For 25 years, CTM has been highlighting new strains of club music and fringe sonic cultures that venture through the weird, the challenging, the cathartic, the esoteric, the contagious, and the ecstatic – simultaneously exploring sonic histories, contexts, and political and technological entanglements while remaining firmly rooted in the Berlin DIY culture it sprung from. 

Returning to ICA this November for the second year of collaboration, for the first night of CTM x ICA, a complex and emotional aural web is woven throughout the evening by six diverse artists. 


Friday 22nd November:

—__–___ (Seth Graham & More Eaze)
Rabih Beaini & Julian Sartorius
Lamb (fka LAMB K305)
Stephen O’Malley


Hailing from Ohio, Seth Graham merges his philosophical background with a deep exploration of sound, encompassing a wide spectrum of styles that blend the intellectual rigor of classical avant-garde traditions with the fluidity of modern pop and caustic noise. Deeply personal, the sounds of Mari Maurice aka More Eaze too span a wide array of genres and nuanced themes. Shaped in ways that feel both experimental and intimate, she invites listeners into a space where the boundaries of self and sound blur, marked by a sensitivity to perception.

Lebanese-born producer and DJ Rabih Beaini once specialised in grainy, imaginative analogue techno, changing his practice in recent years to craft a multi-channel, layered and polyphonic collage of traditional sounds, field recordings, and a melange of aurals from Alice Coltrane and Sufi rituals to industrial explorations. Building magnificent and dizzying percussive compositions in often bizarre time signatures, Julian Sartorius surpasses genres to evoke all manner of flavours, from hyper-future industrial techno to lurching-hip-hop instrumentals and full-on brainfux. Together the two build a wall of complex, hypnotic and mind-melting improvisation.

Berlin-based Cuban-American artist Lamb (fka LAMB K305) enthralls and terrifies with their visceral vocal performances, drawing inspirations from bass, apocalyptic pop, grime and horror films with a twist of sadism through a darkly whimsical arrangement of sample-based pattern making. 

American composer and musician Stephen O’Malley, though best known for his role as guitarist and founder of Sunn O))), has earned admiration as a wizard of fiercely innovative collaborations and as a promulgator of the musical and artistic avant-garde at large. Expanding on the principles of Sunn’s heavy, droning guitars, O’Malley brings his wall of amps to close out the night in a storm of guitar abrasion and sonic pressure.

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For Saturday's line up with O Ghettão and more click here.

There will be a paid cloakroom available for this event. Tickets are £2.50 per item and are available to purchase at the box office

Event Info

• Please note a venue levy of £1.50 is included in the cost of all tickets.
• ICA Membership discounts do not apply for this event.
• This event is 18+, general admission, standing.
• This event may contain the use of haze and flashing lights.
• We have a small raised platform to accommodate wheelchair users or others who require a chair. To request, please purchase a ticket, then contact access@ica.art
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