BERGUR ANDERSON + GEIGEN + ECHO+SEASHELL + TREEHUGGER (DJ)
Doors open: 20:00
Showtime: 20.30
Damage: 8 euro
BERGUR ANDERSON
Bergur Anderson is an Icelandic visual artist, producer-composer and sound-maker based in Rotterdam. An electric troubadour playing with songs, voice, poetry and world-making, his practice combines and exists somewhere between music, performance, and conceptual sound art. Unisong, his forthcoming release on Futura Resistenza, will be his fourth with the label — with previous releases including LP Night Time Transmissions (2021) and come, Memory: fieldwork (2023), a collaborative cassette made with visual artist and partner Katrina Niebergal.
Next to his own practice, Bergur collaborates with artists who seek to expand the notion of sound in their practices — as a composer, recordist, sound designer, mixing engineer and performer.
berguranderson.info
berguranderson.bandcamp.com
GEIGEN
Geigen is a techno violin performance duo formed in San Francisco, in the fall of 2018, by artist Gígja Jónsdóttir and composer Pétur Eggertsson. They discovered that both of them had quit playing the violin in their adolescence after many years of training, due to their frustration with the academic culture of classical music. Geigen rebels against the classical image of the violin, it is the need to break out of traditional systems, it embraces the violin and attempts to bring it into the future. Geigen is an exploration of how to stretch the sonic world of the violin, both keeping the acoustic quality of the instrument as well as using different effects and filters and mixing it with techno creating something otherworldly. Using these sounds as well as lights and costumes, Geigen creates transformative concert experiences, where the audience are participants and fellow travellers in a spaceship nightclub.
Since formation the duo has performed at various festivals and venues in Iceland. In 2022, Geigen created the dance performance Geigengeist in collaboration with the Iceland Dance Company, to much acclaim – (awarded three Icelandic Performing Arts Awards, nominated for Show of the Year). In addition, Geigen has released two albums; Galactic Vibrations (2022) and Geist (2023).
ECHO+SEASHELL
echo+seashell is a duo consisting of artists Henna Hyvarinen (FI) and Susan Kooi (NL) which has existed in the underground music and art scene based in Amsterdam and Helsinki since 2011. Their collaboration consists of live music performances alongside videos and exhibitions. echo+seashell created a niche of their own that is familiar and alien at the same time. The lyrics and the unsensual stage presence of the duo form the core, the ‘baby soul’ of echo + seashell. Varying in style and genre, their music is often produced in collaboration with different musicians, such as Islaja and Torus. Performances and presentations of their work took place at a.o. W139, De Appel Arts Centre and Paradiso in Amsterdam, Sorbus and Kiasma museum in Helsinki, Galeria Municipal do Porto in Portugal, PLX music festival in Sweden, Banff Centre in Canada and their music has been played on Pogo Bar Podcast by KW Institute (Berlin), Montez Press Radio (NYC) and NTS radio (London). Their EP ‘hic anda thu’ is released on Helsinki based feminist record label Minna Records: www.minnarecords.com
+ TREEHUGGER (DJ)
Poster by Katrina Niebergal / Insta: @katrina___niebergal