On February 6, 2026, Ibero-American composer Rafael Anton Irisarri returns with Points of Inaccessibility, a profound audiovisual collaboration with Dutch media artist Jaco Schilp. Born from a chance meeting at MUTEK Mexico City and realised during a residency at Uncloud in Utrecht, the project is a haunting inquiry into memory, isolation, and the ghosts within the machine.
The album’s genesis is as atmospheric as the music itself. Recorded within the Pieter Baan Centre—a former psychiatric prison for violent offenders—the duo worked amidst the residue of captivity. Here, Irisarri transformed bowed guitar textures into vaporous scaffolding, fueling Schilp’s custom point-cloud software. The result was a “digital Rorschach test,” in which images dissolved and rebuilt themselves in real time, mirroring the persistence of memory.
Musically, the work evolved from hours of live improvisation into a meticulous studio suite. Back in New York, Irisarri mapped these textures into MIDI, layering synth bass and strings, with Abul Mogard assisting in refining the album’s internal momentum. The record features four distinct movements, anchored by the centrepiece “Signals from a Distant Afterglow,” where Karen Vogt’s vocals arrive like a fragile transmission received too late.
The title references the geographic concept of the most remote points on Earth, transposed here to the digital realm. Irisarri and Schilp explore the paradox of “digital shamanism,” where algorithms promise connection but reinforce isolation. Through tracks like the opening “Faded Ghosts of Clouds” the closing “Memory Strands,” and “Breaking the Unison” (listen below), the album navigates a storm of signals—melodies that surface and refract without easy resolution, echoing the impossibility of true synchronicity in a fractured world.
Completing the circle with artwork by Daniel Castrejón, Points of Inaccessibility is a monumental work of texture and tension. It asks a critical question for 2026: in a world saturating in connectivity, are we merely drifting toward new coordinates of loneliness?
Points of Inaccessibility is out February 6, 2026, via Black Knoll Editions on BioVinyl.
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TOUR DATES
23 JAN 2026, HOUSE OF MUSIC HUNGARY, BUDAPEST, HU
1 FEB 2026, LABA, IRUÑA-PAMPLONA, ES
6 FEB 2026, ST PAUL’S SESSIONS, AMPHITHEATER OF THE ATHENS CONSERVATOIRE, ATHENS, GR*
14 FEB 2026, CASA MONTJUÏC, BARCELONA, ES
4 MAY 2026, DIG THAT TREASURE FESTIVAL, LONDON, UK*
14 MAY 2026, DABADABA, SAN SEBASTIÁN-DONOSTIA, ES
*W/ABUL MOGARD