Argentine-Japanese avant-garde artist duo Lolo & Sosaku create industrial noisescapes of whirring motors, rattling parts, and engulfing rhythmic hums. Drowning in feedback and disruptive physical sounds, this group has been creating mesmerising sound sculptures using self-made instruments and contraptions for nearly 20 years, since their first meeting in Barcelona in 2004. Their music sounds somewhat like a contemporary revitalisation of the ghostly machine-symphonies of Italian painter and composer Luigi Rusolo. “Our work runs along the edges,” they say, “pushes them, blurs them, questions them.” The boundaries of genre are a particular edge that the duo seem mischievously interested in disrupting: creating music that is at times brimming with almost danceable techno rhythms before collapsing the next moment into itself, grinding to a cacophonous halt in a gaping maw of is own making. The surreal folds into the real in their performances; at the core of their work is a shared desire to show “an object in contact with its surroundings and with the spectator, an object that seeks friction and tension, exploring the capacity of creating new meanings.” They perform The End live at Rewire, which serves as the climactic conclusion to director Sergio Caballero's latest film, 'Lolo & Sosaku' The Western Archive (2023).

*This is a seated concert