ROLY PORTER
Known for being one half of Vex`d during UK’s dubstep golden era, Bristol-based Roly Porter composes epic, atmospheric electronic music alongside his fellow of Subtext Recordings. LPs, such Aftertime, Life Cycle of a Massive Star and Third Law, sonically portray the awe inspired by our inner and outer universes. 2016’s Third Law, released on Triangle 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.

THERESA BAUMGARTNER
Theresa Baumgartner's artistic practices primarily revolve around the exploration of alternate realities, employing space and light installations to craft immersive environments that encourage the audience to contemplate their own perceptions of reality. Within each installation, the essence of her work transcends mere physical experience and lingers like the residual images imprinted on one's retina after gazing at the sun.

These manifestations are born from Baumgartner's innate drive to construct a world where the audience is prompted to delve into vulnerability, thus conceiving novel visions of our collective experiences, should we choose to embrace them.

Among her recent standout works is "Deepstaria" for Studio Wayne Mc Gregor, "INFINITE II " a collaboration with Matt Lambert and Michelle Lamy, commissioned by the Julia Stoschek Collection. She created the stage design for Hildur Gudnadottir's, Sam Slater's, and Chris Watson's "CHERNOBYL OST," which received the 2020 Opus Klassik Award for the most innovative live show.

Furthermore, Baumgartner is a co-founder of Bestfilmsforever/ BFF a video and media arts collective committed to advancing inclusivity in the film industry by supporting FLINTA* individuals in the tech sector.

HELEEN BLANKEN
Heleen Blanken is a visual artist based in Amsterdam. She levitates across the fields of installation art, new media, cinematography, scenography, and sculpture. Influenced by the complex exchange between humanity and the natural environment, her artistic practice explores the different layers of our aesthetic perception of the natural world while defining traditional artistic dichotomies like the organic vs. artificial and analog vs. digital. In her work, she raises questions on how we contemplate ideas of nature.

Heleen’s work has been shown internationally in curated shows at institutes such as Nxt Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Kunstkerk Dordrecht, Floriade World Expo 2022, Gropius Bau Berlin, La Gaîté Lyrique, Gallery Ron Mandos, Musée d’art Contemporain, and Ars Electronica. She has collaborated with institutes such as Naturalis Leiden, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and the Institute for Geosciences Utrecht.

AHO SSAN
Aho Ssan, key player of French experimental music, is the artist name of Paris based Niamké Désiré. Who has garnered wide international attention for his felt, yet richly philosophical approach to sound assemblage. His last album, positively reviewed, Rhizomes, was released on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People Label.

With a background in graphic design and cinema, he ended up composing electronic music and creating his own digital instruments. He got on Subtext Recordings, in 2020 with his debut LP Simulacrum. Based on the concept of Jean Baudrillard, the LP navigates through society’s presentation of inclusivity and equality against his own experience of growing up black in France.

Subsequently his work has been presented in various institutions across Europe and the United States such as the Lincoln Center (New York), La Maison de la Radio (Paris), CTM (Berlin), MACBA (Barcelona), Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam) and Krakow Philharmonic (Krakow).

Resina is alias of Karolina Rec, a composer and cellist based in Warsaw. In 2016, after signing with FatCat Records/130701, she released her album "Resina”, "Traces” and an EP with remixes of tracks from "Traces" by Ben Frost, Abul Mogard, Lotic and Ian William Craig.

Her latest album "Speechless," which includes compositions for a 24-person choir was released in November 2021. She also writes for film, theater, video games. Resina builds her personal musical language with blurring the boundaries between seemingly different musical genres, playing with tension between the biological/animalistic aspects of performance versus electronic and amplified sound world. Removed from classical contexts, the processed voice and cello brings amalgamation of noise, heavy drumming (by Mateusz Rychlicki), ambient and choral elements, moving from delicate beauty to incandescent undercurrent of danger, from pulsating minimalism to unbridled explosions.
Resina is currently working on her fourth solo album and a collaboration - Ego Death with French electronic music composer Aho Ssan.

Casimir Geelhoed (NL, 1995) is an electronic musician, composer and software developer who explores expressive relations between software and sound.Recurring themes in his musical work are overstimulation, introspection and fragility. Often making use of self-developed software, he is interested in the poetic potential of sound material transformed through digital means.

Geelhoed has created performances and installations for various festivals, including CTM Festival, Sonic Acts, Rewire, Fiber Festival, SPATIAL and Aural Spaces. He released music on the labels Janushoved, Posh Isolation & Post Hoc.

Casimir Geelhoed is also the main software developer of 4DSOUND, an Amsterdam-based studio exploring spatial sound as a medium. He has also been technical director of spatial sound venue MONOM in Berlin.

Anni Nöps is a sound artist, electronic composer and DJ based in the Netherlands.
Her sonic palette is visceral, interlacing ghostly drone, floating melodies, hard hitting percussions and tactile noise.

feedbacksociety, founded in 2001, is a collective for audiovisual experiments. The work takes shape in several forms such as; audiovisual performances and installations, kinetic sound sculpture’s, site-specific environments, live-cinema and digital art with the emphasis on the inner character of the media, physical movement and human interaction.

Feedbacksociety performances and installations have been shown at several international cutting edge new media festivals and venues such as:

Machinista (Glasgow), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Garage festival (Stralsund), Sensoralia (Rome), Video Dance (Athens), State-X/New Forms (The Hague), Dis-Patch (Belgrade), Light Forms (Rotterdam), Saal Biennaal (Tallinn), Rokolective Festival (Bucharest), and many more.

Jeroen Alexander Meijer is an interdisciplinary mindscape artist who navigates psychology, philosophy and cognitive science to create interactive experiences that help us become aware of the mysterious properties of our attention.

His fascination begins with his own attention deficit disorder (ADD) clashing with the hyperdistracting world of today. By practicing the ancient technique of Vipasssana meditation he regained awareness over the subtle and immeasurable power of the mind, inspiring the objective of his work to help audiences all over the world get into similar meditative states and bend their attention back on itself. He achieves this by composing multi-sensory installations that focus deeply on perceiving your own perception, with the ultimate goal of creating a profound sense of how our inner realms intimately influence our outer worlds.

With the installation “Portaal”, Renzo van Steenbergen and Kristjan Pütsep created an evolving environment in which several standalone sculptures are controlling the vibrations of audio and image (light) in the space. Together the vibrations emitted by the machines form harmony and disharmony that will fill the entire space.

Macular is an initiative of a group of artists who share a collective interest in art, science, technology, and perception. The members of the collective collaborate on the creation and production of multi-sensorial artworks that are presented at media arts festivals, galleries, and other arts institutions around the world. An important part of the initiative is that the collective functions as a nomadic lab in which the members do research and develop the technology and theory that’s needed in order to create their works.

One of the ongoing research topics is the creation and manipulation of emergent systems and the possibilities for composition that arise from them. Besides showing these systems as installations, they can also be seen as instruments for live performance, where the performer and/or the audience becomes part of the system. Another field of interest is the notion of musical thinking and the way concepts of musical theory can be inserted into other media in order to create generative compositions in movement, light, and sound.

Intrigued by the phenomena and history of optical sound, Mariska de Groot (1982, NL) makes, performs and composes for comprehensive analog light-to-sound instruments and installations which explore this principle in new ways. Her work often has a reference to media inventions from the past, with which she aims to excite a multi-sensorial and phenomenological experience in light, sound, movement and space.

Mariska obtained her BA in graphic design in Arnhem (2000-2005) and received her masters diploma at the ArtScience interfaculty in 2012. In 2009/2010 Mariska received a Startstipendium from Fonds BKVB. She won the BNG Workspace12 Project Prize in 2012, in 2014 she won the O68 Price for German/Dutch artists and in 2016 she received Creatives Industries Talent development grant.

Dieter Vandoren (°1981, Belgium) is an artist, performer and creative tech developer. His work draws from diverse backgrounds in music, IT and experimental architecture and revolves around the creation and play of spatial audiovisual instruments and environments with a focus on embodiment, immersion and primary sensory experiences.

Dieter has a masters degree from the ArtScience Interfaculty (Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire The Hague) and a bachelor in Digital Communication (University of Applied Sciences Utrecht). His works have been featured at Ars Electronica (AT), Club Transmediale, Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE), NIME/Goldsmiths (UK), Artefact/STUK (BE), Medialab Prado (ES), Electrochoc (FR), Sound Around Kaliningrad (RU), Sin Pin Pier Gallery (TWN), Gaudeamus Muziekweek, November Music, Rewire, TodaysArt, STEIM, STRP, Glow, FIBER (NL) and more.