21s

Name: 21s
Start: 2026-11-28T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Rialto Theatre

21s is a music event at Rialto Theatre, Limassol, on Saturday 28 November 2026 at 19:00. Tickets are €8.

21s is a music event at Rialto Theatre, Limassol, on Saturday 28 November 2026 at 19:00. Tickets are €8.

Event info

Dates19:00

VenueRialto Theatre, Limassol

NotesMusic · English

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From €8

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Dates19:00

VenueRialto Theatre, LimassolGoogle Maps Waze

NotesMusic · English

PriceFrom €8Buy Tickets

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About This Event

21S is a live improvised audiovisual performance exploring UK Garage culture and militarism in Ayia Napa, featuring Emiddio Vasquez, Stelios Antoniou, and Elvin Brandhi. Performing at Rialto Theatre on 28 November 2026.

21S is a live improvised audiovisual performance that reanimates the psychogeography of Ayia Napa, Cyprus, once celebrated as the epicentre of UK Garage. Pulverised breakbeats, asymmetrical resonances, bat recordings, VLF (very low frequency) whistlers and gestural interference expose the uneasy intersection of club culture and militarism. From this landscape emerge AI-generated visual noise and early-2000s artefacts, evoking the atmosphere of Ayia Napa's club strip.

Building on a series of previous works by Emiddio Vasquez, 21S was originally commissioned and premiered at CTM Festival as part of its Radio Lab programme. In this iteration, Vasquez is joined once again by local drummer Stelios Antoniou, whose drum kit is extended with sensors that trigger audiovisual events, bringing vastly different scales into collision. They are joined by cult musician and lyricist Elvin Brandhi, who further dissolves the esoteric language of UK Garage. Together, they push the boundaries of meaning and perception.

Emiddio Vasquez is a Cypriot-Dominican artist, composer and theorist whose research explores the politics of matter and how they shape sound and computation. For over a decade, he has helped shape Cyprus's underground music scene as an organiser, DJ and performer. In 2018, he founded the record label Moneda. Alongside Peter Eramian, he also works as Lower Levant Company, co-representing Cyprus at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Stelios Antoniou is a musician, sound artist, producer, improviser and educator based in Paralimni, Cyprus. His practice spans acoustic percussion and drums, analogue electronics, heavy foundational rhythms, broken beats, improvisation and experimental sound. Bringing together performance, production and exploratory sound art, his work investigates the possibilities of rhythm and sound.

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