July 10, 2025
Join us on August 7th at Prizren Fortress for a night of fluid sonic exploration, as two of the brightest electronic producers take to the Sonar stage and light up the city. First, London-based experimental artist LUXE presents a genre-defying live performance uniting classical compositions with atmospheric soundscapes and high-tempo electronic rhythms, before we are treated to the lush, introspective reverberations and microtextures of Amsterdam-based artist upsammy, who presents a live, audiovisual rendition of her stunning 2024 album Strange Meridians.
LUXE - live
Searching for an eclectic dose of UK-influenced euphoria? Look no further than LUXE (Lucy Hopson), a London-based experimental artist, DJ and producer who straddles the borders between various genres with supreme confidence. Studying classical music from a young age before shifting toward a club environment, her various disciplines have begun to converge: the result is a potent mix of heady classical melodies, atmospheric ambiance, varied instrumentation and digital ecstasy, foregoing a reliance on genre confines and aesthetic trappings in favour of a taste for creative risk-taking. Her ever-evolving sound has found home on labels such as HAAi’s Radical New Theory and stages such as London’s mammoth Waterworks Festival—it’s an honour to welcome her to the party this year.
upsammy Live A/V - "Strange Meridians"
In 2025, upsammy will present a new audio-visual live show for her album Strange Meridians, released in 2024 on topo2. Building on her distinctive body of work, including an album on PAN (Germ in a Population of Buildings, 2023), upsammy steps away from frenetic club music and into a foggy ambient world, resulting in her most toned-down release yet.
The songs on Strange Meridians feel like artifacts in a wayfinding quest. Each song represents an eerie and strange connection to place, containing remnants of a material world, yet seeming to float above it. Whispers of ghost-like voices offer a disorienting guidance as the listener navigates through the reverberated field recordings, scintillating melodies, and sparse molecular beats.
For the visual element of the show, upsammy is collaborating with visual designer Tharim Cornelisse. He has designed a semi-autonomous digital framework that transforms, animates, and stretches upsammy's spatial visual diary into a pathway full of ambiguous sites and markings.
