Exhibition Highlight — The Commission + The Event

We are pleased to look back on a remarkable recent exhibition hosted at our ASC Ealing Road project space, Canalside Gallery. Running from 19 June to 2 July 2026, artist Tomislav Török Terek presented The Commission + The Event, a spatial, sonic exploration extending his ongoing practice of integrating aural and sound art into visual installations.

Developed a year prior in Terek’s studio while listening to the Italian sound art group Capricorni Pneumatici, the project developed into a parallel collaboration marking the group’s 40th anniversary. To coincide with the opening at Canalside Gallery, Capricorni Pneumatici released a new album, The Commission, seamlessly weaving their physical music into the architectural framework of our project space.

Critical Reception & Review

Specialist avant-garde and electronic music mail-order platform Soundohm provided an in-depth review of the project and its conceptual underpinnings:

“The Commission marks forty years of Capricorni Pneumatici with an eerie convergence of sound and image. A new CD of liturgical trances and mechanical nightmares intersects with Tomislav Török Terek’s London installation, where ritual ambient, police sirens and Tunguska dreams fuse into one destabilizing, cavernous listening experience.

Forty years after their first recording session in Le Cave, Italy, on 16 June 1986, Capricorni Pneumatici return with The Commission… The release arrives in parallel with The Commission + The Event, an installation by artist Tomislav Török Terek in London… Together, the CD and installation weave a continuous arc from the group’s early ritual‑ambient excavations to their contemporary electronic evolutions, binding decades of sonic research to a visual and spatial dramaturgy that feels both haunted and newly charged.

At the heart of Török Terek’s installation lies a chain of images and references: an “aether‑state, dream‑like” meditation on the Tunguska Event, the deadpan physicality of Buster Keaton, the existential stagecraft of Samuel Beckett, and other currents of synchronicity… The Siberian explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River on 17 June 1908… becomes one of the conceptual pillars of the work: an invisible catastrophe radiating forward as shockwave, echo and unresolved question.

In the London installation, these tracks are not simply played back; they are re-situated, folded into an environment that responds to their pressure. Török Terek’s work treats Capricorni Pneumatici’s catalogue as both material and subject… Soundscapes seep from speakers into architectural crevices; visual elements and spatial arrangements extend the music’s themes of control, collapse and trance.”

Learn More & Connect

Explore the full release of The Commission via Soundohm.

For further details regarding Tomislav Török Terek’s work or to arrange future visits, follow the artist via Instagram.