Heith + METATERME (Elvin Brandhi & Emiddio Vasquez) + Ansuman Biswas + Karina Sletten (DJ)

Four artists explore relations between the analogue and the digital, the organic and the synthetic, in the unique setting of Hackney Wick's Bath House.

Heith's music exists where organic and digital elements clash, merge, and transform. His songwriting evokes both reminiscence and curiosity, creating sonic spaces that feel both familiar and alien. This is especially evident in his 2022 opus X, wheel where synths, percussion, and electronics intertwine with organic textures like guitar and voice, constantly shifting in an intricate balance. Escape Lounge, released on PAN in 2025, charts unmarked musical territory — one that draws from the experimental pop of '90s trip-hop, the introspective songwriting of 2000s indie-folk, and the lush, dreamlike haze of Mediterranean psychedelia. For Escape Lounge, Heith draws inspiration from contemporary digital spirituality and interpretations of experience that are crossing over from cultural niches into the mainstream – including internet-based conspiracy theories and psychological operations. The album presents a sonic diary recorded across Milan, Berlin, London, and Stockholm, crafting a post-informational folklore while exploring new territories in personal songwriting. In 2024 he was commissioned by CTM to present his most ambitious and acclaimed show yet, Inverted Vertigo featuring multiple musicians, theatrical staging, and a bespoke LED video ring hung as a swinging pendulum. In 2025, Heith debuted a collaborative audiovisual performance The Talk with James K and Günseli Yalcinkaya, commissioned by Sonar Festival, Terraforma, Nuit Sonores, and Reworks. Since founding his label Haunter Records in 2013, Heith has played a key role in Milan's music scene, also becoming part of the curatorial team at the legendary Macao space. Over the years, he has released a string of EPs ('Laguna' 2018, 'Mud' 2019, 'Lo Zoo di Venere' 2020) and collaborated with artists such as Puce Mary, Visio, and Kareem Lotfy. Earlier this month, Heith released his gorgeous "5th world music" collaboration with Indonesia musician Tarawangsawelas entitled Duori via Stroom.

Elvin Brandhi and Emiddio Vasquez come together as METATERME, a sound experience based research and practise, redefining the sacred in the tempo of the NOW. They met accidentally, through a series of uncanny coincidences in Lebanon, Kurdistan, Brazil via Finland, thus accidentally demonstrating the physicality of connectivity. In their quasi-nomadic practice of creative displacement, they deterritorialise circuits of interference, intersections of influence, and cultural awareness. They strongly believe in the importance of making space for nightmares, conditions for the space to dream, unfreezing the limbs of resilience. They held a performance as exorcism in the Cyprus Pavilion during the Venice Biennale in collaboration with Poncili Creacion. In this dark, warm space with a surround system, they tried to reach sauna sensory extremes through sound, catharsis, and transformation in the performative costume shifts of Poncili brothers. This has inspired them to elaborate on this concept of “curse reverse”, group healing through intimacy, empathy and catharsis and an environment where we are all safe to attend to the extremes of our psychological composition, extremes which are being triggered ever more as war, media, consumption, and normalisation of terror governments engulfs our screen-bred youth.

Ansuman Biswas has an international practice encompassing music, film, live art, installation, writing and theatre. It has included directing Shakespeare, translating Tagore, designing underwater sculptures in the Red Sea, travelling with Tantric minstrels in Bengal, being employed as an ornamental hermit in the English countryside, touring with Björk, surviving blindfolded for days in an unknown place, playing a thousand-year-long piece of music, crossing the Gobi Desert with nomadic shamans, playing with Oasis, collaborating with neuroscientists in Arizona, living for a week with nothing but what spectators chose to give him, singing for 24 hours non-stop, organising grassroots activists in Soweto, meditating in a box for ten days with no food or light, creating a musical in a maximum security prison, silently bathing strangers, being a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, holding seminars in a Burmese monastery, running a nightclub in Hamburg’s red light district, being accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, redesigning Maidstone High Street, playing with terminally ill children, making a radio telescope sing and dance, being locked in a Gothic tower alone for forty days and nights, flying on a real, live, magic carpet, and stopping time.

Karina Sletten is an artist from the Norwegian West coast. Her DJ sets express the associations she makes with other artists on the bill, showcasing pathways and interests that intertwine a plethora of genres and timelines. Karina’s work spans sound art, performance, installation, and relational public practices. She explores the relationships between sound, space, text, environment and perception in innovative ways.

Poster by Matej Siska.