CTM Festival returns to the ICA: three nights, six genre-defying artists. With: Lyra Pramuk, aya x MFO, Emptyset, Tarta Relena, Violent Magic Orchestra, and KAVARI.  

The first night of CTM Festival and ICA London’s 2025 collaboration is an evening of raw frequencies and fractured visions with emptyset and KAVARI sculpting sound into a beast most primal and unrelentingly alive.

The second of three CTM x ICA 2025 nights opens a portal to ancient echoes and future devotions. Voice becomes invocation, harmony a form of resistance. Sacred textures and spectral folk ooze together into a shared dream of connection, care, and ritual.

The final night of CTM x ICA 2025 beckons you with crook’d finger into an audiovisual labyrinth of personal narrative and jagged abstraction, each pulse of light slicing through shadow before descending into an abyssal dance ritual.

Ghosted is a transcendent collaboration between Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin.

Gazelle Twin presents her haunting album Black Dog live for the last time – a plunge into darkness rooted in the theatrics of the séance and the phenomena of ghosts.

WOOM is comprised of Alice Barlow, Gray Rimmer, Lara Laeverenz, and Isobel Risk. A low hum, a harmony and ripple, a mirror of reverberating melismatic vocals carrying listeners to the heart of a sound. 

The Grubby Mitts are nine piece band from Bedford, fronted by artist Andy Holden. They are noted for their elaborate and exuberant live shows, augmented by Holden’s animated projections. The band present the launch of their new concept album, ‘Love in the Misanthropocene’, accompanied by a brass section.

Kara-Lis Coverdale composes and performs musical works across acoustic and electronic mediums to create works that transcend reality. 

With an idiosyncratic sound that is at once sardonic and yet intensely poignant, Famous have developed a reputation as one of the most exciting and unconventional live acts on the London underground circuit. 

In conjunction with Oblique_Futures, Diagonal Records descends on the ICA on 4th October for a specially-curated evening of radical and affirmative electronic/computer music and Hi-sensitive film.

The band’s classic 4th album, heard as never before. Remixed by in full spatial audio from the original multitracks. Sit deep inside tracks such as Hoppípolla, Saeglópur and Sé lest, hearing the sheer beauty and sonic ambition of the songs revealed in exquisite new detail.

Bradley Miller, known artistically as cktrl, recently announced his highly anticipated debut album, spirit, set for release on September 19th via R&R.

What do we know of Milkweed? Enough, and nearly nothing. They are a duo. They use voice, guitar and banjo. They describe their sound as slacker-trad, which is both true and somehow insufficient. They perform as part of our in-the-round spatial series this October.

Holden & Zimpel perform in-the-round at ICA, using the venue's 360° spatial soundsystem system, d&b Soundscape.

Mermaid Chunky. It’s all in a name, sometimes. The danceable, costumed, curiosity rich duo of artists Freya Tate and Moina Moin are as imaginative as they profess. Or, to get more to the point, as we all need them to be. They perform as part of our in-the-round spatial series this October.

As part of a series of -in-the-round shows this October, Titanic, the chamber-jazz-meets-art-pop collaboration between Mabe Fratti and I La Catolica, will perform live using the venue's 360° spatial soundsystem, d&b Soundscape.

Unconcerned with trends and always pushing forward, Seefeel remain icons of experimentation— blurring the boundaries between guitar music and electronic music - pioneers of a sound that has only grown more vital and influential with time. Support from James Massiah.

The Montreal, Quebec trio BIG | BRAVE create heavy, vast post-rock. Minimalism, structural freedom and meticulous timing form the cornerstones of their precise, rhythmical sound. 

Phew is a legendary figure in Japanese underground music and was a founding member of the legendary Japanese punk band Aunt Sally. Supported by Freddie Murphy, a sound artist and curator based in Torino, Italy.

Nabeel is a band, formed by Iraqi-American musician Yasir Razak, blending indie shoegaze and DIY bedroom band energy with the sounds of his Arabic roots.

Los Thuthanaka (founded by West Coast artists Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton) bridges the past, present and future of the mighty Pakajaqui Nation through a potent blend of Andean rhythms, Aymara composition and psychedelic rock to create a style of Andean music unheard until now.

Protomartyr perform 2 nights at ICA. The band's taut, austere rock was incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed, feebly, by space heaters.

Joanne Robertson is a musician, painter and poet. Joanne collaborates regularly with her friends, most recently with Dean Blunt on Backstage Raver. Also peforming is Raisa K, aka Raisa Khan, a songwriter, producer and musician who recently recently released her debut solo record, and one of the albums of the year, Affectionately.

Genre-breaking drummer, producer and composer Sarathy Korwar presents a live rendition of his forthcoming album – the first release on his own new label – made up entirely of live drums, drum-triggered electronics and human voices.

The London label celebrates 5 years of activity by bringing together its first 2 signings - tuba master Theon Cross and cult trio Ill Considered - for an evening of pure, improvised music. 

Stephen ‘Mal’ Mallinder and Chris Watson perform at the ICA this November to mark 50 years of Cabaret Voltaire live. 

Craven Faults returns to London for the first time since the sold-out debut at 9294 in February 2024. Further longform electronic journeys across post-industrial northern Britain – performed on modular synthesiser with live projections.

Coming out of retirement, one of the most flamboyant musical discoveries of the 20 years, Baby Dee, performs an intimate headline show at ICA. Please note this performance has been rescheduled to November 25th (from September 2nd). 

A version of james K was born. Comprised of bones, reactive metals and a larynx with freckled eyes that catalyzes that mix, she can now see through all the schemes. This is the truth. When she chews gum, it’s not clear which one of her personas does it. Since their first release in 2013, describing them separately is grunt work as they switch places, cosplay each other and would most likely lull you into a lonesome dream.

As the name suggests, the tracks that make up Snapped Ankles’ Hard Times Furious Dancing album were designed for live performance. Or more specifically to make people move as if their lives depend on it. Honed at the band’s Forest Rayve club nights throughout 2024 and released in 2025 - it marked a new era for the woodwose.

Philadelphia post-rock band They Are Gutting A Body Of Water perform live and in-the-round at the ICA in February.