Optical Machines

Optical Machines is a performance by Rikkert Brok(image) and Maarten Halmans(sound). They work with self-made projectors especially designed for playing loops. With these they generate interfering patterns and abstract animation. The various images and light sources are generated, manipulated and mixed live on stage. Interaction...

Jon Rose

For over 40 years Australian violinist, improviser, composer, inventor of musical instruments, and writer, Jon Rose has been at the sharp end of experimental, new and improvised music on the global stage. In 2012, he was awarded The Australia Council's most prestigious award for life...

Ed Potokar

Ed Potokar is an artist, musician, and designer who melds sound sculpture, audio architecture and handcrafted musical instruments into a virtuosic display of craftsmanship and visionary artistry. Potokar utilizes his expertise to design and play unusual, intriguing sculptural instruments that create adventurous sonic and visual landscapes....

Stephanie Castonguay

Fascinated by the origins of our current digital media, Stephanie Castonguay is an experimental artist who explores the materiality of our disrupted communications through her kinetic, visual and sound installations. Using DIY electronics with a hands-on and playful approach, she disassembles discarded parts to reveal...

Nick Demopoulos

Smomid is a project by Nick Demopoulos, who is a performer, musician and instrument builder.  Smomid only utilizes instruments he has designed and built to perform interactive computer music. The name is derived from an acronym of his primary instrument: “String Modeling Midi Device.” Smomid...

Jens Vetter

I am an instrument developer, musician and performer. My main interest is the development of new interfaces for musical expression - NIME's in combination with performative references and interactions. I see the instruments as part of the plot, as an extended arm of the narrative...

Jo Caimo

Jo Caimo is a visual artist and inventor of objects and instruments. His work situates itself in the margin between performance, music, product design, installation and the digital world. With his objects and instruments he researches ‘the collective’ versus ‘the inner’, and he therefore challenges the spectator...

Nataliya Petkova

ELECTRICITY MATTERS is a project bringing together a technical workshop and an ephemeral creative collective. For three intensive days, the participants will acquire new technical skills in electricity and electronic circuits design, while generating a collective sound performance. With an experimental approach and drawing from...

Chris Meighan

A Samsonite briefcase containing a drum machine, 2x bass sequencers, polyphonic synthesizer, amplifier, LiPo battery and extendable speakers. [edgtf_button size="" type="" text="Website" custom_class="" icon_pack="font_awesome" fa_icon="" link="http://www.chrismeighan.com/work/briefcase-synthesizer/" target="_blank" color="" hover_color="" background_color="" hover_background_color="" border_color="" hover_border_color="" font_size="" font_weight="" margin=""]...