Nkisi + Crawler + 2K88, Rainy Miller, Bianca Scout

Few art forms possess the transformative power of electronic music. It moves bodies, reshapes spaces and creates moments of collective experience. During Amsterdam Dance Event, Nothing Here Now and The Rest is Noise present three new live performances that explore another dimension of that power. Nkisi, Crawler and 2K88, Rainy Miller & Bianca Scout each use electronic music as an artistic language in which sound, image and performance converge through storytelling and transformation. 
  
Crawler - Your Death Is a Lullaby  
The live premiere of Your Death Is a Lullaby is the centrepiece of the evening. Crawler, the new project by Rachella Groen (Zohar), Harry Castle and writer Gervaise Alexis Savvias, asks who gets to be seen and understood, and what it costs to resist that expectation. Spoken word, electronics, live instruments, visuals and scenography come together in a performance where vulnerability, desire, grief and queer identity are given space in all their complexity. 
For this premiere, Crawler expands the collective with cellist Malou van der Veld, guitarist Rob Toal-Lennon, an installation by Studio Bass Stittgen and visuals by Clint Soren. 
Your Death Is a Lullaby was developed within the Muziekgebouw Production House and is part of ADE Arts & Culture. 
  
2K88 & Rainy Miller & Bianca Scout - Everything Always Changes, For We’re Truly Here  
Everything Always Changes, For We're Truly Here was created during an Unsound Festival residency, where Polish producer 2K88 collaborated with Rainy Miller, Bianca Scout and Lauren Duffus. For the live performance, 2K88, Rainy Miller and Bianca Scout take the stage. Dreamlike electronics, R&B and rap come together in a cinematic sound world where memory, history and imagination continuously intertwine.

Nkisi - BLK SPLLS
In BLK SPLLS, Nkisi explores how music can set transformation in motion. Inspired by the Central African concept of bilongo, she approaches samples as active fragments: valued less for what they signify than for what they set into motion. In doing so, she reclaims familiar elements of electronic music, such as the break, the loop and the drop, returning them to their original function as rhythms for trance and transformation. 
Originally developed as a collection of sonic spells, BLK SPLLS receives its live premiere at Muziekgebouw.