Mensimonis

Mensimonis is the coming together of two counterfigures in counterculture; Radboud Mens and Lukas Simonis. Although the two gentlemen liked and knew eachother for some time now, this teaming up was not the most obvious thing to do. Radboud coming from electronic/industrial/noise music, being a sort of whiz-kid in the studio and in general a controlfreak who doesn't like things to slip out of his hands, and Lukas, with a background in noise and improv and ecclecticism in general (all projects he does seem to come from a totally different source...). Lukas and Radboud met up musically a few years back when they were doing recording & improv workshops for Secondary Schools (VMBO mostly) and in the end found themselves together on the stage where they played noisy improv music for teenagers that would rather watch a stupid game on their iphones... (well, the teachers that accompanied them were not much better). So this must have been the starting point that lead to the project (or is it a band) Mensimonis. 

Mensimonis try to do a 'musical' thing with the idea of droning away at it. It seems a very simple and basic concept but it always leads to quite different results. Radboud takes care of the lower parts of the sound, using oscillators and effects, Lukas is allowed to stay on top with an accumulation of looped guitarattacks that slowly evolve into drones as the overtones take over. That's only the description of HOW to make these sounds.

https://soundcloud.com/mensimonis

Marc Spruit

Spruit is  an experimental musician. His work is all about destroying accoustic and digital sounds into radically cut-up compositions, which he uses for improvising within a laptop.

https://spruit.bandcamp.com/

Mári Mákó 

Mári Mákó is a sound and performance artist. In her solo pieces she has been mostly experimenting with live electronic semi-improvisation. However for this event she is going to premiere her new performance, which has fixed compositional aesthetics but at the same time some segments of fragility. Expect beat orientated industrial sonic world combined with the sound of a processed zither and heavy voice distortion. 

Mári is currently studying at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague Composition Department Master Program and she is working on releasing her very first album in the near future.