Alpha Xiao returns to Paris

 

Alpha Xiao has been active in its musical exploration of mental and musical space since 2020. They often collaborate with other musicians and artists in different constellations such as Sebastian Campbell of God Mother, Petri Kuljantausta and Olav Westphalen. They have played extensively in various European venues, in Paris and they are preparing for a concert in Slemani i Iraqi Kurdistan in early November. They will carry out two working sessions in Paris in October. They hope that their new album will be released before they leave for the Middle East.

Alpha Xiao is an experimental musical group using a portable electroencephalograph (EEG)  to modulate designed audio samples in real time as well as a traditional Chinese flute called a Xiao. The two person constellation focuses musically on connectivity through rough sketches of compositions, sounds and themes. As brain waves and non-human life expressions influence certain dynamics of the sound, and vice versa, a type of feedback loop is generated between the activities of the technology and sound produced ad infinitum.

Listen to Alpha Xiao on Soundcloud.

With Dionysus in Stockholm

Curatorial Mutiny is happy to have been given a  residency at Dansens Hus in Stockholm September 1- 7-, 2026. The team will be developing a project with the title “Cocktail” which Carima Neusser has been working on since late 2025 and that we have presented in Mexico and Brazil before. She has been offered a technical residency to develop the piece further. 

A public presentation will be held September 11, at 18.00. If you want to attend, you need to be 18 years or older. Drop us a line on curatorialmutiny [at] gmail.com if you want to come. Welcome!!!!

The Dynamic Paris

Curatorial Mutiny is proud to participate in “Dynamique” at Galerie de la Moulinette in Paris 18-24 July 2026. Many of our long term collaborators like Laurent Deveze, Fabien Guillermont and Per Huttner show work within the the framework of the exhibition. The show looks at questions that are raised in “Les grecs, leur mythes et nous” (The Greeks, their Myths and Us) by Laurent Deveze that (as the title suggests) looks at how ancient Greek myths can be used to understand who we are. 

Animal Communication in Stockholm

Do animals communicate? Is there also important communication between species? If so, what can be learned from how animals communicate and can we facilitate dialogues between species?

Science tries to understand how animals communicate amongst each themselves.  Their communication offer new perspectives on language and a peek into a fascinating non-human world. Vision Forum is developing a fascinating new project that investigates how animals communicate and what the arts can learn from it. The group meets in Stockholm at Tekniska museet May 19 and 20, 2026 to develop a program that will be available for the general public in 2027.

The project is a collaboration with Vision Forum and is supported by Längmanska kulturfonden.

Performance Enigma book release

Vision Forum is proud to announce the book release of Performance Enigma at Hökarängens Antikvariat & Skivbörs, Saturday May 9 at 16h. Address: Pepparvägen 4, 123 56 Stockholm.

The book investigates and unravels Per Hüttner’s multifaceted performances, spanning artistic inquiry from 1988 to 2024. His work constitutes a labyrinth of intertwining perspectives and mirrors a multidisciplinary practice that bridges music, dance, neuroscience and more. At the book’s core lies a meditation on the ephemeral nature of performance; a medium that defies preservation and resists commodification, standing as a political act in an age fixated on documentation.

Offering a dynamic, non-linear exploration of art as process rather than object, Performance Enigma invites countless interpretations, each shaped by the reader’s journey through its pages, coalescing into a kaleidoscopic vision that questions how we see and interpret the world at large. Events become fragments, and fragments spark narratives; challenging our understanding of memory, perception, and the human condition.

Texts and editing by Freddie Ross with further texts by Carima Neusser and the artist. All the contributors will be present and it will be followed by a concert by Alpha Xiao.

Graphic Design by Erik Månsson. The book has been created with support from Längmanska kulturfonden.

Alpha Xiao in Hökis

Alpha Xiao has been active in its musical exploration of mental and musical space since 2020. They often collaborate with other musicians and artists in different constellations such as Sebastian Campbell of God Mother, Petri Kuljantausta and Olav Westphalen. They have played extensively in various European venues in Sweden, Finland, Belgium, France and Germany. Alpha Xiao has also created music for Fabien Guillermont and Toan Van Che’s full-length documentary “Reality Check” in 2024.

Alpha Xiao is an experimental musical group using a portable electroencephalograph (EEG) and microbial activity to modulate designed audio samples in real time as well as a traditional Chinese flute called a Xiao. The two person constellation focuses musically on connectivity through rough sketches of compositions, sounds and themes. As brain waves and non-human life expressions influence certain dynamics of the sound, and vice versa, a type of feedback loop is generated between the activities of the technology and sound produced ad infinitum.

Alpha Xiao plays live at Hökarängens Antikvariat & Skivbörs, Saturday May 9 at 17h. Address: Pepparvägen 4, 12356 Stockholm

There are a small number of tickets left, make sure to book at ticket by writing to “hokarangensantikvariat [at] gmail.com.”

Listen to Alpha Xiao on Soundcloud.

“One Step Closer to the Abyss” on tour in Finland

‘One Step Closer to the Abyss’ is a musical collaboration between London-based composer and musician Tomas Nordmark and Paris-based musician and artist Per Hüttner, both originally from Sweden. On ‘One Step Closer to the Abyss’ the electronic music is improvised in a digital environment. The two artists have been inspired from the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher and his publication ‘‘The Weird and The Eerie’ (2017). The music is not only improvised but also, using bespoke hard- and software, modulated in real time from a participant’s brainwaves for an additional layer of spontaneity. The recording was made at Permian, a microscopic venue for improvised music situated in a basement in the Tokyo ward Shinagawa. The pulse from the Japanese capital is thereby also present in the recorded improvisation, filtered down to a slow, modulated and minimalistic, dub-oriented ambient soundscape.

‘One Step Closer to the Abyss’ will be available for streaming and on vinyl from April 24, 2026.

The dates for the Finnish tour are:

- Black Sheep Pub, Jakobstad, 20.00, April 29.
- Ääniasema festival, Jyväskylä, 19-23h, May 1.
- Korjaamo, Helsinki, 18.30, May 2.