Drew McDowall

Phono: Drew McDowall (SCO), 08/05/2026. Doors 19h, concert 20h.

Drew McDowall's works explore alterity. An artist who has refused to conform in music and in life, McDowall mines the spaces that exist between reality and otherness. His meditative compositions meld intricate modular soundscapes with cut-up samples and deconstruct sounds into basic shuddering structures and shapes. McDowall creates music attuned to the sacred and the profane.

He joined the ranks of UK avant-gardists Genesis P-Orridge, David Tibet, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, John Balance, and others who would come to define industrial music's experimental vanguard. McDowall eventually collaborated with Psychic TV and became a full-time member of Coil, where his influence shaped the group's later output: exercises in magical practice and music-as-psychoactive effect.

While McDowall has had a strong affinity to electronic music throughout his career, he has avoided making music confined to any one genre and in his most recent works has used string players, brass, pipe organ and harp.