Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa) is an international touring musician, poet, visual artist and Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. As well as her solo project she is also part of the groups Irreversible Entanglements and 700 Bliss. Through the lens and practice of Black Quantum Futurism, the art she makes is a statement for the future, as well as a way to honour the present and its historic connections to a multitude of past realities and future outcomes. Her work seeks to inspire practical techniques of vision and agency against a forever expanding re -conquering of land, housing, and health in Black communities. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Parallel Lines presents Cate Le Bon. Welsh multi-disciplinary artist and producer Cate Le Bon’s work has long defied categorization-an architect of sound who builds emotional landscapes from abstraction, texture, and tone. Over six albums, including the Mercury Prize-nominated Reward and the critically acclaimed Pompeii, she has honed a singular voice: part surrealist, part sculptor, always attuned to the emotional undercurrents that shape her art. Her production credits-spanning Wilco’s Cousin, Horsegirl’s Phonetics On and On, and St. Vincent’s Grammy-winning All Born Screaming-reflect a deep trust in her ability to transform sonic environments into intimate, idiosyncratic worlds. Born in rural Carmarthenshire, Wales, and now based in Cardiff, Le Bon’s creative path has been shaped by both solitude and collaboration. Her longstanding partnerships with co-producer Samur Khouja and saxophonist Euan Hinshelwood have become integral to her evolving sound-a blend of analog warmth, filtered vocals, and sculptural arrangements that feel both alien and deeply human. Her seventh album, Michelangelo Dying, emerges from a place of raw emotion and reluctant vulnerability. A vivid grieving of a fantasy, the album is a shimmering song cycle that picks at wounds even as it tries to preserve them-an iridescent, layered meditation on love, loss, and the unknowable self. With a moving guest collaboration with John Cale and a sonic palette that folds guitars, saxophones, and synths into something both intimate and expansive, Le Bon once again invites us into a world where feeling overrides form, and abstraction becomes its own kind of truth. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

ICA presents HTRK. We're pleased to announce a second HTRK show. Doors at 6pm, on stage at 6.30pm. HTRK \[‘hate rock'\], the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang, have an uncanny ability to elevate musical mood to a singular, smouldering supremacy. Their songs are often coded as fantasies, venturing deeper into the heady expanses of dub dream and memory. They make music that channels not just the heaviness and beauty of the world, but the surreal humour and inexplicable serendipity of it too, cataloguing desire, intimacy and spirit like few others. HTRK’s albums have been released by labels including Fire, Blast First Petite, Boomkat Editions and Ghostly International. For their most recent full-length, Rhinestones, they founded their own imprint, N&J Blueberries. Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is an 18+ event

Pitchfork Music Festival London Presents: Olof Dreijer \+ fauzia \+ Cutouts Presented by Pitchfork Festival London. This is an 18+ event.

Of his 12th studio album and its enigmatic title, Destroyer's Dan Bejar offers the following: Sometime last year, I discovered that the original name for The Wild Ones (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was Ken. I had an epiphany, I was physically struck by this information. In an attempt to hold on to this feeling, I decided to lift the original title of that song and use it for my own purposes. It's unclear to me what that purpose is, or what the connection is. I was not thinking about Suede when making this record. I was thinking about the last few years of the Thatcher era. Those were the years when music first really came at me like a sickness, I had it bad. Maybe The Wild Ones speaks to that feeling, probably why Suede made no sense in America. I think ken also means to know. ken was produced by Josh Wells of Black Mountain, who has been the drummer in Destroyer since 2012. The album was recorded in its entirety in the jam space/studio space that the group calls The Balloon Factory. However, unlike Poison Season, ken was not recorded as a band record, though everyone in the band does make an appearance. ken will also be available as a Deluxe LP: Pressed on opaque yellow vinyl and includes a bonus 7-inch single on black vinyl that contains solo acoustic versions of the album tracks A Light Travels Down the Catwalk and Stay Lost. Includes lyric insert.