Sunday, August 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Black Editions & Villa Aurora present Berlin and Amsterdam based musician, composer, synthesist **Thomas Ankersmit** for a night of visceral, brilliantly dynamic electroacoustic sound. The duo of Kelsey Mines & Rafael Chamone will begin the evening with a lush set of Jazz via Brazil inflections. For the past twenty years, **Thomas Ankersmit's** main instrument has been the Serge Modular analog synthesizer, both live and in the studio. From 2003 to 2023 he toured and collaborated intensively with New York minimalist Phill Niblock (1933-2024). He’s also performed and recorded with artists like Valerio Tricoli, Kevin Drumm, Jerome Noetinger and Thomas Lehn. His music is released on the Shelter Press, PAN and Touch labels, and combines intricate sonic detail and raw electric power, with a very physical and spatial experience of sound. Acoustic phenomena such as infrasound and otoacoustic emissions (sounds emanating from inside the head, generated by the ears themselves) play an important role in his work, as does a deliberate, creative misuse of the equipment. His work has been presented at festivals, museums and concert halls across Europe, Asia and the Americas. *Acutely visceral, brilliantly dynamic electroacoustic music … Play this loud and it starts to feel like a crack opening in reality.* – The Quietus *Some of the most challenging, absorbing, and masterfully executed sound art that I have ever heard.* – Brainwashed *Gorgeous and visceral … Supernovas of sound.* – The Wire Thomas’s concert was spectacular, among the very best things I’ve ever heard done on a Serge synth. Best thing was, I didn’t hear a single bleep or bloop, or filter sweep, or driving sequencer beat. In fact, I heard nothing at all that I could tell was made using one of my synthesizers. That’s genius. – Serge Tcherepnin, inventor of the Serge Modular synthesizer