In programming, folding is a process that brings together different elements to create something new, while mapping pairs things in a way that allows for transformation. At the Map&Fold Festival, we take inspiration from these ideas to shape the future of art and culture.
The Map&Fold Festival is all about the intersection of technology and art. We’re a festival dedicated to media art, where artists and technologists come together to create, collaborate, and innovate. We believe in breaking down barriers, mixing the physical and digital worlds to offer unique experiences that engage all the senses.
Our festival features interactive art installations, cutting-edge music, and design that invites both in-person visitors and online participants from around the world to join in. We also celebrate the seamless flow from art exhibitions into vibrant after-show parties, featuring international DJs and live acts that keep the energy alive.
Whether you’re exploring a digital landscape or dancing to live music, the Map&Fold Festival is a space where creativity and technology meet, offering a dynamic cultural experience for everyone involved.
We would like to thank all the helpers, guests, supporters, donors and artists who made our events possible this year! Your energy and commitment have been truly inspiring. We’re excited about what’s to come and can’t wait to create more memorable moments together in the future.
However, like all cultural initiatives, we are facing budget cuts and rising costs. So here’s our call to action once again: „Tell your rich friends about our art!“ Every bit of support helps us keep the spirit of creativity alive.
We might be broke, but our art is priceless! Support Map&Fold e.V. with a tax-deductible donation and help keep the magic alive. ❤️
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We are thrilled to announce the Open Call for the upcoming Map&Fold Festival, taking place from November 23-24, 2024, at the Schlachthaus Tübingen, Germany.
Map&Fold Festival is a celebration of experimental music, visual arts, and interdisciplinary creativity. We invite artists, musicians, performers, and creative technologists to submit their proposals for projects that explore the boundaries of sound and visual art. Whether it’s an immersive audiovisual performance, an interactive installation, or an experimental live set, we want to hear from you!
Submission Guidelines:
Who can apply? We welcome submissions from artists specializing in audio, video, and dance, particularly those who push the boundaries of experimental and innovative work.
What are we looking for? Proposals for performances, installations, or workshops that engage with the themes of sound, space, and visual art.
When and where? The festival will be held from November 23-24, 2024, at Schlachthaus Tübingen, Germany.
We will provide a club sound system as well as a professional projector. The venue has a capacity of approximately 300 people. We strive to cover any incurred expenses and provide a fee, as well as cover travel costs and accommodation, though please note that our total budget is still to be determined. If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email!
Selected artists will showcase their work at one of Germany’s most dynamic festivals for experimental art and music. We encourage proposals from both emerging and established artists.
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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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.
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. Homepage / Instagram
##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 (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.
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.
Join us on May 25th, 2024 at 22:00 as the Map&Fold Festival returns for another exciting edition. Just like in previous years, the evening will kick off with a range of diverse performances before transitioning into our club party. From concerts to experimental audio and video works, and even live techno, we will offer a unique range of artistic expressions throughout the night. Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity to immerse yourself in a variety of captivating performances and let the Map&Fold Festival take you on a journey of artistic exploration. Get your Ticket soon! If there are any tickets left, they will be sold at the door.
Fascinated by the endless possibilities of sound, Polish live performer and producer An On Bast continues her musical quest from 2006 – an abiding evolution of genre melding development, never ceasing to amaze her audience as she manoeuvres between shades of techno, house, ambient and beyond. An artist of the truest form, always aiming to paint a colourful image with her output, structured around a key theme of joy and positive energy every time she plays or creates.
Anna’s fascination with music and deep desire to push herself to new heights has seen her work land on accomplished labels such as Carl Cox’s Awesome Soundwave – after a long lasting love affair with the label, 2021 saw her release her “I Create As I Speak” album which was welcomed with open arms around the globe. She has also landed her established sound on other prolific labels such as Modularfield, Detroit Underground, Pets Recordings, Kiosk ID and more. Alongside this Anna’s own Ghost Kitchen label has become a safe haven for her own productions, a liberating space giving her total freedom of what she can release, no strains involved meaning everything you hear is pure from the core. Anna released 9 albums and many Eps.
With his unmistakable style, El Lobo Digital’s live set creates an atmosphere that that transports the audience into a dystopian world of energy and suspense, a dark and fascinating fusion of techno and noir aesthetics.
## timodufner
Timo Dufner takes the audience on a techno-rave-acid-electro journey. Minimalist and pathetic. Break beat meets four on the floor. Whether as a DJ or as a hybrid live set, he will take you with him into a tunnel somewhere between the nineties and the year 2049.
Jens Schindel finished his master’s degree in media informatics in 2019 and worked as a VJ at Schlachthaus Tübingen for 7 years. He now works as a software developer at Resolume HQ in The Hague (NL) and is a digital artist & VJ. He is part of Das Shining and has participated in various international events alongside renowned artists.
## maladaptive daydreams
The Duo “maladaptive daydreams” (Anna Illenberger und Nadja Weber) blend elements of dreamy, immersive textures with darker, melancholic undertones.they play with surreal melodies, hazy atmospheres, and perhaps a sense of escapism intertwined with a hint of unease.
[ Workshop, English or German, 10€ ] Register HERE!
Resolume Arena is a professional VJing software and media server that is internationally used for theater performances, festival stage design, projection mapping on complex architecture and light installations.
In this beginner friendly workshop, the very basics will be taught:
Navigating the UI
Playing and layering of videos
Using MIDI to control elements
Audio-reactive effect chains
Simple projection mapping
If we have enough time at the end of the workshop we can briefly talk about:
Generative art without code (using Resolume Wire)
Alternative software (pros & cons)
Tips & tricks to survive 6h+ of VJing
Advanced projection mapping
Creating your own VJ loops
What you need
Fairly good (gaming) laptop with at least:
Windows 8.1 / MacOS 10.15 Catalina
Graphics card (Nvidia / AMD / Iris Pro) or Apple Silicon (aka M1, M2, M3)
MIDI controller (optionally but recommended, any will do)
Software must be installed BEFORE the workshop (participants will receive a workshop license on site)
About the lecturer
Jens Schindel completed his master’s degree in media informatics in 2019 and worked as a VJ at Schlachthaus Tübingen for 7 years. He now works as software developer at the Resolume HQ in Den Haag (NL) and is a digital artist & VJ in his spare time.
Die Tübinger Kulturnacht im Piccolo Sole D’Oro! Map&Fold e.V. präsentiert ein Konzert, in dem die Künstler Michael Fiedler und Stefano Ferrari elektronische und instrumentale Elemente zu einer einzigartigen Fusion verschmelzen lassen. Der in Löbau geborene und in Stuttgart lebende Michael Fiedler beeindruckt durch seine experimentelle elektronische Musik und seine Leidenschaft für Klangforschung. Seine Werke, die von Soundtrack-Kompositionen für Filme bis hin zu wegweisenden Avantgarde-Pop-Alben mit dem Projekt ANNAGEMINA reichen, spiegeln sein vielseitiges musikalisches Talent wider. Stefano Ferrari, Produzent, Sounddesigner und Gitarrist aus Berlin, bringt seinen reichen Erfahrungsschatz in die Performance ein. Als Ableton Certified Trainer und Schöpfer des elektronischen Projekts Menion verschmilzt er Glitch, Ambient und Post-Rock zu einer einzigartigen Klanglandschaft. Beginn: 18 Uhr.
Join us on May 20th, 2023 at 20:00 as the Map&Fold Festival returns for another exciting edition. Just like in previous years, the evening will kick off with a range of diverse performances before transitioning into our club party. From flute concerts to experimental audio and video works, and even live techno, we will offer a unique range of artistic expressions throughout the night. Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity to immerse yourself in a variety of captivating performances and let the Map&Fold Festival take you on a journey of artistic exploration. Get your Ticket! If there are any tickets left, they will be sold at the door.
# Artists
An On Bast
Metajon
Michael Fiedler
Jonny König
Jaap Blonk
Yu-Ching Chao
Aftershow-Tanztee-Rave with: Julius Elias & timodufner
## An On Bast
Fascinated by the endless possibilities of sound, Polish live performer and producer An On Bast continues her musical quest from 2006 – an abiding evolution of genre melding development, never ceasing to amaze her audience as she manoeuvres between shades of techno, house, ambient and beyond. An artist of the truest form, always aiming to paint a colourful image with her output, structured around a key theme of joy and positive energy every time she plays or creates.
Anna’s fascination with music and deep desire to push herself to new heights has seen her work land on accomplished labels such as Carl Cox’s Awesome Soundwave – after a long lasting love affair with the label, 2021 saw her release her “I Create As I Speak” album which was welcomed with open arms around the globe. She has also landed her established sound on other prolific labels such as Modularfield, Detroit Underground, Pets Recordings, Kiosk ID and more. Alongside this Anna’s own Ghost Kitchen label has become a safe haven for her own productions, a liberating space giving her total freedom of what she can release, no strains involved meaning everything you hear is pure from the core. Anna released 9 albums and many Eps.
The relationship with her instruments is an emotional connection, but also a practical relationship, an extension of her mind and hands with a thousand and one possibilities at her fingertips.This enthusiasm is a flame within her, something that has been ignited from a young age and will always be maintained.
## Metajon
Metajon / Jonas Schröter is a musician and experimental audio/visual artist.
The interest in sonic possibilities started early in his live. Since then he tried to expand acoustic and musical boundaries to what is possible. On the visual side he discovered TouchDesigner as his tool to express and expand the emotional structure. The relationship between the technical evolution and development of humanity is the theme of his work.
## Michael Fiedler
Michael Fiedler is a musician and producer based in Stuttgart, whose primary focus is on creating experimental electronic music and exploring new sonic possibilities. He is passionate about using both digital and analog instruments, as well as various effects pedals, to craft innovative and unique sounds.
He usese field recordings – recordings of ambient sounds from various environments – which he incorporates into his compositions to add an extra layer of depth and complexity to his music, resulting in a rich and immersive listening experience.
Through his work, Fiedler invites listeners to explore the limits of sound and to embrace the unknown. His experimental approach to music-making is a testament to his creativity and his willingness to take risks and push boundaries.
## Jonny König
Jonny König merges drums and effect-pedals into an immersive orchestra of sound. a bulb of rhythm illuminating fragile spaces – or throwing booming shadows. The ‚Drums&Percussion‚-magazine hails his work as one „sound-experience“ – „award-worthy“ and „fascinating“ in 2021.
Jonny is a drummer/composer based in Mannheim, who feels equally comfortable in both the pop music and experimental music. In 2020, during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, König’s experimentation in his own studio resulted in the creation of the foundation for his first instrumental solo album, ‚DEEP SPACE TRANSPORT‘. This album combines intricate rhythms, abstract drum sounds, and cinematic depth. The drum kit is expanded with an array of sounds, including various percussion instruments such as small Gamelan gongs, tongue drums, and repurposed kitchen utensils, as well as radical microphone techniques and sound manipulation through effects processors.
## Jaap Blonk
Jaap Blonk (born in 1953 in Woerden, Holland) is a composer, poet, musician, and performer.
He initially studied mathematics and musicology but later abandoned these studies. In the late 1970s, he started playing saxophone and composing. A few years later, he discovered his vocal potential, first reciting poems, then improvising and performing his own vocal compositions.
For almost 20 years, voice remained his primary means of discovering and researching new sounds. Around the year 2000, Blonk also began incorporating electronics into his work and, from 2006, he again had recourse to mathematics to generate sounds, texts, and visual works. Jaap Blonk has performed on all the continents of the world. Alongside his solo performances, he has worked with an extremely wide range of musicians and ensembles from the fields of contemporary and improvised music.
To date, his music has appeared on 27 CDs on his own Kontrans label. Other recordings have been released on labels including VICTO (Canada), Monotype Records (Poland), Relative Pitch Records and Balance Point Acoustics (both USA). Books containing his visual works have been published by publishing houses in Germany, the USA, and Canada.
## Yu-Ching Chao
After her studies in Hamburg, Leuven (Belgium), and Amsterdam, Taiwanese recorder player Yu-Ching Chao continued her education at the Staatliche Musikhochschule Trossingen, where she successfully completed her Konzertexamen in 2019.
As an internationally active soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, she is currently based in Hamburg and regularly gives concerts, workshops, and lectures in various countries in Europe and Asia.
## Julius Elias & timodufner
Julius Elias is a DJ, producer and acoustics enthusiast. His musical style ranges from deep to hard techno including track findings from nights digging for the most driving tunes, own productions and classics from pioneers of electronic music. Always energetic, never cheesy.
Timo Dufner takes the audience on a techno-rave-acid-electro journey. Minimalist and pathetic. Break beat meets four on the floor. Whether as a DJ or as a hybrid live set, he will take you with him into a tunnel somewhere between the nineties and the year 2049.
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Map&Fold proudly presents: Ambient und Experimentalmusik jeden ersten Dienstag im Monat! Dies ist das letzte Konzert vor der Sommerpause!
Thomas Maos
Geargrind
timodufner
Thomas Maos and his electronic guitar
Sein aktuelles Solo Album glühen wurde 2021 im Bereich Grenzgänge für den Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik nominiert. Tom Greenland vom NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD schreibt darüber: …Der dramatische Bogen vieler seiner Tracks wird größtenteils von Kontrasten in Klangfarbe und Textur getragen, die so abgemischt sind, dass jeder markante Klang auf die gegenüberliegenden Seiten der Stereomischung verschoben wird, wodurch ein einnehmender „Dialog“ entsteht.“
timodufner …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.
GEARGRIND Geargrind extemporises electronic music, live, with only little preparation before each show, which makes every performance unique. No software is involved in any of his shows. Instead, he uses digital and analog instruments to create a sound that oscillates between spheric-synthetic ambient sounds and hard acid trance.
Map&Fold proudly presents: Ambient und Experimentalmusik jeden ersten Dienstag im Monat!
Knipsen timodufner
KNIPSEN
Es dämmert. Funken fliegen, dichte rhythmische hypnotische Musik drängt in die Lücke zwischen Tag und Nacht. KNIPSEN spielen keinen Jazz. Besetzung: Markus Merle – noise Carsten Netz – Blasinstrumente, Effekte Michael Fiedler – Loops
timodufner … is a musician, media artist and computer scientist. His work focuses on testing limits of hard- and software. In doing so, glitches are an unavoidable component he consciously puts up with. Characteristic features of his work also include direct interaction between sound and image and an exchange between audience and piece. All of his works are created real-time – in the very moment – and thus each performance is different. Real-time audio processing, machine learning and AI, live coding and numerous electronical instruments are being deployed.
Map&Fold proudly presents: Ambient und Experimentalmusik jeden ersten Dienstag im Monat!
timodufner Geargrind Michael Fiedler
# Michael Fiedler arbeitet in Stuttgart als freier Musiker und Produzent. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf experimentell-elektronischer Musik und Klangforschung. Fiedler bedient sich verschiedener Improvisationstechniken mit digitalen und analogen Instrumenten und Effektgeräten. Oftmals fließen sogenannte Field Recordings ein, welche dem Klangbild zu einem markanten Sound verhelfen.
# timodufner … is a musician, media artist and computer scientist. His work focuses on testing limits of hard- and software. In doing so, glitches are an unavoidable component he consciously puts up with. Characteristic features of his work also include direct interaction between sound and image and an exchange between audience and piece. All of his works are created real-time – in the very moment – and thus each performance is different. Real-time audio processing, machine learning and AI, live coding and numerous electronical instruments are being deployed.
# Geargrind Geargrind extemporises electronic music, live, with only little preparation before each show, which makes every performance unique. No software is involved in any of his shows. Instead, he uses digital and analog instruments to create a sound that oscillates between spheric-synthetic ambient sounds and hard acid trance.
Start: 20:00 // Free entry / We ask for donations after the concert.
Map&Fold proudly presents: Ambient und Experimentalmusik jeden ersten Dienstag im Monat!
timodufner Fried Dähn Herbe&Heid
# Fried Dähn Der Cellist, Elektro-Cellist, Komponist, Klang- und Medienkünstler gehört zu den wenigen Künstlern, denen es gelingt, Tradition und Moderne in sich zu vereinen. Ob klassische oder neueste elektronische Klänge, Komposition oder Improvisation: ständiges Suchen nach neuen Ausdrucksformen, gepaart mit immenser Virtuosität und spontanem Erfindungsreichtum im Umgang mit seinem Instrumentarium zeichnen ihn als einen der vielseitigsten und innovativsten Cellisten der Gegenwart aus.
# timodufner … is a musician, media artist and computer scientist. His work focuses on testing limits of hard- and software. In doing so, glitches are an unavoidable component he consciously puts up with. Characteristic features of his work also include direct interaction between sound and image and an exchange between audience and piece. All of his works are created real-time – in the very moment – and thus each performance is different. Real-time audio processing, machine learning and AI, live coding and numerous electronical instruments are being deployed.
Free entry / We ask for donations after the concert.
# Herbe&Heid ist ein junges Ambient/Noise Projekt von Heide aka @selecta_heifi und herb @laboratoiredeherb . Ihr Debut gaben sie im Frühjahr dieses Jahres beim MAF (Mini Ambient Festival). Heide hat ihre Violine, den OP-1 und ein Mikrophon im Gepäck, herb seinen Modularsynthesizer. Zusammen experimentieren sie in oft düsteren, spannenden und energetischen Klangräumen.
Map&Fold proudly presents: Ambient und Experimentalmusik jeden ersten Dienstag im Monat!
timodufner Michael Hollingshead Geargrind
# Geargrind Geargrind extemporises electronic music, live, with only little preparation before each show, which makes every performance unique. No software is involved in any of his shows. Instead, he uses digital and analog instruments to create a sound that oscillates between spheric-synthetic ambient sounds and hard acid trance.
# Michael Hollingshead „The Californian born ambient experimentalist channels his roots in the reverb drenched garage and surf rock west-coast soundscapes of his youth, combined with lush cycles of deteriorating and pulsating sound loops- a marriage of tones peppered by the surfy punk rock guitar of East Bay Ray to contemporary ambient endeavors like Portland based ambient artist Amulets“
# timodufner … is a musician, media artist and computer scientist. His work focuses on testing limits of hard- and software. In doing so, glitches are an unavoidable component he consciously puts up with. Characteristic features of his work also include direct interaction between sound and image and an exchange between audience and piece. All of his works are created real-time – in the very moment – and thus each performance is different. Real-time audio processing, machine learning and AI, live coding and numerous electronical instruments are being deployed.
Free entry / We ask for donations after the concert.
Unser erster kleiner Satellit in 2022 mit lokalen Künstler*innen im Schlachthaus Tübingen:
Flackern und Dröhnen
Flackern und Dröhnen ist ein intermediales Kunstkollektiv aus Esslingen am Neckar. Live erzeugte Videorückkopplungen von Marcus Fauser treffen auf Improvisierte Klangräume von Marcus Korb und Jochen Keil. Bernhard Haug dokumentiert das Geschehen. Bei der live Performance baut sich langsam ein Klangteppich auf, der kontinuierlich mit organischen Bildformen verwoben wird. Das so gesponnene Gesamtkonstrukt ist eine stetige Interaktion von überlagerten Frequenzen und bewegtem Bild. Entstehende Klang- und Bildwelten laden den Besucher ein, sich in diesem Gebilde zu verlieren und in die geschaffene Stimmung abzutauchen.
Laima Adelaide (Electronics) Maris Prieditis (Visuals)
Aftershow with An On Bast (live Techno) & Gwenan!
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POTENZIAL
Fried Dähn (electric cello, loops) and Thomas Maos (electric guitar, electronics). The founders of Camp Festival and curators of Sonic Visions are linked by a musical and artistic friendship that has lasted for more than two decades. Both are cross-border commuters and are constantly researching and expanding the possibilities of their instruments. They are passionate about combining different art forms. They work both conceptually and intuitively and combine noise, rock, new jazz and contemporary music.
Kasumi
...is an artist who works in a broad range of media: directing and producing short and feature length experimental films, live shows, VJ and public art production, creating looping electronic sculptures, designing motion graphics and animated gifs, producing immersive 360 virtual reality pieces and making fine art pieces and wearable art through glitch, data moshing, and silk screen painting. She has created works for the Cleveland Museum of Art, EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center), Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Württembergischen Kunstverein, Stuttgart; and her work also was featured at Art Miami, unpainted Media Art Fair, Munich, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Contemporary Museum Wroclaw, Itau Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, The Butler Institute of American Art, The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, San Diego Museum of Art, Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual, Mexico, and many others.
Zacharias Fasshauer (Double Bass) & Jaume Darbra Fa (Flute)
Faßhauer studied Double Bass with Prof. Detmar Kurig in Düsseldorf and Trossingen, where he obtained a Bachelor’s as well as a Master’s Degree for New Music. 2021 he was academist at the International Ensemble Modern Academy. Faßhauer took part in master classes such as the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, the IEMA Klangspuren or the Impuls Festival Graz, where he studied among others with Uli Fussenegger and Dario Calderone. Furthermore Faßhauer has given concerts as a soloist and as part of many different ensembles at festivals such as the Donaueschinger Tage für Neue Musik, Spring Festival The Hague, or Klangzeit Festival Münster, 180 degrees Sofia. Faßhauer also appears with his own works, his pieces often concentrate on the interconnections between different media.
Michael Hollingshead (Guitar) & Tihomir Zdjelarević (Modular) aka Strasse 614
Straße 614 is a collaborative sound initiative started in spring 2021 by Tihomir and Michael. Tihomir Zdjelarević is a Berlin based musician. He works with modular synthesizer, bass guitar, four track tape machine, and hardware effects to create large soundscapes with a cosmic vibe. Influenced by the 60s & 70s psychedelic music, especially Krautrock and Berlin school of electronic music, he sent himself on a journey to resurrect the sounds into an another authentic experience. Michael (Satellite Socialite) is an ambient experimentalist that channels his roots in the reverb drenched garage and surf rock California west-coast soundscapes of his youth, combined with lush cycles of deteriorating cassette loops.
…is visual artist based in Poland. He attended Camerimage Film School and most of his career works as filmmaker.With passion for animated works he focused himself on creating animated visuals . His works refers to tradition of surreal animation and wide range of art genres. Through the visuals made from vintage illustrations he attempts to recreate experience of dream and oneiric reality taking inspiration from childhood fairytales, movies, paintings, books or music.
Michael Fiedler (Electronics) & Ludger Lamers (Dance)
LUDGER LAMERS, arbeitet seit 1987 als Tänzer, Choreograph und Lehrer für Bewegungssprachen und Darstellende Kunstformen im In- und Ausland. Neben der Entwicklung von Soloarbeiten und eigener Projekte unterrichtet Ludger Lamers zeitgenössische Tanztechnik, Improvisation und Partnering an verschiedenen Institutionen in Europa, bisweilen auch in USA und Asien.
MICHAEL FIEDLER, arbeitet in Stuttgart als freier Musiker und Produzent. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf experimentell-elektronischer Musik und Klangforschung. Fiedler bedient sich verschiedener Improvisationstechniken mit digitalen und analogen Instrumenten und Effektgeräten. Oftmals fließen sogenannte Field Recordings ein, welche dem Klangbild zu einem markanten Sound verhelfen.
Geargrind (Electronics) & Tschänz (Video) aka einer & ein Anderer
„einer & ein Anderer“ is an audio-visual duo that creates immersive, danceable live performances. They have special focus on showing the audience how music emerges from an idea to a melody to a full-fledged rhythmic experience that carries you away. Geargrind extemporises electronic music, live, with only little preparation before each show, which makes every performance unique. No software is involved in any of his shows. Instead, he uses digital and analog instruments to create a sound that oscillates between spheric-synthetic ambient sounds and hard acid trance. Tschänz studied Media Informatics with strong focus on Visual Computing and Computer Graphics. He focuses on visually appealing content generation driven by real-time audio-reactive projections.
Erica Terralibera is an Italian multimedia artist who works on her synaesthesia. Her loops are the result of the cross media process triggered by her synaesthesia, designed, animated, edited by her and then used in audio / video performances. She has been collaborating for several years in independent m usic festivals and music/art events, as the Electric Fields event at MAG/MART with an augmented reality/interactive installation; the collaboration at “the Multiverse“ for Burning Man VR 2020; collaboration with Chris Shape (Cocoricò, Italy) realising his videoclip for Holy Ron hit.
JAUME DARBRA is a multidisciplinary & independent artist based in Frankfurt, working at the juncture of sound & visual. He combines visual art, music composition and physical approach of sound art by performing in advanced programmed installations and audio/visual live compositions. As a freelance flutist and electroacoustic performer, Jaume is active internationally in the field of contemporary music, sound art and visual arts. Engagements have taken him to all over Europe and Asia, performing in the most important venues, festivals and institutions such as, WienModern, November Music, Snape Maltings, IRCAM, STEIM, Musikfest Berlin, Festival ManiFeste, Lucerne Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Festival Mixtur.
Combination of visuals and original music. Animation of photos, original drawings, shader live-coding. Musical creation with machines, bass, worked and improvised voices, on an electro-drum & bass background
Nuno Mika, is a Portuguese artist who after studying electromechanics, music, and architecture, began to develop light and sound installations. His immersive, dreamlike environments are designed to envelop the viewer.
Laima Adelaide (Electronics) Maris Prieditis (Video)
Laima Adelaide is an electronic music producer and composer. She studies composition at the HMDK Stuttgart and before that completed a sound engineering degree at JVLMA in Riga. In her music she works with synthetic sounds, noise and loops to create slowly transforming soundscapes exploring a path between deep techno and modern sound design. Maris Prieditis studies philosophy and art history at the University of Tübingen and is an artist with his current focus on photography. In his works he is interested in philosophical theories, the specificity and the possibility of digital photography, for example AI object recognition, layering and manipulation of the RAW data. The thoughts about relations and interdependence of environments, systems and actors form the main area of his exploration.
ake locally sourced, lovingly handcrafted sounds and images, delicately plucked from sustainable artisanal springs of creativity… then beat with a roque mallet and roll them down a hill in a whisky barrel filled with glass.
— Mittwoch — 19:00 Jaume Darbra Fa 20:00 Michael Fiedler
— Donnerstag — 19:00 Günter Schlienz 20:00 Timo Dufner
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— Carsten Netz Der Stuttgarter Musiker Carsten Netz erforscht für seine Solo-Ambient- Performance die klangtiefen seiner Holzblasinstrumente. Dabei konzentriert sich der Künstler auf den feinen Kosmos langjährig erprobter Werkzeuge: Saxophon, Klarinette und Querflöte. Das Repertoire und Spektrum wird vom Ansatz der Luft bis hin zu obertonreichen Frequenzen mit elektronischer Hilfe verfeinert und geschichtet.
— Laima Adelaide Laima Adelaide studiert Komposition an der HMDK Stuttgart und beschäftigt sich mit Deep Techno und dessen verschiedenste Facetten. In ihrer Musik arbeitet sie mit synthetischen Klangflächen, Loops und Noise. So entstehen verflochtene Klanglandschaften welche sich durch langsame Veränderungen bewegen.
— Jaume Darbra Fa Jaume Darbra is a multidisciplinary & independent artist based in Frankfurt, working at the juncture of sound & visual. He combines visual art, music composition and physical approach of sound art by performing in advanced programmed installations and audio/visual live compositions. As a freelance flutist and electroacoustic performer, Jaume is active internationally in the field of contemporary music, sound art and visual arts.
— Michael Fiedler Michael Fiedler arbeitet mit Tönen, Klängen und Geräuschen, die unmittelbar vor und während der Performance eingefangen, als musikalisches Ausgangsmaterial live modifiziert und im komplett neuen Kontext direkt hörbar gemacht werden. Die Musik ist immer prozesshaft und entwickelt sich immer wieder neu. Es enstehen abstrakte Soundgebilde, eigenwillige Signale und unberechenbare Beats.
— Günter Schlienz Bekannt als Mitglied der Stuttgarter Drone/Ambient Formation NAVEL und als Betreiber des Cosmic Winnetou Kassettenlabels tritt solo auf. Analog/Ambient/Minimal/Synthie/ Sequenzer- und Tapemanipulationen.
— Timo Dufner ist Musiker und Visual Artist und arbeitet im Bereich Medien- und Informationstechnologie. Er performt als VJ, mit audiovisuellen Live Acts und ist außerdem an der Produktion elektronischer Musik in verschiedenen Teams beteiligt. Schwerpunkt seiner Arbeit ist die Ausnutzung von Softwarefehlern, sogenannten ‚Glitches‘, Echtzeitverarbeitung, Live Coding, maschinelles Lernen, sowie die direkte Interaktion von Ton und Bild.
## Artists Sonja Schmid (Cello) spielt Bach & Sarah Nemtsov. Jaume Darbra (Flöte) spielt Edgar Varèse, Dai Fujikura, Brian Ferneyhough, Hildur Gudnadottir, Maija Hynninen, Nahuel Litwin. Herb & Michael Fiedler (electronics) Improvisationen.
## Mehr? # Sonja Schmid Sonja Lena Schmid, in Tübingen geboren, ist als Cellistin und Performerin international tätig und wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, darunter mit einem Echo Klassik der Kategorie „Klassik ohne Grenzen“. Sonja Lena Schmid studierte Cello und Kammermusik in Hamburg, Lübeck, Amsterdam und Den Haag. Sie ist sowohl mit der klassischen (Kammer-)musik als auch den neuesten Strömungen aktueller Musik vertraut. Als Solistin und Kammermusikerin hat sie mehr als 60 Werke uraufgeführt. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der engen Zusammenarbeit mit den Komponist*innen und auf Stücken mit besonderen physischen, performativen oder auch stimmlichen Anforderungen, meist an der Schnittstelle zu Elektronik und Multimedia. Mit dem Decoder Ensemble gastiert sie bei den wichtigsten internationalen Festivals für aktuelle Musik und gestaltet seit der Saison 2017/2018 jährlich 3 Abende der Konzertreihe „Unterdeck“ in der Hamburger Elbphilharmonie. Sonja Lena Schmid brennt für interdisziplinäre Projekte und wirkte in verschiedenen internationalen Musiktheaterproduktionen und Performances mit. 2008-2019 war sie Mitglied des Quartetts Salut Salon. 2019 wurde sie auf eine Professur für Ensemble und digitale Performance an das Landeszentrum Musik-Design-Performance der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik Trossingen berufen. Sie lebt in Hamburg und spielt ein 2018 für sie gebautes Cello von Anneke Degen.
# Jaume Darbra Jaume Darbra ist ein multidisziplinärer und unabhängiger Künstler, der in Frankfurt am Main lebt und an der Schnittstelle von Ton und Bild arbeitet. Er kombiniert visuelle Kunst, Musikkomposition und den physischen Ansatz der Klangkunst, indem er in fortgeschrittenen programmierten Installationen und audiovisuellen Live-Kompositionen auftritt. Als freischaffender Flötist und elektroakustischer Performer ist Jaume international im Bereich der zeitgenössischen Musik, Klangkunst und visuellen Kunst tätig. Engagements führten ihn durch ganz Europa und Asien.
# herb und Michael Fiedler betreten erstmalig im Rahmen der Map&Fold Reihe gemeinsam die Bühne – mit dabei eine Kollektion elektronischer Musikinstrumente. Der Plan: Fiedler reagiert mit minimalistisch-dichten Rhythmen aus Fieldrecordings und Störgeräuschen auf cineastisch-sphärische Klanggebilde aus herbs Modularbox.
## Dähn/Maos The two musicians have just released a solo album each. Now they are back in the studio working on a duo album. Electric cello and electric guitar, lots of effects, loops and grooves. They are going to present brand new tracks and experimental collages.
## das Shining das Shining collective is a group of interdisciplinary media and computer experts who studied media informatics together in Tübingen before expanding their expertise in other academic fields. The group is always looking for new opportunities to let its creativity run free in a challenging way.
## Kitz KITZ uses a deceptively simple combination of gritty electronic sounds and vintage- sounding synth lines paired with haunting vocal melodies to create an evocative journey through light and dark. Kitz (Anna Illenberger)has made herself a name in recent years as a vocalist in the experimental pop field in Stuttgart,Germany. KiTZ acts within a musical genre that is constantly reinventing itself, innovating, and mixing spaces with other types of arts, its search has become an exploration, it likes to develop spaces around each song, something that leaves as a result what she calls an „organic vibration“. With KiTZ, Anna Illenberger plays a one woman show. Rhythms, samples and bass that she triggers live to an „organic electronic experience“. She likes to keep things minimal and turns her voice to the center of attention in this project, singing songs about self-empowerment, courage, authenticity and expressing „difficult“ moments such as self-doubt or fear.
## Eric Medine is an artist and curator that builds interactive video installations designed to turn everyday activities into mysterious quests. He has shown work in galleries and museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), xm:lab, KunstlerHaus, and the Generate festival in Germany, the Chicago Motion Graphics Festival, Fête de la Lumière in France, and the LPM festival in Rome and Mexico City. As a VJ and live visuals engineer he’s worked with a large range of different performers.
Every year we make a noise together that stretches around the world. Saturday May 29, 2021 www.droneday.org
# What Is Drone Day?
An annual celebration of drone, community, and experimental sounds!# Why Do We Drone? To awaken tiny vibrations in our skin and between all our bones.We stream 24h drone. Endless modular sessions form the basis. Various performances are interspersed. If the Corona situation allows, visitors can attend the installations and concerts.
