Mvd0ae, David Wallraf, Myst.K, Ora Et Labora, Laptop Ensemble Novi Sad

Mvd0ae (Mexico/Czechia)
Rigoberto Gallardo, alias mvd0ae, is an interdisciplinary artist and musician from Jalisco, Mexico, currently based in Prague, Czechia. Under his alias, he explores the cultural connections embedded in sonic materials, using fractured rhythms that shift between stillness and turbulence to highlight dissonances. His work, deeply influenced by personal and collective experiences, examines the interactions between social constructs and human behaviors across cultural and physical landscapes. Through sound, light, and tangible materials, he creates immersive reflections on these interconnections and their implications. He has performed in various European cities, including at OGH (Berlin), Petrohradská Kolektiv (Prague), and Spanners Club (London), as well as in Mexico.
https://mvd0ae.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/mvd0ae
https://www.instagram.com/mvd0ae/

David Wallraf (Germany)
David Wallraf is a noise artist and theorist from Hamburg. In their audio works, they explore the acoustics of the uncanny: field recordings, electromagnetic waves, and obsolete audio technology are woven into soundtracks for the nightmare of capitalist realism. Since 2013, they have released around 80 solo works and collaborations. In February 2025, the tape album Crudeltà Necessaria will be released on Karlrecords. A collaboration with Jena Jang is set to be released on the German tape label Econore in March.A recent focus of their work has been live scoring surrealist silent films, including works by Luis Buñuel, Maya Deren, and Jean Genet. Their dissertation on noise, Grenzen des Hörens – Noise und die Akustik des Politischen (Limits of Hearing – Noise and the Acoustics of the Political), has been published in German, with an English translation currently in progress.
https://davidwallraf.com/
https://davidwallraf.bandcamp.com/
https://mastodon.social/@DavidWallraf

Myst.K (UK/Czechia)
Taking inspiration from working in the fields of sound design, contemporary dance, and sound therapy, Dan Nulty, aka Myst K., explores ideas of aesthetic perspective in aural environments, unifying textures of hypnotic pulses and liminal sample recordings with non traditional approaches to harmony and temper, drawn from naturally occurring cycles and shifting between unconscious reflective associations.
https://youtu.be/twRJyAF4Idc?si=Y8fdHin89rqTw4ZF
https://xionlabel.bandcamp.com/album/vibes
https://www.instagram.com/myst_k_/

Ora Et Labora (Austria)
ORA ET LABORA is the alias of a Vienna-based artist who creates and performs her own music, blending melancholic and sometimes dark tones with an experimental edge. Her sound transcends genre boundaries, oscillating between experimental electronic music and dark wave. With dreamy melodies woven into her compositions, ORA ET LABORA’s work reflects a unique fusion of introspection and energy. By mixing dreamy melodic compositions, synthesizers, echoing vocals, and electric drums, she crafts a soundscape that transports her surroundings on a journey through mutable, fairy-like frameworks.
https://1000amen.bandcamp.com/album/ora-et-labora-2

“The Laptop Ensemble Novi Sad (LENS) was founded in 2024 with the aim of exploring and developing the use of laptop computers as musical instruments. The ensemble’s repertoire includes new interpretations of compositions from 20th and 21st-century ranging from live electronic music, electroacoustic improvisations (algorithmic and under direct performer control), to collaborative music-making over the internet. Music of LENS is related to indeterminism/“non-idiomatic improvisation,” as well as drone, processual, and intuitive music. LENS seeks to implement principles of openness in the operation of this type of chamber ensemble, both in relation to the musical score and towards participants who come from different musical spheres. “