Friday 22 September 2023, 7.30pm
Explorations into the boundaries between euphoria and dissonance from three past and future contributors to the Archaic Vaults catalogue. Liminal soundtrack duties by NTS resident Nihal.
Chantal Michelle is an artist and composer whose practice centers on the transformative properties of sound and its potential to dissolve the confines of physical presence. She approaches sound as an architectural material, constructing multidimensional aural landscapes that disorient and immerse, inviting alternate forms of perception. Her work has been realized as installations, live performances, and recorded material.
Susu Laroche is an anagram of Chaos Lure Us and a multidisciplinary artist & musician.
Her 16mm short films have screened internationally including at London Short Film Festival (UK), Samawah Cinema (Iraq) and Nihilist Film Festival (USA). A comprehensive DVD collection of her cinematic work was released by Purge.xxx in 2023, while her debut photobook Chaos Rule Us was published by Wrong Eye Books in 2021.
Following releases with Xquisite, Haunter Records and Accidental Meetings, her third album War Against the Lie was released in 2025 on Doyenne, following the launch of a collaborative project with Mobbs on Modern Love.
Grady Steele is a guitarist and composer exploring ambient and sub-movement, inspired by digitising and distorting the outside world and reconstructing it into both familiar and unfamiliar new forms.
Influenced by her hometown Cairo’s underground scene, London-based writer and researcher Nihal selects contemporary left-field hip hop, drill, drum & bass and experimental sounds from the Middle East and North Africa capturing the organic crossovers traversing the region.
https://www.nts.live/shows/nihal
