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Kamidzat teams up with NiANSA Gatherings, three-days festival of sensory suspension in the primordial karst void with site specific performances, live perfomances and DJ sets. Together we bring you immersive ambient songs by renowed polish musician Martyna Basta, new sonic adventures of new computer music by prince lucija and new electroacoustic works from Rob Canning Enter the zone.
Lineup
Martyna Basta
Prince Lucija
Rob Canning
More about the festival: https://2k26.niansa.zone/
Festival tickets: https://2k26.niansa.zone/shop
MARTYNA BASTA
Martyna Basta is a Polish composer, producer, and singer-songwriter whose work resides at the intersection of art-pop, chamber folk, and electroacoustic composition. Coming from a background of classical guitar, disavowing the rigidity of classical music education, she shifted to the use of electronics, using reworked field recordings and instrumental samples to craft a sonic diary. Blending eerie vocals and haunting songwriting with granular electronics, she crafts an intimate world. Performing at places like CTM, Unsound, and Cafe OTO, Basta’s performance translates this atmosphere into a vivid, immersive presence. Her live shows bring an intimate intensity, weaving voice, guitar, zither, and electronics into rising tensions and shape-shifting arrangements. She has garnered wide international praise, from the likes of Pitchfork, Dazed and The Wire.
Prince Lucija
Prince Lucija (he/she, aka Luka Prinčič) is a genderqueer artist with a nearly 30-year history of electronic and computer music production, live performances, DJ sets, club nights, new media art, workshops, performance art, techno-social research, activism, and advocacy within various autonomous-tech groups. On their music releases and in live performances alike they unapologetically move from noise, industrial, and abstract sound, sound art, dark ambient and collage, to electro-funk, and other bassy offshoots of syncopated post-electro. They work at Emanat in Ljubljana, run boutique Creative Commons netlabel Kamizdat, no-genre clubnight Major Arcana, and fediverse community Sonomu.Club.
"QUANTEAR" is a series of composition‑improvisation live situational collages — sonic adventures made up of sound experiments for various occasions, many drawn from stage arts and performance contexts. In a live audio‑performance setting, these fragments of recordings and patches of software code (this is, after all, computer music) are repurposed and remixed on the fly in a ritual of “quantum listening.” The sound performance also announces the forthcoming album The Luminous Darkness, due August 2026 on Kamizdat.
ROB CANNING
Rob Canning (Dublin, 1974) is a musician, intermedia artist and educator. He creates music for the concert hall, theatre, film screen and dance productions, and is involved in a wide range of site-specific projects and improvisational contexts. Since the 1990s he has been creating exclusively using free and open source software. As a free culture advocate and educator, he has worked closely with the media arts collective GOTO10, Openlab London Hackspace and SPC medialab, and spent several years as a senior lecturer in networked digital media at UK universities. He now lives and works in Slovenia, where he and his family are developing a rural arts programme within the Rizoma Institute, working at the intersection of technology, permaculture and performing arts. In 2023 he released his album of electroacoustic music Five Scenes For Symphonic Gong And Electronics on Kamizdat.
▂ KAMIZDAT RENTGEN ▂
''Kamizdat Rentgen'' is a glance under the surface of the skin, a look into the fleshy entwinement of bones, muscles and nerves that shape the heterogeneity of the sound bodies. It is a series of music events organized by Kamizdat to increase the visibility of adventurous music makers who dare to venture into the territories where no one had been before. The events are often closely connected with the label’s new releases.
Support
Produced by Emanat
Co-production: NiANSA Gatherings
Financial support: City of Ljubljana, Ministry of Culture RS