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A Winged Victory for the Sullen (US)
The ambient music duo is the collaboration between Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O’Halloran. Made from strings, piano, the occasional horn, and electric guitars processed into ambient washes and scrawls, the music is recorded in large spaces, so that between natural acoustic and electronic effects.

Super silent (NO/duo show)
The Norwegians Supersilent is a well known name in contemporary experimental jazz circles due to their unwillingness to compromise, their diverse amalgamation of sounds, their unique work ethic and their icy Scandinavian cool. Even in the studio, all the music is played live.

Rashad Becker & Eli Keszler (US)
German mastering engineer and heady electronic sound collagist Rashad Becker shares a spiffy experimental bill with Eli Keszler, a trailblazing percussionist working at the intersection of avant-garde improv and electroacoustic composition.

Circuit Des Yeux (US)
Haley Fohr’s music strikes a unique balance between the personal and universal. As Circuit des Yeux she creates music that embodies the complexity of human emotions, juxtaposing tenderness and grief, ecstasy and horror, using sounds as representations of the emotional spectrum that we all experience.

Selvhenter (DK)
The all-women quintet honed a sound all its own – an uncompromising, boundless energetic one that blends the aesthetics of experimental rock, the sophistication of improvised free jazz and the aggressiveness of punk, noise and metal, all performed with passion and humor, sometimes even as music fit for dancing.

John Chantler (AU)
Chantler released his third solo LP for Lawrence English’s ROOM40 label in 2014 – ‘Even Clean Hands Damage the Work’ recorded for the most part at EMS studios in Stockholm follows ‘The Luminous Ground’ – released in 2011 and included in The WIRE magazine’s top releases of that year. ‘The Luminous Ground’ was his first LP release focusing on the modular synthesizer system he first explored as part of the trio LP with Lawrence English & Tujiko Noriko.

MEGO 20 Anniversary Showcase

Klara Lewis (SE)
Field recordings, small sounds, samples, ambient pot holes, repetition, and giddy disorientation. Klara Lewis began her quest into the art of sound creation initially from a visual perspective. It is perhaps for this reason that her material has a certain cinematic quality, where sounds constantly allude to a vast array of possible images.

Thomas Brinkmann (DE)
Minimal techno, a genre that revolves around compulsive sonic fastidiousness, is a breeding ground for tonal obsession—the picky ears of its makers and audience have played a major role in keeping pure analog synthesis alive and evolving during the periods when it wasn’t in style. German minimalist techno producer Thomas Brinkmann has gone deliriously over that particular edge.

Hecker + Tina Frank (AT)
Tina Frank, the Vienna-based pioneer in the realm of graphic design has already worked for some time with the German sound-artist Florian Hecker, who composes insistent pieces by discussing in detail unusual audio-compilations in the field of the crossover of Serious Music and Electronica.

Chra (AT)
After a long period of experiments in low frequencies and noise-effects, Chra starts to work on clubbeats, playing with sinuswaves – created through shareware soundeffects – processed through taperecorder and analogue and digital tools. Chra has traced out a post-anthropocene area in which acoustic entries of field recordings are stratified in layers of deconstructed noisescapes.