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Total Scuzz | Container, Volph & Alien Montesin | Sustain-Delay 2025 (#7)

5 July, 2025 | 9:00 pm - 11:30 pm

The Malta Society of Arts’ Performing Arts Programme 2025 – Sustain-Delay’s Second Edition

Total Scuzz | Container, Volph & Alien Montesin | Sustain-Delay 2025 (#7)

Get ready to move to some cheeky beat insanity at this electrifying night of underground electronic music. Container (USA), the project of noise veteran Ren Schofield from Rhode Island, delivers raw, beat-oriented soundscapes filled with brutal drum machine patterns and distorted synths that will challenge you not to dance. Joining him is Volph, a Maltese artist with over two decades of experience, crafting immersive, pulse-driven sets that blend electro, deep techno, and lush textures. Completing the lineup is Alien Montesin, a multidisciplinary artist whose intergalactic sound journeys are infused with gritty beats and audiovisual magic.

Don’t miss this high-energy night celebrating the raw, rebellious spirit of experimental techno and noise.

Container (USA) is noise veteran Ren Schofield, from Rhode Island, USA. His project encompasses electro, techno, noise and out-there ambient. Container strips down electronic music to its raw, beat-oriented core, delivering scuzzy and bewildering beat music filled with brutal yet cheeky drum machine patterns and damaged synth manipulations. We challenge you not to dance.
See more → www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePRP7GXzqyI&t=3s

Volph, is a Maltese artist whose deep-rooted connection to electronic music spans over two decades. With a background in Malta’s underground electronic scene, Volph crafts immersive, pulse-driven sets that seamlessly navigate between electro, deep techno, and lush textures.
See more → www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QIA4uLLOHQ&t=1s…

Alien Montesin is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans DJing, sound art, and audiovisual performances. Expect her usual intergalactic journey blended with
dirty, dirty beats.
See more → https://soundcloud.com/alien-montesin

Date: 05/07/2025
Doors Open: 8:30pm
Time: 9pm
Location: Hideout, Pembroke

Tickets: www.showshappening.com/Sustain-Delay/total-scuzz

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This event is one of many taking place as part of the 4 Seasons of Adventurous Music presented by Sustain-Delay in 2025.

Sustain-Delay 2025 is produced by the Malta Society of Arts and Artistic Director Kurt Buttigieg, in collaboration with Arts Council Malta and is sponsored by Rock’N Malta.

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What is Sustain-Delay?

Exploration, interaction and sound.

In 2025, the Malta Society of Arts’ adventurous music programme, Sustain-Delay, returns to unite art forms, disrupt norms, and foster transformative dialogues. This year’s edition of Sustain-Delay presents an ambitious line-up of 14 distinct events, offering a diverse, intriguing and yet approachable selection of concerts blending electronic and classical music with experimental, jazz and folk traditions, alongside poetry and dance. Deepening its commitment to the community, Sustain-Delay 2025 also introduces engaging and enjoyable workshops designed to leave a lasting impact.

The 2025 programme unfolds over four dynamic seasons: Winter (February), Spring (April), Summer (July) and Autumn (November), with additional fringe events happening throughout the year. Each season carries its own unique concept, and the programme goes beyond concerts to include workshops and talks, hosted at the Malta Society of Arts and other venues across Malta.
Join us on this sonic adventure, and discover our programme HERE.

Sustain-Delay 2025 is a Malta Society of Arts project in collaboration with Arts Council Malta.

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[ Programme ]

14 distinct events unfolding over four dynamic seasons: Winter (February), Spring (April), Summer (July) and Autumn (November)

(Details to follow)

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[ Sustain-Delay Team ]

Artistic Director: Kurt Buttigieg
Marketing Manager: Kris Polidano
Site Manager: Francesca Zammit
Graphic Designer: Samwel Mallia

Kurt Buttigieg – Artistic Director’s Biography

Kurt Buttigieg is an “occasional artist and unwavering tinkerer”, with a perpetual organisational streak.

He read for a Master’s degree in Sound Art from the University of Barcelona and previously worked at the museum of the European Parliament in Brussels as curator for temporary and permanent exhibitions, and also planned spin-off museums in other EU capitals.

He organised numerous concerts, workshops and exhibitions in Malta and Belgium, as well as founding a small label called Complex Holiday documenting “inside-out ambient and sound art tomfoolery”. He is also a writer for several specialised magazines, including The Wire and New Noise.

As an artist and musician he released several works over that past twenty years, under his and other names, and created Malta’s first dedicated sound art installation in 1999.

A strong believer in community, Kurt is a committee member of the Banda Immakulata Kunċizzjoni (Ħamrun), Ħsus, Arsha Our and is active in other social, cultural and environmental projects.

Kris Polidano – Marketing Manager’s Biography

Kris Polidano (b.1999) teeters between the administrative side, creative and communal sides of the cultural sphere. Having graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) in English with a Maltese minor from the University of Malta in 2020, she primarily focuses on the way language impacts the way we perceive and communicate as multilingual persons. Her interests range from audio-visual archiving as the Communications and Community Manager and a researcher for the Magna Żmien Archive (2020–) to project managing and promoting experimental electronic music alongside her closest friends with the Malta Society of Arts’ Sustain-Delay Programme (2024-).

Kris also works with Festivals Malta’s marketing team where she manages the communications of multiple festivals, including Ritmu Roots Festival, a festival which celebrates musical traditions.

She is also president of the newly established Kooperattiva Strati, a cooperative focused on the arts, its social function and wellbeing. In the past Kris has also published some of her writing in Maltese in the Għaqda tal-Malti’s Leħen il-Malti (2019) , Maltese literary journal Aphroconfuso (2024). She has recently also been commissioned to write a cycle of poetry for prominent Maltese sculptor Paul Scerri for his latest exhibition The Sound of You Dreaming (Jan-Feb, 2025).

Photo credit: Leo Chircop

Dates

Saturday 5 July 2025

9pm

Venue

Hideout,
BMX Track,
Triq Martin Luther King,
Pembroke

Tickets

TICKETS

Details

  • Date: 5 July, 2025
  • Time:
    9:00 pm - 11:30 pm

Venue