Living Room x ZDB: mu tate ⟡ Violet

Other 12€

Friday 9 October · 22:00

Ambient music session with producer mu tate, exploring temporal memory and sonic texture, at a Living Room x ZDB event.

If in recent decades the term ambient has consolidated, largely thanks to the visionary work of Brian Eno and the broader recognition of his work, the multiple interpretations that followed have reconfigured its premises. At the dawn of the millennium, Fennesz, Jan Jelinek, Gas or Tim Hecker took that state of mind to the threshold of expressions increasingly demarcated by textural exploration and the search for synesthesia. From the kaleidoscopic visions of Basic Channel records to the dystopian filter of Burial, among many others, the sensory dimension intensified and expanded in multiple directions. Less surgical and more artisanal, the cream of the genre today agglutinates memories of pop culture, impressions of daily life and an organic nature, almost as spontaneous as uncontrollable, which makes everything more vivid than ever. And, in the midst of 2026, there is no lack of examples of the exploratory quality that reigns in these frequencies. Producer mu tate is a key piece to understand this moment. Starting from the documentary and musical heritages of his family, much of his work gravitates around the idea of temporal rescue, crossing it with the sonic matter that surrounds us daily, often without even realizing it. It is an immersive process of dissolution of forms, which ends up transforming even the listening experience itself. Life of mu, released last April, immediately reveals a broad palette of dynamics, vaguely more adjacent, in a hybrid state with disguised beats, integrated into an already habitual watery journey whose capacity to surprise remains intact. On the other hand, connections to names like Space Afrika, Racine or NEXCYIA, as well as residencies on the NTS webradio platform, demonstrate the constant and symbolic presence of this producer originally from Latvia, but based in Berlin. In an era marked by an intense and controversial public discussion around AI and the creative risks that derive from it, mu tate is possibly capable of signing the most human music of our time. With open arms to restlessness, to the exploration of error and the unpredictability with which it manifests itself. Pure fluid meditation, in the right tune, and within everyone's reach. NA.