MICHIKO O

Tokyo-born Berlin-resident MICHIKO O (Ogawa) is a performer-composer and researcher. She has worked in the past with the likes of Lucy Railton, Klaus Lang, James Rushford, Sam Dunscombe, Ellen Arkbro, Tashi Wada, Carolyn Chen, Crys Cole and Oren Ambarchi.

In Volta’s Echo Chamber, she premieres her latest release, Pancake Moon, on the Brussels/Rotterdam label Futura Resistenza. The work is inspired by the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics. Based on the quantum eraser experiment, the artist recorded each track separately – without re-listening – so that chance and multiplicity could influence the music.

She used the shō, a structured synthesizer, a Farfisa organ, and field-recordings to construct her album according to a bricolage method: personal tools and memories that she transforms into shared reflections.

Casimir Geelhoed

Dutch composer and musician Casimir Geelhoed also presents new work. His new album Processing Music is being released on the Ghent label B.A.A.D.M. (see too: Mathieu Serruys, Blue Chemise, Mattias Gustafsson,…).

We read in the press release that: “Processing Music offers a compelling meditation on sound transformation as a metaphor for psychological and emotional processing. Working at the intersection of overstimulation, introspection and vulnerability, the album unfolds as a profound personal exploration – one that invites the listener to enter a space of their own projection, memory and reflection.”

Casimir Geelhoed has presented performances and installations at festivals like CTM, Sonic Acts, Rewire, Fiber, SPATIAL and Aural Spaces. He studied computer science, composition, music technology and sonology in Amsterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht.