upsammy pres. Strange Meridians + Andriy K.

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In 2025, upsammy will present a new audio-visual live show for her album Strange Meridians, released in November 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 digital framework that transforms, animates, and stretches upsammy’s spatial visual diary into a pathway full of ambiguous sites and markings.

Andriy K.
Andriy Kostyukov, aka Andriy K., is a Kyiv-born, Berlin-based sound artist and DJ. His work involves sound design experiments with both listening and club music, drawing heavily from ambient, IDM, Bass, and ‘swamp’ techno. Andriy explores the therapeutic qualities of textures and the depths of human introspection through his ambient live sets, creating a profound emotional journey. These performances often feature droned guitars and vocals, delivering a deep, resonant impact.