DISTURBIO (Noetinger / Castello / FR/MEX/A) // CREATURES (Kasho Chualan & Sebastian Meyer) (AT)

Jérôme Noetinger,
born April 1966 in Marseille, discovered experimental music under the influence of the Déficit Des Années Antérieures in Caen. He is a composer/improviser/sound artist working with electroacoustic devices. Composing sometimes musique concrete in the studio, and performing improvised music using electroacoustic devices such as: the reel to reel tape recorder Revox B77 and magnetic tape, analogue synthesizers, mixing desks, speakers, microphones, various electronic household objects and home-made electronica. Performing both solo and in ensembles, and collaborating often, and touring extensively internationally. Jerome also used to be the director of Metamkine, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the distribution of improvised and electroacoustic music, which has now been changed to Corticalart with a different personnel.

Angélica Castelló
was born in Mexico City in 1972. She works as composer and sound artist. Her compositions concentrate on fragility, the dreamworld and the subconscious. Angelica performs continuously solo or in cooperations everywhere between Mexico City and Vienna. Numerous compositions for ensembles, radio works as well as installations that operate at the interface of music, performance and visual arts make up her body of work. She has several releases on labels like Interstellar records, Mikroton recordings or Monotype records. In February 2023, Disturbio cross France and Switzerland for a series of nine concerts expressing their highly cinematic art of sound. And to spice up the tour, they invite other musician friends to join them on certain dates: Aude Romary, cello, Antoine Läng, voice and jaw harp, Mathias Forge, cello and cassettes, Natacha Muslera, voice. Four personalities, four captivating performances. The duo Disturbio lives as a constellation of samples and loops, radios and field recordings, on cassettes and tapes, with magical, diaphanous voices hidden away, not forgetting the tremors of a flute on magnetic captures.

Creatures
is a sound collaboration duo featuring Kasho Chualan and Sebastian Meyer. They explore the boundaries of sound using prepared piano, tape, and various mechanical devices or toys. Their work focuses on the materiality and unpredictable nature of sound, embracing textures and transforming them into unique, evolving sonic landscapes. The prepared piano is altered with objects like magnets, while tape captures and manipulates these sounds, creating new sonic experiences. Their approach redefines noise as an essential, joyful part of music, with the piano and tape serving as tools for experimentation rather than traditional instruments.