Vietnamese-Canadian artist x/o is a sonic storyteller, producer, performer a multidisciplinary artist whose music floats between contrasting fields of delicate soundscapes and distorted percussive detail, a juxtaposition which extends into their artistic practice through conceptual layering of ideas and textures.
Described by Wire Magazine as having "…a complex, compelling affect hardly heard in digital music...", x/o combines genres and references to build new worlds around sound and songwriting.
x/o has presented work internationally, (incl. 3HD Festival, Vivid Sydney, and New Forms Festival) and in 2019 was selected for the MUTEK Amplify residency at Somerset House Studios UK, as well as Red Bull Bass Camp Calgary at the National Music Centre.
x/o is a founding member of s.M.i.L.e., a music events collective in Vancouver.
Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Ptwiggs otherwise known as Phoebe Twigg is a producer and qualified audio engineer. Morphing audio into pulsing waves of emotion, Ptwiggs delivers a sound that is delicately detailed yet powerfully destructive, swinging between constant poles of tranquility and turmoil. Weaving an organically forming tapestry between the external and internal world, Ptwiggs smothers the senses leaving drippings of various genres, references and styles.
Ptwiggs released on November 22nd 2019 through UK indie heavyweight Opal Tapes. This EP follows her debut EP (2016) and 3-track (2018). This 6 track release sees Ptwiggs pushing her sound to new heights, obliterating boundaries and dissolving the intersections between ambient and club music. Darkening Of Light offers celestial vocals nestled in a bed of droned out melodies and pounding polyrhythmic drums. The EP hatches a reformed notion of power and strength, one that repurposes these foundations from a place of softness and vulnerability.
Ptwiggs has shared bills with artists Nicholas Jaar, Yves Tumor, IC3PEAK & Coucou Chloe and has performed internationally and locally for the likes of Unsound, Dark Mofo, Angelwave in Moscow and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. She's also responsible for Sydney based experimental label and club night Eternal.
Von Adamas is an artist persona created by producer and composer Diamond Lee. His work hones in on production, composition, DJ sets and live performance incorporating improvisation and exploratory practice. Von Adamas uses sound to engage with spirituality, exploring religion and belief systems while contextualizing his research within the internet age. In constant search for identity, the work of Von Adamas encompasses vagueness and embraces a feeling that conveys a celestial energy that is both compelling and confronting.
Interested in presence and deep listening through personal experience, Von Adamas manifests thematic work through the use of ambience, soundscape, texture and rhythmic pulse by working with electronics, altered voice and instrument.
非 Fēi (MY) is a dynamic dj, curator and promoter working with diaspora communities around the Naarm club scene. An emblem of global convergence, 非 Fēi’s curatorial narrative encourages cross-cultural discourse that showcases a niche sound world that is situated at the peripheral of the popular gaze of the west.
