Matthew Dear has revealed the details behind his first proper Audion tour in five years. A collaboration with Heather Shaw’s acclaimed Vita Motus company (see: Amon Tobin’s game-changing ISAM show), “Subverticul” is described as “an evening-long odyssey” led in part by “a labyrinthine sculpture based off of the Audion ‘A’ that pulses, spins, and grows in response to Audion’s ever-shifting rhythms… The results are a living, breathing fusion of leftfield techno, glowing LED lights and dazzling sound-reactive visuals that’s at turns disorienting, beautiful, and terrifying. Often, it’s all three.”
Sounds like the last time we took the blue pill. While a world tour is expected to kick off this spring, the premiere of “Subverticul” is set for February 22nd at L.A.’s El Rey Theatre, with subsequent stops happening in San Francisco (at the Noise Pop Festival on February 26th) and London (at Oval Space on May 4th). In the meantime, here’s a new Daniel Avery remix that takes Audion done a neon-flanked path that’s entirely his own…
