Update: Unfortunately, Tongue in the Mind has had to cancel their tour and, therefore, their concert at ALICE.
However, we’re lucky to have Tot Onyx joining us for this wonderful evening instead!
If you have purchased a ticket, you will receive an email with more information soon.

Intense compositions drawing equally from metal, piano, and experimental vocals, and sound art, performance, and post-industrial deconstructivism in one, single artist. Look forward to an evening of avant-garde soundscapes as Tot Onyx and Otay:onii take the stage at ALICE with their radical and genre-defying sonic explorations.

Tot Onyx
Tot Onyx works with metal objects. She climbs onto the table with the mixing console, running a knife against a serving tray, holding it close to her body. Behind this artistic alias stands Japanese sound artist and performer Tommi Tokyo, now based in Berlin. In her work, she merges performance, sound art, and post-industrial deconstructivism into a wild and radical expression. As one half of the experimental performance duo group A, Tommi Tokyo gained recognition for groundbreaking performances that fused body movement, noise soundscapes, and poetry—challenging audience expectations of what an artistic performance could be. These same ideas carry over into her solo project.

In 2021, she composed the music for the dance production Das Beuys at Theater Thikwa in Berlin, marking the 100th anniversary of German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys. The performance was created in collaboration with choreographer and Butoh dancer Yuko Kaseki, with whom she has worked on multiple occasions—including at Berlin Atonal 2023, a festival for sound and visual art, where they staged a multi-day performance. Tot Onyx is currently promoting her latest album, ‘Satire of Desire’, released last year on the Belgian label Antibody. Her debut album, Senno I, was described as: “A record that’s honest enough to capture the ugliness and cavernous depth of the mind; all its beauty is inevitably snatched away to be buried by guttural screams or digitally rehashed machine belches.” So, prepare for something raw, powerful, and intense when Tot Onyx takes the ALICE stage!

Said about Tot Onyx
“The debut album from group A’s Tommi Tokyo is an illusory marvel made up of snatched half-heard voices, ritualistic rhythms, digi-fucked power electronics and emetic sci-fi drones. Impossible to classify, incredible to absorb – like Vainio, Stockhausen, Anima, Porter Ricks and Ramleh playing in a small room.” – Boomkat

Otay:onii
With an artistic practice that spans music, film composition, performance, and installations, Otay:onii, aka Lane Shi, explores the borders between sound and emotion. Her performative and musical works have generated significant attention on the international avant-garde stage. Here, she navigates everything from humor to the harsh realities of third-world immigrants, offering rooted Eastern perspectives to the Western world in an attempt to bridge divides. Otay:onii’s performances are raw, provocative, and beautiful, as she unfolds her voice in unlikely experiments.

Otay:onii has captivated audiences worldwide with performances at festivals like CTM and Roadburn, as well as at distinguished venues like Harvard University and the Ming Contemporary Art Museum. At ALICE, she will present material from “True Faith Ain’t Blind” – an album where classical music and metal intertwine through intense compositions for piano and voice, inviting listeners to experience music without preconceptions. Look forward to an extraordinary evening with one of the most intriguing voices on the avant-garde scene today.

Said about Otay:onii
“With vocals that sound like a banshee version of Amy Winehouse” – Rolling Stone

“W.C. is crushingly eerie, leaving you at the mercy of Otay’s tone as she draws melody from the muck” – NPR

“She teases out a tension between light and dark that lurks throughout the record, just one of many axes along which Shi situates her sound and themes” – Pitchfork