KEPK presents Intercepted by Light: Ryousuke Kiyasu (JP) Xenosine (Naarm) and guests. Ryosuke joins us from the Australian leg of his current world tour for a special one-off audio-reactive performance incorporating 64m of addressable led lighting.
Ryosuke Kiyasu
Ryosuke Kiyasu is a pioneering snare-drum soloist who has redefined percussion since 2003. Alongside his viral 2018 Berlin set (23 million+ views. also featured by BBC News and VICE), he drums for noise-grind duo SETE STAR SEPT, the Kiyasu Orchestra, Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha, and co-founded Canada’s cult hardcore unit The Endless Blockade.
From Überschlag—the world’s largest classical-percussion festival—to Finland’s Outsider Art Festival and Dr. Martens Fest, Kiyasu’s 2022-24 itinerary placed him on premier stages across Europe. His performance film at the 2023 Edinburgh Art Festival sparked art-world buzz, while a capsule line with Swedish label Our Legacy pushed his aesthetic into fashion.
With 200-plus releases spanning solo work and band discographies, Kiyasu continues to tour globally, delivering a singular, high-impact blend of extreme dynamics, physicality, and avant-garde vision that has made the snare drum a headline instrument.
@dr.kiyasu
Xenosine
Vijay Thillaimuthu is a Tamil-Australian electronic composer/performer and audio-visual artist informed by the rich history of analogue sound synthesis. Often performing under the moniker Xenosine, he creates unique immersive environments that can be experienced across different sensual distinctions based on synergistic approaches with technology. This is largely enabled through the open ended architecture of modular synthesisers and node-based programming languages.
@xenosine_
Raquel
Raquel is a secular spiritual identity composing visceral ambience for disenchanting realities. She is indifferent to distinctions between acoustic, lo-fi and digital methods of music making and often applies them simultaneously. Firstly an artist, Raquel now combines her art and music practices forming a composed world of sound and images; textures and motifs. This bleeds into experimental DJ sets and collaborative musical projects, notably Lilith, Raum and ANNIHA.
@rachael.archibald
Unregistered Master Builder
Carpet Entanglement
Carpet Entanglement is a performative installation that draws on the long-standing interaction between textile arts and musical practice, and explores this context through the carpet tufting gun as a novel electroacoustic interface.
Underlining this historical connection is the dynamic interplay between materials, forces, and human agency in shaping the world, or “textility” as proposed by anthropologist Tim Ingold.[1] This performative installation emphasises the
ongoing generative interplay between media and mediums highlighting the tufting gun as a site of embodied, material engagement.
@unregistered_master_builder
Featuring new installation work by Susan Lincoln and Freeform.
https://www.susanlincoln.com.au/
TICKETS
Presale tickets $22
Door Tickets $25
Student/Concession/unwaged $15 Promo code Vibe_Check
For more details or to get involved contact hello@kepk.com.au
References
1.Ingold, T. (2010). The textility of making. Cambridge journal of
economics, 34(1), 91-102.