Closer Music Festival #6
Marina Herlop is a Catalan singer and pianist.
In 2015 her debut album Nanook was released, in which her immaculate voice blends with the sound of the piano. In 2018, she experiments with Babasha, where voice and electronics become one.
In 2021, Marina Herlop joined the PAN label with her new single, Miu. The artist invites her listeners to enter her dreamlike, fairytale landscape by descending down a sonic rabbit hole, discovering her garden of branching paths. Resisting attempts to interpret her work, Marina Herlop prefers to create worlds that nourish and stimulate our imagination. In Miu, the artist uses Konnakol syllables and Carnatic rhythms for the first time, combining them with a transformed human voice and electronics. Miu becomes a black box or cenobitic toy onto which we can project our dreams and desires.
On stage, she performs with several musicians.
Better-known for his dancefloor-oriented project Buttechno, now Berlin-based artist is mostly focused on sonic experiments and artistic collaborations under his birth name.
As Buttechno releases did, his more experimental work continues to explore problems of life in the dystopian and desolate areas of modern world, sociological and psychological issues that haunt the society, working with such matters as memory and its influence on the perception of the future.
Ellen Arkbro is a composer and sound-artist primarily working with intervallic harmony in just intonation.
Most longplayer Chords on Subtext Recordings sees Arkbro adopt a more minimalist approach than on previous record For Organ and Brass, focusing on the immediate qualities of sound and elegantly expanding the tonal capacities of acoustic instruments using precise, subtle synthesis. Composed of a carefully selected combination of tones, Chords stretches, extends and obscures the timbral character of the instruments it is performed on. Across both tracks, Arkbro examines the sonic materiality and harmonic quality of chords. She considers how the compositions occupy space rather than time – transposing theoretical possibilities into the phenomenal realm.
Accident du Travail is a duo formed in the late 2000s by Olivier Demeaux (ex-Cheveu, Heimat) and Julie Normal.
Their fragile, ecstatic electronic music is born of rare instruments: Julie's ondes Martenot, a prototype synthesiser from the 1920s much used by Messiaen, Varese and Boulez, and Olivier's old church harmonium, all spiced up with a few machines.
Accident du Travail has recorded three studio albums (Bruit Direct, The Trilogy Tapes), and two live performances (including one at Cafe Oto), celebrated in The Wire and Libération among others.
Osheyack is a producer and musician based in Shanghai. An integral member of Shanghai’s burgeoning electronic music scene that centers around ALL Club.
When not playing live for the legendary 云CLOUD night his music can be heard soundtracking art installations and fashion shows across Shanghai. His profile grew considerably in 2018 with his release of two EP’s, Empty Hell on SVBKVLT and Proof of Concept on CGI, as well as his critically acclaimed debut album Sadomodernism on Bedouin Records.