Illuminate Adelaide has announced details of its 2024 program, an intersecting array of light, music and technology taking over the city from 4–21 July.

Among this year’s music highlights are Dutch pianist Joep Beving, British electronic musician Max Cooper, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, Australian bassist Helen Svoboda and UK artist The Caretaker.

Joep Beving performs Hermetism. Photo supplied

Creating “accessible music for complex emotions”, Beving captured the public’s attention in  in 2015 after streaming his debut album Solipsism for fun. Played on an upright piano Beving inherited from his grandmother and recorded in his kitchen, it attracted 85 million views and caught the ear of Deutsche Grammophon’s A&R manager Christian Badzura, which in turn led to the signing of Beving to the world’s foremost classical label and the release of a sophomore album, Prehension, in 2017.

Beving will perform his latest release, Hermetism at Her Majesty’s Theatre on 18 July.

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