About this event

Brief Encounters and Kindred Spirits present the opening night of Shortwave Festival with: Yawning Portal, VISIO, Jiyoung Wi, Nexcyia, LC and Harilay Rabenjamina.

Expect a series of sonic experimentation and left-field club transmission reverberating the space between inner worlds and the dance floor. Across ambient collage, speculative narrative and low-end club pressure, the programme unites artists who treat sound as both a portal to memory and a conduit for transformation.

Shortwave is a new festival of sound and performance unfolding across four independent venues in south east London. Bringing together international and local artists, musicians and DJs, the festival spans two nights of commissioned live works, experimentation and performance.

London duo Yawning Portal presents an experimental DJ set exploring their textural sound built from field recordings, found sounds and delicate samples, conjuring a euphoric sonic mirage.

Italian polymath VISIO unfolds a time-bent universe steeped in melancholic digital folk, where the sacred and the anachronistic converge, blending acoustic fragments, voice and glitched synthesis.

Rotterdam-based Jiyoung Wi pushes narrative to the edge of perception through her “sound fiction” practice, navigating the shifting space between text, improvisation and sonic immediacy with risk-taking gestures and negative virtuosity. ‘

Berlin-based producer NEXCYIA shifts from his ambient-driven, highly textural musicality to construct hypnotic realms of ambient dub techno, IDM and bass.

London-based selector LC brings her exploratory approach to DJing, echoing a deep connection with global grassroots.

French artist Harilay Rabenjamina anchors behind the decks, propelling the immersive world of his mixed-media work, attentions.

Brief Encounters operates as a space for grassroots live experimentation and the occasional late-night gathering, grounded in an ethos of bringing the fringe to centre stage.

Kindred Spirits is a cultural incubator nurturing hybrid realities and championing community-centered narratives across global artistic currents.