Ellen Arkbro
Ellen Arkbro is a composer and musician from Stockholm working with precision-tuned intervallic harmony. Her work includes compositions for acoustic instruments and for synthetic sound, and for combinations of both, as well as installation work. She has studied with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in New York, and with Marc Sabat in Berlin. Ellen has worked with Catherine Christer Hennix and is a member of Hennix's Kamigaku ensemble. In all of her work, Arkbro focuses on the qualities of harmonic sound that reveal listening as an active process of creative participation, inviting the listener to gradually transform into the sound itself.
DeForrest Brown Jr.
DeForrest Brown, Jr. is an Alabama-raised, Ex-American rhythm analyst, writer, musician, and curator. His work channels the African American modernist tradition of techno-vernacular expression. He has released three albums on Planet Mu. Brown’s debut book ‘Assembling a Black Counter Culture’ was released on Primary Information. In 2023, he co-curated HOPE, an international group exhibition presented by Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano-Bozen as the final installment of the TECHNO HUMANITIES trilogy. He is currently developing Rhythmanalytics, a work-in-progress diagnostic exploration of electronic music at the end of the music industry.
Chuquimamani-Condori
Chuquimamani-Condori is a multidisciplinary artist & musician belonging to the Pakajaqi nation of Aymara people. Chuquimamani-Condori blends traditional drum & ceremonial music from their Pakajaqueño family, full of harsh, colorful synths & noise, said to “recreate the cacophony of the first aurora, the call of chuqi chinchay”, described by listeners as “astonishing in its unabashed emotional vulnerability & raw, chaotic, even violent noise overload, like stargazing, making a bonfire, profoundly uplifting and human”, and “spiritual, boundary liquefying” music. The new album DJ E was released in November 2023. Previous recent works include Rayo Mix (2022), Across the Policed World: A Transnocturnal Huayño (2022), and Amaru's Tongue: Daughter (2021), a collaborative work with Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. They also continue to do work with AIM SoCal, the Southern California chapter of the American Indian Movement (founded in 1968).
Thierry Coduys
Thierry Coduys is a versatile French artist, musician, sound designer, and new-technology specialist, focusing on bridging interaction and contemporary art. Since 1986, he has collaborated with avant-garde composers, Stockhausen, Reich, developing electroacoustic and software solutions for leading-edge performances. Following his tenure at IRCAM and as Luciano Berio's assistant, he founded La Kitchen in 1999, a tech platform uniting research and creation. Since 2002, he has assisted Pascal Dusapin, collaborated with stage director Jean-François Peyret and worked closely with La Biennale di Venezia, both for Biennale College project and for Biennale Musica. He leads IanniX, an interface inspired by Iannis Xenakis’s UPIC, and works with Holophonix on multi-channel spatialization.
Lorenzo Senni
Lorenzo Senni is a Milan-based producer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist renowned for his “Pointillistic Trance.” With roots in Italy’s punk-hardcore scene as a trained percussionist, he merges electronic music with experimental visuals and collaborations, earning recognition at International Music Festivals and Art Institutions. Pitchfork hailed him as “a grandmaster of unsolved tension" while his debut album on Warp Records received the Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica”.
In 2008, he founded the experimental record label Presto!?, championing forward-thinking electronic music.
Marcel Weber
mw/mfo narrates spaces, creates installations and pieces, and works in light, video and scenography. As such he is part of Berlin-Atonal as director for light and visuals. Recent projects include work with Caterina Barbieri on her “Spirit Exit” album and ”Light Years” label tours, in music-theatrical collaborations with aya and with Marcus Schmickler, as well as in a series of staged concerts for Arte TV and Tresor Records, or the operatic “Kistvaen” with Roly Porter. Further he designed lights and sfx for theatre pieces like „Life in this house is over“ by Samantha Shay or “Snowcloud” by choreographer Guillaume Marie, and directed the installation-performance “Nervous System 2020” as well as the large-scale installation “This Too Will Pass” with music by Lyra Pramuk. In the past mw/mfo has toured extensively with sound artists such as Aisha Devi, Ben Frost and Tim Hecker. mw/mfo's performances and installations have been commissioned and featured at venues including the Barbican, Centre Pompidou, CERN, Dark Mofo / Mona, Martin Gropius Bau, Kraftwerk Berlin-Mitte, Volksbühne, Muziekgebouw, Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels and many others.
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