NOLE PLASTIQUE (Russia)

Nole Plastique is a project of Roman Kutnov and others on occasion from city of Kazan' / Russia.
Nole Plastique creates warm, rich textured landscapes by mixing and sculpting the noises of computer processed acoustic instruments. Music consists of many acoustic layers strongly tied up together sometimes producing really weird sounding textures.
Nole Plastique released music on labels Nexsound, Arterija (Ukraine), Otium, Dars Records, Electrosound (Russia).
www.noleplastique.com

JORJICK (Georgia)

George Jorjioliani - one of the most active techno-producers and DJs of Georgia. He began his musical experiments in 1995; he was interested in electronic systems and computers after he had worked in some live-band with the acoustical instruments. Today he works on very different projects, but constantly makes minimal-techno and works as a DJ in Tbilisi.
He is a founder of Caucasian Center for Contemporary Art, organizer of some cultural events in Georgia and participant of many international projects, including working with sound-installations and audio-performances. He is also one of the organizers of the creative group Cumbogroup, which works at media-art projects in Georgia, and the founder of the Georgian label Cumborecords, which releases mainly experimental and minimal techno.
At the present time he collaborates with Traum, Trapez, and MBF (Germany). Jorjick's albums were released on labels Cumborecords (Georgia) and Piso Records (Great Britain).
www.cumbogroup.com

ALEKSANDER CHIKMAKOV
KONSTANTIN TIMOSHENKO
DENIS KOLOKOL
(Kazakhstan)

ANDREY KIRITCHENKO (Ukraine)

Born in 1976 in Kharkiv / Ukraine and started his musical activity in 1991. Since 2002 he is working under his own name and exploring microscopic sound design and post-digital production. Since 2004 Andrey is a cross-genre experimental sound artist combined acoustic and digital aesthetics, tiny melodies and noise. His music blends together aesthetical and emotional aspect with uncompromising sound.
Under all aliases he released more than 20 albums on labels such as Ad Noiseam, Zeromoon, SPEKK, DTA, Retina-Scan, Thinner/Autoplate, Notype/Nishi, Soulworm, FGLC, WAN, Tiln, Nexsound.
In different periods collaborated with Francisco Lopez, Kim Cascone, Jonas Lindgren, Jeff Surak, Kotra, Mantichora, Anla Courtis, the Moglass etc.
Andrey Kiritchenko was nominated as "the best Ambient artist" by DasMusik.net in 2002, by Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in categories Discovery and Most Promising Artist, awarded in category Discovery in 2006.
Performed live on Ultrahang festival (Hungary), ELKA festival (Beylorussia), Holy Ice, Noise & Fury (Russia), Information Wants to be Free, GARAGE, Being the Future and Club Transmediale (Germany), Ambient, WEF and Unsound festivals (Poland), RX:TX (Slovenia), RIXC (Latvia), Detali Zvuku (Ukraine) and others.
Andrey does many international collaborations as well as launches projects with his fellows countrymen. In 2003 together with Jeff Surak and Jonas Lindgren created Critikal project (in 2005 Lindgren left the trio and Kotra took his chair).
Andrey also runs Ukrainian label Nexsound (together with Kotra) devoted to experimental music and video-art of Ukrainians and foreigners. He is also a curator of international festival Detali Zvuku (Details of Sound, Kyev / Ukraine).
www.nexsound.org
www.nexsound.org/akir

KOTRA (Ukraine)

The radical noise project "Kotra" of musician Dmytro Fedorenko from Kiev (Ukraine) is one of the loudest and self-assured creative units on the Ukrainian noise scene.
Dmitriy Fedorenko has released 7 solo-albums and several works together with Andrey Kiritchenko, Kim Kaskone and Andreas Berthling. Remixes of his music were released on different american and european lables. He participated in such festivals as Kryptonale, EMAF, Villette Numerique, Netmage, Videoex, Club Transmediale, Garage and others. He is also a director and a main organizer of the festival Detali Zvuku in Kiev.
The music of Kotra is the result of what is basically a constant capacity overload of the output signal. One can hardly listen to the albums of Kotra from start to finish at once, not only because they are too far from melodic stuff, but also because each sound is designed for a specific space. Dmytro Fedorenko's music gives one the impression that he dissects sounds under a microscope.
www.kotra.org.ua

CRITIKAL (Ukraine/USA)

International super group (Ukraine+USA) comprised of ukrainians Andrey Kiritchenko, Dmytro Fedorenko, and american Jeff Surak (on the photo), the chief of intependent label Zeromoon. A mixture of drones, musique concrete like textures with elements of acoustic improvisation.
The trio makes loud shrill music, that can hardly be stylistically classified. Sharp sound of Kotra meets romantic drone of Andrey Kiritchenko, and all this follows scientific-like sound-making of Jeff Surak.
www.zeromoon.com/critikal

ZAVOLOKA (Ukraine)

In recent years Kateryna Zavoloka's career has taken off vertically in an unparalleled way. In 2003 the label "Nexsound" launched her first free downloadable solo release "Suspenzia", that was the most frequently downloaded piece in the Internet. At the end of 2003 the CD-R "I" appeared on the noise label "Zeromoon". Her first solo full-length CD "Plavyna" appeared at the beginning of 2005 under the Austrian label "Laton" and under ukrainian "Nexsound". The CD was highly acclaimed and took a Honorary Mention in the most Grammy-like festival in cyber arts Ars Electronica (Austria).
She is involved in collaboration with AGF (Antye Greie-Fuchs), Berlin based poetess and musician. In 2006 that resulted in the full-length CD "Nature never produces the same beat twice" on Nexsound. Zavoloka participates in multimedia project "Move" [in collaboration with Dans i Nord, Pitea, Sweden with support from Nordic Culture Fund] with dancers Lotta Ruth, Alexandr Andriyashkin, composer Marcus Hamrin, light designer Tobias Leira and filmmaker Helle Pagter. One could see Zavoloka performing on ClubTransmedialle, Being the future (Berlin), Garage (Stralsund), Unsound (Krakow), Femmes (Hasselt), Cimatics (Brussels), Radius (Vienna), Detali Zvuku (Kyiv) and many others.
Zavoloka's music consists of intensive varied sound motions and unexpected combinations piped into carefully controlled electronic flows. When asked about the motive of building such a diverse and complicated constructions, Kateryna explained her intention to produce more and more frank music that could reflect her momentary shades of feelings and emotions.
www.zavoloka.com
www.nexsound.org/zavoloka.html

ZENIAL (Poland)

Lukasz Szalankiewicz (born 1978, Sanok) is a sound-designer, digital music composer, contemporary electronic music curator and member of Polish Federation of electro-acoustic music. Lives in Cracow. Author of various articles for disc magazines (disseminated in digital form). Also writes for official computer press about demo-scene. Since 1994 works under pseudonym ZENIAL.
Lukasz Szalankiewicz is also a co-author of multimedia cross-genre project Palsecam. The main focus of this project is finding the most effective ways to transgress and unit various stylistic radicals in one result often in the unexpected outcomes. Lukasz's current specific areas of interest include aesthetics of noise, particularly the Japanese form of radical sounds, and every symptom of abstraction and grotesque in life and art.
Participated in many international festivals (e.g. in Austria, Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, Holland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Ukraine, China). In addition to it, he is one of those who organizes international festival Unsound, and is a coordinator of experimental internet label Audiotong.
www.zenial.audiotong.net
www.palsecam.sepent.pl
www.zenial.vivo.pl

POMASSL (Austria)

Franz Pomassl lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He is one of the pioneers of the "new wave" of Austrian electronica - he operates at the borders of the human auditive perceptional system, working on its expansion and exploring the boundaries of our hearing. He constructs a neutral, dimly lit space, filling it with both ultra and infra sounds. These extremely high and low frequencies cannot be heard by human ears. Instead, they can be felt - thus making aural perception a physical experience. He surpasses the given auditive parameters of technical equipment and explores possible limitations of acoustic perception by denying them. This creates a permanent confrontation between the logos of the machine and human intuition. Some say, Pomassl manipulates our sense of space, direction, and distance, striving to break away from the confines of traditional perception.
His refusal to use images, objects, or other visual material stems from his belief that the classic visual media are so limited. Instead, the spaces and conditions he creates expand our aural experiences by changing our perception of space.
Franz is one of the founders (together with his colleague Alois Huber) of the Austrian label Laton that released such well known projects as Pan sonic, Mira Calix, CM Von Hauswolf, Carsten Nicolai, and Pomassl himself. He also produced works for labels such as Sabotage, Craft, PPlate Lunch, Rough Trade, and Discono. He participated in many international festivals and exhibitions such as PhonoTAKTIK, Construction Sounds (with Kodwo Eshun) (Vienna), Steirischer Herbst (Graz), Mutek (Montreal), Sonar (Barcelona), Prototype (Austria), Ars Electronica (Linz), Detali Zvuku (Kiyv), SKIF-9 (St.Petersburg), Avanto (Helsinki) as well as several tours in Europe, Japan, Russia, Iceland, Scandinavia, North America, Baltic States.
Pomassl also works as a DJ, taking great interest in the contemporary form of uncompromising techno-music. On the REPLICA festival we will see him in these both roles.
www.laton.at

KOSTA BAZHANOV (Kazakhstan)

ROMAN AREFIEV (Kazakhstan)

Roman Arefiev is one of the most energetic video-makers and VJs in Alma-Ata. Permanently takes part in art exhibitions, among others in "Communications: Experience of Interaction", "Lenin's Soviet Internet", "D-Generation" (Almaty, Kazakhstan). The participant of all the projects of [antiparty gang]. The author of many video-installations.
www.scca.kz

KATIA NIKONOROVA / dsp (Kazakhstan)

dsp is a pseudonym of Mark Pitcher from Canada, now living in Kazakhstan. Katia Nikonorova is a young video artist from Almaty. They team up for the festival to show live graphics / video installation.

WATO TSERETELI (Georgia)

Wato Tsereteli is an artist, curator and the creative administrator of maf media art farm in Tbilisi. After studying film in Georgia he graduated as MA at the Department of Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (Belgium). Since he returned to Tbilisi he started to work on cultural meteorology in the Caucasus. The modest result of this activity is the biannual project APPENDIX. This international exhibition project is intended to be a small, but intense event oriented towards integrating young Caucasian contemporary art within a broader context. Currently Wato works on different mixed exhibition projects.
Wato is also a member of Cumbogroup, that works on different media-art projects in Georgia.

OLIVIA BLOCK (USA)

Olivia Block is a contemporary composer and sound artist who combines field recordings, scored segments for acoustic instruments, and electronically generated sound. Her recorded work seeks to introduce, set at play, and ultimately reconcile nature with artifice in the realms of music and sound. In the process, "organic" sound becomes subtly processed, digitized and abstracted; "inorganic" sound becomes self-replicating and animate; and "musical" elements such as chamber instruments are defamiliarized from their traditional associations, freeing them to participate in the larger aesthetic possibilities of sound. Block has released several CDs, has performed live in festivals and tours throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan, and has created several installations for galleries and museums.
She is currently expanding her interest into video work and the description of her music entirely suits her video. We are facing the extreme abstraction, where carefully controlled appearances organically develop into multi-layered visual stream.

www.oliviablock.net

ANNA CEEH (Austria)

Anna Ceeh born in St.Petersburg, studied at the Akademie of Fine Arts, Vienna. She is an experienced video-maker and author of many video installations and other multimedia projects over Europe and Asia.
Anna's video works consists of odd short "remembrances", that are to make emotional and aesthetical impact on audience. She admits, that she is very interested in non-conformists appearances in modern video-art, because there are not so many projects nowadays, that operates on the psycho level.
Organiser of Rus Klub event-series 2003-04 at Secession Vienna (with F. Pomassl) and Radius festival & platform for advanced electronic music and upfront art positions on the cutting edge with focuse on Estland, Lettland, Ukraine, Russia at MAK CAT-Tower Vienna.
Since 2003 member of Austrian electronic operations label Laton.

www.annaceeh.com