Psychic Liberation • Martin Howse • Joke Lanz • W E I G

On May 31st Psychic Liberation is happy to present Martin Howse, Joke Lanz and W E I G.


W E I G is a noise music duo made up of Jay Hines and Nick Ruiz. Both have shown their individual work in museums and galleries across the US and Europe. Their collaboration spans decades but has been sporadic due to living in different cities. Part of the year, Ruiz stays in Hines’s NYC apartment, where they occasionally and reluctantly engage with a chaotic pile of electronic music equipment.

Hines builds synths but offers little guidance – perhaps due to his own lack of understanding. Their creative process is more about tension and trial-and-error than clarity or purpose, marked by debates and clumsy experimentation. They obsess over tools with intense, ironic detachment, neglecting any clear artistic rationale. The result is a sort of absurdist anti-art – a deliberate failure that rejects cultural engagement and thrives on contradiction and provocation.


Martin Howse is occupied with an investigation of the links between the earth (geophysical phenomena), software and the human psyche (psychogeophysics) through the construction of experimental situations (performance, laboratories, walks, and workshops), material art works, codes and texts. He is equally the creator of the skin-driven audio divination noise module, The Dark Interpreter, and the ERD modular synthesizer series.


Joke Lanz is a pioneer of the electronic Independent scene and crossover artist whose work spans improvised and experimental music, noise and turntablism, performance art and musique concrète. He regularly performs with his band Sudden Infant or in various combinations throughout the improv and noise scene or as solo artist with voice and electronics. He’s a member of the internationally renowned Schimpfluch Gruppe alongside of Rudolf Eb.er and Dave Phillips.