ANAKHEMIA
ANAKHEMIA is the artist persona of Afra Khan who is a music producer, live controllerist and DJ. She also indulges as a visual artist engaging primarily in AV art + photography.
With a majority of her childhood spent in Saudi Arabia and being an ardent student of Kabbalistic philosophy, she finds the notions of conformity, belonging and identity very archaic ideas in the context of planetary futurism.
In November 2016, the music video for her debut track ‘The Prophecy’ was selected for display at ‘Techno & the City’ art exhibition hosted at Fiumano Art Gallery (London), where it shared space with pioneering Techno visual artists who’ve worked with music legendaries like Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance, Jeff Mills and many more.
In 2019, she was curated under the V I S I B I L I T Y banner in the premier electronic music exhibition – Expo Electro – at the Philharmonie de Paris, showcased alongside visual works of legendary electronic musicians like Daft Punk and Kraftwerk. Her AV work titled ‘SATYRNUS – The Wise Prince’ can be found archived in the Sound and Moving Image catalogue at the British Library, U.K.
In April 2021, she was commissioned to design an audio-visual performance film for Alicia Ali’s poetry recital – ‘No Reality But Me’ at TEDxKAUST, Saudi Arabia.
As an artist, she believes that audio-visual art is one of the most powerful mediums of our time and that all artists share the responsibility of creating work that transforms the experience of the viewer by offering hope, inspiration and a means toward evolution.
To check her creative pursuits, visit Instagram @anakhemia
https://www.youtube.com/AnakhemiaOfficial
Marija Bozinovska Jones
Marija Bozinovska Jones works across audiovisual formats, ephemeral mediums and in live context, and occasionally through MBJ Wetware. Her works revolve around technological amplification and cryptic ways of forging subjectivity. Often mapping biochemical onto algorithmic components, she probes notions of selfhood from subatomic level to networked presence on planetary scale and beyond. MBJ has presented at Abandon Normal Devices, Chronus Art Centre in Shanghai, Transmediale, Tate Exchange/ Tate Modern, Sonic Acts, Rewire, MUTEK Montreal and Buenos Aires, CTM/ Berghain and Deutschlandradio Kultur as the recipient of the Radio Labs award and at Somerset House where she holds a studio residency.
https://marijabjones.com
Joey Holder
Joey Holder’s work raises philosophical questions of our universe and things yet unknown, regarding the future of science, medicine, biology & human-machine interactions. She makes immersive, multimedia installations that explore the limits of the human and how we experience non-human, natural & technological forms. Mixing elements of biology, nanotechnology and natural history against computer programme interfaces and measuring devices, she suggests the impermanence of these apparently contrasting and oppositional worlds declaring ‘everything is a mutant and a hybrid’.
ENGLAND’S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS [ecolagbohrsac2021] is an organization dedicated to the study and governance of the cumulus of transient folklore that underlie the fabric of research in meta-worldbuilding and tracing the origins of various virtualities embedded into the contemporary society through the digital. In doing so, the council utilizes curation markets and cryptoeconomics, apparatuses that process signs, recompilation and pseudepigraphy, philosophy of the mind, research in artificial intelligence, hyperreality, quantum physics, textual divinations and sonic experimentation. Founded in a sacred place capable of representing after an ancient deal has been broken.
https://www.factmag.com/2021/06/25/c-a-fucking-with-an-online-date/
Terry Tyldesley
Terry Tyldesley is a creative technologies producer and music tech consultant, who works with innovators, artists and entrepreneurs to bring their visions to life.
Founder of inclusive music and tech site Kitmonsters, and former Chair of ethical music streaming co-operative Resonate, Terry is a tutor on the JUMP EU Music Market Accelerator, and lectures in music tech at the School of Music Business.
She produced the WITCiH Digital Festival featuring Laurie Anderson, Music Tech Fest in Berlin, and the Volo VR thrill ride at Fantastic Feats festival in London.
Terry is also an artist and producer working as Kat Five and with her band Feral Five, and her music features on BBC Radio 6 Music, Radio X and in film. She is currently experimenting with AI music creation and VR visuals.
https://twitter.com/kat_five
Pietro Bardini
Pietro Bardini is an artist working with sounds and computation. His compositional systems explore the interactions between organic and inorganic entities and exist on the boundaries between the animate and inanimate. Pietro approaches composition as a living entity that shapes and gets shaped by the environments it inhabits.
https://pietrobardini.com
Jung An Tagen
Dissociative psychedelia: That’s what Jung An Tagen and Rainer Kohlberger call this audio-visual piece they’ve developed as a commissioned work for donaufestival 2021. Stefan Juster alias Jung An Tagen performs a composition of digital and acousmatic sounds—coincidental, “fake”, elusive sounds; Rainer Kohlberger constructs an installation of video and strobe lights, which conquers the observer’s perceptual apparatus so resolutely that everything arbitrary and undefined soon seems mandatory and inevitable.
https://www.instagram.com/jungantagen/
Rainer Kohlberger
Rainer Kohlberger is an Austrian born freelance visual artist / film maker living in Berlin. His work is primarily based on algorithmic compositions with reductionistic aesthetics influenced by flatness, drones and interference. Within his works there always lies a layer of noise, that fascinates him as a sense of the infinite, which is both the ultimate abstraction and inveterately fuzzy. In his films, installations and live performances maximum forms of intensities come into play.
http://kohlberger.net
xname
xname aka Eleonora Oreggia is an Italian musician and media artist based in London, UK. She creates performances and interactive installations using light, sound, dust and self-made sensor-driven synthesisers. Her music features elements of techno, ambient drone and industrial. She is also the founder of Nebularosa Records – a label promoting music and musicians who challenge established production practices.
xname is the creator of REBUS, a musical instrument that senses changes in the electromagnetic field it generates. It then uses the sensor data gathered to modulate sound and light.
xname.cc
Susan Atwill
Born in Sunderland, Atwill is a sound hunter & part-function/part-fiction artist. Inspired by her grandparents’ homes, cultural history and roots in mining communities of North East England, she creates alternative realities using time-based media such as casting, film & sound.
https://platform.newcontemporaries.org.uk/artists/susan-atwill
Joshua Sabin
Joshua Sabin is a composer and sound artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and signed to renowned Berlin label Subtext Recordings. His album works have brought together archival recordings, folk instrumentation, and field-recordings and electromagnetic field recordings captured in transit through Kyoto, Tokyo, Berlin, and Scotland.
Joshua Sabin will be performing his album Sutarti where he draws influence from the compositional structures and psychoacoustic properties that exist within early Lithuanian folk music, exploring the emotional potency of the human voice through the manipulation of elements of archival recordings.
https://joshuasabin.bandcamp.com/
Roly Porter
After his time as one half of Vex’d during the ‘golden era’ of UK dubstep, Bristol’s Roly Porter, embarked on a solo career, composing epic, atmospheric electronic music alongside his brethren of Subtext Recordings with LPs including Aftertime, Life Cycle of a Massive Star and Third Law, sonically portraying the awe inspired by our inner and outer universes. 2016’s Third Law, released on Tri Angle Records, is a stunning mass of choral voices, strings, and synthesizers punctuated by pulverizing percussive bursts, almost attacking the listener at the most tension-filled moments, as if emanating deep from within the planet’s core.
In June 2020, Subtext released Porter’s fourth solo studio album, ‘Kistvaen’, exploring ancient burial rites from the moorlands of southwestern England, which features the work vocalists trained in local singing traditions. ‘Kistvaen’ contrasts primordial motifs with that of the 21st-century life in designed environments and an evolving virtual existence. The music blurs boundaries between field recording, folk instrumentation and digital processing, which although beatless creates a profound effect using dark ambiance, deep electronics, and immersive sound design. This otherworldly sonic necromancy, where long dormant spirits are evoked, is brought to life in front of audiences with the masterful film and light work of MFO and powerful performance of vocalist Mary-Anne Roberts.
http://www.rolyporter.com/
Endless Prowl
Endless Prowl is the ongoing technological, experimentative, multifaceted artistic practice of Naarm based artist, D.P. Ford. Through Endless Prowl, Ford creates an overarching link via technology and aesthetic through a myriad of forms including embroidery laden garments, intricate textured digital paintings, detailed 3D models, VR sculptures, sound design, graphic design and typography. Ford’s work is informed by their own battle with mental illness and technology addiction, as well as concepts surrounding gender, identity, institution, isolation, and philosophical theory. The collaboration of media and techniques utilised in Endless Prowl emanate from Ford’s beginnings as an illustrator and musician in Memphis, Tennessee.
https://www.endlessprowl.com/
JQ
Producer & DJ based in London, has released albums with New Atlantis, Lo Recordings and Post-Geography & held residencies on NTS and Noods
https://jqjq.bandcamp.com https://soundcloud.com/jq_music
Ziúr
Ziúr is an experimental producer/musician and a fixture in Berlin’s rich musical topography. It seems as though she produces her releases in the way someone scoring a television series does, gathering and arranging their selections for each episode … isolating and apprehending definitive scenes and memorializing their ethos in song. Soundtracks, much like her release “Antifate”, guide the listener through radically different emotional states, yet somehow still offer an idea of what underpins a show’s (or in this case an album’s) particular hues.
Ziúr produces music within such a scope, expansive, rich and diverse in texture. The sounds are simultaneously machinistic and deeply anthropomorphic, toying with mechanical isolation and the chaotic spectrum of human emotion. Unlike a soundtrack or score, there is no film to which one can turn to narrativize the music … there is only evocative sounds reaching from each song towards the cybernetic sublime.
https://ra.co/dj/ziur/biography
