Emiddio Vasquez // Sara Persico & Tohal Kyna
CTM Festival 2026
Concert
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CTM 2026 Radio Lab winner Emiddio Vasquez has long shaped Cyprus’s underground scene, blending personal history with research into how sound and technology mold perception and power. His project "21s" is a radio drama exploring the overlap of militarism and club culture in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, using the idea of the "resonant circuit" to examine how tuning, interference, and noise reveal deeper political and emotional frequencies.
The collaboration between Tohal Kyna and artist Sara Persico fuses raw noise with experimental vocals and electronics. Drawing from industrial minimalism and noise traditions, they sculpt distortion and turbulence into tightly controlled intensity. Persico’s textured layers and Kyna’s forceful sound design create a volatile balance between chaos and precision, turning noise into a charged, emotional language. The performance is part of CTM’s collaboration with Seoul’s WeSA festival.
Visitor Information
Programme
Emiddio Vasquez
“21s“
Sara Persico & Tohal Kyna
n.n.
Cast
With
Emiddio Vasquez
Sara Persico
Tohal Kyna
Cast
With
Emiddio Vasquez
Sara Persico
Tohal Kyna
Biographies
Active for more than a decade in shaping the Cypriot underground, Emiddio Vasquez has worked as organizer, DJ, and performer since 2018, as well as founding the label Moneda, which explores how value circulates across social, material, and semiotic forms. As a synthesist and improviser, his sound work may be found across film, theatre, dancefloors, radio, and installation. Alongside Peter Eramian, he co-directs the Lower Levant Company (LLC), with whom he is representing Cyprus at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Tohal Kyna approaches sound as both a physical impact and a psychological mirror, crafting environments that destabilize as a medium for rethinking how we experience the audible. Influenced by the industrial minimalism of Pan Sonic and the ferocity of Merzbow, they sculpt harsh textures into precisely controlled sonic forms. Tweaking the noses of both chaos and control, his shrill distortions and phat-bottomed turbulence collide in carefully structured frameworks, aggressively-tuned studies in hot buttered intensity: noise transmogrified into an aesthetic vocabulary of emotion.
Shaping silence into vaults and letting processed voice hover like the residue of a seance, Sara Persico accumulates texture until it lurches into presence. The Berlin-based sound artist, vocalist, and DJ’s signature is patience: processes that unfold slowly, shadows of melody flickering within dense folds of field recordings or circling synth drones. Out on Subtext, her latest album Sphaîra anchors electronic structures to the geometry and memory of built forms, drawing out the latent sound of hallways, ceilings, and façades.
Biographies
Active for more than a decade in shaping the Cypriot underground, Emiddio Vasquez has worked as organizer, DJ, and performer since 2018, as well as founding the label Moneda, which explores how value circulates across social, material, and semiotic forms. As a synthesist and improviser, his sound work may be found across film, theatre, dancefloors, radio, and installation. Alongside Peter Eramian, he co-directs the Lower Levant Company (LLC), with whom he is representing Cyprus at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Tohal Kyna approaches sound as both a physical impact and a psychological mirror, crafting environments that destabilize as a medium for rethinking how we experience the audible. Influenced by the industrial minimalism of Pan Sonic and the ferocity of Merzbow, they sculpt harsh textures into precisely controlled sonic forms. Tweaking the noses of both chaos and control, his shrill distortions and phat-bottomed turbulence collide in carefully structured frameworks, aggressively-tuned studies in hot buttered intensity: noise transmogrified into an aesthetic vocabulary of emotion.
Shaping silence into vaults and letting processed voice hover like the residue of a seance, Sara Persico accumulates texture until it lurches into presence. The Berlin-based sound artist, vocalist, and DJ’s signature is patience: processes that unfold slowly, shadows of melody flickering within dense folds of field recordings or circling synth drones. Out on Subtext, her latest album Sphaîra anchors electronic structures to the geometry and memory of built forms, drawing out the latent sound of hallways, ceilings, and façades.
Programme
Emiddio Vasquez
“21s“
Sara Persico & Tohal Kyna
n.n.
Visitor Information
Credits
The collaboration between Sara Persico and Tohal Kyna is supported by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and KOFICE as part of Kore·A·Round Culture 2025, and by the Goethe-Institut Seoul. The work by Emiddio Vasquez is a commission by the CTM Festival and Deutschlandradio Kultur / Klangkunst in collaboration with ORF Kunstradio and ORF musikprotokoll at steirischer herbst.
CTM Festival: Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Supported by the Goethe-Institut, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, ORF Österreichischer Rundfunk, tekhné, the European Union, the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and KOFICE as part of Kore·A·Round Culture 2025, and the Office of the Government of Québec in Berlin. In collaboration with ∄ and WeSA.
Media partnerships CTM: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, radioeins, Refuge Worldwide, The Wire.
Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, tip Berlin, taz. die tageszeitung.
Credits
The collaboration between Sara Persico and Tohal Kyna is supported by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and KOFICE as part of Kore·A·Round Culture 2025, and by the Goethe-Institut Seoul. The work by Emiddio Vasquez is a commission by the CTM Festival and Deutschlandradio Kultur / Klangkunst in collaboration with ORF Kunstradio and ORF musikprotokoll at steirischer herbst.
CTM Festival: Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Supported by the Goethe-Institut, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, ORF Österreichischer Rundfunk, tekhné, the European Union, the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and KOFICE as part of Kore·A·Round Culture 2025, and the Office of the Government of Québec in Berlin. In collaboration with ∄ and WeSA.
Media partnerships CTM: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, radioeins, Refuge Worldwide, The Wire.
Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, tip Berlin, taz. die tageszeitung.
CTM 2026 Radio Lab winner Emiddio Vasquez has long shaped Cyprus’s underground scene, blending personal history with research into how sound and technology mold perception and power. His project "21s" is a radio drama exploring the overlap of militarism and club culture in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, using the idea of the "resonant circuit" to examine how tuning, interference, and noise reveal deeper political and emotional frequencies.
The collaboration between Tohal Kyna and artist Sara Persico fuses raw noise with experimental vocals and electronics. Drawing from industrial minimalism and noise traditions, they sculpt distortion and turbulence into tightly controlled intensity. Persico’s textured layers and Kyna’s forceful sound design create a volatile balance between chaos and precision, turning noise into a charged, emotional language. The performance is part of CTM’s collaboration with Seoul’s WeSA festival.
Cast
With
Emiddio Vasquez
Sara Persico
Tohal Kyna
Biographies
Active for more than a decade in shaping the Cypriot underground, Emiddio Vasquez has worked as organizer, DJ, and performer since 2018, as well as founding the label Moneda, which explores how value circulates across social, material, and semiotic forms. As a synthesist and improviser, his sound work may be found across film, theatre, dancefloors, radio, and installation. Alongside Peter Eramian, he co-directs the Lower Levant Company (LLC), with whom he is representing Cyprus at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Tohal Kyna approaches sound as both a physical impact and a psychological mirror, crafting environments that destabilize as a medium for rethinking how we experience the audible. Influenced by the industrial minimalism of Pan Sonic and the ferocity of Merzbow, they sculpt harsh textures into precisely controlled sonic forms. Tweaking the noses of both chaos and control, his shrill distortions and phat-bottomed turbulence collide in carefully structured frameworks, aggressively-tuned studies in hot buttered intensity: noise transmogrified into an aesthetic vocabulary of emotion.
Shaping silence into vaults and letting processed voice hover like the residue of a seance, Sara Persico accumulates texture until it lurches into presence. The Berlin-based sound artist, vocalist, and DJ’s signature is patience: processes that unfold slowly, shadows of melody flickering within dense folds of field recordings or circling synth drones. Out on Subtext, her latest album Sphaîra anchors electronic structures to the geometry and memory of built forms, drawing out the latent sound of hallways, ceilings, and façades.
