Rival Consoles is finally coming to China, bringing a full Live/A/V show that mixes pulsing electronic music with real-time visuals. It’s the kind of set that feels part concert, part art installation — a deep, atmospheric trip led by one of the UK’s most respected electronic producers. Visual artist Sky Ainsbury joins him, with Wu Zhuoling supporting.

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Beijing (17 Jan 2026)

• Venue: Beijing - Omni Space (北京 疆进酒·OMNI SPACE)
• Address: No. 9 Tianqiao South Street，Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Centre B103, Xicheng District, Beijing (北京市西城区天桥南大街9号天桥艺术中心b103)

New Noise presents the first China Live/A/V shows for UK electronic composer Rival Consoles, bringing two special dates to Beijing and Shanghai.

London-based producer Ryan Lee West, known widely as Rival Consoles, has built a reputation for making synthesizers feel alive — warm, textural, human, and emotionally charged. Across an eighteen-year career, his sound has evolved significantly: from the aggressive and challenging electronic style of his early EPs to works that are more conceptual, cinematic, and continually shifting in form. His music often reads like abstract electronic poetry, mixing delicate melodic lines with complex, organic rhythms that pulse more like a heartbeat than a machine.

Although created with electronic tools, his compositions maintain a striking sense of humanity, filled with nuance and subtle emotional movement. Rather than relying on loops, many of his tracks unfold like miniature symphonic narratives, slowly transforming and taking the listener on a layered emotional journey.

Rival Consoles is a key artist on Erased Tapes Records — the influential label home to musicians such as Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm — and several of his releases have become cornerstones of his career.

• Soul introduced his early “humanized electronics” approach.
• Persona remains his most celebrated and widely recommended work, earning major critical acclaim.
• Articulation pushed his sound into more abstract, geometry-inspired structures.
• Now Is captured the introspective energy of his creative process during the pandemic.

His music has received strong support from BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 6 Music, and the late Gilles Peterson, while outlets such as The Guardian, Pitchfork, and Resident Advisor consistently praise his work with descriptions like “cinematic,” “deeply moving,” and “technically masterful.”

Beyond recording, Rival Consoles has worked across many corners of the electronic world: contributing to the atmosphere of Black Mirror, performing for thousands at Drumsheds, selling out shows at the Barbican, and producing a range of exploratory synthesizer works that traverse multiple aesthetics — always anchored in human emotion.

His global live performances are widely respected, built on extensive hardware setups and real-time re-composition. No two shows are the same; each performance is described as “theatre made of sound,” shifting between ambient depth and his signature rhythmic, textural electronica.

In July 2025, he released his newest album Landscape from Memory, marking a new phase in his ongoing artistic evolution. The 2026 China dates will present the project for the first time in the country through a fully immersive Live/A/V performance, featuring music from the new album alongside selections from his earlier catalog.

The show is co-created with visual artist Sky Ainsbury, who performs real-time visuals that expand and respond to the unfolding soundscape.

Support for both cities comes from Wu Zhuoling, one of China’s most respected independent electronic artists. A producer, singer-songwriter, bandleader, and DJ, she is known for her expressive live sets and her wide-ranging work across China, Europe, and New Zealand.