CTM x ICA : Tyondai Braxton + Rian Treanor with Rotherham Sight & Sound + AM sin

The first CTM x ICA 2026 night converges on the art of reconstruction, pairing meticulous avant-garde worlds with hyper-regional sonic archaeology.

Legendary composer and former Battles frontman Tyondai Braxton presents material from his new album Splayed Werks out on Erased Tapes. Across orchestral writing, electronics, and densely layered rhythmic structures, Braxton's work has long occupied a singular space between contemporary composition and experimental music. Splayed Werks extends that trajectory, bringing together intricate arrangements and shivering sonic architectures in a performance foregrounding accumulation and transformation.

Algorithmic instigator Rian Treanor splices custom generative software into the post-industrial backdrop of South Yorkshire, fracturing techno’s conventions into ricocheting rhythmic grids. Partnering with Rotherham Sight & Sound, a local charity for blind and deaf people, he developed bespoke digital synthesisers over four years of collaboration, designing them specifically for the visually impaired residents who had no previous musical experience. This collaborative framework subverts standard timing structures, reframing a total lack of cultural conditioning as pure instinctual noise, metallic raggas swivelling in volatile frictions. Traditional ideas of accessibility are dismantled as community-led experimentation rebuilds them into a vehicle of destabilising futureshock.

London-based duo AM sin create immersive electroacoustic soundscapes through modular synthesis, live vocal processing, and audiovisual performance, moving between dark ambient, industrial, drone, and experimental electronics.

https://www.ctm-festival.de/

Presented by Institute of Contemporary Arts.

This is an 18+ event