Concerts L.E.V. Friday September 18th. DREW MCDOWALL & PEDRO MAIA y KYRIA LIBIA

DREW MCDOWALL & PEDRO MAIA live AV

Scottish composer and experimental music pioneer Drew McDowall, best known for his work with Psychic TV and Coil, presents a live audiovisual performance at L.E.V. Matadero in collaboration with Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Maia. Based on McDowall’s latest album, A Thread, Silvered and Trembling (2024), the performance unfolds through modular synthesis, electroacoustic composition, and layered sonic textures that move between intimacy and vast, cosmic abstraction. Maia’s analogue and cross-media visual practice, combining classical film techniques with contemporary experimentation, expands these immersive sound worlds into a hypnotic audiovisual experience suspended between ritual, dream, and cinematic hallucination.

KYRIA LIBIA. El arrobamiento. World Premiere

Experimental sacred music composer Kyria Libia, presents her new project at LEV Matadero: a contemporary sound liturgy that reflects on mystical ecstasy and spirituality from a psychoanalytical perspective, in a present where inner listening has become an almost impossible practice. 

Through research into mystical texts and Christian religious music, El arrobamiento offers an emotionally intense musical journey. A live modular pipe organ, in harmony with synthesisers and processed lyrical voices, creates sacred atmospheres that will lead us from the darkest recesses of the human soul to collective ecstasy. An invitation to let go of the ‘self’ in order to connect with the numinous, where love and sensitivity burst forth as deeply necessary forces in a world ravaged by systemic violence.

Kyria Libia released her first pipe organ album, Visiones de lo sublime (2025), on the Belgian label Nuova Materia. Her work focuses on mysticism and the search for a new sacred language through experimentation with acoustic instruments associated with the church—such as the pipe organ, lyrical voices and bells—which enter into dialogue with ambient, psychedelic and minimalist electronic music. Through her work, she advocates reconnecting with the sacred as an act of resistance against the hyper-productive logic and the accelerating pace of our times.

Project developed at Centro de Resistencias Artísticas Matadero Madrid.