Monday 16 June 2025, 7.30pm
SHAPE+ is a platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia. It is currently run by 18 European adventurous music festivals, including Rewire (The Netherlands), Skaņu Mežs (Latvia), Polja (Serbia) and OUT.FEST (Portugal). For ten years now, it has supported emerging and experimental artists and musicians through concerts, residencies and discourse activities.
An architect of textured, neo-ambient soundscapes, Dania explores both sound and identity, focusing specifically on how the latter has fractured in a post-colonial world. Born in Baghdad, raised in Tasmania and now based in Barcelona, she moves between cultures and continents, her amorphous creative vision directly tied to her transient existence.
The founder of experimental platform Paralaxe Editions, Dania divides her time between Spain and the remote corners of Australia, where she works as an emergency doctor. Her musical practice, however, is preoccupied with harmonics and tonality, weaving together manipulated vocal fragments, processed field recordings and meditative atmospheres.
She has released on Geographic North, Ecstatic, Superpang, OOH sounds and on Longform Editions.
Dania is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
Lukas De Clerck is a musician and artist living in Brussels.
His artistic practice is currently centered around the Aulos, an ancient Greco-Roman, double-reeded double pipe, that got extinct more than a millennium ago.
After several years of delving deep in the practice of Aulos reed making and playing replicas of ancient instruments, he opens up his inevitably auto-didact artistic output in a more collaborative, multi-disciplinary way. Following the desire to strip the instrument from its enigmatic past, De Clerck created a new, contemporary Aulos: The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas.
De Clerck’s approach is driven by playful curiosity with a strong interest in the process of transformation.
Lukas De Clerck is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
Paula Vītola is an interdisciplinary artist based in Liepaja, Latvia. Trained in the fields of media and visual arts her artistic interests have shifted mostly towards sound art. In her artistic practice she is experimenting with natural and physical phenomena such as light, radio and electricity. The artist is creating prototypes, artworks and performances exploring signals and invisible energies, their materiality and relationships, as well as phenomena of human perception. It’s the belief of the artist that media and multi-sensory art can make one’s life longer by triggering their curiosity and awareness.
Vītola has developed a prototype for an audiovisual synthesizer that directly transforms stroboscopic light and moving shadows into a sound signal. The sounds are made in the visual output created by the instrument. During her performance Paula Vītola catches photons in space and turns them into various noises, tones, beats; she sculpts the sounds with hand movements in real time. The performance allows the audience to directly perceive signal materiality and the thresholds of our perception.
Paula Vītola is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
Eve Aboulkheir is a french sound artist and composer living in Paris. She studied and graduated from Villa Arson, National Fine Arts School in Nice. Her compositions, installations and performances are focused on creating immersive environments and multi sensorial experiences.
Combining electroacoustic manipulations of field recordings and modular synthesis, she deploys ever shifting ambigus, acousmatic landscapes.
These chimeric constructions are imbued with the places she explores, proposing new sonic spaces. Her music is released on the GRM Portrait series (INA GRM – Shelter Press) and Kraak records. It has been played at INA GRM acousmonium at Radio France, Maerzmusik festival (Berlin), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam) and more.
Eve Aboulkheir is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
