Text by CLOT Magazine
The first batch of artists for L.E.V. Festival Gijón has just been revealed. With the support of Gijón’s Town Council and the Principality of Asturias, the festival will host a four-day line-up in different spaces and cultural centres. From 1 to 4 May 2025, live shows including local, national, and international artists will turn Gijón into a reference point for electronic sound experimentation and contemporary audiovisual, scenic, and digital creation.
Some of the headliners for this first line-up advance are Ryoji Ikeda, the collaborative projects by Amnesia Scanner with Freeka Tet and Katarina Gryvul with Alex Guevara, plus Iglooghost, Colin Self, Amelie Duchow, Pinch & Lorem, BABii, Mun Sing, Kabeaushé, Jailed Jamie, Lila Tirando a Violeta, Cortical and YESSi PERSE, showcasing their new projects.
Once again, Teatro de la Laboral will be one of the most essential spaces of the festival, with live shows on Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3. One of the highlights in this edition is electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda, who will showcase live Ultratronics, released by Codex | Edition and Noton. This work reflects Ikeda’s mastery of combining sound and light with mathematical precision within a minimalist aesthetic. PINCH & LOREM’s A RED RABBIT is an immersive audiovisual journey inviting the audience to follow a mystery and tense narrative. The work plays with the idea of the unknown, leading the spectators to enter a universe where the boundaries between the real and the imaginary blur.
Katarina Gryvul and Alex Guevara’s SPOMYN delve into the fragility of human memory, an emotionally charged process that explores how distortion and loss define our essence. The performance blends sounds and distorted pop choruses, all complemented by a visual display that offers a unique immersive experience.
Other highlights are YESSi PERSE, Colin Self and Amelie Duchow. YESSi PERSE will showcase TOP5: Fairytales of Eternal Economic Growth, a concept album that explores the impact of large tech corporations —Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Apple— on today’s society. Amelie Duchow presents her project LOGOS MATER, a sound composition inspired by the phonetic and acoustic elements of languages worldwide. Through a web platform, Duchow invites people from all over the world to record their voices, and the artist transforms and analyses the vocal contributions.
After his performance for L.E.V. 2019, Colin Self returns to L.E.V. to present ¡Gasp!, the second opera in his Self’s Shadow series. Self’s work expands consciousness by questioning binarism and exploring the limits of perception and communication in a proposal that invites the audience to participate in a collective and interdimensional experience. Say people at L.E.V.
Nave de LABoral Centro de Arte, a space where sound and light merge, will showcase Amnesia Scanner w/ Freeka Tet, BABii, Iglooghost, Mun Sing and Cortical. In collaboration with digital artist Freeka Tet, Amnesia Scanner presents their new joint project, HOAX. BABii will showcase her latest album, Daredevil 2000, in which she delves into an abstract interpretation of evil projected onto her imaginary vision of hell. Iglooghost joins L.E.V. to present his new album, Tidal Memory Exo, which combines highly detailed soundscapes with a fictional narrative of trilobite civilizations and mutant musical genres. Finally, Mun Sing will showcase his next EP, Frolic and Cortical will play their debut EP, Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes.
Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies will host outdoor shows during daytime hours on Saturday, May 3. Lila Tirando a Violeta, Kabeaushé and Skygaze will take experimental music and performance to a new level.
In addition to the upcoming announcements about audiovisual installations and extended reality activities, the festival continues to establish itself as one of the most essential events concerning audiovisual creativity and cutting-edge national and international electronica.
L.E.V. Festival Gijón takes place from 1 to 4 May, 2025. Tickets will be available from this link.
