CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Yellow Wasabi (CN)
Yellow Wasabi is an evolutionary biologist and new media artist based in Paris who has graduated from Paris-Saclay University with Master Neurosciences. She combines sciences and arts to investigate the human position in the digital industry and ecological landscape. She uses computer programs and biological modules to innovate Guzheng, which she has played since childhood; she shapes sound through AI motion capture and interactive projections. The noise of life is transformed into immaterial fossils of cognition that resonate with the audience's emotional experience, improvising collectively to create an inclusive space.
Yellow Wasabi is artist-in-residence at GRAME and GMEM (Centre national de création musicale), Artzoyd Studios, La Générale, Theatre in the Palm in Greece and Schoenberg Society in Estonia, funded by Creative Europe and Culture Moves Europe. She is active on experimental music stages, contemporary art spaces and scientific conferences in Europe and in Asia.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Les Marquises - Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier (FR)
Les Marquises is a duo of free improv music created by Emilie Škrijelj (accordion, turntable, electronics) and Tom Malmendier (drums, objects) in 2019. They released their first album “Les Marquises” in 2020 on their own label "eux sæm" and the second one in 2021 "Tropism" on the French label "Carton Records".
They went on several European tours in France, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Deutschland, Slovakia, Italia, Portugal, Spain.
Two voices breathe together, exchange, scramble and curl up like a twining plant. A dance on the embers, ardent Marquises …
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Mathieu Sylvestre (FR)
Mathieu Sylvestres main sources of sound are field recordings and analog synthesizers.The natral sounds and noises are interwoven and articulated in electrified sound narratives between aural synaesthesia and spatial vibrations.
As an autodidact musician based in Berlin, Germany since 2010, Sylvestre first came from the France rock music scene to noise music after 10 years of being a vocalist and guitarist. With guitars, cello, effect pedals and contact microphones, he first experimented on sounds and noises to work on origin of vibrations by straight analog means. Following the guitar noise experiments he developed sound pieces from field recordings and Moog analog synthesizers sound sources.
After hundreds of shows in Europe and worldwide the works are constantly enriched by different contexts and places continuing to evolve show after show.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Luurankouni - Félicie Bazelaire (FR) & Lauri Hyvärinen (FI)
LUURANKOUNI (‘skeleton dream’) is the duo of double bassist Félicie Bazelaire and electric guitarist Lauri Hyvärinen. Borrowed from a Finnish translation of poems by the 15th-century Japanese poet Ikkyū, the name reflects the duo’s desire to strip away the surface to reveal an essential form, in all its dread. Inspired by Ikkyū’s themes of mortality, impermanence, and sensuality, the duo’s work explores the fragile dualism between presence and absence in sound.
Influenced by the spirit of Wandelweiser, field-recordings and drone music, Bazelaire and Hyvärinen improvise within a tacitly defined space. They create a sober, minimalist music, within which a discourse is developed through the choice of timbres. The lightness of the guitar's harmonics contrasts with the grain of the bow on the double bass string.
The two musicians have researched the potential of their respective instruments thoroughly in a variety of experimental improvisational and compositional contexts, continuously collaborating and disseminating their work internationally. Their work has been presented by record labels such as Confront Recordings, Dinzu Artefacts, Edition Wandelweiser Records, Ftarri, Intonema, Hitorri and NUNC. Their collaborators include Clara de Asís, Angharad Davies, Léo Dupleix, Seijiro Murayama, Taku Sugimoto, Minami Saeki and Stefan Thut.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: overdriven dreams - Uroš Kostić (RS)
Uroš Kostić alias overdriven dreams is an ambient composer from Niš, Serbia, seeking to bring the infinite sound fields of phantasmagoric dreams to life. In the process, he relies primarily on experimentation in the field of post-minimalism, drone, and ambient by working with 4-track cassette tape loops, field recordings, and reel-to-reel tape loops. His pieces are characterized by deep ostinato lines and meandering lush textures permeated with string instruments, pianos, and choirs.
His first album “symphony // of // murmurings” was released by the Dutch label Slow Tone Collages in collaboration with one of the most prolific experimental artists Lawrence English as a mastering engineer. The second album was released in April 2024, "four trembles on an imagined occasion". It was a result of intensive exploration of sound and the tools used to create it (four- channel cassette loops, a sine wave generator, a handful of pedals, and various instruments with the aid of contact microphones).
Omni Selassi (CH/GER)
Somewhere by the sea, which spills between me and you, the old factory stands and rusts, as a disgrace, a disgrace to the harmony of sunset and spray and emptiness. Someone painted “Omni Selassi” on the wall of the building before disappearing forevermore and with him the language we spoke. We're left with two words and the drums, the stuff, the cables, the voice - to understand where we actually come from.
The three-piece Omni Selassi was brought together by Rea Dubach in 2019. In a flash of inspiration – for what hardly anyone would have expected at the time: since then, the band from Biel, Bern, and Leipzig with Rea Dubach (voc, git, efx), Mirko Schwab (dr, electroharp, git) and Lukas Rutzen (dr, perc, bass) has been chased from one stage to the next. Rarely does the same thing happen twice: Omni Selassi play on to musical doom. And nothing remains as it was: split and disassembled, symbiotic, androgynous, kaleidoscopically polytoxic. Two drummers meet a singer, a guitar and all kinds of other stuff, knickknacks, shenanigans. Pop, grunge, ritual, punk, never as dogma, always as an attempt at failing.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Sopraterra - Magda Drozd & Nicola Genovese (CH)
Sopraterra, a music duo formed by Magda Drozd and Nicola Genovese, transforms the traditional timbres of the saxophone and violin into hauntingly eerie electronic soundscapes. Sopraterra is a sort of natural consequence of years of collaboration between Drozd and Genovese in the fields of music, performance and art. The name “Sopraterra” itself, translating to “above the earth” in Italian, evokes images of ancient ruins where only the upper parts remain visible, mirroring the duo’s exploration of sound landscapes that bridge the past and the future – a blend of antique melodies and obscure drones.
Sopraterra draws inspiration from an eclectic spectrum of influences, including the visionary sounds of Current 93, the intricate harmonies of late medieval Ars Nova, and the enchanting elegance of Baroque chamber music, Sopraterra also pays homage to the avant-garde experimentation of the legendary French collective Art Zoyd and the contemporary brilliance of nowadays composers like Kali Malone, Hüma Utku or Hiro Kone.
On their debut album Seven Dances to Embrace the Hollow released in February 2025 on Präsens Editionen – a label from Lucerne know for its experimental and state of the art projects and the publisher of Zweikommasieben music magazine, the Zurich-based artists offer exactly what’s announced: seven compositions which, as they unhurriedly flow into each other, mark potential entry points to discover what might be lying underneath. By choosing Sopraterra, which translates to “above the earth” in Italian, as their shared project’s name, Drozd and Genovese indicate their own position in this archeological-looking endeavor, hinting at the potential for sonic explorations to produce deeply submerged discoveries.
Supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Bomp Treb (US)
Bromp Treb is the solo noise/music performance and recording project of Los Angeles-based artist Neil Young aka Neil ‘Cloaca’ Young, a nonsense onomatopoeia for the rattling windows of a jalopy with an overenthusiastic subwoofer. Young’s sounds and performances are the sputterings of refined dysfunction and eager uncertainty, coaxed from an improvised maze of crooked rhythms and tangled textures made from voice/body, synthesis, tapes, percussion, and the occasional whiff of physical comedy. Bromp Treb has many recordings in circulation and has performed at fancy-pants arts institutions and schools as well as countless basements, bars, lofts, living rooms, galleries and closets all around North America and Europe.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Innassaah - Carla Genchi (IT) & Lucas Alvarado (CL)
Innassaah is an electro-experimental duo that celebrates macabre dances between the subtle and the aggressive.
Carla Genchi is an an Italian singer based in the Netherlands, who mixes electronic, voice and improvisation, inspired by dark and occultist literature. For several years she lived between Holland, Germany, Sweden, England, Estonia and France where she met Lucas Alvarado a viola da gamba player and composer from Chile who lives and performs in France. Lucas Alvarado combines a range of sounds from electroacoustic composition and field recordings to instrumental minimalism drawing inspiration from the invisible world, esoterism and the cosmos.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Stevie Richards (AU) & Mike Meanstreetz (US) ALSO ENCOUNTERING: Villem Jahu
The Stevie Richards, Mike Meanstreetz Duo was formed in 2023 through a meeting of two kindred spirits who share a love of touring and playing wild, freewheeling experimental music. They play improvised sets using Extended Technique Sax, Video Synth, DIY Serge Analog Synth, Tapes/Effects and Drums and Percussion. Sets can be anywhere from quiet conversational, improvisations to full blown free noise blasts.
Stevie Richards is a DIY electronics and woodwind player and performer currently based in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia. Stevie has performed in Europe, United States, Mexico and Japan both as a soloist and through deliberate international collaboration, taking part in many past and ongoing ensembles worldwide playing noise, free jazz, ambient and electroacoustic music.
Mike Meanstreetz is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist whose non-traditional craft seeds new genres while reaping the fallen fruit of old. Auditory, visual, and word rarely appear in the singular, most often materialising in a tangle of synaesthesia. Sonically his practice explores and expands upon both more metrical genre adjacent sensibilities and more fluid extended techniques via drum kit/percussion, musique concrete/electronic manipulation, and harmonically loaded acoustic-acoustic nylon MIDI triggered guitar. In these various modes he has performed throughout the US, Mexico, Canada and Europe.
Villem Jahu is an interdiciplinary artist, free improviser, synthesist & cultural organizer. He works with abstract electronic sounds in the form of live performances, sound installations, sound design for exhibitions, dance pieces etc. In performing live, important aspects are total improvisation, close listening to other players and instruments, high dynamics, fun. Operating both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians, dancers and visual artists, Jahu’s sound is strongly influenced by Musique Concrète, noise and lo-fi aesthetics, all that in playful free-improvisational mixture.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Arttu Partinen (FI)
Arttu Partinen has performed solo under the moniker Amon Düde alias for around 15 years, recently often also under his own name. The apex of this process was, in a way, the split tape between Arttu Partinen and Amon Düde "Songs In The Attic / Live At Leeds". Partinen has been struggling to shake the stage persona, aiming to move towards a more autobiographical form of expression.
As sound sources, Partinen uses collapsing tape players, found tapes, his own recordings from several projects, nature sounds, human voice etc. Nowadays he also has a library of sounds by friends, which enables him to become the leader of a virtual band. The physicality of his performances makes him a kind of a full body theremin, as every vibration has an effect on the music. The same goes also the other way, as the sounds in turn guide the body movements. Operating with tapes, coincidence always has a huge role, making each concert an endlessly dividing entity.
Partinen is also one of the founding members of the beer trance / forest folk group Avarus that has done several extensive tours in Europe and US. In addition to solo gigs, Partinen has done duos with among others Sami Pekkola (Taco Bells, Jooklo Finnish Quintet) and Pekka Airaksinen. He is also part of Hockey Night with Pekkola, Jaakko Tolvi (Taco Bells, Kiila, Pymathon, Jarse..) and Jonna Karanka (Kuupuu, Olimpia Splendid), combining tape collages, sound effects, toys and free jazz. One of his earlier bands, Hetero Skeleton, that had a release on Load Records among others, is now on an indefinite hiatus.
Since 2020 he has been operating the ARTSY label, with releases by among others Kraus, Natalia Beylis, Marcia Bassett, Reynols etc.
some of the smaller things
This exhibition is the culmination of a multi-month creative journey, during which students from the Estonian Academy of Arts, in the installation and sculpture department, paid attention had to moments and phenomena that would mostly go unnoticed. Video works as well as installations are featured.
Students also ran an Instagram account to document the process of noticing some of the smaller things
Supervisor of the course is Johannes Säre
Works by:
Mia-Stella Aaslaid
Maya Beckbissinger
Jørgen Eide
Liisa-Lota Jõeleht
Daniil Musesovs
Eugénie Robillard
Ats-Anton Varustin
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Badrutt Belorukov Kocher (CHE, SRB) ALSO ENCOUNTERING: Raska/Jahu
- Badrutt Belorukov Kocher -
"Bleak, cold, slow to the point of inertia, and full of unexpected silences, this is still an impressive bout of minimal blap, packed with existential doubts and strange emotions. " (Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector)
https://soundcloud.com/jonaskocher/rotondaextract-2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ubGvoUQ1Pk https://intonema.bandcamp.com/album/rotonda-2
Gaudenz Badrutt
Gaudenz Badrutt (electronics & computer) began his career as a pianist in the field of contemporary classic music. Since more than 20 years he works as an electronic musician in the field of improvised and composed experimental music. He is mainly known as one half of the electroacoustic duo strøm (together with Christian Müller, electronics), as well with his duo with Jonas Kocher (accordion) and collaborations with Hans Koch (bass clarinet). Badrutts music is coined by a very instrumental use of computer/live sampling and electronic devices. He is further occupied in the fields of electronic composition and sound & video installation. Badrutt is artistic co-director of the association Bruit (with Jonas Kocher).
Ilia Belorukov
Ilia Belorukov (alto saxophone) is a musician from Saint Petersburg, Russia, now based in Novi Sad, Serbia. He works in improvised, noise and electroacoustic music. Ilia practices an experimental approach to sound extraction using saxophone, modular synthesizers and other instruments. His works have been released on labels such as Clean Feed, SOFA, Moving Furniture, Astral Spirits, Notice Recordings, Raw Tonk, Mikroton and many others. He founded the Intonema label and was one of curators of Spina!Rec label. He has organized events in Saint Petersburg and elsewhere in Russia, and co-curated the Teni Zvuka and Spina!Fest festivals. Recent activities included writing reviews and articles for Jazzist website and as musicworm on Telegram channel as well as working as mixing and mastering engineer for own projects and different musicians and labels.
Jonas Kocher
Jonas Kocher (accordion) is a composer and accordionist with a strong interest in process oriented works and improvisation. He currently works in duo with Joke Lanz, in trio with Axel Dörner and Jacques Demierre, in duo with Gaudenz Badrutt, in trio with Hans Koch and Gaudenz Badrutt, with the Šalter Ensemble. He also has or had the chance to collaborate with Radu Malfatti, Irena Tomažin, Kasper T.Toeplitz, Ilia Belorukov, Eiko Yamada,Frantz Loriot, Christof Kurzmann, Michel Doneda, Kai Fagaschinsky, Klaus Filip, Chiyoko Szlavnic and many others.
As composer Jonas Kocher has realised works that are situated between composed theatre, installation and concert pieces.
- Raska/Jahu -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=114kubw0LfM
Katariin Raska is a multinstrumentalist and improviser based in Tallinn, Estonia. She is active in both contemporary electroacoustical experimental music as well as in the traditional music scene where she performs century old music on jaw harp and bagpipes.
Katarin has collaborations with improvisers, folk musicians as well as poets and storytellers.
She is one of the front figures in Estonian jaw harp music and the pioneer of improvisational music on Estonian bagpipes.
Villem works with abstract electronic sounds in the form of live performances, sound installations, sound design for exhibitions, dance pieces etc. In performing live, important aspects are total improvisation, close listening to other players and instruments, high dynamics, fun.
Together Katariin and Villem bounce the soundwaves and weave timbres into a charmingly irritating soundscape.
TSAU SÄDE FEST aka //avemaria/kõnts/глицин/vks/ovm/säde/???//
LINEUP:
17:00 - avemaria
18:00 - ovm
18:40 - глицин
19:40 - vks
20:20 - KÕNTS
21:00 - ???
21:20 - säde ja 6. oktoobri kollektiiv
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avemaria (benevolent and heartfelt music)
https://open.spotify.com/album/1TurRnQKUZRHtaJeM1o8QQ...
ovm (funny frolic music)
https://youtu.be/qxtF1q0hJX0?si=mGoHJlzu3mBdaxHK
глицин (young and fun music from Narva)
https://open.spotify.com/artist/56a3tjPb1ubZFTxPFcsLAE
vks (evil frolic music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk-oVKW5yZw
KÕNTS (music of higher pilotage)
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TVFX1u2ArFOQHQ2Lago7g...
??? (surprise performer) (the music for cutting hair and kneeling begging)
säde ja 6. oktoobri kollektiiv (80% thinking, 20% jumping around music)
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doors 16:00
support: lasteleõpilastele 8€ täiskasvanuteletavainimestele 10€
bar is open
as always - no smashing-roaring-bullying.
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SWEATMASTER (FIN) + THE HIPPRIESTS (GER) + SUCH A VAIN ENDEAVOUR (EST)
SWEATMASTER // Garage Rock // Turku, Finland
In the summer of 1998, the trio Sweatmaster was formed in the Finnish coastal town of Turku. Drummer Matti Kallio and guitarist Mikko Luukko had been playing under this name for a while, but it only really worked with bassist and singer Sasu Mykkänen. The only task is to kick ass.
https://www.facebook.com/sweatmaster
THE HIPPRIESTS // Garage Punk // Berlin
formed under the spell of Mark E.Smith in the late 80s this powerful Berlin based trio became the perpetuum mobile of Garage punk. Dedicated followers of fashion love them for their extraordinary taste of crossing language and dressing code borders. Firm believers of the strict punkrockcode embrace them for their simplicity in chordchanges.
https://thehippriests2.bandcamp.com/
SUCH A VAIN ENDEAVOUR // Slacker Rock // Tallinn
After forming in 2023, Such A Vain Endeavour (SAVE) has managed to write, record and release their debut album, as well as tour through the Baltics and play numerous shows across venues in Estonia. A group bursting with raw energy, SAVE is bound to sock your rocks off.
https://linktr.ee/suchavainendeavour
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Nuances d‘engrais & Accou (DE/BE)
With his solo projet Nuances d’engrais, the Leipzig-based artist creates slow deep bass lines, layers of dark abstract soundscapes, and vibrant granular sound collages infused with dancing IDM rhythms and mesmerizing drone atmospheres providing an experimental and performative listening set where the most free and energetic public could dance. I A crazy mix of ambient and break that makes you want to dance to the almost dub-like bass in a concert hall that suddenly seems strangely glitched out. His music has been released on EZ and Lost Dogs Entertainment.
Accou Laposte is a French musician based in Belgium who explores dreamlike and otherworldly soundscapes, blending digital reveries, tribal flavors, and ethereal voices that evoke a sense of timelessness. His work addresses themes of infinity, digital society, and dreams. His compositions are characterized by textures and layers of sound, creating a dense atmosphere where certain elements emerge from the blur, plunging the audience into a state of uncertainty about what they are truly perceiving.
“Untermarionette” PREMIERE
“Untermarionette” is a slow, blunt dissection of the mainstream technological narrative, an acknowledgement of machine addiction and refusal of treatment, a non-verbal manifestation of posthumanist theatre, a voluntary deviation from the technological race, a technological anarchism, death and resurrection of the puppet theatre, renunciation of evolutionary and cultural advantages, opening of a portal to a parallel technological universe, crucifixion of the über-marionette, declaring fanatical progressivism a heresy and encounter with the unknown.
The project “Untermarionette” implements a method developed especially for object-theater by director Erik Alalooga during his doctoral studies. The great challenge of the method is to create a situation where the performer makes all the mechanical performance partners needed for the production. The method does not involve any technical crash course, but triggers, by means of attitudinal shaping and various tasks, the actor’s immediate capacity to the maximum extent possible without any specific training.
Machines that are not characterised by the quality requirements imposed by the mainstream progressive narrative (speed, precision, strength, and more recently also intelligence) voluntarily abandon the technological race. It is not a question of technical inadequacy of the machine-builders, but of technological anarchism. We are not preaching a radical technophobia that invites people to return to the Stone Age. Technology is clearly here to stay. The question is whether we can view it from an alternative and personal position. From a position free from the utopian-dystopian dilemma of striving to become a god at one end and fearing to end up in a slime bath generating electricity for an artificial brain at the other.
Director and DIY lights – Erik Alalooga
Machine-makers and perfomers – Karolin Poska ja Sigrid Savi
Sound-design – Kenn-Eerik Kannike
Supported by:
Estonian Culture Endowment, Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences, Cabaret Voltà, Ajuokse Avangaar, Baltic Visual Theatre Showcase, OÜ Teatridoktor
BOKAT
Girilal Baars is vocalist and composer based in Uppsala, Sweden. He works in the fields of improvisation, electroacoustic music/sound art, and contemporary art music, often with elements from traditional vocal folk music, also a field he has specialised in for many years.
Beat Keller is a Swiss musician making avant-garde jazz, experimental and improvised music. He received several awards and scholarships from Pro HelveAa - The Swiss Arts Council, Canton of Thurgau, Canton of Zurich and the City of Winterthur. He regularly performs across Europe, USA, Latin America, Asia and South Africa.
Jukka Kääriäinen is a musician focused on experimental music. Depending on the situation, Jukka's instruments of choice include an acoustic guitar with preparations or an electric guitar with a bag full of effects. In addition to solo concerts, he regularly performs in various constellations and has collaborated with many leading European improvisers.
Roomet Jakapi is an avant-garde vocalist and improviser based in Estonia. He has performed with many great free-improv musicians including Rieko Okuda, Antti Virtaranta, Guilherme Rodrigues, Emilio Gordoa, Chris Pitsiokos and Fred Frith. Roomet is also an Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Tartu.
Ringhold is avant/psych blues duo with Kalle Tikas on electric guitar and Eleonora Kampe on vocals. Their music creates a rich tapestry of electric blues, melancholic vibes, avantgarde singing with minimalistic sound. Eleonora Kampe’s vocal style resembles a situation of maybe Nico meeting up with Meredith Monk. Kalle Tikas fills this situation with relentless and progressive groove, influenced by the likes of RL Burnside and JJ Cale.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Tonto - Francesco Zedde (IT)
Tonto aka Francesco Zedde is an Italian artist residing in Utrecht, the Netherlands. During teenage years he was trained in classical guitar and drums while later transitioning into sound design and audio technologies. Francesco's creative endeavors encompass an array of mediums, including code, circuits, images, and sounds. His artistic output takes on various forms; in addition to an extensive live performance portfolio, he undertakes the curation of events, production of records, composition of soundtracks, facilitation of workshops, creation of machines and instruments, development of software, and realization of installations.
Furthermore, Francesco is the founder and organizer of the Discomfort Dispatch concert series, an initiative that showcases electronic and free improvised music festivals, an undertaking he has been devoted to since 2017.
Zedde will also be in residency at Copper Leg Art Residency.
4XSiNGLE
4XSiNGLE (pronounced 4 Times Single) is coming to Cabaret Volta for the first time to perform his material and deliver an eXplosive solo live show.
Hailing from Tallinn 4X is a rap artist, songwriter & a performer. After teaming up with a genre-bending producer TD (BeatsByTylerDurden) in 2020 he started releasing music just last year.
4XSingle has performed at 9/11 (Glitch Please), Fort bar (GetFlow), DemoClub, Ülase 14 (mini-k), Nurk bar (Spring Trap 90°) and BurgerBox just to name a few and is also the organiser of his event series - GrindSeason (GS).
This night you will hear released, unreleased and soon to be released songs.
Special guests !
! Priidik Hallas live music making on a vintage Yamaha RS700 (live)
! K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 90's by Vadim-Vadim Grecheskiy (live)
! DJ set by BeatsByTylerDurden
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Simon Whetham (UK) “Channelling”
Simon Whetham has been developing a practice of working with sonic activity as a raw material for creation since 2005. He uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. When presenting work in a performance or installation, for him the space and the objects within become instruments to be played. Since 2018 he has been creating works that repurpose the mechanisms and moving parts of various pieces of obsolete consumer technology, combining and reconfiguring them to be presented as kinetic sound-making sculptural works.
“Channelling” is a kinetic sound performance project, in which a collection of motor devices salvaged from obsolete and discarded consumer technology is reanimated by environmental sound recordings. In turn, this produces new sounds from the devices, which are amplified using various microphones and techniques.
The recordings feature seemingly mundane sound phenomena that occur unpredictably and irregularly in everyday life – passing traffic, wind, doors closing – and also sounds of other machines malfunctioning. Because of this, the movement of the devices is random, variable, and autonomous. This means the relationship between performer and devices is a collaboration rather than a master and servant type situation.
“Channelling Reduction” follows the trend of technology to miniaturise as it evolves, becoming smaller and lighter, but more powerful.
Simon Whetham is also currently in residency at the Narva Art Residency
CLOSE ENCIUNTERS: Jena Jang (KR)
Jena Jang is an extended vocalist and experimental noise improviser from South Korea, based in Prague, Czechia.
They focus on power electronics and harsh noise, using vocal improvisation, extreme screaming, high-pitched frequencies from their DIY synth modular, and exploring somatic singing techniques. Their vocal style is inspired by chanting, yogic breathing practice, throat singing, and Korean traditional singing techniques from Pansori, Samulnori, and Shamanic rituals, along with vocal warmups.
Jena incorporates movements like head banging, crawling like a baby, performing crying scenes, and moving their hair in the air as visual performances to release stress.
Their work aims to transform negative memories and old traumas into feelings of lightness, turning negativity into positive energy. Their practice centres on transforming energy through time and space, pushing the boundaries of sound and healing to offer an authentic and transformative experience.
Jena Jang is also currently in residency at Copper Leg Art Residency.
Post-Kalinin x Glitch Please
Post-Kalinin:
Helves Kopitus
Lauri Lest & Kvartett feat. Kastekann
Raska/Jahu
Punkt Nihu
- Rave stage
Mia
!!ii
Kuiv.wav
Cly/Suva
ivõl
- Live stage
speedrunner
VÜNEX
Galun
Art imitation
Reaktorist
- Vinyl stage
Stray
Paranoid one
...bring your own vinyl...
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Tehnoülevaatus
Tehnoülevaatus (translates to technical inspection) - techno only night featuring the most melodic to the hardest commencing in the midst of concrete, steel and heavy machinery.
DJs:
MIA
EfQ
Mer
Martian
Lady Kairi
Faershtein
Aleksandr Žedeljov aka Faershtein is a composer, musician and producer who has collaborated with various ensembles and artists, composing chamber and film music, creating scores for fashion and theater performances, participating in media exhibitions and producing sound installations. He is the creator and producer of projects such as Modulshtein, Triphonix, Audiokinetica etc.
Currently, he is the music director, composer, producer and sound designer at the Russian Theatre in Tallinn.
DJ sets by Gunilla and Mia
Post-Kalinin
At the beginning of 20th century a legendary revolutionary and upcoming formal chief of soviet union - Mihhail Kalinin hanged out in Tallinn. He worked in Volta factory, made evil plans and posed to photographers with industrial machines. His ghost has been seen in night-times haunting in old factory. Now is proper time to summon his spirit. We plan to do it loudly and at the epicenter of historical events. Welcome to the most underground space of Tallinn, of which most of you have never even hear about!
In post-revolution Russia sound experiments were honoured amongst commies. Trotsky supported avant garde. Lenin hated it and called the artists "bloody futurists". Can´t find the opinion of Kalinin, but who cares.
LINEUP:
Doris Hallmägi
Juhan Vihterpal & Villem Jahu
Theodore Parker
Random Light Orchestra (Erik Alalooga and lot´s of machines)
Kalle Tikas
Mia
Laid
Opening of Cabaret Volta
Un-abandoning of the Volta factory converting it to Cabaret Voltá for times to come.
PERFORMING:
RINGHOLD
Erik Alalooga
Mia-Stella
Laid