In association with Mute we’re pleased to announce that Duet Emmo will join ICA's October In the Round series for a world premiere performance. 
 
Duet Emmo - the sole collaboration between The Normal’s Daniel Miller, and Wire’s Edvard Graham Lewis and B.C. Gilbert - will perform their world premiere performance together, nearly 45 years after they first assembled in Blackwing Studio in London to record Or So It Seems.

Or So It Seems, an assemblage of electronic sound collage, drone and abstract art pop, was recorded by Daniel Miller (The Normal / Silicon Teens and founder of Mute), Edvard Graham Lewis and B.C. Gilbert (of Wire, Dome and solo projects) in the periods between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day in ’81 and ’82 with legendary engineer Eric Radcliffe at their favoured studio, Blackwing in London. All three were incredibly busy with their day jobs, meaning this recording was their only album together.

Duet Emmo’s pioneering hybrid electronics are mirrored in the project name – an anagram of Mute and Dome - and in the album’s striking artwork, a collage by supreme animators and filmmakers, the Brothers Quay redesigned by Bart van Damme.

Nearly four and a half decades after they first came together, Duet Emmo will perform live for the first time in the round, and using d&b Soundscape, the venue's 360° spatial soundsystem.



Nik Colk Void is a UK-based composer and electronic musician whose practice explores experimental sound, genre-blending composition and collaboration. With a background in visual arts, she has become a key figure in the contemporary electronic underground through her work with Factory Floor, Carter Tutti Void (with Chris & Cosey), NPVR with the late Peter Rehberg, and Full-On with Klara Lewis. Her work has been released on acclaimed labels including Mute, DFA and Editions Mego.

As a solo artist, Void is recognised for her bold sonic experimentation and performances that occupy their own distinct space and time. Her approach often treats sound as a form of montage, developed through unconventional uses of analogue and digital instruments, primarily voice, guitar and modular Eurorack systems. Using extended techniques, cut-up sampling and synthesis, she constructs evolving sonic relationships that move between techno, club, electro-acoustic composition, classical, experimental music and noise, forging a distinctive language of DIY electronics.