Doors Open: 7:00pm
Performance Begins: 8:00pm
General Admission £20 | Complimentary for Patrons
In Partnership with Steinway & Sons
Piano*Grafik presents an artistic collaboration, in a concert setting, between contemporary composer VLMV (pronounced “Alma”) and digital artist Martin Naumann. Where VLMV builds vast emotional worlds through delicate melodies and cinematic sound, Naumann responds with evolving visual forms that feel alive, making for an immersive dialogue between two artists exploring impermanence and the quiet poetry of transformation.
Pete Lambrou, the visionary composer and multi-instrumentalist behind VLMV, is one of the voices emerging from the ambient, post-rock, and experimental scenes in the UK. With a career that spans atmospheric solo work, film and television scoring, and live performance, Lambrou has carved out a distinctive sonic universe he describes as “ambient-ish post-something” a playful yet accurate summation of a sound that is at once genre-fluid and deeply immersive.
New album ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ was released April 24 via illustrious German label Pelagic Records, described by PROG Magazine as being “built on shimmering tones as delicate as the concentric circles that follow pebbles in the water”, and “Fuses ambient music and post rock to make these really dreamy vignettes that make the heart sing” by BBC Radio 3’s Elizabeth Alker.
The album takes its title from Sara Teasdale’s 1918 poem and Ray Bradbury’s later short story, both of which imagine a world continuing quietly after humanity’s disappearance. This idea became the gravitational centre around which the record formed. Written during a period of deep engagement with climate fiction and ecological thought, ‘There Will Come Soft Rains‘ reflects on humanity’s legacy, its technological ambition, and its uneasy relationship with the natural world. A century on from Teasdale’s poem, the balance of power feels less certain, and Lambrou’s music inhabits that tension with remarkable subtlety.
Martin Naumann is a digital artist and designer who works across motion graphics, branding, generative art, and visual experimentation. Based in Leipzig, Germany, he works with node-based systems and translates natural phenomena and scientific observations into striking motion graphics and illustrations. His work strikes a balance between minimalist composition and vibrant, hyperrealistic aesthetics, creating visuals that feel simultaneously precise, organic, and emotionally alive.
