Tryp I - Boris & Merzbow present Dronevil | Takkak Takkak | DJ Haram | Harry Freeman

Plunge headfirst into a monumental wall of sound at Hindley Street Music Hall. As darkness falls, the frayed edges of noise, metal and avant-audiovisual art will coalesce for an evening of ritual and sonic transgression, headlined by the seismic collision of two cult icons of Japanese noise and metal, Boris and Merzbow, in a world premiere Australian exclusive. A monolithic collision of distortion and devotion, Dronevil marks the 20th anniversary of one of Japan’s most uncompromising unions in sound. Across two decades, Boris and Merzbow have mapped the outer edges of sonic extremity - where metal, noise and drone collapse into a single, tectonic body. For this rare world premiere performance, the pair summon their full gravitational weight of feedback, resonance, and vibration; a towering wall of sound that engulfs, dissolves and transfigures. Exclusive to Adelaide Festival, co-presented with Room40. A playfully eccentric, pulsating mass of polyrhythms and DIY drone, Takkak Takkak is a new collaboration from prolific Berlin-based Japanese producer Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg) and Vilnius-based Indonesian composer and instrument builder Mo’ong Santoso Pribadi (Raja Kirik). Built on a shared appetite for unstable tempos and unruly textures, Takkak Takkak fuses eardrum-piercing club music, hypnotic gamelan patterns, xenharmonic chimes and howling vocals to create an utterly singular vortex of sound. Tryp plays host to the duo’s psychoactive A/V show, featuring visuals by visionary Singaporean VJ Brandon Tay. Cutting a singular path through contemporary club music, DJ Haram fuses experimental bass, Jersey club, and Middle Eastern percussion into a sharply dynamic sound. The Brooklyn-based DJ and producer presents a set shaped by her intense Hyperdub release Beside Myself. As one half of 700 Bliss with Moor Mother, Haram’s collaborations span Bbymutha, Billy Woods, Armand Hammer, Debby Friday and Fever Ray, with performances across global stages from Dekmantel to Roskilde. Enveloping audiences in an avalanche of deep physical sound, percussionist Harry Freeman (Adelaide) presents an interstitial performance utilising percussive elements to build a wall of rich resonant sound. An exercise in subtlety, Freeman guides a harmonious drone that expands to completely inhabit the space, constructing a thunderous soundscape that washes over the audience with distinct physicality.