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Mikael Ericsson – Master of Arts at the Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark. Kajsa Magnarsson – Sound artists, performance artist and musician. Holds a bachelor’s degree in composition at the Högskola för Scen och musik and the Universität der Künste, in Berlin, Germany. She works with performance art, sound installations and club sessions on themes such as gender, intimacy, pop and internet culture. Often combining humoristic elements to her shows. She has been performing and exhibiting her art throughout Europe. Operahuset Stockholm and Gothenburg, Norbergsfestivalen, Sound of Sörmland in Sweden. Gallery X & Beyond in Copenhagen & Young Nordic Music Days in Denmark. Setouchi Triennale in Japan. Plivka in Kiev and Construction Festival in Dnirpo, Ukraine. London Contemporary Music Festival and Bastard Assignments “Fresh and Clean”, in England. Nordic Music Days in Iceland. Specs on! In Berlin and Nordic Music Days in Helsinki, Finland. New Generation 6.0 at Zentrum für Kunst und Medietechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany. Mikael Reuter – Based in Västerås, Sweden. Works with performance art, drawings, sculpture, collage, music, ballet and acting within theater, television and film. Julie Ericsson – Works with visual arts, sound, sculpture and photography. She has exhibited her art in The Netherlands, Spain, France, Belgium and Italy. She is the artistic director of Harp Art Lab, since it was founded in 2010. She holds an education from the Accademia di Belli Arti, in Venice, Italy.
_____________ BZZZ INTERNATIONAL SOUND ART FESTIVAL HARP ART LAB proudly presents the BZZZ! International Sound Art Festival. This year's edition of BZZZ! is a kökkenmödding of Sound Art, Mechanical Techno, DIY Electronics, Loft Punk, Millophonia and Heroic Jazz. RUTA VITKAUSKAITE - VOICE CRACK GRAHAM DUNNING - MECHANICAL TECHNO MANU LOUIS - CREAM PARADE MATEO MENA - HYPERCUBES ELI GRAS - DIY SOUND ENGINES PSYCHICEYECLIX - HACKING & REWIRING Graham Dunning [b. 1981] is self-taught as an artist and musician having studied neither discipline academically. His live work explores sound as texture, timbre and something tactile, drawing on bedroom production, tinkering and recycling found objects. He also creates visual work, video and installations drawing on these themes. In 2016, Manu Louis released his debut album, Kermesse Machine, on Igloo Records and performed at over 200 festivals and clubs across Europe, the U.K., Japan and China, refining his solo show into what's become a must-see. Surrounded by a village of electronic instruments, a guitar and video projections, Manu delivers a passionate performance that eventually switches gears into an impromptu discotheque that gets the audience moving. “The braggart of Kitsch.” Liberation "more colourful than a unicorn vomiting a rainbow" Gonzai “This is Wagner in clown shoes, Morrissey on a carousel, and John Shuttleworth recognised as Poet Laureate” Musicomh "It’s a rowdy, joyous affair full of eminently danceable tunes." The Underground of Happiness « Manu Louis is back to give the world a well needed carnavalesque twist » Local Suicide How to describe the work of Belgian musician Manu Louis? And is it separable from his feverish artistic expression? Imagine Lou Reed with the latest digital plug-ins, imagine Andy Warhol sampling trumpets and trombones, Bertolt Brecht glitching out, David Byrne discovering FruityLoops at CBGB. It's no coincidence that Manu Louis released on Berlin label New Pangea, or that his songs speak about making songs, dancing songs, connecting aesthetics and emotions, the artistic pose, reason and feeling – and all that with a rhythm at the core of his communication: moving and thinking and what he plays. The « Liceo Mutante » people already know this from the last time he came to town. Liceo Mutante A multidisciplinary artist, Eli has worked in several creative fields. She has created the art works releases "Museum of the Dry Bugs" (Gagarin Records), “Grass Velvet” and the acousmatic radio art workand release “Xylotheque” (WORM residency) and the CDs “Tasmanian Robinet” (UnPop) “Duplicat” with Pelayo Arrizabalaga, “Baranda” (solo), “POLO” and “El Avión” (with Motor Combo) published by La Olla Expréss; took part as a collaborator in “Deep Gray Organics” by Alain Wergifosse (Geometrik), as well as contributing with tracks to labels such as Classwar Karaoke, Ego Twister, Monster K7, Dude Tapes and Espais Netlabel (with Obmuz) and Nereida Prod (with Motor Combo) among other compilations (festivals, etc). Also appears as one of the main artists featured in the documentary “Visionary Sounds” of Pablo López Jordán. She’s also published several object-books of tales and poetry. Musically, she has walked a long and wide path since the early 80’s, from experimental music to pop rock, through Greek music, electropop, minimalism, improvisation, choral, funk, electronics, concrete, electroacoustics and visual-sound works. She has been a member of the groups as Etnia, OBMUZ, The Shower Sisters, Laptopless Orchestra or Ome Acustics band, and worked improvisation in collaboration with many artists as Pelayo Arrizabalaga, Pierre Bastien, H.J. Roedelius, David Fenech, Alain Wergifosse, Nuno Rebelo, Quicu Samsó, Adele Madau, Rosa Arruti or Juan Crek, also with visual artists as Sebastian Neistch and her collaborator Mar Morey...) In addition to being a member of Motor Combo (with Florenci Salesas, electro-pop-dadá), Eli works the solo projects “UnPop” (dada-folk, “one band girl”) and have played in many venues and festivals around Europe as Sonic (DK), Worldtronics (DE), Experimentaclub (ES), Blurred Edges (DE), Vigo Jazz Fest. Imaxinasons (ES), Jardins Efémeros (POR), Lab30 (DE), Sonar (ES), LEM (ES)... and did residences at Worm (ND), Estruch (ES), De Perifeer (ND), Sonoscopia (POR) or Champ des Possibles (FR). She is mainly a composer, experimental luthier DIY person, and built/performs her sound and visual installation “Peeled Piano” and “Saló Sonor” currently working together with Mar Morey (visuals), as well as solo experimental improvisation music performances and workshops/talks (children/adults). Aside from musical projects and sonic experimentation, she has also been involved in some other creative areas, like graphic design, script writer for animation films, special effects assistant for publicity, radio, illustrator, photographer, videographer...
Mateo Mena is a spanish composer and electronic instruments builder. With background in academic music and electronic engineering, in the latest years he has been developing designs in the field of analog electronics, with pieces such as sound sculptures, new musical instruments, sonic gadchets and even electric insects. He is an active part of the galician independent collective "Metamovida", as well as the bands "Nostoc", "Buzz" and "Napal". He combines his creative facet with teaching electronics workshops, which revolve around our way we relate to sound and technology, approached from the DIY aesthetic. One of his latest instrumental design, The Hypercubes, a series of cubic modules capable of generate, control and modify electronic sounds merely by themselves, has been presented live in numerous concerts, tours and even inventors' fairs over Europe, such as those in Berlin, Rome or Lisbon, where the instrument was awarded with the "Best project in the Electronics category" prize. He is currently focused in the compositions of the pieces for his first studio album, with the hypercubes. Teaser video: https://vimeo.com/222432533
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