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Sonic Acts at Paradiso
Paradiso
Saturday 27 February
20:30
Paradiso
Yousuke Fuyama 'Experimentation For DATA-Material', Sonic Acts 2013 .Photo by Szilvi Toth
This monumental Saturday night starts off with immersive audiovisual performances. Featuring over 20 DJs and live performances, the programme begins in the evening and continues until the early hours, presenting everything from experimental film to bass-heavy dance sets by international DJs and producers from acclaimed collectives such as Janus, NON, Endless, Staycore, Knives and Progress Bar, who have travelled from cities such as Cape Town, Copenhagen, Brighton, Berlin, Oslo and London who will play electronic music fuelled by R&B, kuduro, grime, reggaeton, techno, kizomba, and field recordings sourced from the Internet. This programme was compiled in collaboration with Viral Radio and in real-time, with the line-up taking shape intuitively by clicking from one artist to the next and listening to a lot of music. Sonic Acts curators Gideon Kiers’ and Juha van ‘t Zelfde’s description of the process: "Where we used to discover new artists via Boomkat, or via forensically filtering labels on discogs.com, we now spend our days surfing Soundcloud, switching between its automated recommendation algorithm and our own tumblings deep within the rabbit hole of known and unknown profiles. Occasionally we’d follow a link to outside domains, such as Instagram, Twitter and Bandcamp, only to become even more lost in high-pressure areas of social network weather. Tuning the algorithms to refine search results is a rewarding and often riveting form of research. In the end it all comes down to listening to a lot of music, formulating criteria on the fly. It’s all quite intuitive, and very social: you not only listen to your own judgement; at the same time you inform it by listening to others too, either directly or by proxy via the algorithms."Yon Eta & Soraya
Saturday 27 February
20:30 - 21:15
Paradiso, Small Hall
Saturday 27 February
04:00 - 05:00
Paradiso, Small Hall
Soraya & Yon Eta
Yon Eta has a maximalist approach regarding sound while consciously striving to limit the options in the production process of his music. Illustrator and writer Soraya Brouwer is the founder of the non-profit cultural platform Truants.
Yoneda Lemma & Anna Mikkola
Saturday 27 February
20:45 - 21:15
Paradiso, Main Hall
Anna Mikkola & Yoneda Lemma
Yoneda Lemma (aka You Need a Lemon, sometimes Yoni Dilemma) is a quasi-causal brainchild for abstract exploration, experimental research, and a platform for productions, plotted by Canadian-born archaeologist, composer/producer and feminist thinker, Katrina Burch. Artist and curator Anna Mikkola’s audiovisual performances engage with the tensions between humans, nature and technology.
Daïchi Saïto ft. Jason Sharp: Engram of Returning
Saturday 27 February
21:15 - 21:45
Paradiso, Main Hall
Daïchi Saïto & Jason Sharp
Daïchi Saïto’s most recent 35mm CinemaScope film Engram of Returning will be accompanied by an extraordinary improvised score by Montreal-based baritone and bass saxophonist Jason Sharp.
Drill Folly
Saturday 27 February
21:45 - 22:15
Paradiso, Small Hall
Drill Folly is the project name of Melbourne-born, Brighton-based, electronic music producer Sarah Phelan, whose music is all about machinery and emotion, and has been described as an ‘icily bracing industrial attack’ (The Guardian).
Paul Jebanasam and Tarik Barri present Continuum A/V
Saturday 27 February
21:45
Paradiso, Main Hall
Tarik Barri (Continuum A/V) & Paul Jebanasam (Continuum A/V)
Performing his most recent album Continuum, Bristol-based producer and co-founder of the Subtext label Paul Jebanasam collaborates with Dutch artist Tarik Barri, who is renowned for his live visuals for Thom Yorke and Monolake.
nkisi
Saturday 27 February
01:45 - 02:30
Paradiso, Small Hall
nkisi is the London-based and Belgium-raised DJ/producer Melika Ngombe Kolongo. Her high-octane style fuses various danceable forms, from gabber to doomcore to Central and West African club tracks. As a producer, she fashions densely layered, obstinate tracks designed to trigger and question collective memories. She is the co-founder of NON Records, a collective of artists from the African diaspora who use sound to articulate the visible and invisible structures that create binaries in society, and in turn distribute power.
KABLAM
Saturday 27 February
02:45 - 03:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Swedish DJ/producer Kajsa Blom aka KABLAM experiments with the radical possibilities of dance music and the club environment. Living in Berlin since 2012, she made a name as one of the residents at the renowned Janus parties alongside her peers Lotic and M.E.S.H.
Chino Amobi
Saturday 27 February
03:15 - 04:00
Paradiso, Small Hall
Chino Amobi co-founded NON Records, a collective of African artists from the continent and the diaspora, and has released music on New York label UNO, offering a critique of culture through the exposition of sonic beauty and spectacular dissonance.
Lotic
Saturday 27 February
03:30 - 04:15
Paradiso, Main Hall
In clubs Lotic is known to harness abstract leanings through hybrid live/DJ sets of gut-wrenching bass and lurching hip-hop rhythms, occasional shards of contemporary R&B splintered with tactile hi-hats, consistently swirling crowds into a riotous party vortex.