Kris Kuldkepp

Kris Kuldkepp (EE) is an experimental musician and performance artist based in Hamburg, Germany. After years dedicated to classical and early music performance, she currently works with DIY audio techniques combined with cutting-edge technologies to create a unique fusion of traditional music and sonic disturbance. She explores the rich traditions of the double bass to discover sonic experiences featuring rich harmonic textures, noise music, as well as elements from pop and doom ambient. In addition to the double bass, she uses found objects, motors, and other noisemakers to create musical experiences that deconstruct the meanings and forms of musical structures.
Kris is frequently involved with spatial audio productions and has expertise in Ambisonics, Wavefield Sound Synthesis and non-standard spatial audio formats. From 2019 to 2023, she was a research fellow at the Immersive Audio Lab (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences), focusing on spatial audio and radical posthumanism. Her recent interdisciplinary productions include an interactive one-to-one performance-installation, “ONE WOMAN/ONE SKIN,” and an interactive concert, “infinite material recursion” for the duo Bad Groupy. “FLUIDUM SKIN,” a solo piece for modular synthesizer and 21-channel sound dome, was premiered at Tallinn Music Week 2024.
Kris has presented her art at the festivals such as Brutal Assault (CZ), KLANGHAUS (AT), Papiripar (DE), Blaues Rauschen (DE), JAUNA MUZIKA (LT), Sound of Stockholm (SE), StimmeX (DE), Blurred Edges Festival (DE), Piksel (NO), Ultima (NO), and Estonian Music Days (EE). In addition to artistic activities, she has given various lectures and workshops on interactive technology, spatial sound, and free improvisation in Europe and the USA.

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Homo Phaser

Edith Steyer ::: amplified clarinet, fx
Beat Keller ::: feedbacker electric guitar

The german – suisse duo Steyer and Keller is exploring the field of feedbacking and alternative sound creation with their acoustic instruments via extended techniques and electronic devices. While interacting constantly with each other, they are weaving and mixing noisy elements with acoustic and sometimes tonal or even melodic phrases. The in and out of electronic and acoustic sound production, paired with a constant search for particular textures between guitar and clarinet lead to a sonic web, that is sometimes transparent, sometimes not distinguishable in its layers.
Like natural architects they build scapes with tonal waves and noises.
Website Homo Phaser

Edith Steyer is a free improvising and composing clarinet and saxophone player with her roots in jazz and classical music. As a former student for social anthropology she is also interested in ethnic music. She is dedicated to the exploration of her instruments and prepares them with music tools and elements from every day life. She also experiments and combines the prepared instruments with electronic devices and feedback. While constantly expanding her solo concepts, she also loves to create intelligently woven nets of interaction and noisy fields of sound with other artists. As a part of the improvised and experimental music scene of Berlin, she works in bands like SORBD (w/MiaDyber g, Rieko Okuda, Isabel Rößler, Sofia Borges), La Primera Boca (w/Lorena Izquierdo), but she also worked in electro-acoustic groups, like Steyer/Scharnofske (w/Lizzy Scharnofske), and currently with HOMO PHASER (w/Beat Keller) and Shortest Job First (w/Pietro Frigato, Dominic Jasmin). In Berlin she founded the musical theatre groups “Das Wilde Klingen” and contributed to “Mann Aus Obst”. She got different grants for her work, like from the Senate of Berlin (2016, 2020), the Musikfond (2020), as a member of the music theatre group “Mann aus Obst” from the Initiative Neue Musik, from Deutscher Musikrat (2022) and Goethe Institut (2024).
Website Edith Steyer

Beat Keller is a Swiss musician making avant-garde jazz, experimental and improvised music. He received several awards and scholarships from Pro Helvetia -The Swiss Arts Council, Canton of Thurgau, Canton of Zurich and the City of Winterthur.
He collaborated with the likes of Saadet Türköz, Joke Lanz, Axel Dörner, Christian Wallumrød, Werner Puntigam, Jason Kahn, Cara Stacey and many more. He regularly performs across Europe, USA, Latin America, Asia and South Africa.
Website Beat Keller