Bozar Bassment #1: Cratje - Shapednoise & Sevi Iko Dømochevsky - Slikback
- Jueves, octubre 22
- 20:30-23:30
- Bozar Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles, Bélgica
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In Music To Hug Your Friends, Brussels-based artist cratje presents a surrealistic live A/V show built around a real-time dialogue between visuals and music. At the centre of the story is a smiley-faced character with one simple wish: to hug their friends. What stands in their way is the music industry itself, an absurdist premise that carries a sharper edge. Music To Hug Your Friends asks what happens when the feeling of togetherness that sits at the heart of music gets quietly absorbed by hypercommercial spectacle. Through trancy synthlines and distorted breaks, cratje brings music that sits somewhere between Tomorrowland and a muddy rave.
With Absurd Matter Continuum, Shapednoise transforms sonic pressure into physical sensation. Through a hybrid setup of hardware and laptop, he delivers an evolving mix of dense low-end pressure, asymmetric grooves and moments of sheer sonic collapse. The show at Bozar on 22/10/2026 is created in collaboration with visual artist Sevi Iko Dømochevsky, known for his work with Arca, Grimes and Skrillex, who constructs a CGI world: a grotesque sewer system teeming with nightmarish entities, glitch-soaked surfaces and digital detritus. Absurd Matter Continuum offers a vision of contemporary experience that is disorienting, hyperreal and uncomfortably familiar.
Friction sees Nairobi-born producer Slikback improvise upon themes from his album Attrition (2025). Its sounds meld cinematic and game sound design with dance music that draws on elements of gqom, dubstep and hardcore techno. Friction, presented at Bozar on 22/10/2026, features visuals from New York-based artist Jacob Payne Barber, also known as maltdisney, and light design and live video manipulation from Tasya.
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Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles, Bélgica