£15, or receive a discounted ticket when you book multiple performances.
Shortwave is a new festival of sound and performance unfolding across four independent venues in south east London. Bringing together international and local artists, musicians and DJs, the festival spans two nights of commissioned live works, experimentation and performance.
South London Gallery
Saturday 9 May, 6:00PM – 7:00PM
Doors open 5:30PM
Krystle Patel presents CLOUT, a 4 player performance that weaves together writing, spatialised sound and video to investigate the artists’ bio as a site for the emergence of doppelgängers. Her work is time based and interrogates the language of power structures and value systems through original scores, choreography, spoken word and light.
London Performance Studios
Friday 8 May, 7:30PM – 10:30PM
The premier of attentions, a new live audio-visual concept album by Harilay Rabenjamina, that traverses familial, intimate and political registers. Blending pop, ambient, R&B and classical influences, attentions is part narrative cinematic performance and part pop concert. The work unfolds between London, Paris, Antananarivo and Pessac, as it moves through shifting voices and registers to explore forms of mobility across places, genres and modes of expression. The music is performed live with Thelia.
ORMSIDE Projects
Friday 8 May, 10:00PM – 04:00AM
For the opening night at ORMSIDE Projects, Brief Encounters and Kindred Spirits present a series of sonic experimentation and left-field club transmissions, reverberating the space between inner worlds and the dance floor. Across ambient collage, speculative narrative and low-end pressure, the programme unites artists who treat sound as both a portal to memory and a conduit for transformation.
Yawning Portal conjures a euphoric mirage from field recordings, found sounds and samples; VISIO unfolds a melancholic digital folk universe where acoustic fragments, voice and glitch converge; Jiyoung Wi pushes “sound fiction” to the edge of perception through text, improvisation and sonic immediacy; NEXCYIA constructs hypnotic realms of dub techno, IDM and bass; LC brings exploratory, global-rooted selections; and Harilay Rabenjamina anchors behind the decks, propelling the immersive world of his mixed-media work, attentions.
IKLECTIK
Saturday 9 May, 7:30PM – 10:30PM
For the closing event, IKLECTIK brings together Joshua Woolford, Fya and K’BOKO, each offering distinct approaches to sound as an embodied and spatial practice. Their work spans cultural research, diasporic identity, spirituality and rhythm, from Woolford’s exploration of lived experience and socio-political realities, to Fya’s visual album Homeland, exploring identity, culture and radical self‑love, and K’BOKO’s immersive blend of Afro-Brazilian rhythms with electronic production and synths to create immersive journeys.
One discounted ticket bundle per transaction. – Please purchase additional bundles using a separate booking email.
Supported by Hinrichsen Foundation.
