SONICA 2025 Pre-event x Kamizdat Rentgen | Nitz x Vasko Pregelj: The Constants of Vanishing, Lifecutter: DELUGE
The pre-event of the 17th edition of SONICA Festival, in collaboration with The Slovenian Cinematheque and the Kamizdat label, brings two immersive performances. Slovenian producer Nitz is presenting the singular performance The Constants of Vanishing, a live musical accompaniment to a screening of experimental films by cult Slovenian filmmaker Vasko Pregelj. While Slovenian industrial techno and dark ambient ambassador Lifecutter is premiering his new album DELUGE (Kamizdat, 2025).
Ticket (doors): 10 €*
* Festival ticket holders can pick up their tickets for the event free of charge at the box office. Tickets will be available at the Cinematheque box office on the day of the event.
https://olaii.com/event/6639/festival-sonica-2025
Nitz x Vasko Pregelj: The Constants of Vanishing (SI)
Live to projection
Tine Vrabič - Nitz has established himself as one of the more active representatives of the Slovenian electronic scene in the last decade. He creates original music and performs as a live act, is a former long-time programme manager of the Ljubljana club K4 and is an experienced resident DJ. He is the programme director of Keep in Mind, a festival dedicated to contemporary electronic club music, and the head of Ambient Soup, a label and series dedicated to contemporary ambient music. Vasko Pregelj (1948–1985) was a screenwriter and director who made experimental films exploring the medium's formal possibilities in the style of historical avant-gardes. Between 1965 and 1982, he made 15 films. The screening of Pregelj’s darkly grotesque and baroquely surrealist experimental films will be accompanied by a live ambient performance by Nitz.
Lifecutter: DELUGE (SI)
AV premiere of the new album DELUGE (Kamizdat, 2025)
Slovenian producer and multi-instrumentalist Domen Učakar aka Lifecutter, a passionate representative of extreme electronic music, has been exploring the border sonic areas between techno, industrial, noise, drone and metal since his debut album Kamizdat in 2015. He has played in various bands, including the cult noise duo Ontervjabbit. As Lifecutter, he has shaped the Slovenian scene with his “power electronics meets blackened techno” approach, occupying a rare position between the worlds of techno and experimental music. He is also a member of the industrial techno duo Warhorse with Shekuza. Their debut album Atlatl was described by The Quietus “an ode to hard-hitting dance music that will please fans of producers like Perc, Scalameriya, Surgeon and Blawan”. Slovenian critics describe him as “one of the most consistent and stylistically developed musicians of rhythmic electronic noise” (Mladina) and “one of the main protagonists of the darkest and noisiest shades of domestic techno expressiveness” (Odzven). In 2018, he was also a member of the European platform for innovative music and audiovisual art SHAPE. On his new album DELUGE (Kamizdat, 2025), he steers away from the industrial pulse of techno into dark ambient waters, addressing the fundamental contradictions between man and nature.
https://lifecutter.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/lifecuttermusic/
Co-produced by MoTA - Museum of Transitory Art, SONICA Festival Institute, The Slovenian Cinematheque, Kamizdat and Emanat Institute. Supported by Ministry of culture RS and City of Ljubljana - Department of Culture.
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