Gabriel Prokofiev 'Dark Lights' LIVE Album Launch

Following a highly acclaimed Spanish premiere at L’Auditori, composer and producer Gabriel Prokofiev announces the UK debut performance of his latest album, Dark Lights, on 28 May.

This special live show marks Prokofiev’s return to IKLECTIK for the first time in four years (after curating a one-day festival in June 2022) and will feature his signature “classical-electronic soundtrack for modern times,” performed by a 10-piece chamber orchestra alongside pianist Mariam Lolzade-Meredith and Prokofiev himself on electronics.

Dark Lights is described by Prokofiev as a “baroque/classical dance suite but for the 21st century,” drawing on contemporary dance rhythms much like Couperin or Bartók did in their respective eras. The performance explores the “meeting point of machine and human,” juxtaposing the robotic energy of sequenced electronics with the organic freedom of live orchestral players.

Audiences can expect a sonic journey through: orchestral lyricism and 808 beats—a bold collision of deep basslines, driving strings, and modular synths; diverse sonic textures, from the “broken-robot” sounds of an Arp Odyssey in Soft Sorb to the intense, polyrhythmic “acidic modular synth journey” of Craven Spirals; and hypnotic grooves, with pieces like the title track Dark Lights anchored by a deep 108 BPM pulse and hypnotic basslines.

Presented by IKLECTIK.

This is an 18+ event