Artist Residency 2024

Producer and interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin, AIEL, has been expanding the borders of experimental electronic music by defying genres and conventional music canons. Her work is a bricolage of creative thoughts primarily expressed through sound, focusing on polyrythmic contemporary music and esoteric, imaginative narratives. Working with sampling, voice processing and FM synthesis her live performances are consisted by an anachronism between ancient rituals and futuristic pop songs. Her latest EP, Exuviae, was released in November 2023 with a number of performances that took place at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Plyfa in Athens, and acud macht neu in Berlin.

Artist Residency 2023

Anna Papaioannou is a Greek music producer, singer, and songwriter whose work blends traditional and electronic soundscapes. Since 2015, she has released and performed as Anna Vs June, exploring experimental forms of contemporary music. Her music has been featured at Sonar (Barcelona), Reworks (Thessaloniki) and Hidden Door(Edinburgh), among others. Papaioannou has collaborated with institutions like the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Goethe-Institut, and Aberdeen City Council. In 2019, she was named one of We Are Europe’s 64 emerging talents.

In the broader context of researching the character and distinctiveness of life in a coastal area like Sougia, the artist collected and recorded audiovisual content that illuminated the rich audiovisual heritage of the village. The final audio pieces encapsulated the vibrant tapestry of local human activities in an attempt to preserve their memory.

Artist Residency 2022

Wissam Sader is a Lebanese self-taught multidisciplinary artist working on sonic installations and sound performances. His work primarily focuses on the complexity of contemporary urban environments and their rapidly changing soundscapes. Through electroacoustic minimal compositions he explores the aesthetic and social characteristics of acoustically disparate topographies. With a combination of composed pieces, field recordings and found sounds, his compositions aspire to harmonize and intersect the sounds of human and non-human actors in an attempt to reflect our evolving realities and understanding of the world.

His work has been presented in venues such as acud macht neu, arkaoda Berlin, Sophiensæle, Silent Green Kulturquartier, spektrum, KW Institute of Contemporary Art and internationally, at Teatre de fusta, and at the Museu de Sant Boi de Llobregat in Barcelona.

Artist Residency 2021

Born in Sydney, Battle-ax (Beatrix Ó Corráin) moved to Vienna to further her studies as a classical violist but it was when she began playing in clubs that her sound truly developed. Taking cues from the elegantly robust symphonies of Viennese composer Gustav Mahler, her performances are as much disruptive as they are refined.

With a nod to her heritage, Battle-ax recently introduced arrangements of traditional Irish folk melodies to her sets. She provides a gentle contrast via the roughened fiddle technique applied together with the music that expresses what can already be heard in her instrumental style.

Performing in the context of festivals such as HYPERREALITY Festival for Club Culture and the Neue Musik festival MaerzMusik at Berliner Festspiele, she offers a broad approach on how neoclassicism and the classical instrument can be interpreted today.