Duration
26.6.26, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Westgalerie
Language
English
Admission
15 € regular | 12 € reduced | Free admission with “365 Live”
Info
For this edition of TUNE, musician Arto Lindsay presents two live performances, one solo, and another with bassist/ composer Melvin Gibbs. A sound installation called My Body Is Unfinished will also be installed in the West Gallery for ten days following his residency.
Programme
Friday, 26.6.26
8 pm | Arto Lindsay, Melvin Gibbs. Concert
Saturday, 27.6.26
6 pm | Arto Lindsay. Artist Talk
8 pm | Arto Lindsay. Concert
Arto Lindsay brings noise, dissonance, repetition, and a love of trance-inducing Brazilian carnival sounds, and will be joined by his longtime collaborator, legendary bassist/ composer Melvin Gibbs. By collapsing distinctions between noise and beauty, improvisation and song craft, Brazilian and North American traditions, Arto established himself as a pioneering figure in experimental music. Across music, film scores, visual art, and performance, his work is marked by curiosity and a refusal to respect genre boundaries.
Arto Lindsay. Photo: Anitta Boa Vida
Emerging from the No Wave scene in New York, an avant-garde music and visual art scene in the 1970s, of which the band he co-founded DNA was central to, Arto Lindsay developed a radically unconventional style of playing the guitar that challenged rock conventions, full of scraping textures, bursts of noise, and fractured rhythms. He later fused these avant-garde approaches with Brazilian forms like samba and bossa nova, bringing dissonance together with lush melodies and tropicalist influences, often singing in Portuguese and English. His collaborations with artists such as Caetano Veloso and David Byrne helped bridge experimental and popular music across cultures. Arto has also worked closely with visual artists including Vito Acconci, Ernesto Neto, and Matthew Barney, extending his sonic language into installation and multimedia contexts, and his sound is featured in the For Children exhibition in collaboration with Rivane Neuenschwander.
Melvin Gibbs. Photo: Christian Stewart
Melvin Gibbs is a pivotal figure in experimental and improvised music, known for bridging avant-garde jazz, rock, and groove-based forms with both intellectual rigour and visceral power. He emerged from New York City's experimental music scene and transformed the way electric bass was played in free jazz and harmolodics - a groundbreaking approach where every instrument could lead the melody. His collaborations, from Sonny Sharrock to Rollins Band, reflect a distinctive blend of rhythmic authority and textural experimentation, and a legacy grounded in uniting groove with abstraction. His recent publication, ‘How Black Music Took Over the World’, takes readers inside the vibrant world that underlies Black musical creation, demonstrating the impact that the musical inheritance of Africa has had on music today.