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# Map&Fold Festival 2024 23. & 24.11.
Join us as the Map&Fold Festival returns for another exciting edition this Saturday and Sunday! On Saturday, we’ll gather at the Schlachthaus, where performances will kick off at 20:00, building to an aftershow starting around midnight. Then, on Sunday, we’ll be at the Shedhalle from 15:30, showcasing a range of captivating audiovisual performances. Just like in previous years, the festival offers an eclectic blend of concerts, experimental audio and video works, and live club music—a unique experience of artistic expression through the night. Tickets on sale now.
# Artists Saturday
Schlachthaus 20:00
Anna Illenberger (live)
Bang & Cherry (live)
Gwenan (live)
Ludger Lamers (dance)
Mattou (DJ)
Menion (live)
Michael Fiedler (live)
Katia Vonna (live)
timodufner (DJ/VJ)
# Artists Sunday
Shedhalle 15:30
Geargrind (live)
Günter Schlienz (live)
Gianmarco Donaggio (live)
Hanno Braun (VJ)
Jens Schindel (VJ)
Mirian Kolev (live)
##ANNA ILLENBERGER
Anna Illenberger (*1984 in Stuttgart), die Sängerin, Sound und Performance Künstlerin sammelte ihre ersten Erfahrungen als Autodidaktin in ihrem Atelier in den Wagenhallen Stuttgart. Dort gründete sie ihre erste Band ANNAGEMINA. Sie hat zahlreiche Bühnenauftritte und veröffentlichte in den letzten Jahren mehr als 10 Tonträger. Für ihre konzeptionellen Theatermusikproduktionen und Filmmusiken hat sie schon mehrere Auszeichnungen und Nominierung erhalten (u. a. Beste Filmmusik „die Tochter“; Toronto Canada). 2020 veröffentlichte sie unter dem Namen KiTZ ihr erstes Solo-Album. Die Grundlage ihrer Kompositionen ist immer die Improvisation, die dann ausgearbeitet wird. Sie arbeitet intensiv an elektronischer Klangforschung und experimentiert im Bereich verschiedener Improvisationstechniken mit digitalen und analogen Instrumenten, Effektgeräten und der Stimme. Die Verschmelzung von experimenteller Popmusik, Performance und Bildender Kunst ist ihr Antrieb. Das Verfremden von Fotografien bildet eine wichtige Ergänzung zu ihrer Musik. Das bewusste Abtrennen und Fragmentieren spiegelt das Verfahren des Samplens in ihrer Musik wider. Ihr Projekt „Lostsongs“ wurde Ende 2021, online veröffentlicht. Hier vermischt sie ihre Kunst und Musik in einer eigenen virtuellen Galerie.
##BANG & CHERRY
Bang & Cherry are the hosts and residents of PUMP, the queer electronic kinky party at the Climax Institutes. Um Bra and Ben Hille produce tracks ranging from danceable electro-pop to funky techno and have been DJing the floors of various Stuttgart clubs for some time now. Their stylish music video for ‚The Lake‘ (based on Edgar Allan Poe) won several awards. They enjoy performing live, for example at Berlin’s legendary club ://about blank, or adding live vocals to their DJ sets, which cover an enormous stylistic range from Chicago and garage house to hardgroove and deep techno.
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##GEARGRIND
For 10 years Geargrind has been improvising electronic music live on synthesizers and drum machines. Analog and digital sound generators mingle with electro-acoustic instruments, no software is used. The resulting sound oscillates through the years between spheric-synthetic ambient sounds and hard acid.
##GIANMARCO DONAGGIO
Gianmarco Donaggio (b.1991, Italy) is an award-winning film director, cinematographer, and artist. Member of the European Film Academy.
He is primarily known as an avant-garde filmmaker, particularly for his pioneering approaches in cinematography and audiovisual performances, as for instance, the manufacturing of unique lenses and experimentation with unusual recording and projecting techniques. His cinema celebrates motion and materiality, emphasizing sensation over information. The motion picture is conceived as a body of performing light, a concept articulated in his academic writings.
##GÜNTER SCHLIENZ
For more than a decade, Günter Schlienz has created meditative works of epic reach with intimate, reflective resonance. his individual style comes from an ever-searching sense of experimentalism that stems not only from his sense of composition but his creation of his own modular synthesizers and other instruments.
While the cosmic touch is ever present, earthy and pastoral scenes are never far from Schlienz’s gaze. ultimately, his music is in equal thrall to joy, melancholy, nature and space. it’s a radiant poise Schlienz holds throughout, finding a peaceful plane.
##GWENAN
Gwenan occupies a unique corner of electronic music, one she has quietly and skillfully crafted for herself. On her journey from the Welsh hills, via London and Berlin, she has honed her art, diving deep into cerebral realms of dream-driven, tactile dance music, expertly weaving the gentle and the angular, with a strong sense of groove throughout.
Always inspired by early Sheffield and Detroit techno , and above all by the machines and the people who give them their voice, Gwenan is known for her perceptive presentation of techno in all its forms. Up before dawn on the day of the gig, pulling together records to play that night, she teases out the spaces between styles that escape classification. Directness, grit, irresistible movement, a sense of circuits jumping into life—it’s an ears-first approach that puts body and mood before time and place.
In the studio, Gwenan produces music ranging from abstract electronics to dancefloor grooves using a mixture of classic hardware, software and an ever-expanding tangle of modules. Live, you can catch her in collaboration with Eli Verveine (as Gin & Tonic), as they do their best to step out of the way and let instinct—and the machines—do the talking.
##HANNO BRAUN
Hanno Braun is interested in the spatial effect and emotionalization of spaces. His field of work includes architecture, staging, performances, and live visuals.
The instruments for his live visuals are analog video cameras and analog video mixers, which he uses to create and alter visual feedback loops. By layering these feedback loops, abstract visual worlds are generated in real time. He is fascinated by playing the video instruments as if in a jazz improvisation – in the moment, with all the influences of the present.
##JENS SCHINDEL
Jens Schindel aka Tschänz is a digital artist and software developer focused on image processing, computer graphics, shader programming, and audiovisual media. His shows present visually captivating mathematical concepts and algorithms, displayed in an audio-reactive format to create immersive experiences.
##KATIA VONNA
Katia Vonna Beltran is a nomadic artist, photographer, video maker and performer whose practice is essentially focused on Live Cinema. As an “Artivist”, she takes up ecological and political issues and explores the notion of Fragility and actions of social Resistance. She brings together collected objects and her own photographic vision. Using a hybrid audiovisual device, mixing low-tech and digital, this whole universe comes to life creating a live cinematic story. By diverting and repurposing objects and images, she is questioning our way of living and inhabiting the world. She recycles all the material she uses in her creative process, trying to be as minimalistic as possible. A miniature theatre is transformed into a laboratory and, far from the sophisticated tools that are often seen as inescapable, she allows DIY images to be produced in a poetic process. Everything is filmed live with CCTV cameras and projected in real time, to create a world that blends two complementary universes, and results in a mix of low-tech and analog. The narrative is political and ‚Artivist‘, using archives of experiences and stories of resistance from all over the world, her own photographs and various objects. She talks about modern nomadism, low tech, eco- feminism, street art, activism, re-using and DIY, and she questions the way we think about the world, adapt to it and emancipate ourselves from it. In this way, she gives visibility to different forms of action. Today’s climatic challenges give a boost to the imagination and the possibility of taking action through a more egalitarian form of expression. The power to act, nested at the heart of the creative process, makes other possible worlds visible and gives rise to a shared emotional dimension that takes us back to childhood. The aim is to offer the spectator a sensitive and reflective experience of inventing existence, on the path of simplicity, travel and encounters.
##LUDGER LAMERS
Ludger Lamers has been working as a dancer, choreographer and teacher of movement languages and performing arts in Germany and abroad since 1987. Alongside the development of solo works and his own projects, Ludger Lamers teaches contemporary dance technique, improvisation and partnering at various institutions in Europe and occasionally in the USA and Asia. He has received several grants from (dgartes), the Portuguese cultural institute, and in 2010 was awarded the Dance Grant of the City of Munich.
##MATTOU
Mattou (velour kollektiv) loves to combine fast-paced, groovy techno and non-4/4-rhythms from all over the world. His sound is dark and glitchy, infused with emotional and upbeat vibes. Always on the mission to break expectations whilst interacting with the dancers to ensure a driving, yet diverse experience.
##MENION
He is graduate in Classical Guitar and Music and New Technologies at Italy Conservatory. The project originates from the need of telling stories, experiences and impressions through sounds. His music brings together visionary Electronic with Glitch, Ambient and Post-Rock influences. The sound concept is based on a processing of the guitar sound to arrive at a transformation of the identity of the sound source through analogue and digital devices. His sound has been influenced by Shellac, Sonic Youth, Christian Fennesz, Alva Noto, Arvo Pärt and many others.
His discography includes the production of two EPs and three albums. He lives and works between Germany and Sardinia.Menion does not feel compelled to experiment or display an aseptic avant-garde taste; what he’s eager to do is to share and research his own art, experiencing music as an opportunity for self-improvement.
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##MICHAEL FIEDLER
Michael Fiedler works as a freelance musician and producer in Stuttgart.
His work focuses on experimental electronic music and sound research.
Fiedler uses various improvisation techniques with digital and analogue instruments and effect devices. So-called field recordings are often used, which give the sound a distinctive character.
##MIRIAN KOLEV
Mirian Kolev (born 1982,Bulgaria) is а musician, composer and multidisciplinary artist, who lives in the Mountain of Bulgaria and works in experimental, electroacoustic, ambient, improvisational music sphere and sound art. His main activity is related to his solo drone ambient project E.U.E.R.P.I. and he has taken part of many festivals and stages around Europe and Asia. He is also doing collaborative shows and projects with other musicians, visual artists, dancers, performers and compose music for art installations, videos and dance performances. His music is minimalist, atmospheric and discreetly psychedelic, and improvisation is an essential part of each of his live performances, turning it into an expressive soundtrack of time and space. At times his music is gloomy, at times cosmic, and melancholy is often present in it, as is the world around him.
##TIMODUFNER
Timo Dufner is a musician, media artist and computer scientist. His work focuses on testing the limits of hardware and software. Glitches are an inevitable part of this process, which he consciously uses to his advantage. Another characteristic feature of his work is the direct interaction between sound and image as well as a two-way exchange between the audience and the piece. All of his work is created in real time – in the moment – making each performance unique. Real-time audio processing, machine learning and AI, live coding and numerous experimental devices are used to create an immersive viewing and listening experience.