A double bill with songwriter and composer Samba Jean-Baptiste, and a performance of choreographer Samara Langham’s most recent piece, Nacre.  Plus DJ set from Shimz343.

Finnish choreographer Marika Peura presents a live performance exploring cultural heritage, Brownness, Whiteness, and the body's entanglement with power and violence through dance, costume, and charged symbols of identity.

Welsh multi-disciplinary artist and producer Cate Le Bon’s work has long defied categorization—an architect of sound who builds emotional landscapes from abstraction, texture, and tone. We are delighted to welcome her and her band for two nights in August.

HTRK [‘hate rock'], the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang, have an uncanny ability to elevate musical mood to a singular, smouldering supremacy. Their songs are often coded as fantasies, venturing deeper into the heady expanses of dub dream and memory.

Sharp Pins is a lo-fi noise pop project led by Chicago musician Kai Slater.

Model/Actriz seek to channel raw emotions into striking new forms. The band’s surface glamor is supported by nerves of steel, leveraging their focus into moments of wild abandon. Don't miss a rare opportunity to see one of the most revered live acts of the moment in an intimate setting. 

Smugglers Way is proud to present its first-ever label showcase at the ICA in conjunction with Eat Your Own Ears, featuring the debut performance from Ela Minus & Nick León, alongside sets from Alexis Taylor & Mike Simonetti and Guedra Guedra, celebrating a run of recent releases. 

Loscil is the electronic music project of Canadian composer and multimedia artist Scott Morgan. For over 20 years, Morgan has built a robust catalogue of work under the Loscil moniker, loosely spanning the genres of ambient, classical and electroacoustic music. Support from London-based electronic duo AM sin.

Quite simply one of the most consistent and visionary producers working today, we are excited to welcome back Loraine James following her new release on Hyperdub Detached From The Rest Of You - her experimental approach is struck through with vulnerability, curiosity and hope. Support from Eden Samara.

There is no reason for GHOSTWOMAN’s fourth album to exist. Welcome to the Civilized World is born to a broken world; a corrupt inheritance – Evan Uschenko and Ille van Dessel are under no illusions about its futility – and yet, this thing is alive. It’s an allergic reaction to the times we are living in. Support from Desert Liminal.

Dan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo home-recording project in the early to mid-nineties. Exploring and overturning genres such as glam, MIDI, yacht rock, and even underground Spanish independent artists, Bejar was proclaimed “Rock’s Exiled King” by The Fader.

Maddie Ashman is an avant-pop artist, producer and composer with a love for exploring microtonal music in uncanny, illusory yet addictive ways. 

Hilary Woods is an Irish musician, composer and analogue filmmaker whose work spans a wide range of sonic, compositional, improvisational, filmic, literary and experimental practices.

Klein is an artist and musician whose work often blurs the lines between fact and fiction. Her music releases, films, and performances are often informed by urban mapping, surveillance, humor, hip-hop, noise, identity, and beyond.

Carla dal Forno is an Australian composer, songwriter and producer based in Castlemaine, Victoria. Working between post-punk minimalism, experimental pop and atmospheric electronics, she has built a dedicated international following through a series of acclaimed releases and extensive touring across Europe and North America.

White Flowers is Katie Drew and Joey Cobb. Following the announcement of their debut album Dreams For Somebody Else out via State51 Conspiracy in May, we are pleased to announce a headline show this autumn.

London-based saxophonist, singer, composer and poet Alabaster DePlume brings a special residency to the ICA, with a fresh band each night.

Critically acclaimed artist HYD creates dynamic, seductive pop that blends experimental sound with striking visual worlds. They perform as part of our In the Round series, using the venue's 360° Soundsystem, d&b Soundscape.

Tara Clerkin Trio perform a two night residency as part of our In the Round series in October.

Following last year’s In the Round show with Milkweed, we’re teaming up with Broadside Hacks again, headlined by 11-piece folk ensemble Brown Wimpenny, with Sam Grassie, Myer U Clark, and Spitzer Space Telescope.

American performer and composer Shane Parish presents an intimate in-the-round performance of his new album Autechre Guitar.

Acclaimed Strasbourg-based music collective lovemusic join with experimental composer-performers Jennifer Walshe and Neil Luck (aka WACK) for two UK premieres. Co-presented with Nonclassical.

Discovery Zone is the experimental pop project of New York musician and multimedia artist JJ Weihl. On stage, Discovery Zone explores a widescreen pop sound speckled with luminous vocal performances and baroque instrumental flourishes.

Pitchfork Music Festival London presents a triple bill headlined by Olof Dreijer, one half of legendary synth pop provocateurs The Knife whose striking rush of output since 2023 has signalled a new era in his music-making - his sound bright and immediate, wild around the edges but overflowing with heart and soul. Support from FAUZIA and Cutouts.

Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa) is an international touring musician, poet, visual artist and Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. As well as her solo project she is also part of the groups Irreversible Entanglements and 700 Bliss.

Horse Lords grew out of the fertile Baltimore noise and leftfield rock scene, but their approach is more omnivorous than the stippled rhythms of instrumental electric rock would indicate. 

Derwin Schlecker has been making inventive, invigorating electronic music as Gold Panda for the better part of two decades now. He headlines later this year to mark the release of his new album TON UP.

Kiss Facility is the multidisciplinary duo of Mayah Alkhateri and Salvador Navarette, who have been working across sound, image, and performance since their first encounter. Their practice is rooted in spiritual enquiry, drawing on themes of psychic perception, ritual protection, intimacy and the afterlife as a force of future destiny.

Faux Real are known for idiosyncratic, high-energy live shows combining choreography, showmanship, and practical effects with an intentionally unfiltered physicality. They return with their second album Poison Time, later this year.

Modern Woman's debut album Johnny's Dreamworld represents the culmination of the London art-rock outfit's journey from singer Sophie Harris' intimate songwriting project into a full-bodied band capable of folding post-punk, avant-garde, and folk traditions into a live force of dynamic originality. 

Portico Quartet co-founder Jack Wyllie presents the first project under his own name and introduces a new band featuring Hinako Omori on keyboards, Milo Fitzpatrick (Portico Quartet/Vega Trails) on bass, and drummer Jesse Barrett (Mammal Hands).

London-based saxophonist, singer, composer and poet Alabaster DePlume brings a special residency to the ICA, with a fresh band each night.

Critically acclaimed artist HYD creates dynamic, seductive pop that blends experimental sound with striking visual worlds. They perform as part of our In the Round series, using the venue's 360° Soundsystem, d&b Soundscape.

Tara Clerkin Trio perform a two night residency as part of our In the Round series in October.

Following last year’s In the Round show with Milkweed, we’re teaming up with Broadside Hacks again, headlined by 11-piece folk ensemble Brown Wimpenny, with Sam Grassie, Myer U Clark, and Spitzer Space Telescope.

American performer and composer Shane Parish presents an intimate in-the-round performance of his new album Autechre Guitar.

Acclaimed Strasbourg-based music collective lovemusic join with experimental composer-performers Jennifer Walshe and Neil Luck (aka WACK) for two UK premieres. Co-presented with Nonclassical.

Discovery Zone is the experimental pop project of New York musician and multimedia artist JJ Weihl. On stage, Discovery Zone explores a widescreen pop sound speckled with luminous vocal performances and baroque instrumental flourishes.