Artists

Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures. Her practice spans live performance, recording, sound installation and custom made browser add-on. Through the sonification of data she addresses the potential of sound to engage with contemporary political questions and engages listening as a situated knowledge practice.

Plethor X is an artistic and musical duo consisting of sound designer Giovanni Isgrò and multidisciplinary artist Jermay Michael Gabriel, both based in Milan. The collaboration spans a plurality of artistic practices, and debut with ‘What You Mean’, their first album. Plethor X was born as a form of complicity rather than an alliance. A possibility to imagine, through music, anti-hegemonic horizons in constant dialogue. There is no liberation in visibility or representation, unless one wishes to be tokenized or fetishised.ce.

more eaze is the project of Austin-based sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice. Ranging from ambient pop to deconstructed sound collage, her numerous solo and collaborative releases weave mundane, everyday sounds into adventurous textural compositions. Her music explores themes of intimacy, yearning, and the transformation of abstract feeling into intense living through sound design that moves seamlessly between the banal and the ethereal.

Glass is an experimental electronic music duo from France. Their work spans from heavy percussive sound designs to refine and fragile sonic environments. A rich sonic palette echoing the intricacy of our contemporary condition, torn between mass entertainment, political violence and self expression. They released music via Comic Sans Records, OOH-sounds, Santé Records, SFX and Loose Lips, and collaborate with artists such as Maoupa Mazzochetti, Lorem, Lucia Bertazzo, Carin Kelly. Glass run a bimonthly residency on LYL radio.

Shit and Shine is an experimental music project based in Austin, Texas. Formed in 2004 by bandleader Craig Clouse, its percussion-driven sound mixes noise with electronics. Clouse is the only consistent member, with an ever-rotating line-up of musicians.

Deep ambient loops, gently unfolding arpeggios, and angelic choirs coexist on the captivating pieces of music made by Dylan Henner. Rather than aiming for the uncanny valley of hybrid electronics, Henner achieves a delicate balance between his various sound sources, resulting in sublime music that raises existential questions, while comforting its listeners.s.

Baghdad-born Dania Shihab is a musician balancing her time between saving lives in rural Australia as an emergency doctor and working on creative projects in her home studio in Barcelona.

Running Paralaxe Editions since 2014, her practice intertwines contemplative ambient loops with abstract vocal expressions with the greatest kind of sensitivity. 

Rupert Clervaux is an experimental musician, writer, audio engineer and DJ, based in Mallorca and London. He was a founder member of Sian Alice Group (2007-2012), and since then has collaborated on numerous projects with, amongst others, Beatrice Dillon, Ben Vince, Zoë Mc Pherson, Spring Heel Jack, About Group, the Radiophonic Workshop and Dania.

Rupert Clervaux is an experimental musician, writer, audio engineer and DJ, based in Mallorca and London. He was a founder member of Sian Alice Group (2007-2012), and since then has collaborated on numerous projects with, amongst others, Beatrice Dillon, Ben Vince, Zoë Mc Pherson, Spring Heel Jack, About Group, the Radiophonic Workshop and Dania.

Born and bred in Sheffield, rising producer unperson is attuned to the sonic lineage of the Steel City, yet his work is anything but nostalgic. His music glides through the various corners of the Hardcore Continuum, breathing new life into a variety of electronic music styles with a forward-thinking flair.

New Orleans based anarcho-mountaineer, goretex voyer, visual artist, director and electronic producer XDCVR_ looks down into the acid depths of digital hyperreality, torturing FM synthesis into abstract sonic expressionism.

WEȽ∝KER (pronounced “WET LOCKER”) is a collaborative project from Messrs Guillaume Dujat and Joe Beedles. Presenting gummied computer music through shimmering spongiform corridors, jagged rips of discord and rib-shaking bass weight.

French artist and producer Remi Sauzedde (aka Apollo Noir, A/N) spent his juvenile years between the black woods of his motherland Auvergne and the rehearsal cave
of his hardcore punk band.
Now, thanks to a refined transversal culture and an accumulation of analogue synths which helped him to achieve his ambitions, he is performing a unique and hybrid form of electronic music.

By fusing fourth world, multi-instrumentalism and contemporary electronica into an archaeofuturistic experience, WESQK COAST experiments with practices of ‘sound resistance’.

Synalegg is a French electronic musician who explores sound matter by designing his own digital tools. He mainly uses Puredata software to build musical environments that combine algorithmic sequencing, granular synthesis, sound and visual data processing. His signature sound of eroded rhythm, scratched texture and vertiginous sequencing is the result of an arduous chain of destruction and reconstruction.

Immersively intricate, subaquatic synthesis from France’s Yvan Tekoutcheff (Yvanko) and Simon Lehmans (Yab), swimming in heady, imaginary dimensions.

Born and raised in Hong Kong producer Scott Young practises deconstruction and the art of ‘unlearning’. Unerringly raw yet mature, Young’s music evolves as an organic cycle, encompassing spry, cerebral, dub- inflected dynamics. Full of duality and enterprise, never conclusive.

Georgia are Justin Tripp and Brian Close – and they make music, videos, films and performances from their base in Chinatown, New York. They cast their stylistic net far and wide to achieve a lushly syncretic fusion of myriad genres and outernational vibes, a deeply respectful sort of 4.1 world music, if you will.