Lucrecia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves — Listening Session
The Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe is proud to host an intimate evening with visionary composer and performer Lucrecia Dalt in celebration of the release of her new album A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG Intl.). Taking place on the album’s official release date—September 5, 2025—this special event invites audiences into a shared listening experience inside the gallery.
Renowned for her genre-defying compositions and conceptual soundscapes, Dalt’s practice weaves together modular electronics, poetic voicework, and complex rhythm into an intricate sonic architecture. Her latest record, A Danger to Ourselves, marks a shift toward a percussive propulsion, and high-voltage energy, featuring collaborators David Sylvian, Camille Mandoki, Alex Lazaro, and Juana Molina. Each track offers a cinematic unfolding—balancing tension and intimacy, precision and surrender.
This evening’s format prioritizes deep listening: guests will hear the album in full, as a singular, uninterrupted arc—on high-fidelity vinyl. Following the playback, Dalt will join the audience for a conversation about her creative process, influences, and approach to sound.
What happens when we bring sound into the gallery—not just as background, but as the central object of attention? With A Danger to Ourselves, we invite a form of listening that is focused and collective. Albums are works of art in their own right—meticulously composed, layered, revised, and imagined across months or years. Yet they often arrive in our lives fragmented: streamed while multitasking, skipped through, compressed.
This event resists that fragmentation. It creates a space to listen together—to attend to sonic nuance, to let narrative and texture unfold in real time. Unlike the thrill of a live set, an album is deliberate: a crafted construction that rewards repeated listening. By hosting this release in the gallery, we treat the album as a form of contemporary art—worthy of presence, silence, and shared encounter.
Join us as we mark the release of A Danger to Ourselves not only as a musical event, but as an act of shared attention.