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 […]
Accident du Travail
Accident du Travail is the duo of Julie Normal and Olivier Demeaux (ex-Cheveu, Heimat), formed at the end of the 2000s. Their electronic music is fragile and ecstatic and stems from rare instruments such as Normal’s Ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument invented in the 1920s and subsequently used by Olivier Messiaen, Edgar Varèse and […]
Giulio Erasmus & The end of the worm
Giulio Erasmus’s music swirls into unintelligible mutterings, songs, and collapsing collages, all made with the idea of keeping things simple. It is post-punk p-funk, pre-post dub. It is a kind of proto-music that delves into post-punk’s past and confronts it with new ideas of abstraction, space, and effectiveness. Between alienating and concrete, making the hiss […]
Tutu Ta
Tutu Ta is a mystery, coming straight out of London. Tutu Ta’s identity is a very well-kept secret. With a sensational album for the French Macadam Mambo label, released in 2023, Tutu Ta delivered 12 outstanding tracks of punkish dub, combining roughness, deepness, darkness, light, humor and serious vocals on very heavy beats and loud […]
Razen
From their debut in 2010 on, Brussels-based Razen have aimed at using the unique timbral and drone characteristics of their chosen string and wind instruments in improvised, instinctive music that mixes pre-industrial, spectral and ethnic dream tones with trance and medieval mysticism. Razen was originally the duo of Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour, and although […]
Sons of Simeon
The mysterious Sons of Simeon consist of members Abba-Gana I, Balthazar Abba Gana and Herb Powers. Raised in London, the Sons of Simeon’s sound is deeply embedded in roots, herbs and culture with a prime focus on providing King David with music and contributing to the legacy of the elders and the mysteries of dub […]
Dijit
Dijit is the stage name of the SWANA music producer Hashem L Kelesh, an electronic musician who is redefining cool without trying too hard. Stumbling into the music world by accident, juggling knobs and wires in a cluttered bedroom in Egypt’s surreal capital that inevitably inspired the unique, mashed up sound of his tunes, Dijit […]
Billy Roisz
Vienna-based musician and filmmaker Billy Roisz has been a driving force in the experimental music scene for many years. Self-taught, she stems from the extremely open DIY environment of the digital and analog electronic and noise scene in Vienna at the beginning of the 21st century. She has earned critical acclaim for her artistic work, […]
Kirk Barley
Kirk Barley (aka Church Andrews) is a Yorkshire-born composer and sound artist. Under his own name he produces textural, organic work, formed from processed studio and field recordings. As Church Andrews he produces synthetic, often beat-focussed music, using digital synthesis and algorithmic compositional techniques. For both projects, he draws influences from jazz, minimalism, techno and […]
Elijah Minnelli
With a love for outsider folk, and the interwoven musical lineages of both South America and the West Indies, Elijah Minnelli’s output stands out by balancing its influences with unique irreverence. He self-released a series of 7-inch singles, each handmade and ferried across the record shops of London, honoring the Jamaican tradition of featuring a […]