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.
Zwischen Signal und Rauschen, Körper und Code entfaltet sich ein Resonanzraum für audiovisuelle Experimente und performative Grenzverschiebungen. Das Map&Fold Festival lädt ein zu einer Nacht, in der Wahrnehmung neu kalibriert wird – fragile Strukturen treffen auf rohe Energie, algorithmische Präzision auf intuitive Improvisation.
Am 30. Mai transformiert sich das Schlachthaus Tübingen in ein Labor kollektiver Erfahrung. Linien falten sich in Klang, Bilder oszillieren zwischen Abstraktion und Narration, und die Zeit dehnt sich im Takt hybrider Ästhetiken. Was als konzentrierte Aufführung beginnt, geht nahtlos über in einen Aftershow Tanztee mit TIMODUFNER & ROBINRABAUKE – Techno to the people.
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Between signal and noise, body and code, a resonant space unfolds for audiovisual experimentation and performative boundary shifts. Map&Fold Festival invites you to a night where perception is recalibrated – fragile structures meet raw energy, algorithmic precision meets intuitive improvisation.
On May 30, Schlachthaus Tübingen transforms into a laboratory of collective experience. Lines fold into sound, images oscillate between abstraction and narration, and time stretches within hybrid aesthetics. What begins as a focused performance seamlessly dissolves into an aftershow Tanztee with TIMODUFNER & ROBINRABAUKE!
My music — spanning ambient, drone, and glitch — intertwines with Sardinian tradition not as a simple sonic reference, but as a search for what that music holds: collective memory, rituality, and a sense of belonging. I’m not interested in faithfully reproducing sounds, but in moving through the emotional and communal circumstances from which they arise.
At times, references appear in a direct and recognizable way; at others, they dissolve and transform, becoming electronic matter, fragments, distant echoes. It is a process of transfiguration, where the ancestral is projected into a futuristic dimension without losing its roots.
## KATIA VONNA
A nomadic artist, she works at the intersection of performance, photography, video and live cinema. Her practice combines digital, analogue and low-tech tools to construct miniature poetic worlds that are projected in real time. Using recycled materials, repurposed objects and archives, she creates hybrid visual narratives that critically address ecological, social and political issues.
Deeply rooted in the ethos of DIY and collective experimentation, her approach challenges technological consumerism by embracing simplicity, autonomy and accessibility. She rejects polished, conventional aesthetics in favor of handmade, participatory art that fosters emotional connection and audience engagement.
captivates audiences with a unique live act that blends classical piano sounds with rich, extravagant percussion. His performances are a dynamic fusion of dub, house, and techno, marked by experimental improvisation. Utilizing a setup that features various synthesizers, schroeter crafts a distinctive sound that strikes a balance between structure and spontaneous creativity.
No script — just moments caught in motion, always unfolding, never the same.
Michael Fiedler gained international recognition in 2024 with the Ghost Dubs album Damaged ,released on The Bug’s own PRESSURE label. The Stuttgart-based artist crafted a wholly original fusion of low-end pressure, live dub techniques, and industrial sound aesthetics which, although inspired by traditional dub/roots, dub techno, and even shoegaze or drone, captured many listeners’ attention with Fiedler’s futuristic sound design and mesmerising, slo-mo dubbed gyrations.
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.
robinrabauke is a Berlin-based techno artist rooted in dark rooms and long-form grooves. His sound is driven by rhythm and tension: interlocking sequences, restrained textures, and subtle shifts that reward patience rather than peaks. Focused on atmosphere, movement, and control.
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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