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Laryssa Kim is an Italo‑Congolese composer, singer, producer, performer and DJ whose oneiric soundscapes bridge concert halls, acousmatic cycles, stages and screens. Born in Rome and honed in Amsterdam’s dance‑theatre scene, she made Brussels her home in 2013, earning a Masters in Acousmatic Composition at the Royal Conservatory of Mons. Her works - both in composition and live performance - have been presented at leading festivals, and her debut album Contezza (2024) was acclaimed by Pitchfork as “her most accomplished work yet” with further praise from Le Soir, Libération, The Fader and BBC. On stage, her voice drifts like incense smoke into tender song‑rituals. Hypnotic soundscapes unfurl slowly: field recordings whisper from afar, while seductive, bare-bones trip-hop textures and aching beats pulse beneath echoing vocal loops, morphing into shape-shifting electroacoustic arrangements. In the studio, she treats field recordings, synthetic tones and vocal shards as alchemical ingredients - molding and transmuting them into living textures that evolve in time, color, space and grain. Through montage, mixage and spatial design, these elements bloom into a three‑dimensional sonic tapestry - a meticulously sculpted architecture of sound.

Her scores have underpinned the documentary mini‑series Mobutu’s Game (VRT 2025) and given voice to James Baldwin’s texts in Fire Will Become Ashes (KVS), and have blended with performances like Spirit Capital by Roland Gunst (Moussem, Viernulvier, Kaaithater, DeSingel, detheatermaker), Malinconico (Par Hasard collective), The Bastardby Rashif El Kaoui, and other interdisciplinary performances, animating movement and emotion. Guided by a warm, deeply personal aesthetic, her work unfolds as poetic conduits - oneiric odysseys that transport listeners into realms of memory, imagination and reverie.

In her DJ sets, Laryssa Kim curates two distinct yet complementary journeys. One explores ambient, experimental and electro terrains. The other draws from a wide Afro-diasporic spectrum, weaving Afrobeats, classic Congolese Rumba and Soukous with contemporary currents such as Afro-pop, Kompa, Afro-house, Shatta, Bouyon, Gqom, Acholi, Singeli and beyond,