Duration
27.6.26, 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. 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.