Drew McDowall (SCT/USA) Live Performance w/ Pedro Maia (PT) live A/V
Control Club, Room 1
Open Doors • 22:00
🎟 50 lei presale
🎟 65 lei at the door
Alternative Culture proudly presents: Drew McDowall (SCT/USA) – Live AV Performance. Special Guest Pedro Maia (PT) / October 19, 9 PM — Closing Night / Bucharest Photofest, 10th Edition
A legendary figure in experimental and industrial music, Drew McDowall (ex-Coil) takes the stage with a rare and immersive live performance — a sonic ritual rooted in decades of avant-garde exploration. Drawing from the deep well of mystical drone, modular synthesis, and haunting electroacoustic textures, McDowall crafts a sound world where the sacred collides with the profane.
His most recent work, A Thread, Silvered and Trembling, co-produced with Randall Dunn, fuses pibroch-inspired atmospheres with spectral voices and dissonant echoes. It is a music of immanence, tension, and transcendence — charged with raw spiritual force. His backstory reads like a primer of psychedelic fiction woven into statements of the unbelievable, superhuman, and outright insane.
After a stint with The Poems, a band he started with his then-wife Rose McDowall, he joined the ranks of UK avant-gardists Genesis P-Orridge, David Tibet, Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, John Balance, and countless others who would come to define the industrial music's blossoming experimental vanguard. McDowall eventually collaborated with Psychic TV and became a full-time member of the hugely influential cult outfit Coil, where his influence shaped the group's later output: exercises in magical practice and music-as-psychoactive effect.
For this special performance, visual artistPedro Maia joins as a guest contributor, enhancing the live set with analog film visuals that respond in real-time to the music’s intensity and flow. Known for his work with experimental musicians worldwide, Maia adds a luminous visual layer — transforming the concert into a full-body audio-visual experience.
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The event is part of the 10th edition of the Bucharest Photofest international photography festival, that takes place between OCT 10-19, 2025 in Bucharest and has as its central theme LEGACY.
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