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# Videogames and electronic music: still the best thing
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/setting-scene-musical-artists-heathered-pearls-and-michna/
- Published: 2015-03-30T22:22:51.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T17:20:00.000Z
- Description: Michna and Heathered Pearls will be spinning at Two5six’s public arcade.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, ambient, Arcades, electronic music, Kill Screen, music, public play, Twofivesix, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

No arcade would be complete without music, but few are fortunate enough to ever have artists like Heathered Pearls and Michna be the ones to bring it. Now running [three days instead of one](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/our-annual-two5six-conference-back-may-15-17/?ref=killscreen.com), Kill Screen’s [Two5six](http://2015.two5six.com/?ref=killscreen.com) conference, where games and culture converge, will devote itself to a public arcade on Sunday, May 17 where the music of both artists will be featured.

From founding the eclectic electronica netlabel [Moodgadget](http://moodgadget.com/?ref=killscreen.com) with Adam E. Hunt to becoming a “curator” of Tycho’s [ISO50 blog](http://blog.iso50.com/?ref=killscreen.com), Jakub Alexander has been in the game for a while. But his exploration of ambient music most recently culminated in [Heathered Pearls](http://ghostly.com/artists/heathered-pearls?ref=killscreen.com), the moniker under which he released his 2013 album *[Loyal](http://ghostly.com/releases/loyal?ref=killscreen.com)*. The music’s aim was to create relaxed environments through the repetition and erosion of melodies, an endeavor that resulted in *Pitchfork* [calling the record](http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17478-loyal/?ref=killscreen.com) “hypnotic,” with “textured loops that soothingly chafe against each other like fingers performing a head massage.”

Meanwhile [Michna](http://ghostly.com/artists/michna?ref=killscreen.com), the abbreviated name under which Adrian Michna produces his music, released his second, full-length album, *[Thousand Thursday](http://www.ghostly.com/releases/thousand-thursday?ref=killscreen.com)*, just last month. The record, [he explained](http://www.billboard.com/articles/6451086/stream-michna-thousand-thursday-feb-3-ghostly?ref=killscreen.com), “reflects the wide spectrum of electronic music I listen to both at home and in the club.” Mixing hip-hop with 90s London rave and traditional house music, *Thousand Thursday* offers a musical collage of the years between it and Michna’s 2008’s debut, [Magic Monday](http://ghostly.com/releases/magic-monday?ref=killscreen.com), what *Billboard* called “more a collection of timeless, atmospheric sketches…purposefully devoid of cultural and contextural references.”

In his staggering, splinted [study of 19th-century Paris](http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/16/books/art-architecture-the-passages-of-paris-and-of-benjamin-s-mind.html?ref=killscreen.com), Walter Benjamin observed that, “there was a music that conformed to the spirit of the arcades–a panoramic music…” So come to [Two5six](http://2015.two5six.com/?ref=killscreen.com) and discover new digital playthings while surrounded by Heathered Pearls tranquil musicscapes and Michna’s ponderous synth beats. [Two5six](http://2015.two5six.com/?ref=killscreen.com) will take place Friday, May 15 through Sunday, May 17 at Villain (50 North 3rd Street) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. You can buy tickets [here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/two5six-festival-2015-registration-15804444519?ref=etckt).