Concert: Congee Rats’ Clinic

Congee Rats’ Clinic is a surprising audio-visual performance with fresh music: an eight-track diagnosis of a world that feels increasingly unwell. Spanning darkwave, hyperpop, cinematic soundscapes, and experimental electronics, the album frames illnesses as a metaphor for social fractures, toxic systems, and sick mental states.

Doors 19:00

Concerts 20:00

Acts:

Our Past Microtonal Love (O.P.M.L.)

Dong Zhou

Yet the album reveals these problems without surrendering to despair: it stays humorous, energetic, and rebellious, confronting brutality with sharp irony, restless momentum, and defiant vitality. The release concert will feature tracks from this album and present them with multimedia elements.

Listen: https://patchcord.bandcamp.com/album/congee-rats-clinic

Our Past Microtonal Love (O.P.M.L.) is an electroacoustic duo working with free improvisation, site-responsive performance, and installation. Their artistic research focuses on relationships between acoustic systems, regardless of whether they emerge from instruments, environments, architectural spaces, or living beings.

They approach improvisation as a form of active listening and decision-making: a way to sharpen the senses and develop physical awareness. From this perspective, sound functions as a kind of sonar: a medium through which they perceive and understand the resonant responses of both ourselves and the surrounding environment.

Their sonic research integrates styles, rhythms, pulsations, textures, and pitch as elements embedded within a wider field of sound, rather than as parts of a fixed musical system. We are interested in how these elements interact to generate momentary structures and forms of coherence.

They allow these relationships to arise intuitively, shaped by listening and context. The resulting formations are often unstable and contingent; continuously forming, dissolving, and at times becoming momentarily dominant.

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/our-past-microtonal-love