In this open-ended series we shine a light into the crucible of new music creation today, revealing exhilarating cross-currents in sound and style through boundary-breaking, visceral performances.
From contemporary orchestral composition to shimmering electronic sound worlds, musical expression is becoming less defined by genre, more framed by its emotional and cultural contexts. Luminate taps into this bold, exploratory landscape in a series of shows that will provoke and inspire.
Kings Place & Supersonic Festival presents Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH) is an immersive audio-visual perfrormance project, with Lebanese-Canadian producer/musician Radwan Ghazi and Montréal-based filmamker Erin Weisgerber at its core.
Visionary singer and music maker Xenia Rubinos dips in and out of genre and structure to create movingly powerful songs with her signature sound. Xenia’s powerhouse vocals are at the centre of her music which grows from a wide range of influences from R&B to Hip-Hop to jazz all delivered with a soulful punk aura.
Tony is a British-Nigerian electronic music producer and singer-songwriter from North West London. Expect an immersive audiovisual experience full of experimentation, abstraction and a myriad of emotional themes.
Bendik Giske (NO/DE) is an artist and saxophonist whose expressive use of physicality, vulnerability and endurance have already won him much critical acclaim.
DM Stith’s otherworldly tender voice bridges the expanse between quailing sadness and featherlight joy.