aya x MFO

aya is a human musician from the Pennine region of the North Atlantic. Her work is primarily concerned with the transfigurative power of experience and memory on the physical body. Melding the sprawling bifurcations of soundsystem culture with delocalised internet scenes and post-hardcore lamentations, she casts stark sculptures in genre alloy.

Her work has been released with labels such Hyperdub, YCO, Tri Angle, Wisdom Teeth and Astral Plane recordings; not to mention her work as remix gun-for-hire. In October 2021 she released her debut LP 'im hole' to great critical response, Pitchfork's Best New Music chief among the lot. March 28, 2025 marks the release of her hexed! LP on Hyperdub. She also runs the aforementioned label YCO with BFTT. aya has scored projects for the BBC, Manchester International Festival, NTS and CTM Festival.

In the early 2000s mw/mfo started out VJing in the realms of electronic music, progressively becoming conversant with scenography and light. Working in theatre for several years was another formative influence and led to his gesamtkunstwerk understanding and performance-orientated approach. Over the years increasingly taking on an artistic vantage point, he became an avid collaborator of many; and a strong believer in exciting synergies through group potentials.mw/mfo's work are concerned with perception and cognition, with memory and identity, and with their dissolution in mind-altering experiences in the context of unlimited futures, an incomprehensible Now and underlying mythologies.