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.
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!
Tickets
You can buy tickets via Guestoo. Remaining tickets are available directly at the Schlachthaus.
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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.
Fried Dähn (Cello & Stuff)
Michael Fiedler (Stuff)
Tschänz (Visuals)
PPLC (Visuals)
No Sé Leon (Modular)
timodufner (Modular)
# 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. https://www.friedstyle.com/
# Michael Fiedler
Sein Schwerpunkt liegt auf experimentell-elektronischer Musik und Klangforschung. Sein musikalisches Spektrum reicht von Soundtrack-Kompositionen für Film über Auftragsarbeiten für freie Theater, Livekonzerte und Kooperationen mit diversen Künstlern und Kollegen der unterschiedlichsten Genres. Beim Map & Fold präsentiert er aktuelle Ergebnisse aus seiner Forschungsarbeit mit Fieldrecordings. Es enstehen abstrakte Soundgebilde, eigenwillige Signale und unberechenbare Beats. https://www.michaelfiedler.net
# Southern-Germany-based producer No Sé Leon has reached the electronic soundscape by step-sequencers and drum machines, which he used as backing for his guitar play. His sonic approach stands for an organic, dreamy and melodic approach to music, which can be placed somewhere in between the realms of Deep House and Techno.
His new found dedication to modular sound generators opened a new realm of the more abstract and ambient-heavy soundscapes that hes keen to explore.
# 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.
# tschänz
Jens Schindel is a digital artist and self-employed software developer based in Tübingen, Germany. During his studies he worked in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics and Image/Signal Processing. The focus of his work is to make the latest research results accessible and experienceable to a wider audience in an interactive way. He implements projection mapping installations on various architectures and landscapes and regularly enriches the „Schlachthaus” events with visual-immersive experiences.
Dähn/Maos (Cello, Guitar & Stuff)
Brosamer & Hollingshead (Guitar, Guitar & Stuff)
Michael Fiedler (Stuff)
mehr TBA!
#Dähn/Maos
Gerade haben die beiden Musiker jeder ein Soloalbum veröffentlicht.
Nun sind sie wieder im Studio und arbeiten an einem Duoalbum.
Electric Cello und Electric Guitar, jede Menge Effekte, Loops und Grooves.
Hier präsentieren sie brandneue Tracks und experimentelle Collagen.
#Brosamer & Hollingshead
Das elektronische Gitarrenduo von Sascha Brosamer & Michael Hollingshead, zeichnet sich durch lange Stücke, sich wiederholende, dabei aber kontinuierlich modifizierte Strukturen sowie sphärische Flächen und hypnotische Rhythmen aus. Die Musik ist gekennzeichnet durch einen hohen Grad an spontaner Experimentierfreudigkeit während des Spielens, durch Modulation der Klangfarbe und den Einsatz von Effektgeräten. Aus den von Hollingshead`s geprägten „California Psychedelic Sounds“ entsteht im Zusammenspiel mit Brosamer`s „krautigem Einfluss“ eine sehr eigenständige Mischung.
Michael Fiedler
Sein Schwerpunkt liegt auf experimentell-elektronischer Musik und Klangforschung. Sein musikalisches Spektrum reicht von Soundtrack-Kompositionen für Film über Auftragsarbeiten für freie Theater, Livekonzerte und Kooperationen mit diversen Künstlern und Kollegen der unterschiedlichsten Genres. Beim Map & Fold präsentiert er aktuelle Ergebnisse aus seiner Forschungsarbeit mit Fieldrecordings. Es enstehen abstrakte Soundgebilde, eigenwillige Signale und unberechenbare Beats.
#Michael Fiedler & PPLC
Michael Fiedler arbeitet mit Field Recordings, Klängen und Geräuschen, die unmittelbar vor und während der Performance eingefangen, als musikalisches Ausgangsmaterial live mit Soft- und Hardware modifiziert und im komplett neuen Kontext direkt hörbar gemacht werden. Ergänzt durch die bildgewaltige Visualkunst von PPLC. Tanzperformance: Sibel Caliskan https://www.michaelfiedler.net
#Sibel Caliskan
Sibel Caliskan ist freischaffende Tänzerin und Performerin aus München. Mit großem Interesse an Improvisation und Kreation kollaboriert sie mit verschiedenen Künstlerpersonen der darstellenden Kunst. Ihr künstlerisches Schaffen und ihre Bewegungssprache sind charakterisiert durch Interdisziplinarität sowie der Verbindung zwischen Tanz und Bewegungsforschung.
#PPLC
PPLC ist Musiker, Medienkünstler und Informatiker. Im Mittelpunkt seiner Arbeit steht das Austesten von Grenzen der Hard- und Software wobei Glitches eine unvermeidliche und bewusst in kauf genommene Komponente sind. Charakteristisch für seine Arbeit sind die direkte Interaktion zwischen Ton und Bild und der bilaterale Austausch zwischen Publikum und Installation. Alle seine Arbeiten entstehen in Echtzeit und somit ist jede Aufführung einzigartig. Echtzeit-Audioverarbeitung, maschinelles Lernen und KI, Live-Coding und zahlreiche experimentelle Geräte kommen zum Einsatz.
#Michael Fiedler
Michael Fiedler arbeitet mit Field Recordings, Klängen und Geräuschen, die unmittelbar vor und während der Performance eingefangen, als musikalisches Ausgangsmaterial live mit Soft- und Hardware modifiziert und im komplett neuen Kontext direkt hörbar gemacht werden. Ergänzt durch die bildgewaltige Visualkunst von PPLC. https://www.michaelfiedler.net
#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. https://www.friedstyle.com/
#KORB
Der Künstler KORB, schafft progressive Klangcollagen und unverwechselbare Klangstrukturen zwischen Soundscapes, Ambient und Drone. Wie bei einem Besuch in einem alten Radiogeschäft taucht das Publikum in eine Unzahl von Klängen, Geräten und fast greifbarer Elektrizität ein.
Vergänglichkeit und Nicht-Reproduzierbarkeit stehen über konventionellen Songstrukturen und der gängigen Vorstellung von elektronischer Musik. https://www.korb-modular.com
Sascha Brosamer
Hoving
Michael Hollingshead & timodufner
#Hoving
Hoving is the ambient and postrock project of Stuttgart based artist Thomas Kiefer. Although he has played the guitar since his youth, he has always had an affinity for electronic music. The shift in his tastes towards ambient music some ten years ago eventually led to the conception of Hoving in 2017. Interwoven with his music is a continuing passion for photography, visible in his album artwork and music video visuals.
With an explorative approach in mind, Hoving’s goal is to musically map the field between electronic, acoustic, and organic sounds. In doing so, he almost exclusively uses hardware synths and grooveboxes in addition to conventional and unconventional instruments. This hands-on way of making music allows him to mostly work away from the confines of computer screens and to let his creativity flow naturally. The result is an often somber, intricate, and complex sound, but one which is always calm.
Hoving’s socials, music and visuals: https://linktr.ee/hoving
#Sascha Brosamer
(electric guitar, mobile devices)
is an interdisciplinary artist from Freiburg/Germany. His performance „Transoceanic“ is dealing with ambient music, alternative guitar tunings and repetition in the digital age. A web-based application called „Grainfield“ is used to network the audience with their mobile devices and create an immersive listening experience. It was designed by Benjamin Matuszewski and Norbert Schnell as part of the CoSiMa research project developed at the IRCAM Centre Pompidou Paris.
He released his album „Glocken“ (2019) on Invisible City Records, a collaboration with Graham Dunning, where they get together to dig deep into the beauty of textural studies, analogue medium and surface details. As well the Transoceanic EP (2020) at BB15/Linz, which deals with the cultural imagination of dematerialisation, historical sound carriers and digital colonialism. www.saschabrosamer.com
#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.
Monica Vlad (AV live) Alexandra Cárdenas (live coding) Tatsuru Arai (AV live) Nick Rothwell & Shama Rahman (live coding, sitar) Atsushi Tadokoro (AV live coding) Zacharias Fasshauer (Double Bass) Jaume Darbra Fa & Marçal Xirau (flute & guitar with electronics) Mári Mákó (live electronics) Scott Wilson, Konstantinos Vasilakos, Erik Nyström and Tsun Winston Yeung (live electronics)
# Monica Vlad (AV live) Monica Vlad is an audiovisual performer and multimedia artist based in Linz, Austria. Her first university was HydroPower Engineering, but after 5 years of study she decided she’s more attracted to art. Into this matter, she finished the fine arts department of New Media in Art at L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara in Italy, followed by the master of Interface Cultures from Kunstuniversität Linz. For her live performances, Monica changes the functionality of old media devices and everyday objects to create new sounds. Her live performances are different each time, but always intense, dramatic and powerful.
# Alexandra Cárdenas (live coding) Alexandra Cardenas is a Colombian composer and improviser now based in Berlin, who has followed a path from Western classical composition to improvisation and live electronics. Her recent work has included live coding performance, including performances at the forefront of the Algorave scene, she also co-organised a live coding community in Mexico City. Cardenas has been invited to talk about and perform live coding at events such as the Berlin based Transmediale festival and the Ableton sponsored Loop symposium, and held residencies including at Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan and Centre for the Arts in Mexico City.
# Tatsuru Arai (AV live) His main artistic Thema is to integrate from classical compositions to new technology, as „TRANS-AGES MUSIC“,and to present the fundamental physical nature of the universe in the form of perceptional experiences, that could say aesthetics of “geometric structure”. The human perception of sound, a physical phenomenon, influences human beings and the“geometric structure” is a fundamental pillar that allows us to understand the true nature of the universe. Creating a way to experience even a part of the nature of the universe through sound. From 2016 he is composing Hyper Serial Music that will add innovation to the principle of Serialism three-point: „structural“, „complex“ and „noisy“. Hyper-Serial-Music is the algorithm music generated by state-of-the-art technology such as Artificial Intelligence than by native human intelligence only.
# Nick Rothwell & Shama Rahman (live coding, sitar) Shama Rahman Shama Sarwat Rahman is a British singer-songwriter, composer, sitarist, storyteller, performance artist, filmmaker, actress and neuroscientist. Her albums modernise the sitar (lineage Pt Ravi Shankar), arranged centrally within layered harmonies, electronic soundscapes & complex grooves to showcase it in different genres and instrumentation. From jazz to dubstep, punk to folk, trip hop to hip hop, swing to bosa nova, her stories start life as poems & take flight as cross-genre songs. Nick Rothwell Nick Rothwell is a composer, performer, software architect, coder and visual artist. He has built media performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt and Vienna Volksoper, and interactive installations for Sonic Arts Network, TECHNE and Kinetica. As a collaborator with body>data>space he has developed performance systems, software visuals and sound scores for projects at CIANT, Vo’Arte, including large-scale installation for Nesta’s FutureFest. He has also composed sound scores for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and developed algorithmic visuals with sculptor Simeon Nelson and composer Rob Godman for large-scale outdoor installations in Poland, Estonia, Cambridge Music Festival and Lumiere. Khyal Geometries is a new project which combines classical, jazz and folk technique on the sitar with improvised live-coding of a digital audio workstation. Modal melodies and choral harmonies on the sitar are combined with synthesis, looping and effects processing mediated in real time by a functional language, resulting in fugues and canons of soundscape which morph from rich and ambient to rhythmic and syncopated.
# Atsushi Tadokoro (live coding) Atsushi Tadokoro is a creative coder. Currently teaching as an associate professor at Maebashi Institute of Technology, and as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts and Keio University in Japan. Tadokoro makes music works of sound synthesis using an algorithm and performs improvisation with sounds and moving-images by a laptop. His lectures about “creative coding” and “Live Coding” for openFrameworks, Processing, Sonic Pi and TidalCycles, etc. are online to be practically used for students and creators. In this performance, Atsushi Tadokoro will unite the audio and visual stimulus together using Haskell based live coding library TidalCycles. The application selects a shader animation when detecting the note on the timing of TidalCycles via OSC, making synchronized complex animations automatically in real-time.
# Mári Mákó (live) Mári Mákó is a composer and sound artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In her solo practice she plays with live electronics, which she combines with acoustic sound sources: voice, amplified instruments and objects. In her performance she is looking for unconventional music practices to give space for her own compositional processes and she is aiming to challenge the ‘recital form’ of concerts. Along with that she is designing her own performative tools with sensors and self-built oscillators. Schmitt is a live-electronic music performance. The piece meant to challenge and explore the relationships between motion, gesture and music. The narrative of the piece is about overcoming existential crisis and rebirth. The instrumentation is focused on a self-built Schmitt oscillator which sound transformation is the sonic journey of the piece.
# BEER, the Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research (live coding) BEER, the Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research, was founded by Scott Wilson in 2011 as a project to explore aspects of realtime electroacoustic music making. Particular interests include networked music performance over ad hoc wi-fi systems, and live coding (programming music in real time using algorithms that can be altered while they are running). In keeping with post-free jazz developments in improvisation (e.g. Zorn, Braxton), we create structures in software that impose limitations and formal articulations on the musical flow (with networked software systems serving as intervention mechanism / arbiter / structural provocateur par excellence). Musical influences run the gamut from Xenakis to Journey. Past and current members include Konstantinos Vasilakos, Erik Nyström, Tsun Winston Yeung, Norah Lorway, Tim Moyers, Martin Ozvold, Luca Danieli, Winston Yeung, Roz Coull, Visa Kuoppala and Scott Wilson. Performing artists are Scott Wilson, Konstantinos Vasilakos, Erik Nyström and Tsun Winston Yeung.
