Come along to the opening of the ELEKTRA festival on Wednesday 18 June. This is your chance to find out more about the festival's programme with the artists and partners.

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During the evening, take part in two free preview performances:
→ 8pm: A participatory urban exploration in a spacesuit, devised by Le Clair Obscur: a fictional mission through the city that questions our relationship with the environment, technology and otherness.
→ 9pm: An audio-laser performance by Kristian North and Mike Cassidy, where light and sound merge in a never-before-seen experience.

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Smoke Screen
Augurs Wand (Mike Cassidy and Kristian North)

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Smoke Screen is a visual music performance for lasers exploring boundaries, borders, smoothness, and striation in actual and virtual spaces, responding to current geopolitics and planetary conditions. The work uses a custom laser synthesiser to simultaneously generate shape, colour, and sound diffused by three lasers and a speaker array. With this instrument the artists explicitly cultivate the entoptic phenomena and perceptual illusions created by integrating sound with laser light, exploring the thresholds between shared and individual hallucinatory states.