Boki Batina (youreup crew), USELESS D.I. (diablo loco REC.), Theejay (Bass Fighters)

DJ set

Jernej Marušič aka Octex is one of most profiled and internationally established Slovenian electronic artists, operating somewhere in between club and avant-garde, exploring the boundaries of dub aesthetics and sub bass frequencies, placed in variable rhythmical time frames.

His releases have appeared under numerous labels (Mute, EFA, STHLM, Public Records), and his list of remixes includes artists such as Laibach, Marko Furstenberg, Gabriel Le Mar, Ultra Red … Under the new alias Pavemental he recently released the debut Streeteepy, which focuses on his unique take on urban hip hop beats. He is performing his audio-visual live set at festivals and clubs across Europe, such as ARS Electronica (Linz), Club Transmediale (Berlin), ISEA (Helsinki), Dis-patch (Belgrade) Exit (Novi Sad), White Night (Riga), Flussi (Avellino), 7epta/8ogdoa (Chalkidiki) …  In recent years, he developed a new interest in improvised music, performing solo impro-sessions centered around a modular synthesizer, or performing with other musicians.

http://www.octex.si/

– Friday, October 9 at 21.15

AV performance

Peoplemeter is a new expanded cinema performance created by Incredible Bob, video artist and WoO, experimental guitarist and sound artist, both from Belgrade, Serbia.

The performance is comprised of a synchronized video projection, blue lasers, neon wires, and lights with live electronic music. The video consists of imagery shot with microscopes, endoscopes and other techniques, and the protagonists are robots living in a post digital world of media signals, frequencies, oscillations and other media junk. Live music is performed by WoO playing guitar with effects and Bob playing live electronic music. Peoplemeter premiered on MUTEK Festival 2013 in Mexico City in IMAX cinema, and was performed in Kassel, Timisoara, Athens, Zagreb, Belgrade.

WoO (RS) is an experimental guitarist and sound artist from Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, born in 1978. Taking clues from electronic music pioneers, he experiments with mobile devices such as mobile phones, remote controls, media devices, computer equipment and similar, to capture their frequency interferences through his guitar magnets. “Amplifying the air” through his guitar, WoO creates a magical sound-world that is rich in frequency, oscillating and meditative. Soundscape ambience, distortion drones, high pitch harmonics and analog electronic sounds all find their place inside of his compositions.

Incredible Bob (RS) is present for over a decade on international media scene and his works have been shown in more than 300 festivals around the world including MUTEK, Transmediale, TodaysArts, European Media Art Festival, and others. Bob performed live with Actress, Deadbeat, Morphosis, Murcof, Mika Vainio, Dan Deacon, Mats Gustafsson, DJ Rupture, Laurent Garnier, The ORB, Tiga, Dasha Rush, and many others.

AV performance

Always evolving hybrid performance exploring the interplay between analog and digital, audio and video in which fragments of prerecorded material intertwine with live modular improvisation resulting in an immersive synesthetic soundscape of shifting time and space.

Jernej Marušič aka Octex is one of most profiled and internationally established Slovenian electronic artists, operating somewhere in between club and avant-garde, exploring the boundaries of dub aesthetics and sub bass frequencies, placed in variable rhythmical time frames.

His releases have appeared under numerous labels (Mute, EFA, STHLM, Public Records), and his list of remixes includes artists such as Laibach, Marko Furstenberg, Gabriel Le Mar, Ultra Red … Under the new alias Pavemental he recently released the debut Streeteepy, which focuses on his unique take on urban hip hop beats. He is performing his audio-visual live set at festivals and clubs across Europe, such as ARS Electronica (Linz), Club Transmediale (Berlin), ISEA (Helsinki), Dis-patch (Belgrade) Exit (Novi Sad), White Night (Riga), Flussi (Avellino), 7epta/8ogdoa (Chalkidiki) …  In recent years, he developed a new interest in improvised music, performing solo impro-sessions centered around a modular synthesizer, or performing with other musicians.

http://www.octex.si/

– Friday, October 9 at 20.00

Audio-visual performance

Jens Vetter is creating unorthodox rhythmic loops in real-time, merging spherical sound scapes created with analog synthesizers and theremin as well as with hacked playstation controllers wich are modified to be used as new instruments. His improvisations involve self-programmed sounds and environments in SuperCollider.

Karol Kagan is generating live-visuals, based on algorithmic patterns, that are prepared to be deconstructed and rebuilt during the performance.

— large-scale AV installation, word premiere: Planetarium, Maribor Main Square, Friday, October 9, 2015

The first in a series of large-scale installation works investigating simultaneous sonic and visual illusions. ’1′ investigates binaural beating within discreet frequency boundaries in combination with an attempt at visually replicating lenticular printing within a flat, two-dimensional space. The changes in sonic and visual material occur very frequently (approx every 7.5 seconds) but are constructed in such a way that, as the piece progresses, it becomes less apparent when the changes are occurring, creating a continuous, but not necessarily apparent, evolution. In installation, the work is intended to be physically affecting, at times disorientating, but ultimately meditative.

Louise Harris: Axial

— large-scale AV installation, word premiere: Planetarium, Maribor Main Square, Friday, October 9, 2015

Axial is intended for projection on a dome-shaped space, such as a planetarium, and is one of a series of compositions investigating expanded audiovisual formats. The compositional structure is continually condensing – essentially composed of five iterations of the same material, each subsequent iteration is heard 1.5 times faster than the previous one, creating a sense of momentum and acceleration without any change in pitch or proportional duration of the material.

Louise Harris (UK) is an electronic and audiovisual composer. She is also a Lecturer in Sonic and Audiovisual Practices at The University of Glasgow. Louise specialises in the creation of audiovisual relationships utilising electronic music and computer-generated visual environments, in both fixed media and performance contexts. Her audiovisual work has been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, including across Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan.

www.louiseharris.co.uk

DJ nastop

DJ Nati Katchi, a part of Suchi collective, has uncovered her base and dirty rhythm addiction on her voyage through various forms of musical creation and cooperation. She shook up the dance floor on different locations throughout Slovenia and abroad with her UK garage, breakbeat, electro, nu funk and house rhythms. She won a 3rd place on a DJ competition of ex-Yu countries in Zagreb.

L A D Y B I R D O R I U M live

DREAMS

Music: LadyBird (vocal, beatbox, flute, piccolo, wood pipe, synth, looper)
Idea, design and editing of the film: LadyBird
Recording of the film and performance production: Črton
Video manipulation and light design: Barbato
Sound design: Danijel Bauman
Costume design: Activator

Length: 42 min

»The question is not what but how« is the guiding idea of a vocalist, flautist, composer and performer LadyBird, who doesn’t set boundaries to her creative field using genres or other existing norms, she sets them only by herself and pursues what sounds pleasant to her ears. In terms of composition, she is interested in experiments and tries to convert her musical knowledge and her idea of music, both stemming from her life and musicology studies, into a peculiar musical expression. As a vocalist, she is interested in providing authentic and primal expressions of her
experience of the world through different timbres and sounds, and through playing with syllables and texts. A while ago she also took up video making. She has been collaborating for almost a decade with Neven Korda (Barbato), intermedia artist, and Črt Lipovšek (Črton), producer, in various roles. LADYBIRDORIUM live: Dreams is their latest project, a result of a long-term creative growth and a search for expressive solutions.
During a 42-minute movie, filmed with an iPhone, LadyBird records vocals and instruments on a loop recorder, while these sounds occasionally mingle with recordings of speeches by influential people and film music. Exploring
and accepting diverse worlds of music and art in general are connected with her belief, and after all, both processes are also reflected in the contents of this performance. LadyBird states: »Birds are everywhere«.

Clip, clap. Clip, clap.
Hurry, time is running out. But someone has to save the world.
The world, where supposedly everything happens for a reason.
*Stop resisting, you rebel without a cause!*
I only mean good. Only good.
*Don’t think too much. You can get a headache from it.*
*Rather start realizing your dreams.*
*You know that we pave the way ourselves. By ourselves.*
But … this is the worst thing that can happen …
*Where did you get this idea from? Are you confused?*
Teacher, which bird has the most beautiful song in the world?
Teacher?

»[Even] If I am mistaken, I am.« – Augustine of Hippo

What would happen if only one word is put before the widely accepted truths: »maybe«? Would the system, that is raising us into obedient and controllable beings, dissipate as quickly as dreams scatter? Would there be total chaos or would complete tolerance reign?

LadyBird in her first authorial performance sets herself in the role of the heroine, who wants to find the answers to these questions. The journey, which combines vocal and instrumental music, speech recordings of influential people, contemporary dance, visual manipulation and film, at first appears as a process of her own liberation and afterwards as the mission of »Saving the world«.

LADYBIRDORIUM is a place in the universe … a place of creativity and experimentation … a place of freedom … It exists where I exist.

PROMO VIDEO (live clips): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq01ZcFBE8Q

OFFICIAL TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TufG44pWPYA

‘DROPS’ LOOP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAch98QcAo8

WEB: www.ladybirdbarbara.com

– Thursday, October 8 at 21.00

AV performance

ic2 is a live, audiovisual, beat-and-noise-based performance work. The intention is to create a symbiotic system, in which live decision-making by the performer impacts on both the audio and visual components of the work, but also in which both the audio and visual components can interact with one another, causing behaviours that are not directly controlled by the system performer. There is also an element of chaotic behaviour built into the system, causing unpredictable audio and visual outcomes.

Louise Harris (UK) is an electronic and audiovisual composer. She is also a Lecturer in Sonic and Audiovisual Practices at The University of Glasgow. Louise specialises in the creation of audiovisual relationships utilising electronic music and computer-generated visual environments, in both fixed media and performance contexts. Her audiovisual work has been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, including across Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan.

Her work can be found here: www.louiseharris.co.uk

– Thursday, October 8 at 20.30

AV performance

electr°cute is analog based, visual-audio performance, in search of perfect organic synchronisation. Oscillating images into the sounds and the other way around. Its about conversation with electricity.

http://electr-cute.tumblr.com/

https://www.facebook.com/electrcute?fref=ts

Kasia Justka (PL) is a polish multimedia artist based in Berlin. Her work capitalizes on her obsessions with the medium of electricity and weird organic sounds. Her art can be seen as invocations to the vast power inherent within electronic systems and networks… With this conceptual frame in mind Kasia fashions a dynamic order and form from primitive entropy. Using light, sound, images and objects as her tools, her Intuitive and analogue based performances have led to collaborations with musicians, theaters, galleries, clubs, fashion designers, artists and a whole host of other respected luminaries working in different disciplines within the creative spectrum. Among these are: Electrovision London, Transvisualia, Free Form Festival, CynetArt, Unsound Festival, Piksel in Norway, Warsaw Electronic Festival, gallery Zacheta, WRO Bienale, TR Warszawa, Volksbuhne and others.