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Ctm x Ica: Cyst + Alpha Maid + Europa
ICAThe Mall, London
Fri 25 Sept · 19:30
About this event
The second CTM x ICA 2026 night explores composition as a process of constant mutation, tracing parallel routes through experimental sound towards intricate and unsettled forms. Thriving on a shared fixation with synthetic biology and microscopic collisions of sound data, Cyst is a collaboration between Iglooghost and Daisy*. Maximalist digital beats are welded onto a hyper-viscous sonic palette. The resulting metamorphosis-heavy club organisms feel gelatinous, all ruptured breakbeats and bioluminescent aural textures. Alpha Maid slices through shifting indie-punk soundscapes, dub currents nodding to her Jamaican heritage, hazy emo reverberations and the grit of experimental noise whispering across it all. Sparked by a growing fascination with particle physics, her work is informed by a fascination with the unknown; the vast, unexplored spaces of possibility beyond what we can currently perceive. Europa's A/V works are birthed in the liminal: penned in jet-lagged twilight, forged in the groaning belly of planes, trains, and transit purgatories. His songs are restless, shedding old skins as new ones form, always on the cusp of somewhere else. Pop is rendered into pixelated shards, club anthems stretched to their breaking point, ambient tones leaking glittery viscera.
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