Pleased to announce that my new album Radiant City will finally be released on 10 April 2026. After five years of working on it on and off, it feels like a huge release to be finally able to let it out to the world.

Starting originally as an offshoot of my album Interspaces (2022) – and originally intended as a curiosity EP – the album is inspired by an idea of the city: a dynamic, hybrid, inclusive and thriving multiplicity – not the Corbusier’s vision of a linear and ordered metropolis of the future but one of an indeterminate and colourful incubator of our present (and near future).

The album features contributions from Midori Hirano, Diana Bada, Megumi Matsubara, Omar Harb, Viktoriia Vitrenko and Em’kal Eyongakpa. As usual, it’s been mastered by my brilliant mastering engineer Gregor Zemljic.

A digital-only release, Radiant City will be available on all the major streaming platforms worldwide.

Recently I also had the pleasure to attend and present at the 12th Annual SPA Conference in Malta. This year’s theme – Vanishing Acts: Artificial Intelligence, Performative Knowledge, Sustainable Memory – offered some groundbreaking and much needed critical take on the use of AI in the arts. I feel a new kind of cultural, societal and planetary thought was set in motion during these intense days of conversations, encounters, connections, joyous discoveries! The warmth and hospitality of the locals made this experience even more pleasant, making one to question their life choices on the way to the airport, upon a premature departure.

This became the inaugural presentation of my doctoral research on Geomusical Intelligence (more to follow). But the highlight of all the presentations was my colleague Adam Łukawski’s pioneering work on blockchain, AI and worlding future creative ecosystems (‘Performative Transactions’). A new world, a new earth…

And the Mediterranean blue sky.

Thank you to the University of Malta and their School of Performing Arts for the invite and the opportunity!

Speaking of which…our 2026 Orpheus Doctoral Conference will be taking place in Ghent 16-17 April, where I’ll also be presenting, expanding on the subject of geomusical intelligence proposed in Malta.

Titled Sonic Worldings: Crafting realities through artistic research, the conference explores the emerging, dynamic and generative concept of ‘worlding’. Emphasising a shift in focus from self-contained micro-worlds toward more co-articulated processes of worlding, the conference aims to highlight how artistic research can generate new ways of knowing and transform social, cultural, and epistemic contexts in our ever-pluralistic world.

“The emerging generative concept of ‘worlding’, offers a methodological and theoretical orientation through which artistic practices may bring forth and configure different experiential, epistemic, and material realities. Rather than representing a pre-given world, musical practices can be understood as ontologically productive: they engage in worlding by generating sonic, historical, and conceptual realities that intervene in and reconfigure the social, material, and symbolic conditions of the present.”

For more information, please see our webpage https://orpheusinstituut.be/en/news-and-events/odc-2026

🔵Sonic Worldings: Crafting realities through artistic research
🔵 Orpheus Instituut, Ghent (Belgium)
🔵 April 16-17, 2026