Jim O’Rourke and Eiko Ishibashi are two experimental artists that need little introduction. Ishibashi, who performed a spellbinding set at last year's festival, is a renowned artist and composer whose latest album Antigone (2025) followed beloved soundtracks to Oscar-winning film Drive My Car (2021) and Evil Does Not Exist (2023). O'Rourke is a stalwart of Chicago's improv scene, a prolific composer for film, and a former member of Gastr del Sol and Sonic Youth. Pareidolia (2025) is their fifth release as a duo; this gorgeous album of deconstructed orchestral sounds, glitchy electronics, and warm fuzz serves as a montage of improvisations and performances captured live. The sounds wander freely yet remain rooted in some kind of effervescent intention – like two bonfire sparks dancing in the wind, or two fireflies led by each other's flickering brightness. In Ishibashi and O’Rourke's music one can hear a deep sense of conversation, interplay, and, arguably, affection. Meditative yet never sleepy, comforting yet never predictable, Pareidolia stands as a wonderful document of what the duo are capable of creating when their sparkling electronics, atmospheric strings, glimmering textures, and fortuitous flutes combine.