Steklenik: Sound works 2018/2019

An artist, composer, and sound designer who composes experimental electro-acoustic music. His speciality is creating bioacoustic music based on the sounds of animals, particularly insects. He collaborates with the SAETA group and creates music for film and theatre, performances, multimedia installations, and soundscapes for museums and galleries.

A postmedia artist working at the intersection of living systems research, contemporary and sound art. Her work focuses primarily on the posthuman period, when human beings exist and act as one of many elements in the ecosystem and not as sovereigns. Therefore abandoning the Cartesian system of classification and accepting the fact that the field of technology has expanded not only from hardware to software but also to wetware resulting in hybrid phenomena inscribed in mechanical, digital and organic logic. www.agapea.si

A versatile drummer, educator, and author working across jazz, rock, metal, and contemporary music practices. He studied with internationally renowned mentors and completed his degree in jazz drums and vibraphone at the University of Augsburg, followed by postgraduate training in music pedagogy.

A composer, musician, artist, and producer performing as Amper-O-Mat, who mostly uses the predecessor of the synthesiser, the oscillator.

A sound artist and archivist. She makes immersive bleepy psychogeographical soundscapes with analogue electronics, DIY and modular synths, field recordings and computer manipulations. She is interested in bioacoustics, experimental music and sound spatialisation. She was a member of the Theremidi Orchestra (2011–2017) and is currently a member of the Jata C group for bioacoustics and sound ecologies. Her solo albums Noise for Strings, Vol. 1 (2019) and Noise for Strings, Vol. 2 (2020) were published by the Kamizdat label.

An artist and researcher of sound, sound perception and poetic performance. She extends the word in sonic spheres of time-space poetry. Along with the digital dimensions, her focus is nevertheless the physical presence of the body.

A composer who dedicates most of her time to the research of sound as an entity that affects the listener both physically and in terms of content. Her music spans from complete abstraction to complex semantic narratives. She is the recipient of several awards for her concert compositions, incidental music and film scores.

An intermedia artist, composer, sound manipulator, producer and curator. He composes sound works for theatre, intermedia and dance performances. He performs electro-acoustic solo pieces and improvisations with local and foreign artists in surround sound. Working with sound and space, he develops various strategies, techniques, dynamic and interactive modules, records and reinterprets soundscapes, and by way of sophisticated tools, creates electronic and acoustic sound sculptures.

An artist whose work explores the biological, (geo)political and cultural realities of aquatic environments and the impact of humanity on other organisms. Her projects call for the development of empathetic strategies aimed at recognising other, non-human species. In her analysis of the Anthropocene and its theoretical framework, she uses the terms “aquatocene” and “aquaforming” to refer to human impact on aquatic environments. Her works received awards and nominations at Prix Ars Electronica, STARTS Prize, and Falling Walls.

A DJ and music producer, a member of the Synaptic collective since 2003. In live performances he uses analogue-produced and modulated sounds and noises, combining them with field recordings. As a DIY enthusiast he builds modules for modular sound synthesizers and effects. He records sounds in nature, various environments, and industrial sites, which he uses in his music production and live acts. He collaborated with artist Robertina Šebjanič on the audiovisual project echo 10-9. He is a co-author of the ongoing sound-chemical installation Time Displacement – Chemobrionic Garden, created with Robertina Šebjanič and Ida Hiršenfelder, exhibited in 2016 at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz as part of Radical Atoms. Since 2007 he has contributed original music to the Chilli Space compilations. In 2012 he released the solo short-format Escalator EP on the Synaptic Pathways label.

A saxophone player currently attending the 3rd year of the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. During her schooling she achieved excellent results at regional, national and international competitions. She has collaborated with various ensembles, including the dance department of the Conservatory of Music and Ballet Ljubljana, the Ave chamber choir, the Brass Orchestra of the Slovenian Army, and the symphonic orchestra of the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana. She is also active in different chamber groups and regularly continues her education with established professors and musicians at home and abroad. She collaborates with young Slovenian composers, and improvisation is one of her greatest challenges.

An improviser, composer, media-systems designer, and music curator. He has developed his career across various artistic fields, with a particular focus on acoustic, electroacoustic, and experimental music. His catalogue includes works for solo instrument, ensemble, mixed media, guided improvisation, installation, performance, film, and a range of performing arts. As a media designer he has worked on applications for real-time interaction. In the near future, he aims to establish an independent sound-research studio dedicated to the study, performance, and exploration of multichannel sound interaction.

A final-year master’s student at the Academy of Music. He is engaged in contemporary performative practices and is actively involved in the contemporary music scene both within and beyond the academy. He performs in Slovenia and internationally. He is assistant to the artistic director Dre Hočevar in the Re_humanization cycle and executive producer at Studio 8. In 2017 and 2018, he performed at Darmstadt Ferienkurse Open Space, Klangspuren Schwaz, Borderless Dissonance, Ljubljana Jazz Festival, Improcon, Jazzinty, and other concert series in Ljubljana. His ensemble works include Celota (2016) and Kurirano nenotirano ABLB’L’A” (2018).