Live performance at Mengi featuring Rhys Chatham (electric guitar, flutes) and Nico Guerrero (electric guitar, electronic filters) for the first time in Iceland!
This concert is accompanied by a screening of a video created especially for this duo by Icelandic filmmaker Ari Allansson.
Named after the alchemical furnace, Athanor unfolds as a disciplined ritual of transformation. Its esoteric dimension lies in method rather than metaphor;
Tuning as cosmology, repetition as incantation, resonance as a means of accessing hidden orders.
Using two electric guitars tuned according to specific systems, Rhys Chatham and Nico Guerrero construct a dense sonic space, permeated by beats, interferences, and trance-like acoustic phenomena.
Transforming the concert into a physical and immersive experience, Athanor acts as a contemporary sonic ritual.
Concert in partnership with the Alliance Française in Reykjavik.