CCsquele(DK)

With CCsquele, everything feels like a curious probing of musical styles, carried by the power of a mining truck and the elegance of velvet curtains being drawn back. Inexhaustible, CCsquele erratically and effortlessly connects the dots between monumental glam rock, dungeon synth, black metal and eurodance, always being a step ahead, tumbling in free fall while somehow landing on their feet.

Maria Bertel(DK)

Maria Bertel is a danish trombone player and composer who’s been doing the rounds in the Copenhagen music scene since the late 2000s, where she co-founded the venue Mayhem and the artist collective Eget Værelse.

Bertel combines her acoustic instrument and tonal range with amps and varying degrees of distortion, creating an output that draws inspiration from drone and noise music. The raw amplification makes audible what normally goes unheard, and physical movements, metal and breath become a swirling part of her compositions. Changing organic patterns emerge, with tiny sounds appearing brutally clear as well as the range of overtones of the instrument.

Apart from her work as a solo artist, she performs and composes in groups like the notorious four piece noise rock band Selvhenter and improvised noise duo Nina Garcia & Maria Bertel. She has also collaborated with acts such as Tashi Dorji, Jooklo Duo, Nick Klein & Valentina Magaletti.

Megabasse(FR)

Behind the moniker Megabasse stands French musician Pierre Bujeau. Also a member of groups Omertá and Tanz Mein Herz, Bujeau uses Megabasse as a long-form minimalist exploration of resonances and harmonics creating an almost mystical, communal and uncanny space where time appears to break away from reality.

His approach is deceptively simple, as Bujeau picks up the double-necked guitar, an instrument that normally signals maximum rockist excess along the likes of Jimmy Page. In his hands, however, it transforms into something closer to a zither or a dulcimer, producing soft chiming patterns that build against themselves until the sound of the room, passed back and forth between his two amps, starts to blur everything.

Radical Democracy(US)

Radical Democracy, the duo of multidisciplinary artists James Hoff and Ben Kudler, create live audiovisual works that incorporate hacking in real time. Drawing on data from publicly accessible live surveillance video streams from around the world, the project turns live music performance into a journey through global networks of observations and daily life using compromised technological platforms and protocols as creative material. Their work proposes infiltration as a new form of democratic participation within the networked infrastructures that shape political and cultural bodies.