Friday, May 29 | 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm (90 mins)
New Release
Wait to listen to it on sona first. Give it the time and attention it deserves. Listen to it in its premiere week, from start to finish, as the artist imagined it.
Hi-Fi Stereo
We play digital audio of the highest quality through our analog system: tube amplifiers and OJAS KO-R1 speakers. Designed by Devon Turnbull, the KO-R1 creates hyper-realistic and detailed, warm and natural soundscapes. They generate absolute presence in the sound. In our space designed for deep listening, you will discover hidden details, textures, and movements impossible to feel in headphones.
9 seats remaining - 90-minute session
why Inferno - Boards Of Canada
Thirteen years of silence. VHS tapes arriving by mail to collectors who no longer remembered giving out their address. Posters appearing at night in Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, unsigned, with no clear date. A radio signal broadcast at 1420 MHz —the hydrogen frequency, the same one we use to listen to the universe— seeping through like a first warning. The Sandison brothers have never made music for the moment. They make music that feels unearthed: aging magnetic tapes, synthesizers that seem to remember something we forgot, melodies that come from a future that has already passed. Their work has been, since Music Has the Right to Children in 1998, one of the few things in electronic music that feels more like weather than a genre. Inferno is their first album since Tomorrow's Harvest in 2013. Seventy minutes. Eighteen pieces. A continuity that asks to be heard as one thing, not as a collection. Thirteen years waiting for this moment. It is worth listening to it properly.
curated by Warp Records
1989. Two owners of a record store —Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell— founded a label to release the music happening around them: bleep techno, acid, the first forms of what we would later call IDM. From the beginning, Warp operated more like curation than like a record label: few artists, a great deal of care, absolute creative freedom. Its Artificial Intelligence series, launched in 1992, proposed something radical for its time —that electronic music could be listened to sitting down, with the same attention given to jazz or classical music. Aphex Twin, Autechre, Flying Lotus, Oneohtrix Point Never, Brian Eno, Yves Tumor, Kelela. And Boards of Canada, with whom the label has had a particularly patient relationship —able to wait thirteen years between albums without pressure. Few labels have done so much to turn electronic music into a listening experience.
community rules
no phones: anything that produces sound must be stored in our secure lockers.
no talk: we keep the soundroom silent so everyone can focus on the music.
no late entry: once the soundroom doors close (20 minutes after the booking time), we cannot let anyone in.
FAQ
can i cancel my ticket?+
yes, you can cancel your booking 24 hours before the session through this website. we will give you a credit to book a future date. we do not offer cash refunds, and we cannot offer credits for cancellations made with less than 24 hours' notice.
is there a dress code?+
no, but we recommend wearing something comfortable for sitting on the floor. because the room is very quiet, we recommend soft fabrics. try to avoid "noisy" synthetic materials like nylon or windbreakers, as the sound of moving in them can be distracting to others. also, we leave our shoes at the door, so we recommend wearing warm socks.
what if i can't sit on the floor?+
if you need a chair for medical or physical reasons, please let us know when you arrive.
can i buy a drink?+
yes, we serve a curated selection of non-alcoholic drinks and light snacks, but all refreshments must be finished before you enter the soundroom.