BILLY ROISZ (AT/EDITIONS MEGO) & GJ PRINS + LUCAS ‘GRANDPA’ ABELA (AU/dualpLOVER) + RADICAL DEMOCRACY (JAMES HOFF & BEN KUDLER)

MKM! presents:: Billy Roisz (Editions Mego, AT) & GJ Prins + Lucas ‘Grandpa’ Abela (AU) + Radical Democracy (James Hoff & Ben Kudler, U$A). Vienna-based musician and filmmaker **Billy Roisz** has been a driving force in the experimental music scene for many years. Self-taught, she stems from the extremely open **DIY** environment of the digital and analog electronic and noise scene in Vienna at the beginning of the 21st century. She has earned critical acclaim for her artistic work, which ranges from the cinematic (her films are regularly screened at major film festivals such as **Berlinale-Shorts** or the **IFF Rotterdam**) to pure audio works. gert-jan prins; electronics, percussion. **GJ Prins** focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise and percussion and investigates its relationship with the visual. while he started his career as a drummer, his works include performances, sound-installations, compositions, electronic circuits and collaborations with other musicians, visual artists, composers, and dancers. **Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela** (fka **Justice Yeldham**) has been performing their signature instrument—shards of amplified glass—for over 20 years. Their singular practice spawned from the international noise music underground, where the glass evolved from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile instrument producing an organic form of outsider electronica. **Abela** performs the shards like a bell-less saxophone, their lips subtly transmitting micro-sonic vibrations into the pane. This signal feeds a complex modular patch producing both raw audio & control voltages, so the dynamics & frequency of their performance modulates itself within varying parallel effects chains. Mixed together they create the illusion of a ghostly accompaniment, forming dense layers of anomalous music. **Radical Democracy** is a new collaboration between **James Hoff** and **Ben Kudler**. The duo hacks cameras from around the world in real time, collecting GPS data, used to control oscillators and trigger banks of sound samples. The result is a soundtrack that narrates the live visual feed that creates it, using the infrastructure of GPS and surveillance to reimagine both technologies outside of their contemporary military, industrial, and domestic applications.