Force Majeure started off as a side project from Cardiff-based audiovisual artist Nick Ronin in 2019 but he soon found himself diving deeper into this uncompromising and dark sonic universe. Each of his two albums focus separately on sampling and synthesis to create an electroacoustic palette with which to paint unsettling and fragmented landscapes that he describes as ‘The sound of the earth coming apart at the seams; nature turning against its aggressor’.
Rendering nature’s struggle in the anthropocene era permeates both the audio and visual works, bolstered by a recent move to an industrial inner-city area of Cardiff that sits at odds with the surrounding natural beauty of the south Wales coast and hills.

Force Majeure is a new milestone in the artistic career of someone born from the British underground rave scene. This background provides the knowledge to build a visceral live show that makes full use of the sound system.
His live performances – that include audiovisual, quadrophonic and full immersive setups – have grown in complexity and employ a rag-tag array of hardware devices held together with digital processing and gestural control.
Every track from forthcoming album The Permanence of Decay contains a unique hardware instrument and performative workflow. The album has been mixed for binaural or full ambisonics playback, creating a bridge between immersive digital audio and the raw analogue and electroacoustic source material.
An experimental and electro-acoustic approach also colours his EP on Grey Meta that features four heavyweight takes on contemporary techno and an audiovisual piece.