Church Andrews & Matt Davies
Church Andrews (aka Kirk Barley) and Matt Davies play live electronics and analog percussion, a call and response between Church’s synth sounds and Davies’s drumming. The result is a series of sonic organisms, semi-mechanical ecosystems that click and whirr with subtle, shifting focus. The duo often work with alternate tunings, employing just intonation or observed […]
Michael J. Blood
Michael J. Blood is an ultra-mysterious electronic producer who started releasing music in 2019. He collaborates with Rat Heart, a.k.a. Tom Boogizm, so maybe he resides in the same Manchester area. After four cassettes, Blood’s debut album As Is was released in 2022. His music a tribute to late night sleaze, sophisticated or less so, […]
Maxime Denuc (in collaboration with Kris Verdonck)
Maxime Denuc is an electronic music composer based in Brussels.For some years now, his solo work has focused on church organs. In 2022, he released Nachthorn, an album for MIDI church organ. It was critically acclaimed. Denuc will be presenting the new organ installation Elevations at the festival. In Elevations the musical material is no […]
Ciccio & 2mo
Ciccio & 2mo are Francesco Pastacaldi on drums and Olivier Demeaux on machines. With spangled confections of fizzy and driving percussion, multilingual vocals and pitch-bent electronics, they explore the cracks between classic French psych and industrial, like Vox Populi or Geins’t Naït, and its contemporary descendents, like the Editions Gravats label, with a smart balance […]
Susu Laroche
Susu Laroche is an anagram of Chaos Lure Us. She is a multidisciplinary artist and musician of Egyptian/French descent. In Spring 2021, she released her first photobook Chaos Rule Us via Wrong Eye Books and in 2023 her 2nd album ‘Closer to the thing that fled’ on Accidental Meetings as well as a retrospective DVD […]
Plants Heal
Long-time collaborators Dave De Rose and Dan Nicholls channel their love for ambient and dance music into Plants Heal. Their work delivers an inherent intensity, reaching out for an emotive and natural connection to making sounds, showcasing their impressionistic, gritty and textural musical statements through improvisation. Together with visual artist Lou Zon, they perform improvised […]
Megan Alice Clune
Megan Alice Clune is a musician, artist and composer based on the Gadigal and Wangal lands (Sydney, Australia). Her work explores the dynamic relationships between music, technology, the body and temporality through composition, performance and installation. Clune’s music portrays an emotional depth through a minimal sonic palette, delicately balancing textures that are at once rich […]
Etienne Nillesen
Etienne Nillesen’s exploration of the snare drum highlights the diverse tonal and temporal intricacies of the instrument, employing extended durations that emphasize gradual variations in texture, overtone complexity, and psychoacoustic phenomena. Through a combination of traditional and extended techniques, he unveils an array of unexplored and unexpected sonic dimensions within the seemingly limited realm of […]
Jérôme Noetinger
Jérôme Noetinger is a French composer, improviser, and sound artist who works with electroacoustic devices such as the Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape recorder and magnetic tape, analog synthesizers, mixing desks, speakers, microphones, various electronic household/everyday objects, and home-made electronica. He performs both solo and in ensembles (Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine, Le Un, Hrundi Bakshi, Les Sirènes…), […]
Nina Ryser
Nina Ryser was born and raised in Brooklyn, and is now based in Philadelphia. Her interest in songwriting and DIY Nina Ryser is a Philadelphia-based musician, performer and composer. Her interest in songwriting and recording began in her childhood bedroom, and eventually led to her path in composition. Nina’s work has been performed by ensembles […]