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Claire Williams
Throughout Claire Williams’s residency, research will be conducted to create a visible and non-visible interface of sensing and dowsing apparatus to receive and amplify discrete energies such as electromagnetism, occult radio oscillations, para communications, and ethereal waves from haunted circuits to …
CTM 2025 Radio Lab concert: Yara Mekawei
Yara Mekawei will present a new project exploring the intersection of personal and political struggles through sound. As a woman living in a society dominated by religious conservatism and patriarchal structures, Mekawei explores how affection can serve both as a sanctuary and …
CTM 2025 workshop: Where is a Voice Built? Performative Practices for Tekno-organic Voicing
A2A Transmission workshop with: Agustín Genoud (AR)
The aim of the workshop will be to explore how to approach to different techniques/machines/systems and create expressive musical/sound gestures with them focusing on how to design setups for live musical performance …
CTM 2025 Radio Lab concert: Lynn Nandar Htoo & rEmPiT g0dDe$$
Lynn Nandar Htoo, a sound artist from Myanmar, will present her project together with fellow Southeast Asian artist Victoria Yam aka rEmPiT g0dDe$$. The performance will focus on the experiences of individuals displaced by the ongoing political turmoil in Myanmar and the …
CTM 2025 workshop: Psychology of Light–Basics
A2A Transmission workshop with: Grinderteeth (SE/DE)
The workshop is an introduction to light and working with light as a creative tool within the realm of music, with the aim to expand the possibilities of visual expressions in a pre-existing artistic practice …
CTM 2025 workshop: Data Sonification
A2A Transmission workshop with: Portrait XO (US/DE) and Noah Pred (CA/PT)
During this interactive workshop, Portrait XO and Noah Pred demonstrate practical applications of sonification in contemporary production practice using a collection of Max for Live devices developed by Pred …
CTM 2025 workshop: Budots 101
A2A Transmission workshop with: DJ Love (PH)
This workshop explores the origins, characteristics, and unique structural components of the Budots genre. Participants will learn about its history and how it has evolved into a cultural phenomenon. The session will also include a …
CTM 2025 workshop: Music & Dis/ability: Inclusive Perspectives
A2A Transmission workshop with: Alan Courtis (AT)
Over the last century music has drastically expanded its possibilities through a diversity of aesthetics, sound sources, techniques, and technologies. How are all these changes affecting the field of music and dis/ability? Can these …
CTM 2025 Resynthesising the Traditional Artistic Lab Finale
Performance by: Anna Jurkiewicz (PL/AT), bela (KR/DE), Bilawa Respati (ID/DE), Marie Yevkiné Tirard (FR), Medina Bazarğali (KZ), Nakul Krishnamurthy (IN/UK), Shoty Ndjoli (CD), trē seguritan abalos (US).
Hosted by: Stas Shärifullá (INT), Susie Ibarra (US)
Resynthesising the Traditional …
Soumaya Phéline
During her residency, Soumaya Phéline’s will deepen her practice of CDJ turntablism, with a particular focus on the performative aspect of DJ’ing. By pushing the limits of CDJ’s and turtables (which are often seen as merely playback devices), she …
Pedro Oliveira
Dubwise Machine Listening
For Pedro Oliveira's residency at Q-O2, he would like to continue his investigation on the limits and failures of machine listening when it comes to what is it that a classification and identification algorithm understands as “voice” or “language …
Darsha Hewitt (residency part 1)
The guiding focus of Darsha Hewitt’s residency is an interest in how and where we can blur the line between didactics and art—she strongly believes in the (underrepresented) format of the ‘performative workshop’ and its ability to transcend the learning …
Adomas Palekas
Thus, an electron that comes from the outlet, enters transistors and IC’s, accumulates at capacitors, and crosses resistors, eventually reaches the electron transfer chain and becomes the breath of a cell, or just travels along to be amplified and excite our …
Augustė Vickunaitė
During the residency, Augustė Vickunaitė will expand her sound performance practice into a more theatrical, scenographic, and installation-based approach. Since 2016, she has worked with reel-to-reel tape recorders, exploring the interplay between analog technology, human experience, and the imperfections of decaying machines …
Darsha Hewitt (residency part 2)
The guiding focus of Darsha Hewitt’s residency is an interest in how and where we can blur the line between didactics and art—she strongly believes in the (underrepresented) format of the ‘performative workshop’ and its ability to transcend the learning …
Zoé Febvre–Utrilla
The ‘Voice AI Covers’ are reinterpretations of songs that borrow the voice of a singer to overlay it on existing tracks. With the rise of artificial intelligence capable of generating content, new forms of production have emerged within internet cultures. This practice …
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NikNak
This March, Skaņu Mežs announced an open call for sound artists, intended for residencies focusing on installations and performances as creative outcomes.
From December 4 till December 12, turntablist and sound artist NikNak will be in creative residency in Riga. She will …
Algorithmic Artscape – live-coding performance
A presentation of the Algorithmic Artscape, a work-in-progress web-platform for creative coding and expression.
Algorithmic Artscape: using a work-in-progress web platform for creative programming – Workshop with Celeste Betancur
This workshop will introduce Algorithmic Artscape, a work-in-progress web-platform exploring distributed community creativity.
Elijah Maja
This research project aims to explore call and response as an experimental technological system that threads culture together, a technology that puts out a signal picked up by bodies globally. The journalist Chal Ravens references philosopher Yuk Hui stating that ‘technology is …
Coding – Introduction to SuperCollider w/ Giulia Rae
SuperCollider is a free and open-source coding environment, first released in 1996 and now maintained and developed by an active community of code enthusiasts. It provides a framework for various sound research fields, from live coding to sound synthesis, from neural networks …
Speaker Music
Now that Berlin Techno has been recognized as UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage, it's important to recall the "Make Techno Black Again" campaign initiated by DeForrest Brown Jr. A bold journalist, theoretical critic, curator, and musician, Brown Jr. operates under the moniker Speaker …
"Assembling a Black Counter Culture"
DeForrest Brown Jr. - performing as Speaker Music in this edition of OUT.FEST – is a rhythmanalyst, writer, and curator. His written work explores the links between the Black experience in industrialized labor systems and Black innovation in electronic music.
In this talk …
Vomir
This March, Skaņu Mežs announced an open call for sound artists, intended for residencies focusing on installations and performances as creative outcomes. The open call led to the selection of three artists who will visit Riga from late September to mid-October to …
A viagem d'Os Heróis Indianos Romanos Africanos
As part of a project initiated by OUT.RA in 2016 in collaboration with Associação Nós, an NGO from Barreiro dedicated to promoting social inclusion for disabled individuals or those in vulnerable situations, Os Heróis Indianos Romanos Africanos is a band/collective …
Artists from the tekhnē project will participate in a jam session at Willa Theatre
Willa Theatre, in collaboration with composer Kaspars Rolšteins and film director Jānis Putniņš, is launching a new season of free-thinking music titled TABULA RASA vs. KODACHROME. The series will center around the interplay between musicians and 8mm film reels. Drawing inspiration from …
Celeste Betancur & Joana Chicau
The residency will orbit dual fronts; the development and deployment of a set of algorithmic tools in a public web platform, and the development of an online art gallery. Everything will be open sourced.
Tintin Patrone
This March, Skaņu Mežs announced an open call for sound artists, intended for residencies focusing on installations and performances as creative outcomes. The open call led to the selection of three artists who will visit Riga from late September to mid-October to …
Nick Klein
This March, Skaņu Mežs announced an open call for sound artists, intended for residencies focusing on installations and performances as creative outcomes. The open call led to the selection of three artists who will visit Riga from late September to mid-October to …
Ikbal Lubys & Aii Wijayanti Anik
After doing some research related to natural changes and human consumption patterns, our artistic views have changed a lot because they often see directly the phenomena and ecological issues related to technological development. The high consumption of music production devices and the …
Laura Conant
Since a few years, I have been researching how alternative tools in music production could be a way of emancipation for female artists and artists from gender minorities. During this research I interviewed artists operating at the fringes of technology, noting that …
Lutheries expérimentales
A seminar-meeting in the heart of a forest.
Ruben Rübe
The last 2024 creative resident will be German artist Ruben Rübe (based in Taiwan). He will stay in Szczecin from June 3 until June 24, 2024. He will focus on developing the new series of sound objects, sharing his knowledge with students …
Jenny Gräf Sheppard - Speaker Release
In her first solo exhibition in Poland Jenny Gräf Sheppard presents her current work and research into sound as energy, self-built instruments and compositional experimentation. Presented here are speaker-instruments, hand-built porcelain forms developed over several years of experimentation that express energies variously …
Paul Gründorfer
For this residency, I would like to research a project called “whisper,” which deals with sound phenomena and subliminal sound and voice experiences.
I aim to investigate how phonetic voice or speech fragments resonate and are reflected in different environments and inhabit …
Speaker Release workshop and talk with Jenny Gräf Sheppard
On May 13, Jenny Gräf Sheppard will present her work and philosophy behind her non-conventional approach to instrument and speaker design that plays a role in her current artwork which will be exhibited at Trafo from May 23 – August 3. Embracing both …
Jenny Gräf Sheppard
From May 4 until May 25, 2024, TRAFO will host American artist Jenny Gräf Sheppard. Currently based in Copenhagen, the sound artist and educator specializees in tactile porcelain speaker-instruments. Her recent works deal with the multi-sensory aspects of listening and how relations …
Passepartout Duo workshop
Pianist Nicoletta Favari and percussionist Christopher Salvito, the first tekhnē artists in residence with TRAFO in 2024, will collaborate with local community and art students during open workshops held on April 22 & 23. The artists, working together as Passepartout Duo, investigate the …
TRAFO 2024
TRAFO will host three art residencies in 2024.
The first creative residents will be pianist Nicoletta Favari and percussionist Christopher Salvito, working together as Passpartout Duo. Their work investigates the way in which we listen to and connect with sound. Reassessing the …
Passepartout Duo concert
Pianist Nicoletta Favari and percussionist Christopher Salvito are the first tekhnē artists in residence TRAFO has had a pleasure to host in 2024.
Working together as Passepartout Duo, they investigates the way in which we listen to and connect with sound. Reassessing …
Passepartout Duo
The first creative residents for TRAFO in 2024 will be pianist Nicoletta Favari and percussionist Christopher Salvito, working together as Passpartout Duo. Their work investigates the way in which we listen to and connect with sound. Reassessing the tools they use to …
Comma
Comma is a computer programme that uses drawing to help with sound composition and performance. It offers a different experience for everyone, regardless of their musical background. Amateur and professional musicians find themselves on an equal footing, each having just as much …
Alan Courtis & Os Heróis Indianos Romanos Africanos
Eight years (!) after the first revolutionary arrival from the Argentinian musician, sound explorer and educator Alan Courtis at Barreiro – working creatively with more than a dozen members of Associação NÓS – formerly known as “We2” but now definitively as "Os Heróis Indianos Romanos …
Sholto Dobie
In my work, I create my own instruments with analogue technologies. The instruments I make draw on the functions and designs of folk and traditional wind instruments, such as bagpipes and organs. Their appearance several thousand years ago, for me, represents a …
CTM 2024 MusicMakers Hacklab finale – Sustenance
Performance by: Amanda Bennetts (AU/AT), Claudix Vanesix (INT), Dimitris Mertzos (GR), Gisou Golshani (IR/UK), Ivan Skoryna (UA), Josefina Maro (AR/DE), Tobi Pfeil (NO/DE), Valeriia Khazan (UA/DE), Qusay Awad (SY/DE), and Zalán Szakács (NL).
Hosted by: Sophia …
CTM 2024 workshop: creative use and misuse of artificial intelligence-based software in electronic music
A2A Transmission workshop with: Boris Hegenbart (DE)
In the light and shadow of AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology, new tools and instruments are emerging that allow deep access to audio and video material. With this workshop, the composer and artist Boris Hegenbart will …
Introduction to Modular Synthesis (using Automatonism) w/ Felisha Ledesma
Join us for an introduction to modular synthesis using Automatonism, a free, open source program that uses Pure Data. Felisha will guide you through the basics of the software and modular synth terminology as well as explain a few different modular patches …
CTM 2024 Radio Lab concert: Concepción Huerta & Fe Sexta
The project »MAPS: Electronic Resonances Between Ecuador and Mexico« by Concepción Huerta and Fe Sexta aims to revive audio archives of pioneering electronic music composers in Mexico and Ecuador, active in the 1970s. Using archival materials and other sources, recordings and compositions …
CTM 2024 workshop: let's make a track!
A2A Transmission workshop with: Poly Chain (UA)
In this workshop, the music producer and DJ Poly Chain will share her process of making a track in Ableton 11 – from setting up the program to finishing a final demo. This workshop is open …
CTM 2024 Radio Lab concert: User Syndrome
As the duo User Syndrome, the circuit-bending Beirut-based artist Rhéa Dally and improvising lyricist Freya Edmondes aka Elvin Brandhi will jump from their free-fall of failing reality internalistion to interrogate »Sustain« with a work titled »IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL …
CTM 2024 workshop: composing visual music with Videosync
A2A Transmission workshop with: Tarik Barri (NL/DE)
Tarik Barri is an audiovisual composer and software developer. He regularly performs with artists such as Sote, Thom Yorke and Paul Jebanasam, and has previously toured with Robert Henke and Nicolas Jaar.
Barri is …
Violeta López López
“To execute the word” is an artistic research into the possibilities of language beyond its established limits and its capacity to generate new perceptive realities. With this purpose the word is detached from its qualities as a lexical element (semantics, syntax) in …
Yann Leguay & Marie Lechner
Yann Leguay, curator as part of the tekhnē project, invites Marie Lechner (curator, author and teacher) for a research residency in order to imagine the project's future online journal.
Yann Leguay's work, located on the border between visual arts and sound, focuses …
Horloges, etc. - Gauthier Déplaude
From the second of the 19th century to the millisecond and then the microsecond of the 20th, and today even beyond that, our world is accelerating at a dizzying pace. This acceleration is intimately linked to the rise of digital technologies (including …
Workshop hardware hacking and experimental electronics w/ Magno Caliman
In this workshop we will experiment with the electronic circuits as materials for experimental artistic practices. Making use of simple alligator clips and batteries, we’ll modify and hack scrap speakers and motors, turning them into synthesizers, percussion instruments, and kinetic sculptures …
`Listening.Community.Joy` - Lecture by Brandon LaBelle
Experiences of listening may be understood to weaken us, making us vulnerable to the intensities of worldly contact and each other. As such, listening may act as the basis for gestures of compassion and care, enabling forms of mutuality and empathy. Yet …
Sonification Workshop with Jasmine Guffond
What does it mean to think and feel through sound? The workshop will begin with a guided tour of Jasmine Guffond “Listening Back” at TRAFO, and it will be continued at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. November 6th & 7th - Trafo & Art …
Jasmine Guffond - Listening Back
Listening Back is a sounding and listening practice, a Web browser plug-in, and a research into the potential of sound to engage contemporary socio-political contexts.
Seamlessly embedded into our everyday Web experiences, automated processes of personal data extraction such as the cookie …
Afrorack
Creator of the first DIY synthesizer in Africa, Brian Bamanaya is a pioneer in the purest sense of the word. Born of necessity, facing the prohibitive costs of this equipment in Uganda, Banamaya became self-taught and, from that learning process and construction …
Maria Chavez & Jordi Wheeler
Chavez and Wheeler have been performing as a duo since 2015.
Generating results from active listening with a configuration of instruments (multiple turntables, piano, guitar, electronics) Chavez and Wheeler’s performances and recordings speak to their history with improvisation, allowing the present …
ORBĪTA - Echo Echo
Orbita is a collective of poets and artists, founded in 1999 by Alexander Zapol, Vladimir Leibgam, Arturs Punte, Vladimir Svetlov, Sergej Timofejev, and Zhorzh Uallik. Its members initially came together around a publishing project that came to its first fruition with several …
Maria Chavez & Jordi Wheeler workshop
Chavez and Wheeler have been performing as a duo since 2015.
Generating results from active listening with a configuration of instruments (multiple turntables, piano, guitar, electronics) Chavez and Wheeler’s performances and recordings speak to their history with improvisation, allowing the present …
Alvin Curran - Beams
At last, we welcome this true pioneer to OUT.FEST, carrying with him an idiosyncratic baggage of more than 200 works, and his defiant and democratic approach to music, in true alignment with the ethos of the festival and the city itself …
CryptoParty
The workshops accompany the exhibition Jasmine Guffond Listening Back, featured in the TEKHNÉ series. Curated by Zorka Wollny, the show opens on October 12, 2023.
CryptoParty is a decentralized movement with events happening all over the world. The goal is to pass …
Hugo Esquinca
Hugo Esquinca’s research-as-intervention/intervention-as-research in sound focuses on exploring different degrees of exposure to erratic processing techniques, indeterminate occurrences, spectral de-gradation, abrupt irritation, the potential of involuntary modifications, opaque functioning and excessive levels of amplification.
His work has been presented in …