tekhnē

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 archival amateur film footage, which will be projected onto the screen using analog technology during the concert, some of Latvia’s finest experimental music and film artists will engage in spontaneous creative expression.

The first event of the season will take place on October 2 at 7:00 PM at Willa Theatre (Stabu Street 18C, Riga). Among the performers are artists from the tekhnē sound art project, where Skaņu Mežs festival also takes part, including Maria Margolina, Mixtapemenage, and Dmytro Filatov.

Maria Margolina is a multimedia artist from Ukraine. While she focuses primarily on sound art, her work also incorporates other media, such as video, poetry, and installations. Her art explores themes of capitalism, cybernetics, memory, and trauma through political, philosophical, and autobiographical lenses.

Mixtapemenage, also known as Eiliyas, is a sound artist from Atlanta, Georgia, currently based in Berlin, Germany. In his installations, performances as well as audio zines and sonic essays he has an interest in societies and cultures relationship through sound and music, and the study of audio, visual and text based interactions especially in psychological impressions and sound related possibilities.

Dmytro Filatov is a Ukrainian artist and promoter, exploring fields of noise, power electronics, finding his own language of talking about anxiety and building weird, asymmetric soundscapes, based on raw synth sounds, generative patterns, and swarms of delay feedback, spiced with heavy and complex grooves.