Music

INTERVIEW | Ana Pinho Vargas

INTERVIEW | Ana Pinho Vargas

Ana Pinho Vargas is a Portuguese artist, photographer, and painter based in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto. Her latest series, Silêncio II, is the result of the junction of two coexisting universes: writing in musical scores and the artist in his most fragile physical humanity, revealing the intimacy of the eye through the close connection between the author and the person being photographed.

INTERVIEW | Fernando Gimeno

INTERVIEW | Fernando Gimeno

Fernando Gimeno Pol is an artist whose practice spans photography, sound, and video. In recent years, his artworks have revolved around nature, involving a series of incursions into forests and utilizing various devices to document and rethink the idea of nature as a mirror of the human condition.

INTERVIEW | Ben Große-Johannböcke

INTERVIEW | Ben Große-Johannböcke

With a background in tattooing, Ben Große-Johannböcke, born in Melle, Germany, in 2002, explores the relationship between musical compositions and visual arts. A large part of his work consists of graphite drawings on canvas, isolated mark-making with neither form nor colour. These patterns/structures aim to visually recreate certain parts of the musical composition they respond to.

INTERVIEW | Sunny Liu

INTERVIEW | Sunny Liu

Sunny Liu is a filmmaker, pianist/composer, and animator. Her work utilizes intimate storytelling to give a voice to the underrepresented. Her latest project, Pianoman, touches upon significant social issues in a non-trauma-based, sensitive cinema verite style. It illustrates the emotional journey the subjects experience, ranging from deep pain to poignant tenderness.

INTERVIEW | Alisa Scetinina - Gaisma

INTERVIEW | Alisa Scetinina - Gaisma

Alisa Scetinina is a performer and musician, born in Latvia and currently based in Berlin, Germany. For Alisa, performance is the way one carries oneself and connects to the inner voice, whether it is through music, dance, film, or any other source of expression. She explores the fluidity and smoothness of our psyche and body, not scared to break the walls that we and our society have built for us.

INTERVIEW | Lela Amparo

INTERVIEW | Lela Amparo

Multidisciplinary visual artist Lela Amparo uses machine learning (GAN) to create visual imagery that showcases an otherworldly atmosphere. She also is an ambient music producer who merges her music and art to make a multi-sensory experience for the end viewer. Amparo specialises and takes great pleasure in transporting the viewer and listener to a different dimension.

INTERVIEW | Lana Eileen

INTERVIEW | Lana Eileen

Lana Eileen is an artist, photographer, and musician who creates original sculptures, creatures, and puppets by hand, as well as photographic and mixed media work. Her work combines elements of fantasy and magic realism, inspired by her research into world mythology and folklore. Originally from Australia, Lana has lived in many different places. Most recently, she is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

INTERVIEW | Patricia Rabbiosi

INTERVIEW | Patricia Rabbiosi

Patricia Rabbiosi is a composer, sound architect and visual artist from Argentina. She explores sound architecture and objects as source material in her music. Her visual work is self-taught, exploring different techniques from real images, which are then digitally processed. Her other works include performances and interventions with social themes.

INTERVIEW | The2vvo

INTERVIEW | The2vvo

The2vvo is an artist duo from Kazakhstan currently living between Berlin and Los Angeles, made up of Eldar Tagi (sound art) and Lena Pozdnyakova (sculpture, architecture, visual arts). The duo explores the complicated dynamics between cultures and spaces, objects and processes through sound, sculpting, visual art, and performance.

INTERVIEW | Zita Vilutyte

INTERVIEW | Zita Vilutyte

Zita Vilutyte is a Lithuanian artist based in Siauliai/Kaunas in Lithuania. Zita Vilutyte started work at the Holistic Movement Theater "S." She has expanded from movement performances and music production to interdisciplinary educational projects. Since 2006 she became a member of the ambient music association, Ambient Music Garden (UK), released 17 music albums, music for documentaries, and plays.

INTERVIEW | Absent Chronicles

INTERVIEW | Absent Chronicles

Absent Chronicles was born out of a need to express, construct, tear down and process. It is the music created by structuring chaos juxtaposed by visuals generated by processing musical parameters while trying to implement the almost inevitable technological changes happening around us, instead of fighting against them: walking the intersection of art and technology, exploring the stories yet to be told.