Participants
Oleg Gudachev (b. 1988, Saint Petersburg, Russia) – Composer of electronic and electroacoustic music, spatial audio installations, and music for theater, contemporary dance, and film.
DJ Diaki (b. 1976, Sanankoroba, Mali) - Music artist and DJ. One of the key figures of the balani show, a high-speed, polyrhythmic, electronic music genre that evolved from traditional instruments, dance practices and street parties in West Africa.
Roman Malyavkin (b. 1994, Moscow, Russia) – Accordionist, performer, researcher, and teacher. He graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and is currently a doctoral candidate and researcher in the field of Site-specific practices. He is a guest soloist with the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Studio for New Music.
Intrada Ensemble (founded in 2006, Moscow, Russia) – A vocal ensemble led by Ekaterina Antonenko, a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory. Intrada regularly collaborates with leading Russian and international ensembles and musicians. The ensemble has repeatedly been the first to perform works of twentieth and twenty-first century music, both in Russia and abroad.
Jaijiu (Buenos Aires, Argentina) – Artist and music producer originally from Buenos Aires, currently based in Montréal. His music emerges from the intersection of club-oriented electronic music and traditional forms of Argentine percussion and popular rhythms into his electronic music, including elements of murga and other folkloric percussive traditions.
Timofey Dudarenko (b. 2004, Moscow, Russia) – Artist, set designer and flower enthusiast. His fields of research include olfactory art, the anthropology of the senses, and alternative forms of perception.
Alexey Retinsky (b. 1986, Saint Petersburg, Russia) – Composer of chamber, symphonic, choral, and electroacoustic works, as well as music for theatre and film.
Alexey Sysoev (b. 1972, Moscow, Russia) – Composer and improviser. Works by Alexey Sysoev have been presented at leading international contemporary music festivals in Russia and abroad.
Toloka Ensemble (founded in 2022, Saint Petersburg, Russia) – Contemporary ensemble of young folk performers and professional researchers of Russian authentic music. The ensemble studies intangible heritage and musical traditions of Russian culture, transcribing rare and previously unknown songs collected during expeditions to villages across Russia.
Petr Musoev (b. 2001, Moscow, Russia) – Pianist and cultural researcher. He graduated from the A.G. Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music and is a regular participant in the Gnesin contemporary music week.
Phurpa (founded in the mid-1990s, Moscow, Russia) – A musical project based on ritual vocal techniques. For the past thirty years, its members have toured major international music festivals worldwide.
Alexey Khovalyg (b.1980, Kyzyl, Tuva Republic, Russia) – Multi-instrumentalist musician and folk performer from the Republic of Tuva. A master of throat singing, proficient in all five existing styles, and one of the finest performers of the kargyraa throat-singing style.
Tatiana Khalbaeva (b. 2003, Lensk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia) – Sound artist of Buryad origin and a sound designer. She explores themes of identity and the cultural landscape of Buryatia. She is the author of spatial multichannel sculptures.
Atosigado y Hérrica (b. 2002, Hermosillo, Mexico) – a collaboration of Mexican producers Óscar Landgrave Ortega and Julio Montañez Herrera. The music of Atosigado and Hérrica takes shape through intricate meshes of Latin American and Western influences. Cumbia, footwork, guaracha, techno, and tribal, to name a few, are interwoven into unique path through the current club music labyrinth.
Antonio Buonuario (b. 2002, Naples, Italy) — a visual artist working across graphics, illustration, video, and space, moving within a hybrid territory where the image becomes experience.
Lukas Sukharev (b. 2000, Syktyvkar, Russia) – Composer and percussion performer, and a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory. He works with the folklore of various peoples, with particular focus on the song and dance traditions of the Komi.
JLZ (b. 1998, Ceilândia, Brasil) – João Luiz is a music producer that has developed a new direction in contemporary electronic music, combining current trends with local and constantly evolving subgenres of Brazilian funk. JLZ is a member of the Weird Baile collective and a resident of Oroko Radio, an independent community radio station based in Ghana. JLZ works in genres including electro, batida, funk, hard drum, gqom, amapiano, and pre-Hispanic-inspired tribal styles.
giorgino (b.2004, Avellino, Italy) — Accordionist, equilibrist and specialist of planned improvisations. Giorgino received his diploma in Pollina Trocchia, at the Academy of Precious Toys. Today giorgino works for the preservation of imaginative peripheries.