The British sound artist, composer, and engineer Sam Slater presents his new album Lunng (2026) at Rewire 2026 in the form of an audiovisual show with video from director Lukas Feigelfeld, stage design by visual artist and lightning designer Theresa Baumgärtner, and accompanied by a cast of renowned musicians from the experimental music scene: Lucy Railton on cello, Maria W. Horn on vocals, Hillary Jeffrey on trombone, Petra Hermanova on vocals and autoharp, and Andrew Bernstein (from Horse Lords) on saxophone. Slater moved, somewhat by accident, into working as a composer on high-profile projects – such as his collaboration with Hildur Guðnadóttir on the Grammy Award-winning soundtracks for Joker and Chernobyl. Lunng sees him return to the divergent range of influences that have characterised his life-time in bands and as a producer. From the extravagant distortion of 2000s metal and the otherworldly voice of Horn, to stirring trombone swells and eerie yet warm saxophone trills, Slater has built a uniquely dark and foreboding sound world of swarming contradictions and cathartic noise. The project works to explore the tensions between the sonic realms that each collaborator steps in from; the result is a bubbling cauldron of sounds that overflows with emergent creativity, joyful dissonances, and surprising overlaps.