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Following its Summer Break, Sustain-Delay returns with concert in memory of our pasts through sound. In this unique live performance , experimental musician and memory monger Kurt Buttigieg joins Yasmin Kuymizakis, known otherwise as “JOON”, for an experimental set using personal archival content. Kurt Buttigieg and Yasmin Kuymizakis will weave together their personal and collective memories through sound.

This event marks Yasmin Kuymizakis’ return to the experimental. Best known through her work as JOON, blending lush synths, hypnotic beats and layered vocals, Yasmin’s breadth as a musician far exceeds the experimental synth pop that she is synonymous for as she also draws on her background in sound design and sonic experimentation.

Kurt Buttigieg has “been involved in the long and short fringes of experimental music for years – gawking at it, making it, writing about it and organising gigs”. He is the artistic director of Sustain-Delay, founded and runs the Complex Holiday label. Time and memory, as well as the organic vs the inorganic are recurrent themes in his music.

For this concert, the themes of memory and time are reinterpreted through location as the foundation for artistic exploration, reflecting their individual and communal interactions with Malta—a place they both call home despite the long time spent living abroad or on the road. Space as sound, and sound as shared and divergent histories of home (wherever that may be).

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The body electic, literally.

Join us for “You Are The Instrument,” a night of groundbreaking adventurous music that touches upon the human body’s potential to create and interact with sound.

This unique event will feature performances by:
Dafne (Daphne Sammut): Known for her innovative use of brainwaves to craft music, Dafne will take us on a journey into a techno-infused soundscape that pulses with energy and emotion. An invitation to experience the raw power of the body in motion, every beat and rhythm echoing the life within us.
Accla (Adrian Camilleri): Delve into the world of humanist experimental noise with Accla, blurring the lines between performer and instrument. A visceral exploration of sound, using the body’s electricity, thumbing cables, and raw energy to create a captivating and unpredictable sonic experience.

Come ready to engage with music in its most primal form. Feel the vibrations, sense the electric current, and discover the sound of your own being.

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The music of medieval Europe – of the vielles in monasteries and the plucked lyres – passed down through centuries, now lies in the here and now of people experimenting with those pieces of time preserved.

On 25 April, the Malta Society of Arts welcomes the soundworld of French musician, soprano and medieval researcher Welleda Muller falling into the lush and expansive ambient music of Robert Farrugia.

The atmosphere will be further set by Anti- (Fabio D’Amato), through a topical-but-surprising DJ set mixing related sounds with those beyond.
In the latter part of the performance, Welleda has a surprise: the movements and songs of mediaeval French washerwomen and artisans will fill the Malta Society of Arts.

This event forms part of the Malta Society of Arts’ 2024 Performing Arts Programme which is being supported by Arts Council Malta. This event is also supported by French Embassy in Malta and Alliance Française.

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Robert Farrugia – Bandcamp
Welleda Muller – Website