Friday 11 September 2026, 7.30pm
High-Energy Visible (HEV) light penetrates deeper into the skin than UVA and UVB rays, reaching down into the lower layers of the dermis and hypodermis, inducing oxidative stress and breaking down structural protein.
During the late noughties Crystabel Efemena Riley toured Japan and Europe using drums, electronics and make-up in power-noise trio Maria and the Mirrors. This was the start of her interest in patterns on skins — human and drum. An interest in dimensional patterns existing on (and off) different skin surfaces, exploring the idea of 'care and uncare': layered skins, recycled drum skins, smetled sculptures, other metallics and electronics. Crystabel has been a long-term collaborator with Sue Lynch who welcomed her into the Horse Improvised Music Club and later played in the London Improvisers Orchestra. She is currently working on the multi-format duo project @xcrswx with Seymour Wright, together they created the sounds for Edward George’s Black Atlas film at the Warburg Institute.
Nkisi is an electronic musician and artist-composer whose work spans live performance, sonic research, and energetic experimentation. With roots in the Congolese diaspora and a deep commitment to African cosmologies, her music combines rhythmic-noise elements with ancient rhythmic structures, ambient-industrial strategies, and metaphysical inquiry. She is the co-founder of the now-legendary NON Worldwide. She leads research through her project The Anomaly Index, which explores sonic phenomena, myth-science, rhythm, and vibration as counter-epistemologies.
Seymour Wright's work is about the creative, situated friction of learning, ideas, people and the saxophone – music, history and technique – actual and potential.
