Big Blood(US)

Blending psychedelic folk, experimental rock, and an array of other influences, Big Blood’s music is both diverse and deeply personal. Known for their DIY ethos, they have self-released most of their recordings themselves, often with handmade packaging, while also collaborating with independent labels like Ba Da Bing Recordsand Feeding Tube.

Over the years, the band has built a dedicated international cult following and become a mainstay in New England’s underground music scene.

evee(DK)

evee is an electronic musician who engages in the naive and childish in computer music, soft vocals, smooth synths and jumping, dancing sounds from her back pocket and beyond. Wo!

EVOL(ES/UK)

What if you could freeze hardcore techno? This is a special site-specific show that delves into the concept of time dilation, stretching, and slowness, as applied to the slimy sonic language of what Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Stephen Sharp call acid mereotopology.

Through the use of weirdly frozen bass lines and synthetic stabs, the piece captures the listener in a temporal drift, evoking a sense of floating through an expansive void where time itself seems to stretch and bend. A psychedelic carousel of emerging microstructures and catatonic euphoria.

Faramarz Amirian(IR)

Faramarz Amirian, born in 1970 in Sarpol Zahab, Kermanshah Province, developed an early interest in playing the tanbur, encouraged by his family. In 1989, he began his musical career with the Kermanshah Sound and Culture Center and later formed the Dalaho band with his brother. He has won several awards for his tanbur playing and composed works such as “Cheshme Saravan.” He has contributed to spreading the art of tanbur through teaching and performances.

Mariam Rezaei(UK)

Nkisi(CD)

Nkisi is the pseudonym of Melika Ngombe Kolongo, whose activities as a producer, live musician, DJ and curator are channels for an on-going investigation into invisible forces, using sound.

Musically, this manifests in a captivating cross talk of African rhythms, uncompromising European hard dance tropes, foreboding synth melodies and a relentless, galvanising energy, as harnessed for her increasingly kinetic live performances.

Perila(DE)

Perila is a St. Petersburg-born, Berlin-based sound and visual artist, DJ, performer and poet exploring sensitive borderlines and depths of subtle matter.

Music as a healing and transformative agent; an invitation to open other layers of engagement with reality by means of deep listening, observation, presence and mutual dialogue with an audience. Her performances and DJ sets are dense and intense narratives drifting through a rich sonic palette immersing a listener into a personal and sensual trip, while delicate poetry and soft voice breathe with a sense of closeness, desire and release.

Richard Youngs(UK)

Richard Youngs is a musician based in Glasgow, Scotland with a career spanning more than 35 years, his work is an ongoing experiment in sound and song form, straddling the traditional and avant-garde, encompassing every genre and no genre.

Primarily recognised as a solo artist and writer of extended song, he is also an active collaborator working across experimental music, improvisation, folk, jungle, wrong ambient and disco.

Seth Cluett presents Laurie Spiegel(US)

In two separate concerts composer Seth Cluett will present pieces from Spiegel’s two seminal releases and beyond.

Laurie Spiegel is one of those rare artists where a programmer’s technical savvy and a composer’s deep melodic intuition seamlessly merge. Though she is recognized as one of America's pioneering and most advanced computer composers, Spiegel's approach is deeply rooted in Bach as well as traditional and folk music. For Spiegel - also a lutenist and banjo player - the computer represents a new kind of folk instrument, which can supplement and extend human abilities.

Spiegel's music has - literally - traveled to the edge of our solar system, when her realization of Johannes Kepler's Harmonices Mundi, was chosen for the Sounds of Earth record aboard the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. Also a computer programmer, software designer and visual artist, she created the music composition software Music Mouse in 1986 as a way for even nonmusicians to create music in an intuitive way.

Seth Cluett is an artist and composer whose work ranges from photography and drawing to video, sound installation, concert music, and critical writing. His work has been presented internationally at venues such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA/PS1, Moving Image Art Fair, CONTEXT Art Miami, GRM, and STEIM.

Shit & Shine(US)

Texas-based Craig Clouse, aka Shit and Shine, has been called a genius and a maverick by the Wire. And the Quietus says he’s “uninterested in the self-imposed restrictions of genre.”

With highly acclaimed releases on Editions Mego, Diagonal, Riot Season, and others, Shit And Shine have wasted no time clearing away the rubbish whilst cutting up their own path towards giddy bass-heavy shape-shifting dance mutations.

Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker(IT)

Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker share a friendship that evolved into a long-lasting artistic partnership, around improvisation and contemporary experimental creation (Éliane Radigue, Philip Corner, Pascale Criton), with a few forays into Italian new-wave (Offlaga Disco Pax).

With “Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d‘amore,” the duo blends folk music with their contemporary and improvised roots, reinterpreting songs from their youth in rural Emilia. These songs, often sung by female rice field workers, originate from the emancipation of working-class women and the partisan Resistance in WWII.

Sunun(UK)

Bristol’s Sunun has a luring command of dials and limbs and drum skins that’s as grounded as it’s mystical - these machines have ghosts in them. People who’ve seen her live have witnessed Sunun’s forest of wires and microphones eeding her 20 channel desk.

She dubs it old-world style, but the results are always forward - drawing from echoes of drum talk, reggae, grime and RnB to make a 22nd century chorus of thousands of years of human feedback.

Will Guthrie(AU)

Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer and percussionist living in France. He works in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation and studio composition using various combinations of drums, percussion, objects, junk, amplification and electronics.

Alongside his electro-acoustic work, in the last decade, Guthrie has returned to the drums with a vengeance, developing a series of solo works marked by a radical single-mindedness, from relentless rhythmic workouts to earth-quaking explorations of the bass frequencies of gongs and other metal percussion instruments.

Zoomachia Group(IT)

Zoomachia Group is a music ensemble created by Francesco Cavaliere (Hundebiss, Marionette, NERO) together with Matteo Martino (Canti Magnetici) and Ramona Ponzini (A Silent Place, PFS Japan).

The group was founded in 2024 to rearrange, with multiple voices, gestures and visual elements, the ”Zoomachia Disc” music fable — a remarkable fable written by Cavaliere about a scribe ant, a prophet cricket and a mummified mantis.