Aavistus Festival is a biennial of audiovisual art and VJ culture in Helsinki. Organized by the non-profit association Aavistus Festival ry, it has played a crucial role in promoting and advancing audiovisual art and VJ culture in Finland since 2020. The festival fosters collaboration among artists, designers, and technologists while highlighting Finland's dynamic VJ scene internationally, offering audiences a unique opportunity to engage with the diverse world of audiovisual culture.

At Norbergfestival, Aavistus will be showcasing two selected VJ artists, RÖD MJÖLK and Folded Visuals.

bleed presents bleed: a large-scale sculptural installation in Krossverket which acts as a stage for a series of actions. Inviting artist peers for performances, interventions, activations and presentations, the content pours from a pulsating wound, leaving a mess of authorship behind. Attention-extractivism, traps of identity construction and personal optimization run as a theme throughout. bleed: is a sculpture, a stage, a programme and a disorder. An unwanted desire, an un-itched itch, bleed: is a somewhat visual arts programme bleeding out into the daily lives of Norberg.

Participating artists in bleed:

bleed

Husbands

OMSK Social Club

Tiran Willemse

Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder

Coyote

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė

Eloïse Bonneviot & Anne de Boer

Felix Riemann

Gigi

Mandus Ridefelt

Mati Jhurry

Oda Haugerud

Relm Arrowny

S McEvoy

The Centre for the Fictitious Ante Facto

Elektronmusikstudion EMS is the national centre for Swedish electroacoustic music and sound art. It was founded in 1964, originally as part of Swedish Radio, and is now part of Statens Musikverk (National Collections of Music, Theatre and Dance). EMS’s mission is to offer studios for professional composers and sound artists working with electroacoustic music and sound art. The studios are used for production, development, and education.

Besides offering studio space, EMS also works to support the artistic growth of electroacoustic music and its connection with other art forms. EMS represents Swedish electroacoustic music internationally, holds regular evening courses, and runs a large international guest composer programme.

EMS has worked with Norbergfestival for around 20 years. The collaboration has included many off-site performances at Risbergs Verkstad together with Region Västmanland, commissioned works created during residencies at EMS and performed at Mimer, as well as sound installations and multichannel presentations.

Estelle Schorpp (FR/CA), KABLAM (SE), and Oscar Peters (NL) are presented by EMS at this year’s edition of Norbergfestival. Each artist brings a distinct approach to electronic music, shaped by personal methods of composition, sound exploration, and live performance.

Nestled in the heart of Malmo, Sweden, Fors AiR Retreat fosters creativity and innovation through its residency program – a collaborative effort between Fors, a distinguished Swedish VST synth company co-led by Felisha Ledesma, and Retreat Radio, an experimental music radio platform. This unique partnership brings together artists and sound explorers under one roof to develop their craft and push sonic boundaries.

Over the course of two weeks, Fors AiR Retreat welcomes individual musicians, sound artists, or pairs to its dedicated studio space and accommodations, providing them with access to state-of-the-art technical equipment and hands-on support. This immersive environment encourages the creation of new sound works and fosters artistic growth.

Among the talented artists who have benefited from this residency are drumloop and 7038634357, both of whom will be showcasing their newly developed projects at Norbergfestival 2025, thanks in part to the support provided by Fors. By nurturing such artistic pursuits, the residency not only contributes to the evolution of experimental music but also strengthens the bonds between Malmo's vibrant arts scene and Sweden's broader cultural landscape.

Here, a nut falls twice is a sonic-sculptural installation that hosts a series of unfolding performance happenings. Like a living organism, it morphs and transforms—each iteration becoming a different being. For Norbergfestival’s Drift(in)circles, it will take shape as an overnight performance held within this ‘here’ space. Together, we attune to sound, darkness, and gravity’s pull, entering a shared dreamscape. In this space of falling—of vulnerability between bodies—dreams guide us in hearing one another into being.

After three years of hibernation, we awaken: from falling together at ICA London to landing now in Mimer’s circular ‘here’. We catch the drips of echoes, metallic plants’ whispers, breath-to-breath circulations, and stories—ours and others’—entwined across time. Drip by drip, audiences are invited to fall into ‘here’, to dream and experience the performance as they sleep.

Here grows out of Yen Chun Lin’s ongoing artistic research into sound-dust, sensory thresholds, syn-sleeping listening, and encounters with spirit(s). For this overnight performance of Here, a nut falls twice: Drift(in)circles, she invites beloved friends and collaborators—Alice Agency, Lithic Alliance, Lou Drago, Marijn Degenaar, Cee Füllemann, Thibaut Knapp, oxi peng, Felix Riemann a.k.a leslie, Berglind Thrastardottir, and Matilda Tjäder —to co-create this moment together.

Made possible with support from the Cultural Division of the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan.

IRRLICHT is a Stockholm-based publishing house and record label run by Erik Enocksson & Håkan Jonson. Since its inception in 2010 the label operates at the intersection of text, sound and image; releasing experimental music as well as poetry books and works by visual artists. Through the various releases of the last fifteen years a pattern has slowly emerged; the cross-fertilisation ofdifferent artistic disciplines. Where works are (re-)interpreted and inevitably transformed in the transitionfrom one aesthetic field to another, as the inherent limitations of the various expressions force previously hidden dimensions to the surface – in an act of transmutation.

To celebrate its 15 year anniversary – XV – IRRLICHT will be showcasing the labels unique interdisciplinary focus on text & sound through a two hour live show at NBF 2025.

LINE-UP:

Klara Lewis
Minus Miele
Sofie Herner
Agnes Ivarsson
Elis Monteverde Burrau
Erik Enocksson & Kristofer Flensmarck, performing “Signal” (IRRLICHT, 2023)
David Zimmerman & Lisa Stenberg, performing “Över mitt ögas dag” (IRRLICHT, 2025

The Royal College of Music in Stockholm (KMH) hosts one of the world’s most prominent university level programs in electroacoustic composition. With a national remit to teach this subject, they have some of the world's best-equipped studios for electroacoustic music as well as dedicated concert venues, designed for immersive sonic experiences.

Thus, KMH’s new premises, centrally located and close to Stockholm's many music and art scenes, have the latest in audio technology, provide both students and teachers with opportunities to experiment with sound and space and to create music in unconventional forms.

At this showcase, a delegation of students from the electroacoustic composition department at KMH presents a varied program comprised of new music, performed in duo constellations with novel systems and instruments.

The concert includes music and performances by the following duos:

Roya Naini & M M M

Felicia Sjögren & David Linnros

Ola Bergman & Linnéa Talp

Leo Caputo & Victor Lisinski

For information in English, please scroll down.
Lyrik i samklang är en del av Norbergfestivals öppna program. Som en del av programmet kommer poeter och musiker framföra verk enskilt och i samklang med varandra.

Programmet öppnar 16:30 på Krossverket i Mimerlaven.

Medverkande:
Agnes Ivarsson
Ayysha Badra
Elis Monteverde Burrau
Kristoffer Flensmarck & Erik Enocksson
Minus Miele
Sofie Herner

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Lyrik i samklang is a part of Norbergfestivals public program. As a part of the program poets and musicians will perform alone and in harmony with each other.

The program opens 16:30 at Krossverket in Mimerlaven.

Participating artists:

Agnes Ivarsson
Ayysha Badra
Elis Monteverde Burrau
Kristoffer Flensmarck & Erik Enocksson
Minus Miele
Sofie Herner

Nonagon is an artist-driven association creating audiovisual experiences in boundary-defying formats and unique settings, far from the traditional venues. Our mission is to craft unforgettable art and music experiences for both visitors and creators, where the lines between art forms are blurred and blended. Nonagon Festival is a biennial festival set by the abandoned oil cisterns on Svanö in Ådalen. These massive, cylindrical spaces, with an impressive reverberation of up to 25 seconds, became a living instrument for musicians and artists to explore. 

At Norbergfestival, Nonagon will be showcasing two selected VJ artists, Torbjörn Fernström and Ida Davidsson.

Teachers and students from Tonis, Gotlands School for Composition in Visby, will

perform a relay race of different small live sets. You will experience modular synths,

computer music, acoustic instruments and voice, a keytar and maybe dark horns from

the medieval city of Visby.

The teachers Ida Lundén and Marcus Wrangö share the stage together with the

students Arvid Kahl, Astrid Hessling, DAG RÖD, Eva Marklund, Laban Bettles,

nettle skin, Sophie Vitelli and T Fykse.

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About Tonis

At Tonis, as our school is known amongst students and locals, we believe that the answer lies in the unique educational concept that has become our hallmark – individually-oriented preparatory music composition programmes that enable students to develop both artistically and in terms of craftsmanship through learning-by-doing. At the end of the school year, the compositions of the student group feature in the self-produced Ljudvågor music festival, during which about 50 works are performed by professional ensembles and orchestras.

The programme prerequisites vary – applicants to our two-year music composition programme are typically individuals who are already aiming for a career in music composition, both acoustic and electronic music, who write their own music and who are looking to develop. Some are familiar with music notation and the theory of harmony, others are not. Our one-year music composition programme with an emphasis on the fine arts is for electroacoustic and sound artists, or musicians who are keen to further their education in music composition.

Our main goal is to ensure that students develop their own musical languages based on their own individual circumstances. Our pedagogical profile is to apply theory in practice. For example, a theory lesson in the morning might be applied to a creative workshop the same afternoon, where the students apply the theory towards a personal musical creation. The festival Sound Waves (Ljudvågor) is the ultimate result of our pedagogy and functions as the final thesis for the academic year. The composing work of an entire year culminates, through teacher mentorship and workshops with musicians, in world premieres for a paying audience at a music festval produced by the students themselves. In a typical composition project, the result of the individual lessons is tested in workshops, where the musicians who are to perform the work are invited to take part in the artistic process. All teaching relates more or less directly to the composition project– even electroacoustic music.

This showcase is endorsed by Gotland School for Composing (”Tonis”) in Visby, a

part of Folkuniversitetet.

Oslo-based collective Ute comes to Norbergfestival for a label showcase featuring their residents Marius Bø, Ekkel, and Mikkel Rev.

Since 2017, Ute has built a devoted following through diy-events in the Norwegian forest, fjords, and remote islands. Balancing fir-rooted grooves with atmospheric depth, their music drifts between forest-driven trance, hardwooded techno, downtempo, IDM, and ambient, embodied in their labels Ute.Rec, Sinensis, and Translusid. With showcases across Asia, Australia, and Europe- at clubs like Bassiani and Elysia - and extended takeovers in the Australian bush and Norwegian fjords, Ute’s events embrace both nature and sound in equal measure.

At Norbergfestival, they bring their music into a new environment, shaped by the festival’s raw, industrial surroundings.

****&c. brings raw, blown-out bass from a stack of GameBoys, calculators, and modular gear. This is low-bit pressure music — jagged, cheeky, and often surprising.

Tanis Silke Nielsen, the Aarhus-based artist behind ‘****&c.’, uses a mix of so-called “obsolete” tech to make music that feels oddly futuristic, fusing methods from IDM, breakcore and dub, through the lens of chip music.

Silke’s sets live in the tension between grimy playfulness and the unaliased, unapologetic “sketchyshit” expression, held down by a rhythm section that alway shits too hard. It’s music that shouldn’t work, on machines that barely do.

7038634357 is the musical alias of Neo Gibson, born in Virginia and based in New York City. A restricted palette is used to achieve a type of music that is formally precise and emotionally direct.

Their music has been performed in a wide variety of contexts – from movie theaters to nightclubs, train stations to concert halls.

Releases can be found through Brooklyn's Blank Forms Editions, Shanghai's Genome 6.66 Mbp, and their own Waiting Records imprint.

7038634357 will be performing as part of the Fors AiR Retreat showcase at Norbergfestival 2025.

Agnes Ivarsson (b. 1991), poet and graphic designer based in Stockholm. Besides design work for contemporary literary magazines such as L’amour la mort and Lystring she has previously released her unflinching poetry as "Modernista är intresserade" (Fame Factory, 2016) and "Att leva som råtta / en råtta utan hjärta / ett hjärta gjort av skit" (Anti editör, 2019).
Agnes Ivarsson will perform as part of the IRRLICHT showcase and as part of Lyrik i samklang.

Alice Agency is a creative production team founded by Jared Davis and Sara Sassanelli, focussing on the development and delivery of special events and tours across live music, club culture and contemporary dance.

Alice Agency will be a part of the all-night Mimer performance/installation Here, a nut falls twice.

Amina Hocine (b. 1991) is a Swedish composer and sound artist based in Stockholm. With a masters electroacoustic composition from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, her work unfolds in the space between resonance and silence, exploring the tactile and perceptual dimensions of sound. She often composes for site-specific environments, custom-built instruments, and electronic media, often working with organ-based systems and modular synthesis to shape intricate, slowly shifting sonic textures.

Deeply influenced by spiritual science and deep listening, she approaches sound as a material in transformation—an unfolding presence rather than a fixed structure. Their performances, often centered around the Mistlursorgel and other self-built instruments, invite immersion in sustained tones and resonant bodies. Viewing instruments as extensions of composition, they develop each as a singular piece, where physical form and sound are inseparable.

Her work has been presented extensively at festivals and venues across Europe, continuously evolving at the intersection of intuition, technology, and the ephemeral nature of sound. 

Anna Butter is a sound artist and DJ based in Berlin. Her sets combine industrial and screamy, as well as leftfield and experimental club music. She loves challenging listeners with intricate arrangements, textures and narrative.

What she puts together combines what before seemed to be mutually exclusive, leaving audiences completely puzzled by undanceable, unplayable tracks while at the same time being irresistibly driven forward by the rhythm and energy. 

Paul Arvid Verner Kahl is a human being that is not German, although YouTube would like you to think that this is in fact the case. Nay! Paul Arvid Verner Kahl is Ronneby Hamn born and bred. Now now now now now now - musically - He makes sound and noise and maybe some words and out these things in different orders depending on what day it is - currently studying at the Gotland School of Music Composition - most of the music seems like a reaction, as all good things should be, probably because of The Stress, The Dream and The Life - Life’s good one could say - His dream is ultimately to live in the forest and drink water and sleep in the grass and sing to the birds and play the upright bass and smoke pipe tobacco from a Danish produced pipe and sit in a rocking chair and dance to Pop Music in His quaint little kitchen.

Thus, His goal is to grow old and retire. Now, how does one accomplish such a thing? Maybe the arts? Maybe the wonders of Modern Medicine? That’s at least what Paul Arvid Verner Kahl thought, and here we are. Not the Medicine part, although he isn’t opposed to Modern Medicine, he just doesn’t go to the hospital very much - maybe to his detriment.

Nay! He chose The Arts as his way to move forward in life - To be fair he’s still quite young and things should change throughout your twenties probably so if his current love of the arts dies and the anxieties of the world at large take a hold of his - as of writing - lukewarm mind - things might change. Who knows? Whom? Not quite sure on that one, honestly. The Hospital could be a very real future, it seems.

He thinks his art and sounds can be “Quite sad sometimes.”

Arvid Kahl is part of the Tonis showcase.

The Strait Trilogy (2020-2023) is a Nordic Noir by Asta Lynge and Matilda Tjäder that tells the story of a portal located somewhere in the strait between Denmark and Sweden. Following two independent investigators (played by the artists themselves) and with a cast of friends and family, the series weaves local myths with the evolving infrastructure and urban development of the Øresund region today.

​‘In The Strait Trilogy there is no murder and if there is violence it happens at a more abstract level. The slow violence of urban development, ecological and political disaster that by the time it can be attributed it's already too late.’ - Nikhil Vettukattil, EVERYTHING IS A CIPHER OF WHICH YOU ARE THE THEME

Exhibitions and screenings include: ‘Drain the Oresund’, Panora/Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (2025), Die Verabredung, Cologne (2024), Lagune Ouest, Copenhagen (2023), FSK/Cittipunkt, Berlin (2023), Le Bourgeois, London (2022), Celin, Oslo (2021), Bizzarro, Copenhagen (2021), Copenhagen Architecture Festival (2021), and Delfi, Malmö (2020).  

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Asta Lynge (DK, 1988) works associatively across materials and processes. She is interested in the notion of progress and its inherent affiliation with technology. 

Lynge holds a BFA from Central Saints Martins (2012) and was part of the first iteration of the CSM Associate Studio Programme (2013-16). In 2022 she received the Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize (2022) and her work is held in public collections incl. Fuglsang Kunstlandskab (Toreby, DK), The Danish Art Foundation, Musée d’Elysée (Lausanne, CH) and Copenhagen Municipality.

Matilda Tjäder is an artist and composer based in Malmö. Working interdisciplinary across sound, writing, performance, and moving image, Tjäder employs fiction as score and conceptual framework to critically examine social, infrastructural, and emotional landscapes. 

She holds an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London and is the founder of the ambulatory live-series Scaling as well as resident on Retreat Radio.

Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder are part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

I’m a Swedish artist and composer from Stockholm, with an international background. I am currently based in Visby and studying at Gotlands Tonsättarskola, where I am exploring sonic storytelling, alongside my other creative pursuits.

Ett ‘Radiostycke’ ur arkivet The idea for Ett ‘Radiostycke’ ur arkivet—a ‘Radiopiece’ from the archive—originated from a demo I made last winter, inspired by the Star Trek timeline and the historical event of humanity’s firstcontact with extraterrestrial beings in 2063. This piece is part of the larger project 2063 Archive, that explores the relationship between past and present from the perspectives of our current time (2025) and a speculative future (2063), where themes such as species extinction, hope, and collective development are woven throughout.

The sonic elements that this piece consists of include radio frequencies—where the radio itself becomes both a medium and a central object—noise, lo-fi, the demo with influences from 80’s goth, post-punk, and new wave, and field recordings from Brucebo Naturreservat—a nature reserve here on Gotland—along with interviews conducted there, the first week of May, this year.

Astrid Hessling is part of the Tonis showcase.

Atrice is a Swiss-Colombian duo known for their fusion of intricate sound design and bass-driven club music. Their music is shaped by everyday encounters and the constant flood of digital stimuli. Drawing inspiration from sound system culture and bass music, they channel the raw energy of communal spaces and the physical impact of low frequencies.

With backgrounds in composition, music theory, and sound art, their sound blends detailed textures with depth, and atmosphere. Influenced by acousmatic music and rich sonic layers, they use digital processing to craft sounds that blur the line between organic and synthetic. Atrice’s approach is intuitive yet precise, creating music that works just as well on a powerful sound system as in a more intimate setting, while staying true to a DIY spirit.

Over the past few years, they have released three records on the respected Ilian Tape label to great critical response, as well as two on the forward-thinking TraTraTrax label. Their catalog also includes releases on Unknown Untitled, Panel Audio, Nostro Hood System, [re]sources, Ozelot, Les Points, and their own imprint, Miras.

Their DJ sets are high-energy and unpredictable, often layering multiple grooves simultaneously to create intense, rhythmic textures. Meanwhile, their live performances highlight their intricate production approach, using real-time manipulation to push their sonic boundaries further.

Ayysha Badra is a poet and writer born in Palestine and raised in Sweden.

Palestine has always been a part of Badra. Having heard about Palestine from her parents, school and acquaintances all throughout her childhood, Badra started reading about her homeland. Today, Badra is writing about Palestine and reminding others of her homeland, of the fight for a liberated Palestine and a people liberated from occupation!
Ayysha Badra will perform as part of Lyrik i samklang.

After finishing a Master in Clinical Psychology (2014), Berglind (b. 1988, Reykjavik) left her studies and decided to apply her knowledge in creative pursuits. Her work aims to encourage complexity in seeing, both introspectively and out into the world around us.

She is currently studying Directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.  Berglind’s short films have received recognition and run in film festivals around the world including, Vimeo Staff Pick, Palm Spring International Short Fest, Lund Fantastic Film Fest, Reykjavik International Film Festival, Nordisk Panorama and many more. Although film is her focus she is also a published writer, researcher, kindergarten teacher, and has a practice of performance with the performance collective Here.

Berglin Thrastardottir will be a part of the all-night Mimer performance/installation Here, a nut falls twice.

bleed is the collaborative practice of artists nilz källgren and alice m. speller. Their work spans writing, video, sound, sculpture, painting, installation, destruction, and performance. Challenging the material boundaries of self and environment, they explore the aesthetics and affects of psychopolitical alienation and resulting coping mechanisms, in search for new methods of unity in survival.

bleed are 2025 artists in residence at Norbergfestival. At this year’s festival the duo will present a new large-scale sculptural installation which will also act as a stage in Krossverket for a series of actions by the artists and their peers. The programme will bleed out through a series of interventions and installations in and around public spaces of Norberg.

Cee Füllemann's work merges sculpture and performance to investigate the interconnectedness of bodies, shapes, and materials, which they perceive as part of a single living organism. Collaborative works are part of their creative process to engage in a fluid transition of the many shapes of collective thinking, individual negotiations and highlights an economy of proximity that resist dominant structures.

Cee recently collaborated with Sophie Guisset at Beursschouwburg in Brussels-B, Yen Chin Lin at ICA London-UK, the collective Alpina Huus at Arsenic Lausanne-CH, as well as with Annia Nowak in Sophiensaele Berlin-D and Simone Aughterlony at Gessnerallee Zürich-CH. They also presented new sculptural works at Helmhaus Zürich-CH, MCB_A in Lausanne-CH and Stems gallery in Brussels-B.

Cee Fülleman will be a part of the all-night Mimer performance/installation Here, a nut falls twice.

Computer Station

Dive into a ribbeting, lily-pad-laden wonderland with Computer Station – the electrifying collaboration between Your Planet Is Next and KABLAM. Blending UK rave, breakbeat, jungle, IDM, EBM, and ghetto house, their debut EP "Froggystyle" (Studio Barnhus, 2024) is a testament to their sonic alchemy.

Computer Station's live shows are an immersive experience, with computerized rhythms, obscure frogtronic samples, and bpm counts that never dip below 160. Get ready for a proper splash in the ol' pond!

KABLAM

Stockholm-based producer and composer KABLAM has been making waves since her residency at Berlin's infamous Janus party alongside M.E.S.H. and Lotic. Her debut EP "Furiosa" (Janus, 2016) was followed by the self-released album "Confusía" (2019), with remixes and collaborations with artists like mobilegirl, Coucou Chloe, and Osheyack.

KABLAM's music is a sensory explosion of detailed rhythms, found sounds, and sampledelia, earning her the title of sonic maximalist and "stonkcore" pioneer.

Your Planet Is Next

Emerging in 2014 with a limited edition cassette tape, Your Planet Is Next has since become known for his dirty, quirky, and acid-infused beats. A true live artist, YPIN's shows are an immersive blend of humor-laced vocals, catchy oddball club music, and ironic deadpan truths.

A regular on Studio Barnhus, with releases on Klasse Wrecks and Opal Tapes, Your Planet Is Next has six full-length albums under his belt. His latest EP "Urban Man XL" (Terminal, 2024) showcases his unique sound, which also shines through in his projects as Sexazoid, Osynlig Fetma, Paradise Alley, Excellent Security, and Computer Station.

Coyote is an artist collective based between Copenhagen and Stockholm. They will present the video New Centuries Are Rare which was first commissioned for the festival in 2023.

New Centuries are Rare establishes a timeline from the 1900s miner strikes to the establishment of the electronic music festival in Norberg a hundred years later, when the rave scene moved into the old industrial buildings.

With shots stretching from the political struggles of miners in the unions of the time to the post-industrialisation of today, the Danish-Swedish artist collective Coyote has created a video work shrouded in the fumes of both mining and smoke machines, illustrated by clips from the early rave parties that laid the foundations of alternative club culture in the 1990s as a place not only for hedonistic escapism, but for political activity in theory and practice.

Psychological, chemical and technological rhythms resonate across the archaic topography of the place over a hundred years.

Coyote is part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

CRRDR is a Colombian DJ and music producer known for the unique style he defined as Latincore and Latin Tekno in the global electronic scene. As co-founder of the label Muakk and founder of Trampa, he has made a significant mark on the global underground.

In his artistic development CRRDR has developed a style he calls Latin Tekno, which encompasses accelerated Latin music and has led him to stand out in the global club scene. Within his productions and mixes, the quality and fusion of Latin American sounds such as Dembow, Guaracha, Tribal and Latin Tek, stand out.

He has released music through Naafi, Vox Nox, and collaborated with Natty Peluso on the Club Grasa project. In 2024, Mixmag named him in their "DJ Highlight," emphasizing his growing influence. His talent has also led to appearances on platforms such as Netflix, Boiler Room Hard Dance, NTS x Diesel, Rinse, and more.

CRRDR has brought his music to audiences in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, connecting with diverse crowds through sets that transcend genres and boundaries. With a career on a constant upward trajectory, CRRDR continues to redefine the boundaries of electronic music and expand his artistic vision worldwide.

Bleak granite and relentless ocean is found when unfolding the works of Malte Dag Rödström. Originating from Bohuslän, Sweden, exploring a dark electronic space with the cello and voice as raw material.

DAG RÖD is part of the Tonis showcase.

David Zimmerman (b. 1993) is a celebrated writer, critic and editor based in Malmö. Until recently, Zimmerman was the chief editor of Swedish poetry magazine Lyrikvännen. He has released three poetry collections ”Mal” (Anti editör, 2017), “Ljus och strålning“ (Albert Bonniers, 2019) and earlier this year's “Ark” (Albert Bonniers, 2025). Zimmerman’s latest work is a text-sound composition, a collaboration with composer Lisa Stenberg titled “Över mitt ögas dag” (IRRLICHT, 2025).

Lisa Stenberg (b. 1980) is a composer and musician whose work with electronic andelectroacoustic compositions primarily focuses on texture, timbre and spatiality in relation tomusic as an embodied experience. Stenberg is a member of the renowned art scene at Fylkingen& Elektronmusikstudion EMS and is also an integral part of the Stockholm drone scene. Her works have been commissioned and performed at festivals and events for experimental and extreme music such as Donaufestival (AU), Inversia (RUS), Norbergfestival (SE), Open Source Art Festival (PL), Sonica festival (SI), documenta in Athens (GR), etc.
They will perform together as part of the IRRLICHT showcase.

Malmö based DJ Seduce has quickly become a vitality to the modern rave scene. Nurtured by a lifelong love for music, every shred of influence spills out in her take on contemporary club music.

Breakbeat science is her craft, driven by emotive melodies and well-executed rhythms, effortlessly moving through landscapes of jungle, techno and UK bass.

Her passion for sound carries throughout her work; whether it is behind the decks or in the studio, and endless curiosity mixed with talent forms the recipe for success.

Dorota Gawęda (PL/CH) and Eglė Kulbokaitė (LT/CH) both graduated from the Royal College of Art in London. They work in multiples across performance, painting, sculpture, fragrance, video and installation - where language breaks down and one genre morphs into many. Transfusing different bodies of knowledge across space and time, they nurture a research-based practice that weaves together seemingly disparate fields; ecology and technology, science and magic, nonhuman intelligence and shared speculation. Currently the artists are looking into the trope of the double through popular culture, art, folklore, and technology, aiming to untangle the threads of contemporary identity, probing the boundaries of selfhood in a world where the real and the virtual are increasingly intertwined and confused.

They have exhibited internationally, notably: the Renaissance Society, Chicago; Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris; Vilnius Biennial; Kunsthalle Mainz; Kunstverein Hamburg; Istituto Svizzero, Palermo/Milan; Swiss Institute, New York; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf; Kunsthalle Fribourg; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Athens Biennale; Kunsthalle Basel; ICA, London; Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw among others.

They are the founders of the YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP (2013–2021), recipients of the Allegro Artist Prize 2022, CERN Collide Residency 2022, and laureates of the Swiss Performance Art Award 2021. Currently in residency at the Cité des Arts in Paris they are working on a forthcoming solo exhibition at MACA, Beijing to open autumn 2025.

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė are part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

Oslo-based collective Ute comes to Norbergfestival for a label showcase on the Saturday featuring their residents Marius Bø, Ekkel, and Mikkel Rev, together bringing their music into a new environment, shaped by the festival’s raw, industrial surroundings.

Teo Bachs is the co-founder of Norway's Ute crew that grew quickly from smoke filled mornings on the Norwegian forest floor to showcases at Bassiani and bush parties of Australia. Founded in 2017, the label boasts a cult-like following for its approach to psychedelic trance music as well as long form downtempo and chill out sounds presented on sub labels Sinensis and Translusid. 

Bachs emits a modern take on Nordic electronic of the ‘90s that is as mental as it is progressive, diving head first into breaks and percussive trips as Ekkel. Together with Mikkel Rev and Oprofessionell he is Solar Alliance, a live project that unfurls extended trance journeys recorded and arranged in a matter of days. Consistently pushing mind melting sounds through his involvement in groups like Ipeo and The Dosadi Experiments and an ever evolving style in newer projects like Alvar and H25, Ekkel sits firmly at the forefront of the underground. 

In the booth, Bachs has developed a reputation as a marathon DJ, often with Marius Bø as Accelerationism, regularly playing for hours on end and turning dance floors into states of mass euphoria. From an infamous 18 hour closing at Outsider Festival with the other label co-founders to solo performances at Seismic Festival and Accelerationism sets at Organik Festival, he is trusted for skilled, on the spot selections. His latest mix for Bassiani consists of 100 per cent unreleased projects, many of which will be released in the coming months.

At Norbergfestival, Ekkel will play back to back together with Marius Bø, the other half of Accelerationism.

Elis Monteverde Burrau (b. 1992) is a highly prolific Swedish poet, playwright and artist. Apart from releasing a stream of poetry books and stage adaptations, fronting the band the Karamazov 3 and participating in art shows, he also runs the DIY PDF-publishing house Fame Factory, co-runs the publishing house Renate förlag and features as a main stay on the TV-show “Cyklopernas land” on SVT. His most recent work includes ambient poetry book “Nästan terror, bara nästan” (Renate förlag, 2024), radio drama “Hamlet 2.0”, co-written with poet Ali Alonzo for Sveriges Radio and “Till de redan frälsta” (Modernista, 2025).

Elis Monteverde Burrau will perform as part of the IRRLICHT showcase and as part of Lyrik i samklang.

Eloïse Bonneviot (FR, 1986) and Anne de Boer (NL, 1987) are an artistic duo based in Berlin. They are looking to interspecies relationships, climate anxieties and world-building speculations to create works. Different types of gameplays are used to generate collectively imagined stories about our future within times of ecological collapse. Dwelling on digital culture, technology as well as DIY methods, the duo is carefully picking the materials used in the work in entanglement with their surroundings. Their experiments result in installations and performative works that engage with an audience differently than in traditional exhibition formats. From 2014 to 2022 they operated as the Mycological Twist, and before that from 2011 to 2020 they were part of the collective HARD-CORE.

Recent projects include: Boulder Forest Moorland, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, DE; Tracing a Seeping Terrain, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE; ECLIPSE, 7th Athens Biennale, Athens, GR; Quadrat Sampling E-Ecologies, HAU, Berlin, DE; L’Académie des Mutants, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FR; Myco TV, ICA, London, UK; Bergen Assembly, Entrée, Bergen, NO.

Eloïse Bonneviot & Anne de Boer arer part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

Erik Enocksson (b. 1978) is a Swedish composer whose work – often carried forth by minimal instrumentation and dressed in sparse arrangements – move seamlessly between distinct melodies and suggestive, resonant moodscapes. Since his debut in 2007 (“Farväl Falkenberg”) Enocksson has released several acclaimed albums while also establishing himself as a singular voice in contemporary Nordic film through his hauntingly beautiful scores to accoladed art house movies.

Kristofer Flensmarck (b. 1976) made his debut in 2005 and has since published twelve books, poetry and novels. Flensmarck often works with found poetry and sampling, or "documentary poetry"; eg. “Almanacka” (Natur & Kultur, 2009) consisting of excerpts from his grandmother's almanac notes and “FPS” (IRRLICHT, 2010), based on diaries written by Charles Manson and the Columbine killers, Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold. In 2023 Flensmarck released two collaborations; the poetry book "SOL II” with artist Håkan Jonson and "Signal", a text-sound work in collaboration with composer Erik Enocksson.
They will perform together as part of the IRRLICHT showcase and as part of Lyrik i samklang.

Estelle Schorpp is a French-born and Montreal-based sound artist, composer and researcher active in the field of experimental music and sound ecology.

She uses the tools and methods of research-creation to set up projects that take a critical and creative look at our relationship with the sonic environment. Integrating concepts from disciplines such as sound ecology, sound studies, media theory, history of science, acoustics and psychoacoustics, her polymorphous approach combines performance, sound installation and algorithmic composition, as well as academic communication and the writing of articles.

Her ever-changing and immersive sonic landscapes, characterized by their ambiguous shimmering sounds and the use of field recordings, seek both a physical and intellectual experience where listening is central.

In 2024, she released her first solo album In My Ears (for Maryanne) on the prestigious LINE label. In 2023, she was selected by the Biennale College Musica in Venice from among 300 artists from all over the world. Along with nine other composers, performers and musicians, she was given an artistic residency to produce her performance A Conversation Between a Partially Educated Parrot and a Machine premiered at the Biennale Musica di Venezia 2023 curated by Lucia Ronchetti.

Her work is funded by several research and creation grants and has been presented internationnaly at festivals such as La Biennale di Venezia (IT), Ars Electronica (AT), MUTEK (MX, CA, AR, JP), Akousma (CA), FIMAV (CA), Le Mans Sonore (FR), Exhibitronic (FR, DE), MuTeFest (FI) and at galleries such as Centre d'Exposition de l'Université de Montréal (CA), Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris (FR) and Exhibition Laboratory (FI).

Her research has been presented in several symposiums at ISEA22 (SP), CIRMMT (CA), Université de Montréal (CA) and EHESS (FR) and she regularly publishes peer-reviewed papers as main author or co-author. In 2016 she received the first Exhibitronic award for her electroacoustic composition Bagdad 9ème siècle. Estelle Schorpp graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (MFA) and from the Music Faculty of Université de Montréal (Master of Music).

Estelle Schorpp will be playing as part of Norbergfestival's EMS Showcase.

Eva Marklund is a visual artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Besides art and composition, she has studied chamber music with French horn as her main instrument. In her recent works she is combining her various artistic fields involving performance, composition, sculpture and sound.

Eva Marklund is part of the Tonis showcase.

Hailing from Motala, Sweden, Exilee is redefining the scene with a unique blend of electronic genres and beats, inspired by obscure EDM from his childhood, to niche techno and its subgenres. Exilee is taking deep dives into forgotten genres and hidden soundclouds. His mixes go on trips into the ugly unknown and yet surprisingly beautiful club and dance music, as well as showcasing a brutal production style of his own, akin to other artists from the Scandinavian collective behind Speed Services and Massive Gain.

Brace yourself for the unexpected in a hard, unforgiving, and tantalizing musical journey with Exilee, where the sinister yet playful follows a hypnotic rhythm all the way to the end. There has never been such joy in the ominous. 

Exilee is one of the founders of Fetidgruppe, a group that started out by hosting their radio show "Fetid" on Retreat Radio, that’s slowly evolving into a mysterious output of events and visual arts.

Felicia Sjögren is a Swedish artist and composer living in Stockholm. Her work often takes form in site-specific installations and live performances, where the relationship to space and time is a central aspect. Experiences of being part of different anarchist projects is fundamental for her practice as well as the research, often involving learning from and with DIY communities, amateur groups or organizations.

The work spans from the visible radiation of light captured by the camera optics into the spectra of invisible electromagnetic fields of radio waves. In her sonic practice she uses antennas, electronic synthesis, field recordings and acoustic instruments depending on the project. She often works with structures of slow, gradual transformations, that explores the sonic texture as physical material and wave phenomena.

David Linnros works at the intersection of free improvisation, noise and electroacoustic music. Previous projects include the sound installation Kymbe with Lise-Lotte Norelius, the duo LUDL with pianist Lisa Ullén, and free jazz noise-group Konatus with Ida Lundén, Dror Feiler and Niklas Korssell.

At Norberg they will perform together, being part of KMH Showcase, intermingling their different takes on the concept of noise.

Felisha Ledesma is a sound artist and musician currently based in Malmö, Sweden. A distinctly warm and organic palette permeates Ledesma’s work, each moment slowly unfolding into an intimate aural experience. Inspirations from the everyday are distilled into sonic memories that invite a meditative and deep listening.

Felix Riemann is an interdisciplinary artist whose current projects engage the somato-political dimensions of musical and poetic forms, with a particular focus on the role of vocals, immersiveness, and co-creative practice. Their work addresses and draws from notions such as resilience, urgency, and volatility as both structural conditions and lived experiences.

Felix has performed live at various venues in London, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Amoenus, Ormside, and Venue MOT. They produce electronic music under the alias leslie, and their debut album, ‘Why So Eager,’ was released by the label Loose Trax.

Upcoming activities include the collaborative spatial audio project 'Angels and Cogwheels,' a series of outdoor music events featuring a mobile multichannel sound system organised under 'The Long Acre,' as well as the release of a new EP in 2025.

Felix Riemann will be a part of the all-night Mimer performance/installation Here, a nut falls twice.

Felix Riemann is also part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

Folded Visuals takes the viewer to a secret garden after dark.

Visions of lakes, ferns and soft moss blend into mysterious signals and a splash of circuit. Whispers and faraway wanders, restless dreams of a long lost drone.

A prominent VJ in the Helsinki club and underground scene since 2013, she has performed at over 200 festivals and events from Kazakhstan to Greenland.

Folded Visuals is part of Norbergfestival's collaboration with Aavistus Festival.

Hailing from Germany, Celia aka Frau C. Bass discovered and fell in love with techno music in the early 2000's. Fascinated by the energy of this community, Celia quickly realized she wanted to be part of it and has stuck with it ever since, initially on the dancefloor, then driven by her curiosity to DJ she bought some turntables and started practicing. Today, Frau C. Bass loves getting people dancing with her powerful mix of stomping hardtekno and jump.

- Frau C. Bass stands for HardTechno from the Joy of Dancing and Love for Music -

KSÅ crew — Aarhus’ freshest chiptune collective — is hosting a hands-on LSDJ workshop for noobs and chiptuners alike, led by Tanis Silke Nielsen (****&c.). This session invites you to create music using original GameBoys and gives you a crash course in the basics of making tunes on the iconic handheld. We’ll have around 10 GameBoys loaded with the legendary LittleSoundDJ music software — just bring your ears, your curiosity and some headphones! No experience required. Just a lot of noise, good vibes and chiptune. Kåssssåååå! :)))

One of the people of all time.

Gigi is part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

Hekt, AKA Jesper Nørbæk, is a Danish multimedia artist and electronic musician working across sound and visual art. An active member of Copenhagen’s intimate but thriving experimental electronic music scene since 2012, he released his debut records under the name Hekt for the Scottish record label Numbers in 2024 – Lens and Dream. Hekt has mixed releases for the Norwegian duo Smerz, and as part of the duo Code Walk, Nørbæk has released five EPs, the most recent three as a trilogy for the Peder Mannerfelt's label imprint.

As a solo sound artist, Hekt's practice is rooted in the development of software for generative composition and synthesis in Max/MSP, creating systems for use in performances and installations at renowned museums and galleries like the Statens Museum of Kunst, Simian, and OK Corral. His performances range from the artsy and ambient to the club peak-time, including audiovisual elements derived from his own visuals coded in Jitter and GLSL.

HurHur is a solo music project started in 2012 by multidisciplinary artists Timo Viialainen (FIN). It is based on the experimental use of an electroacoustic alto hurdy gurdy. Hurdy gurdy is drone based instrument mostly used in folk music but here it is used to create an immersive droney wall of sound that also contains hints of melodic repetative parts and rythms that come and go. Live gigs are very intense mix of improvisation and musically meaninful dramaturgy that slowly builds up to cathartic heights. HurHur has played live in different festivals and events in Europe and North America.

Husbands is the performance duo of artists and choreographers Yevheniya Kravets (Amsterdam/Zurich) and Yann Slattery (Basel). While fabulating on queer-trans utopian fiction, their work plays with notions of masculinity and fluid-homo intimacies from a trans-masc perspective.

They use gamer language and structures as tools for interaction with their surroundings and the audience – bleeding out, glitching in-between, yielding, adding players and forever transforming. Coming from a place of playfulness, the duo’s practice questions the relationship between audience and performer – challenging the purported power dynamics of the gaze.

At Norbergfestival 2025, Husbands will present a new adaptation of their performance Playbois (2023), a choreography with original score exploring intimacy within the gendered scripts of game engine mechanics. The duo glitch between a number of both Playable and Non-Playable game Characters that are seemingly moved around the gamespace via a collaged choreography, fusing movement material from different GTA characters, such as the pimp and the stripper.

Within this broken gameplay, the playbois fluctuate between getting played and playing themselves, searching for moments of resistance within the role of the trickster.

Husbands will perform as part of Norbergfestival's bleed: lineup.

Ida Davidsson is a visual artist working with live visuals and performances, video installations and music videos. With careful attention to details, textures and colors she creates surreal, dreamlike visuals imitating natural occurrences - subtle in motion with a deliberate meditative pace.

Her work has been showcased at festivals and events across Scandinavia, Germany, Portugal, Spain and the U.S.
Ida Davidsson is part of Norbergfestival's collaboration with Nonagon Festival.

Ida Lundén (1971-) is a composer and musician active primarily in chamber music, electronic and improvised music. Her music can be described as playful and exploratory and often takes its starting point from nonmusical elements such as clothespins, folding rules, and walking paths threatened with closure, moreover she often uses previously existing music as a starting point for composing.

Collaborations are an important part of her artistic work, and she has, among other things, composed music for several dance performances. Ida Lundén teaches composition at Gotland School of Music Composition, and is a lecturer in art with a focus on sound at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design.

Ida Lundén is part of the Tonis showcase.

Malmö-based jubilee has a multifaceted approach to the stage through her work as a performance artist, producer, technician, and set designer. Her work is characterized by collaborative, site-specific processes representing her experimentation with a given medium.

In the flow of converging and diverging boundaries between art forms, synergies bend and perplex her work, melding interhuman and natural dimensions. Her work has been exhibited in productions at venues across Malmö, such as Inkonst and Lokstallarna.

At Norbergfestival, Rivet has invited jubilee to perform a live interpretation of his music, drawing from influences in acrobatics and contemporary modern.

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when you're finally a DJ Hero expert you have to go on and do something more. you live too close to Tesco so you make an album called “Tesco”, you move to Warsaw, you play some gigs, you dj, you play some more gigs, you release your second album "śpie" in Gin&Platonic, your cinematic hardcore "Human Sapiens Ep" in Pointless Geometry, your trailer-core ep “Julek! Julek! Julek!” in glamour.label that you owned, you finally finish your third, epic, cinematic LP “Hotel *****” for Orange Milk Records and you’re so happy it’s out, you start BFF Music label, you work on an EP for Dyspensa Records and there’s like a thousand other songs in the making . . .

life is fast so you do kickboxing bum bum and finally fall asleep and finally wake up and finally fall asleep and do kickboxing bumbum!!!!!

finally, you think “This is it” and you feel not sure how . . .

With support from Polish Institute in Stockholm.

Juli Deák, a Polish-Hungarian flutist and saxophonist based in Stockholm, brings a unique fusion of classical, contemporary, and jazz music to the stage. With a foundation in classical music, her artistic work now explores extended techniques, circular breathing, and improvisation.

Her solo project, The Breathing Project, invites the audience into an intimate and organic sound world, where tender melodies intertwine with ever-lasting circular breathing and percussive effects. By highlighting the hidden sounds of the flute—breath noise, key clicks, and subtle tonal shifts—she creates a deeply immersive atmosphere. During her performances, she challenges both her physical limits and the traditional boundaries of the flute, presenting the circular breathing technique in a way that is raw and direct, connecting with the audience on a visceral level. She also incorporates singing while playing, offering a pure and fundamental form of expression that further amplifies the emotional depth of her music. Her piece Tamed has been selected for the Ung Nordisk Musik Festival in 2025.

KABLAM is a Stockholm-based producer and composer who started her career in 2013 as a resident DJ at Berlin’s legendary Janus party, alongside M.E.S.H. and Lotic. Her debut EP, Furiosa, was released by Janus in 2016. Since then, she’s self-released a full-length album and several EPs, and has collaborated with artists such as estoc, Coucou Chloe, Your Planet Is Next, Dinamarca and Niklas Dahlqvist. Her remix work spans an extensive range, including reworks for mobilegirl, object blue, DJ Babatr, Osheyack and many others.

KABLAM’s sound is defined by intricate rhythms, experimental sampling and immersive textures—blending found sounds and sonic maximalism into what some have dubbed “stonkcore.”

She performs both as a DJ and live act, with appearances at venues and festivals including Berghain, Sonic Acts, ALL Club Shanghai, Circus Tokyo, Left Bank Tbilisi, Nrmal Festival Mexico, Roskilde Festival and many more.

KABLAM will be performing as part of the EMS Showcase at Norbergfestival 2025.

Hailing from New York City, sensation Kilbourne has established herself on the global techno and hardcore scene over the past decade through her slamming productions and enigmatic live sets. Kilbourne’s singular interpretation of techno and hardcore draws from her background in the melting pot of NYC.

Constantly surrounded by various cultures and influences, this diversity constantly pushed her to develop her signature sound. After years of performing and producing, Kilbourne's recognizable aura has created a loyal fanbase around the world that travel miles just to see her play again.

Her DJ sets showcase an unrelenting drive and spontaneous selection that moves the crowd to their absolute limit. She has toured widely across North America and Europe with high caliber events such as Berghain, Boiler Room, Tresor and many others.

After critically acclaimed releases on Industrial Strength Records, HATE Records and PRSPCT, 2024 sees her launching Hammerhead, a new label and event series showcasing the most psychedelic and brutal sounds of the genre. Kilbourne maintains her status as one of the most in-demand female producers of this generation.

Klara Lewis (b. 1993) is an internationally acclaimed sound sculptor who’s audio-visual expression has been presented at clubs, art galleries and festivals all around Europe (Atonal, Mutek, Sonar and Semibreve, etc, etc). Through heavily manipulated samples and field recordings, Klara Lewis shapes a unique organic sound world – a microcosm oscillating between gentle progression and violent disintegration. Lewis has so far released four solo albums, all on the legendary Editions Mego label as well as a number of musical collaborations with artists such as Peder Mannerfelt, Nik Colk Void and Yuki Tsuji of Bo Ningen.

Klara Lewsi will perform as part of the IRRLICHT showcase.

Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist whose work is grounded on the discourse of field recording, noise, and sound art. His work posits expanded listening cultures of sonic thoughts and sound practices, a proposition to consider and reflect on auditory cultures beyond the norms. An awareness of surroundings through creative compositions, installations, and performances.

Besides profound releases on labels like Editions Mego, Subtext, Seil Records, and his own imprint OFNOT, Kamaru has earned international acclaim for his performances in far-flung locales such as the Barbican, Berlin Atonal, CTM festival, Le Guess Who and Tramway. KMRU has received an honorary mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2023 and holds an MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts.

KMRU has carved out a serious and definitive space on the list of essential authors in ambient-experimental music – one of the most prolific and innovative artists in his field.

///////////////////////////////////////////////////– STICKY ALGORITHMS HAVE GLITCHES PIERCING MY EARS WITH BRAINEATING MAGGOTS // TEXTURIZE YOUR MARROW WITH MONOCHROME MANDIBLES // INVISIBLE SPIRITS WHISPER ABOUT JELLY AND VISCERAL HOMECOMINGS // JUICY MEMORIES OF OCEANIC CURRENTS THOUGH THE NEBULA WOUNDS // X-RAY HOMUNCULUS HOPES TO FIND EQUILIBRIUM THROUGH TIMBRE AND CORROSION // LET ME VOMIT VIBRATIONAL FIELDS INTO SOULS HELD IN EGGSHELLS OF SINEW // MY LIQUID GLASS SWALLOWS FETAL DANCES AFTER THE MERCIFUL PRISON LAMENTS ITS SOLITUDE // WHEN THE TONES ARE EXPUNGED FROM MY BODY I WILL SURF ON ASTRALLY PROJECTED BRAINWAVES AND FORCE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION TO GROW ON CEREBRUMS LIKE CHERRY BLOSSOMS AND HELP SYNAPTIC EXPLOSIONS THROUGH ORGASMIC THETA WAVES SPARKLING WITH TEETH // SYNTHETIC HOPE IN WORLD MUSIC AND BURLESQUE FREEDOM THROUGH LIBERATIONAL SOUNDS == SOUNDS // CAN I SCREAM ABOUT MY APPENDIX EXPLODING? CAN I HEAR GUTTURAL COUGHS THROUGH RUSTY WINDOWPLANES? CAN I MAKE SPECTRAL WASP WAVELENGTHS == BEAUTIFUL =/= ME DESTROYING IT // I WANT DISTORTION I WANT LENGTH I WANT TO SANDBLAST CRANIUMS WITH MY NOISE I WANT TO SOOTHE MY SOUL WITH NOISE I WANT TO FALL IN LOVE IN NOISE I WANT TO HATE NOISE I WANT TO DIE IN NOISE I WANT TO LIVE IN NOISE I WANT TO MAKE NOISE I WANT TO MAKE NOISE I WANT TO MAKE NOISE I WANT TO MAKE NOISE I WANT TO MAKE NOISE I WANT TO MAKE NOISE I WANT TO MAKE NOISE IT’S MY COCOON IT’S MY COCOON OF NOISE IT’S MY COCOON OF NOISE IT’S MY COCOON –///////////////////////////////////////////////////

Laban Bettles is part of the Tonis showcase.

Leila Bordreuil is a cellist, composer and sound artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her music accesses concepts from noise, free jazz, contemporary classical and other experimental traditions but adheres to no single genre. Mixing melancholic cello melodies with harsh noise walls, she creates “steadily scathing music, favoring long and corrosive atonalities.” (New York Times). Driven by a fierce interest in pure sound and inherent texture, Leila challenges conventional cello practice through extreme extended techniques and amplification methods, to the extent she sometimes seems to be playing the P.A rather than her cello. Her composed works frequently incorporate sound-spatialization by way of site-specific pieces and multichannel installations. 

Bordreuil is a dedicated improviser and “rising figure in New York’s improvised music scene” (The Chicago Reader), having performed with a wide variety of artists such as Marina Rosenfeld, Zeena Parkins, Bill Nace, Toshimaru Nakamura, Kim Gordon, Eli Kezsler, Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano, Nate Wooley, C. Spencer Yeh, Aki Onda and SENYAWA to name a few. 

Ongoing collaborative projects include duos with Tamio Shiraishi (Fushitutsa), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Kali Malone, Laurel Halo, Zach Rowden (Tongue Depressor), Julia Santoli, a trio with Susan Alcorn and Ingrid Laubrock, and the “Feedback Ensemble”, which she co-leads with Luke Stewart (Irreversible Entanglements).

Leila’s work has been showcased at The Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, The Stone, Barbican (London), Cafe Oto (London), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), LUFF Festival (Lausanne), All Ears Festival (Oslo), Centquatre (Paris), Les Instants Chavirés (Paris), Ausland (Berlin), Edition Festival (Stockholm), Control Club (Bucharest), Brdcst Festival (Brussels), KAII Theater (Brussels), KRAAK Festival (Belgium), Ftarri (Tokyo) and countless DIY basements across the USA. She is a 2025 Fondation Camargo Fellow (Cassis, France), and was a 2022-23 Jerome Foundation artist fellow.

Leo Caputo (b. 1994) is a musician from Ancona, Italy, currently studying as first year master in electroacoustic composition at Stockholm's KMH, focusing mainly on site-specific sound installations that explore the relationship between music and space.

Victor Lisinski (b. 1987) is a composer and mathematician, raised in the Stockholm archipelago. He often explores how music can function as places or states to abide in, with a particular focus on extended processes, inharmonic spectra, field recordings, and generative systems for improvisation. Victor's earlier studies and freelance work in composition were followed by several years abroad in the service of mathematics, primarily at Oxford University, where he received his doctorate in mathematical logic and number theory. He has now returned to Stockholm, where he is pursuing a master's degree in composition at the Royal College of Music.

At Norbergfestival they will perform together as part of the KMH Showcase.

In his younger years, two of his friends had been talking about a strange language which contained words like oscillators, VCF’s and more…

From that moment on, the young Ling Ling was determined to learn this strange language of machines and what not. The TB303 seemed to be his favorite word in this language, and became best friends with this strange machine.

Today he talks this language, which is called Acid, and does this in many dialects. We can say that Ling Ling can bring this timeless phenomenon in every way possible. By releasing this universal frequencies on his own label FTSK and other solid imprints, we can assure Ling Ling is here to stay

Lithic Alliance is a more-than-human collective founded in 2020 that is predominantly working within the lithological realm and understands minerals, their energies and vibrations, as active collaborators in their earthly entanglement projects. Their research digs into the ecological and geopolitical foundation of co-existence, animisms and the rights of nature resulting in multifaceted projects that investigates connections spanning over vast temporalities to identify phenomenological correspondence and queer kinship.

Lithic Alliance investigates vibrancy as a medium of interspecies communication and listening that goes beyond systematically traceable signals. Within their site specific projects and installations sound synthesis, movement and performances serve as tools to establish connections and circles of exchange with material others to collectively work on speculations of temporalities, deep time relationships and near future scenarios.

Lithic Alliance exhibited/ performed amongst others at Beiqui Museum of Contemporary Art Nanijng, Radvilas Art Palace Vilnius, Institute of Contemporary Art ICA London, Stems Brussels, Parsec Bologna, Kunsthalle Bern, Couronne Biel, Art Safiental Biennale, Haus Konstruktiv Zürich, Gasträume Zürich, Bâtiment D’art Contemporain (Le Commun) Geneva, A Domestic Art Fair ADAF, Saachi Gallery, P/////AKT Amsterdam.

Lithic Alliance will be a part of the all-night Mimer performance/installation Here, a nut falls twice.

Lou Drago believes in the transformative potential of sound and the importance of deep listening, whether that is listening to each other, our needs, to the more-than-human or to the sounds all around us. Their creative work takes various shapes, yet frequently employs sounds, words, ritual objects, other beings and affective experiences. They create intentional environments to host 'listening occasions' drawing connections between the transformative potential of sound, the necessity for collectivity and solidarity during neoliberal times, queer-anti-racist-feminisms, meditation and related theories.

Since 2017 they have been curating and hosting t r a n s i e n c e, an ambient, experimental, drone and experient focused show on Cashmere Radio, Berlin. Each month a different guest responds to the brief of creating an anxiety-alleviating temporary suspension of reality. In 2021 together with marum, they founded infinity rug a collective who shape space for community, collectivity and healing through expanded listening sessions. In their sonic seances they weave together music, poetry, other spoken word impulses, somatic practices, performative interventions, film screenings, installation, tea ceremonies and other sensorial delights.

Lou Drago will be a part of the all-night Mimer performance/installation Here, a nut falls twice.

M M M is a composer and audiovisual artist born 1987 in Finland, currently based in Stockholm. She holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy and a BA in electroacoustic composition from The Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. M M M's artistic expression, which has always been interdisciplinary, primarily consists of musical pieces, paintings and sculptures. Accents of video, light, fashion, performance and text coexist in between. Also, collaborations.

The multi-medial works are separate but often build entities together. Her visual language turns towards a kind of thorn minimalism with referential traces in signs, fragments and materiality, carrying ambiguous layers of meaning. Also recurring are movements between artificial – natural, and hard – fragile, which are some of the most tangible aspects within her musical pieces too, where dark, machine-sounding synths and industrial soundscapes meet archaic voices and vibrant instrumental timbres. She often explores fields where electronic and acoustic sounds intermix, though purely acoustic works with a cappella or organ etc. appear too.

Granulation, extended techniques, own tunings and the voice as an instrument are other central traits in her music. M M M’s pieces, though multilayered and poetic, are often marked with conceptual influences like anthropocenic imprints, existential phenomena and accents of systems theory in contexts like extended ecology and transcorporeality. She is interested in how ideas spread and materialize; how (un)conscious mechanisms within the self and the outside world interact and crystallize in various (im)material forms.

Roya Naini is an electroacoustic composer and electronic artist based in Sweden. She has a background in diverse acoustic instruments, most recently pipe organ and Persian santur, which frequently make appearances throughout her works alongside modular synthesis using Buchla. Together these timbral juxtapositions form the basis for her electroacoustic compositions using counterpoint and spectral techniques.

Roya holds a special affinity for stark dynamics and contrasts, influenced heavily by visual arts where light and shadow play important roles, and her music often carries a dramatic intensity exploring lurid psychological themes and heightened emotional states. As an electronic artist, Roya has produced and released five albums and performed live in Sweden and North America.

At Norbergfestival they will play together as part of the KMH Showcase, blending their sound worlds of voices, pedals, and acoustic and electronic instruments.

Mandus Ridefelt is a biologist, artist, night porter, writer, administrator, singer, high school teacher and cultural researcher. 

If conventional maps are made to know and move through large things, like landmasses, something strange is happening when sciences and psyches try to map that which is tiny. ”endo” is a lecture experience laying out a theory of navigation for the smallest possible spaces, like molecular traffic or a fading love.

Mandus lives in Copenhagen and works internationally.

Mandus Ridefelt is part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

cybernetic modular systems

computer music code

immersive speaker setups

impulses clicks kicks

sinewaves squarewaves noise

teaching electroacoustic music

tonsättarskolan visby sweden

tonmeister audiorama sweden

mörk materia förlag

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Marcus Wrangö is part of the Tonis showcase.

Marijn Degenaar (aka. Circular Ruins) (NL) is a Berlin based artist working within the fields of sound, moving image, design and performance. His work explores dream-logic, altered perception and the forces forming/distorting consensus reality. 

Marijn holds a MA of Fine Arts and Design from Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam and co-runs Berlin experimental music platform Tranceversal Voices.

Marijn Degenaar will be a part of the all-night Mimer performance/installation Here, a nut falls twice.

Oslo-based collective Ute comes to Norbergfestival for a label showcase on the Saturday featuring their residents Marius Bø, Ekkel, and Mikkel Rev, together bringing their music into a new environment, shaped by the festival’s raw, industrial surroundings.

Marius Bø is a figure within the northern hemisphere of the electronic music landscape whose artistry is deeply rooted in a profound connection to nature's atmosphere and the communal spirit of open-air gatherings. As one of the co-founders of Ute, Marius' musical journey finds its origins nestled amidst the Norwegian forests. It is here, between the trees and rustling leaves, that his sound took root, hosting and playing parties deep in the woods.

Marius’ sets can be seen as a concoction of psychedelic atmospherics, generating dynamic tensions and sublime releases that work both the body and mind. Mastering different tempos and moods of deep hypnosis, he deftly connects the dots between old school records and futuristic soundscapes. Whether it’s ambient, idm, trance or techno, the Ute label-head seamlessly blends the sounds with a captivating elegance.

From hazy braindance to high-energy vibrations in mist-shrouded forests, balmy shores and dimly-lit basements, Marius navigates diverse settings with his distinctive musical style that takes a gentle yet firm grip on the soul. His unique approach has brought him to iconic venues such as Pawnshop, Bassiani and Macadam, and to festivals such as Monument in the heart of Norway’s forest, Organik on a hidden peninsula in Taiwan and Outsider, deep in the Australian bush. Whether in intimate clubs or verdant outdoor landscapes, Marius' music carries an organic and trippy spirit that transcends time and space.

At Norbergfestival, Marius Bø will play back to back together with Ekkel, the other half of Accelerationism.

Mati Jhurry’s practice concerns the tension between exoticism and the exotified; the labour and politics involved in selling escape, the performativity within luxury experience and the commodification of care. Mati makes art through performance, investigation, video, sculpture and collaborative practices in search of new narratives of decolonization.

For Norbergfestival, Mati will conduct a series of interventions that juxtapose the festival gore-tex with luxury experience.

Mati Jhurry is part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

Matilda Tjäder is an artist and composer based in Malmö. Working interdisciplinary across sound, writing, performance, and moving image, Tjäder employs fiction as score and conceptual framework to critically examine social, infrastructural, and emotional landscapes. 

She holds an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London and is the founder of the ambulatory live-series Scaling. Recent projects include “Drain the Oresund”, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (2025); “Rewild”, Basement, Copenhagen (2025); “exhibit a”, Die Verabredung, Cologne (2024); “Intonal”, Inkonst, Malmö (2025); “Drive”, RSVP, London (2024) and “Spring Exhibition”, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2025).  

Matilda Tjäder will be a part of the all-night Mimer performance/installation Here, a nut falls twice.

Oslo-based collective Ute comes to Norbergfestival for a label showcase on the Saturday featuring their residents Marius Bø, Ekkel, and Mikkel Rev, together bringing their music into a new environment, shaped by the festival’s raw, industrial surroundings.

Mikkel is a hidden and mysterious figure in Oslo's underground scene and a core member of the Ute collective. Drawing deeply from early psychedelic music and analog hardware, he has sculpted a signature sound that seamlessly merges old-school trance with emotional depth and a soft, melodic touch. His expansive body of work - whether through solo projects or collaborative ventures like Omformer and Solar Alliance - highlights his command of analog equipment and his ability to channel the essence of early psychedelic influences into a forward-thinking, modern sound.

Mikkel Rev’s solo EPs on Ute.Rec, alongside contributions to labels like Amniote Editions, Positive Source, and Blue Hour, showcase his dedication to crafting immersive, one-of-a-kind soundscapes. His versatility is highlighted through releases that span from high-energy, dance floor-tailored tracks to hypnotic, hour-long ambient journeys of Omformer, and idm/ambient albums on A Strangely Isolated Place and Translusid. This broad spectrum of output reflects Mikkel’s ability to seamlessly move between the intensity of club environments and the introspective depths of electronic experimentation.

At Norbergfestival, Mikkel Rev will play a brand new live set tending towards idm, ambient and noise.

Minus Miele is a poet and translator based in Stockholm. She recently released the poetry book “Ägg, kyckling, sten” (Chateaux, 2025) and has among others translated works by french poets Pierre Alferi and Dorothée Volut.

Minus Miele will perform as part of the IRRLICHT showcase and as part of Lyrik i samklang.

Mouth Wound is the solo project of Danish multi-instrumentalist Trine Paaschburg. She utilizes noise, textured soundscapes, repetitive heavy elements and draws in live acoustic drone sampling with expanded vocal techniques. The music deals with themes such as physical/existential malaise and the search for tranquil, an expression that has been described as alluringly meditative yet masochistic when experienced live.

simon frantzich performs inverkan of nettle skin as a part of the tonis showcase. improvisational

timbre system reassembled at the loss of ambisonics and still bleeding. a red fruit the size of a

plum pops out. the more i dig up the sand the more red, round fruits come out. i’m so excited i

keep digging in the sand, cradling the red fruits in one arm. the touch of the very soft, warm sand.

the red fruit.

nettle skin is part of the Tonis showcase.

N I T E F I S H is a Swedish transcendental gabber act creating a euphoric hybrid of punkrap vocals with lush hyperpop, thundering gabber kicks and breakcore. Swimming in a world of sensory overload, N I T E F I S H’s multimedia performances exfoliate the senses. Part rave, part exorcism, his explosive stage presence and live camera visuals immerse audiences into new forms of catharsis, exploring the dancefloor as a revolutionary weapon.

The solarpunk album "Permaculture Heaven", captures a post-carbon society emerging from the ashes of a fossil fueled dystopia.

Felicia Sjögren is a Swedish artist and composer living in Stockholm. Her work often takes form in site-specific installations and live performances, where the relationship to space and time is a central aspect. Experiences of being part of different anarchist projects is fundamental for her practice as well as the research, often involving learning from and with DIY communities, amateur groups or organizations.

The work spans from the visible radiation of light captured by the camera optics into the spectra of invisible electromagnetic fields of radio waves. In her sonic practice she uses antennas, electronic synthesis, field recordings and acoustic instruments depending on the project. She often works with structures of slow, gradual transformations that explore the sonic texture as physical material and wave phenomena.

She will also be performing together with David Linnros, as part of KMH Showcase.

NZE NZE is the fusion of artists Matthieu Ruben N’Dongo (Sacred Lodge) and Tioma Tchoulanov (UVB76): A two-headed entity convened and driven by the Astropolis festival at the end of 2020. 

After this anchor initiated by Brest-based Astropolis festival, a residency in the Parisian studios of Red Bull Music Academy followed in early 2021. Here, they constructed an epic story intertwining the warrior songs of the Fang people of Central Africa (Matthieu Ruben N’Dongo’s heritage) and the codes of industrial, postpunk and dub music.

A filiation carried loud and clear by the singer of NZE NZE draws from this geographical separation, due to the political context in Equatorial Guinea, a source of inspiration for their musical project. Real facts and imaginary counter-narratives collide, to suggest a dystopian future and to underline with rage the ethical and economic problems of the meanders of the colonialist past.

Oda Haugerud (1990, SE) is an artist currently based in Malmö, Sweden. With an insistingly glitching pathos her work centers the sensory aspects of listening as an urgent matter. Her work has been described as "a breath of fresh air" and "claustrophobic" by others. 

Haugeruds multidisciplinary installations consist of audio, kinetic sculpture, 3D prints, video, text and repurposed matter. Tending to material such as byproducts of tech, broken musical instruments and infrastructural residues of city life. 

For Norbergsfestivalen Haugerud will present a new audio work from the inside of a ventilation duct similar to her work 'LOSE YOURSELF (CHOPPED ‘N SCREWED)' (2024) where a grand ventilation system of a building operated as a sound system. The new audio work 'DSM-666’ (2025) offers a limbo translating emotional experiences of containment and leakage. A work that gives space for the polyphony of consequences and hope that evolve within the conditions of standardized emotions and ”big tech”.

Haugerud obtained a Master of Fine Art at Malmö Art Academy (2024) and a Bachelor degree of Fine Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (2018), being nominated for the GRA Awards for her thesis “Living Dead Surplus” (2018). Previous exhibitions and artist residencies include internationally in countries such as US, Germany, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, The Netherlands and Georgia. Previous solo exhibitions include Hall Gallery, SE (2023), Spaysky Fine Art Gallery at Good Weather, US (2022), Galleri Konstepidemin, SE (2020) and Heerz Tooya, BG (2019).

Oda Haugerud is part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

Ola Bergman is a composer and producer of electronic music, rooted in the dance music scene of the 90s. Currently exploring the vast manifold of musical possibilities – under the umbrella of electro acoustic composition at KMH; where modular synthesizers is a vein of special interest for extensive investigations. Ola Bergman has made several releases and has performed live frequently under the moniker Obergman.

Linnéa Talp is a composer and musician (singer/organist), based in Stockholm. In the spring of 2022, her album Arch of Motion was released, music written for pipe organ, with subtle elements of instruments such as bass clarinet, voice and transverse flute. Participants do i.a. Mariam Wallentin (voice) and Christer Bothén (bass clarinet). Her body of work is based on timbre and of slowly evolving harmonic, intending to examine the physical experience of breathing. In recent years, she has appeared in contexts such as Alternativa festival (Prague), Lumen Project (Sthlm), Organ Sound Art Festival (Copenhagen) and Café OTO (London).

This is their first collaboration, where they will present newly written music, composed specifically for Norbergfestival 2025 as part of the KMH Showcase.

OMSK Social Club is a stewarded and sprawling collective whose artistic practice is created between two lived worlds, one of life as we know it and the other of role play. These worlds bleed into one, creating a chasm of enquiry that takes the form of a specific immersive methodology they coined in 2017, called Real Game Play: collective immersion and speculative worlding. From these live iterations, media relics are harvested such as films, scripts and large-scale installations invoking states and gateways that could potentially be a fiction or a yet, unlived reality. 

OMSK Social Club works closely with networks of viewers, everything is unique and unrehearsed. The living installations they create examine virtual egos, popular experiences and cautionary tales. Allowing the works to become a dematerialized hybrid of modern-day culture alongside the participant's unique personal experiences. In the past, OMSK Social Club’s Real Game Play immersive environments have explored landscapes and topics such as memetic visual architectures, cryptoraves, desire and sacrifice, asemic hyper tools, micro-gridded affinity groups, DAOs and consensus rituals. 

They have exhibited across Europe in various institutions, galleries, theatres and off-sites such as Martin Gropius Bau, House of Electronic Kunst Basel, HKW, Berlin, MUDAM, Luxemburg, La Casa Encendida, Madrid and Light Art Space Berlin. They have been included in CTM Festival (2021), 34th Ljubljana Biennial (2021) 6th Athens Biennale (2018), Transmediale Festival (2019), The Influencers (2018) and Impakt Festival (2018). In 2021 they co-curated the 7th Athens Biennale with Larry Ossei-Mensah.

OMSK Social Club will exhibit as part of Norbergfestival's bleed: lineup.

The Hague (NL) based sound artist and composer Oscar Peters has a deep-rooted fascination with the pipe organ. As an active musician in contemporary experimental and electronic music, his recent research and artistic outputs have been focused on the unconventional use of pipe organs and this instrument's sonic behaviour in acoustic spaces. He has designed and created nine of his own experimental organs that have allowed him to further investigate the sonic qualities of these instruments. His album Breath, composed for and performed on his organs, is released on the same label that has featured music by Ryuichi Sakamoto and FUJI||||||||||TA.

In 2023, Peters was composer-in-residence for Rewire festival, where he premiered the commissioned project Echos, that has been written for his self-built organs and features the saxophonist Wietse Voermans and the clarinettist Fie Schouten as collaborators. In this project, Peters delicately weaves together soundscapes that oscillate between hushed noises and lush, prolonged drones, creating a deeply immersive and evocative listening experience.

Since then, Peters has performed his music at renowned festivals and venues such as Gaudeamus festival, November Music, FAQ festival, and London's infamous Stone's Nest.

Oscar Peters will be performing as part of the EMS Showcase at Norbergfestival 2025.

Routed in a drawing practice, Relm Arrowny’s work engages with the social and political agency of seemingly two-dimensional objects and characters. She explores the relational entanglements of magic and imagination in world building - simultaneously challenging the laws of thermodynamics and our perception of physical worlds. Using drawing and sketching as her primary starting point, the outer perimeters of her creations and their material consequences are far more indistinct - exciting the binary of the unreal. Her speech patterns are rude and casual, and often uses the mention of drawing someone's portrait as a threat.
Relm Arrowny was born in 1994 on Crescent Island. Her work has been exhibited extensively internationally.

She is part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

Rivet’s (a.k.a Grovskopa) debut On Feather and Wire was released in 2020 on the revered Editions Mego label, 20 years into his career. It surprised and delighted with its punk spirit, industrial pulse, sensual atmospherics and body music flavor. Hinted at by his work as the enthusiast behind Kess Kill record label and the years honing his production skills as a solo artist, the Malmö favorite's current sound has a sophisticated slink and a surprisingly accessible twist of pop, while still recognizable in its dance music lineage. 2023 saw Rivet’s second album L+P-2 on Midnight Shift Records, a “touching and occasionally searing portrait of grief through the lens of post-punk techno”, as described by Resident Advisor.

Rivet's third album Peck Glamour, out in March on Editions Mego, recognizes his dancefloor roots. It is an album of optimism inspired by reconciliation with loss and further explorations of new mental/sonic realms. Its tracks are the results of a mind informed by punk, industrial, techno, dancefloor, disappointment, trauma and rebirth. Here the synthetic and authentic is viewed simply as the same means of human rationale and expression. It is yet another rebirth from an artist willing to take a step back and reprise the current situation he is in. In addition, Hallbäck is producing and mixing Sandwell District’s new album End Beginnings, due the same month.

At Norbergfestival, Rivet will bring his signature live sound presented together with a performance by jubilee.

RÖD MJÖLK is the brainchild of Jassir Kuronen, a Finnish visual artist, VJ, and designer. Through this visual project, he focuses on creating new experiences by exploring familiar ideas and concepts through deconstruction, distortion, and contrast. Emerging from Helsinki's underground club scene, his work and performances have been presented at numerous museums and festivals across Europe, including DEMO in the Netherlands and Baltic Circle in Finland.

RÖD MJÖLK is part of Norbergfestival's collaboration with Aavistus Festival.

S McEvoy (1987, IE/DK) investigates the deployment of sound in ongoing relations of power, and its manifestations in categories like vibration, sensation and embodiment.

Their interdisciplinary engagement with sculpture, performance and theoretical research traces sound as an unfolding formation, sensory field and cultural construction.

Creatively indebted to intuition, improvisation and exasperation, their work questions romanticised ideas of sound, instead enabling disquieting and ambiguous encounters that may or may not present more hopeful avenues for sonic thought.

S McEvoy is part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

Sofie Herner (b. 1984) is a contemporary underground and DIY veteran. Herner’s work is driven byan approach which favours the primal and raw over any notion of virtuosity or academic expertise,inviting chance and improvisation as a way of pushing her compositions into a state of violentvulnerability. Over the past decade Herner has been an integral part of the Swedish experimental/noise scene as a part of Neutral, Källarbarnen, the Enhet För Fri Musik collective, etc. In her soloproject Leda, she constructs stealthy rhythms and phantom melodies using the electric guitar. Inrecent years she has been operating as second drummer in Eternal Music Society from Malmö.

Sofie Herner will perform as part of the IRRLICHT showcase and as part of Lyrik i samklang.

Sophie Vitelli (SE/IT) is a Stockholm-based composer of electroacoustic music and a sound designer. Her work explores the synaesthetic qualities and porous boundaries of harmonic systems that resist familiar consonance. Engaging with both modular synthesizer and guitar, she constructs sonic environments that dwell in emotional resonance and surrealist fantasy.

Sophie Vitelli is part of the Tonis showcase.

Spatiosselet is a composer and performer of quirky, UFO-inspired techno tribe. A collector of toys, she repurposes them as new sound generators, becoming the true leitmotifs of her creations. The use of circuit-bent toys in her compositions adds an experimental, burlesque, and cartoonish dimension to her music, which is infused with childlike sounds. Mainly influenced by the Fluxus movement, quantum physics, and platform games, she has a particular fondness for comedic and cosmic tones, robotic timbres, and science-fiction aesthetics.

T Fykse (b. 2002) is a Norwegian composer, based in Oslo. She has a background as a classical- and jazz pianist, having played from an early age. T Fykse has recently been focusing on her composing. She composes mostly for acoustic ensembles, but electroacoustics as well. It is the curiosity for sounds, stories, and ideas of the unknown that drives her to compose.

For this set up, she will experiment with the movement of sounds. Something will come up, by this planned improvisation. “There is a situation, just listen” T Fykse is a new name in the electroacoustic field, and will debut on Norberg Festival 2025 as a part of “Gotlands Tonsättarskola” - Showcase.

T Fykse is part of the Tonis showcase.

On his forthcoming release on acclaimed label Stroom, the Copenhagen-based producer and electronic musician Anton Friiisgaard travels new paths, as he explores gamelan music in close collaboration with Balinese musicians, afliated with Ubud’s acclaimed Gamelan scene.

After experiencing a concert with the ensemble Gamelan Salukat at Roskilde Festival in 2018, Friisgaard became inspired to contact Dewa Alit from the ensemble. With the aim of bringing forth a unique expression through the meeting of two distinct musical traditions, Friisgaard traveled to Ubud, Bali and spent 3 weeks in a private residence, recording, composing and improvising in close collaboration with the ensemble.

The result is the album Teratai Åkande, made together with artists Pande Made Gangga Sentana, I Nyoman Suwida, Dewa Badukz, Suryana Putra and Pande Made Gangga of Gamelan Salukat.

Conceptually, Teratai Åkande seeks to create a synthesis of acoustic and electronic expressions, establishing two worlds on each side of a metaphorical portal that the listener is welcomed to traverse. The result is a musical landscape which at once feels mysterious and hypnotic, while at the same time manifesting a sense of groundedness.

With its lucid underpinnings, the music thus feels as the crossing of a more mundane portal; namely that of slowly letting go of consciousness and falling into deep sleep, only to find oneself in the midst of vivid dreaming.

The Centre for the Fictitious Ante Facto is a fully functional para-institution and avant-garde white cube space built on the premise that ‘a white cube is a dice with no dots’.

Founded in 2024, the mobile centre has previously exhibited Jens Masimov and published a book On Tent Hooks (2024), using its grabber mechanism. At its core, the Centre is a receptacle of open-ended eventualities premised on a willingness to call oneself a gambler or that structures are games, and games are gambles, and gambles are desires, and desires are anti-intellectual.

It is a hotline, collection, examination, catalogue, editing service, studying room, researching conference, cross-reference, number, assembly-line, classification, conservator, document and display. For the fans, chancers and academics alike, the informal, improper and public are the centre’s official activities.

Director and Founder, Nathalie Viruly, runs the centre, which is currently in tenure at Stockholm University. In this instance, at Norberg Festival 2025, the Centre for the Fictitious Ante Facto is curated by Bad Federation.

The Centre for the Fictitious Ante Facto is part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.

Thibaut Knapp is a French-German multidisciplinary fashion designer who grew up between Paris and the Black Forest. The tension between the pulsating capital and the rawness of untamed nature shaped his creative path from an early age. After studying Womenswear at the Royal College of Art in London and working for Rick Owens and Charlotte Knowles, he founded his own atelier to explore textile development, pencil drawing, sculptural installations, and tech-couture garments.

Knapp pushes technical apparel into uncanny terrains, where eco-conscious textiles and otherworldly silhouettes emerge. Rooted in the Romantic theory of Wanderlust—the quest to access metaphysical realms through solitary communion with immense landscapes—he approaches design as ritual and transcendental exploration. Specializing in cutting on the stand, he sculpts fabric onto the body that he envisions as a landscape, merging craftsmanship with the wild forces of nature: a hip becomes a mountain, a draping a river, a rubber-coated fabric a torrent of lava.

His hybrid designs—soil-aged leathers, real plants frozen in silicone, and geologically layered, weatherproof prints—have caught the eye of Zendaya, Donna Huanca, Zaho de Sagazan, among many others. Building his own mythology, Knapp crafts an essential wardrobe for the lustful wanderer and the 21st-century Neo-Romantic explorer.

Thibaut Knapp will be a part of the all-night Mimer performance/installation Here, a nut falls twice.

Tingshusparken returns as an off-site stage for festival visitors and town inhabitants alike to enjoy an early afternoon program of two concerts. On the Saturday, Tingshusparken will host two meditatative live performances by Anton Friisgaard and ****&c., perfect after a long festival night. The concerts are open to the public and free of charge.

Anton Friisgaard

Anton Friisgaard is a multifaceted musician and soundmaker, with a masters degree in electronic music, from the Danish National Academy of Music. He works intuitively, with a variety of electronic and acoustic sound tools. His artistic curiosity takes him many places, both musically and physically, and he works from a foundation of solid knowledge about composition, audio production and cultural references.

Friisgaard recently departed from his ambient alter-ago Hviledag, to widen the possibilities of his musical landscape. He has gone on live- explorations with classical ensembles, ambient church events, as well as into the worlds of clubs and body-shaking soundsytems. Embracing this wide array of sonic cultures and expressions has nurtured a musical agility and ability to create from a deepfelt love for the multiplicity of expressions within music.

****&c. (IDM)

Electronic music for emotional outbursts and untroubled overthinking. Never did you think 175bpm could sound so soft. Never did you think something so soft could hit so hard.

****&c. fuses modular synthesis, digital dirt, breakbeats and abstract textures into something warm and ragingly nostalgic. Their IDM set is a more introspective sibling to their chiptune work — less pixelated, more sideways. Less consequent, more fragmented.

Based in Aarhus, Denmark, Tanis Silke Nielsen creates music that’s too emotional to be academic and too sketchy to be polite — it’s IDM with a punk heart and a poet’s flow.

Tiran Willemse is a dancer and choreographer from South Africa based in Zurich, Switzerland. His performance-based practice is rooted in a careful attention to space, imagination, gesture, and sound, focusing on how they relate to the ways in which constructions of race, gender and memory are performed, communicated and challenged. He worked and collaborated with Trajal Harrell, Jerome Bel, Wu-Tsang (Moved by motion) Ligia Lewis, Meg Stuart, Andros Zins-Browne, Eszter Salamon and Deborah Hay. His work has been shown in Palais Tokyo Paris, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts Lausanne, Museum Macro Rome, Impulstanz Wien, Santarcangelo Festival Italy, Kunsthaus Baselland, Tanzquartier Wien, Sophiensaele Berlin, Arsenic Lausanne. Willemse won the Swiss Performance Art Award 2023.

At Norbergfestival 2025, Tiran Willemse will present blackmilk, the first performance of his Trompoppies trilogy. Derived from Afrikaans, “Trompoppies” refers to the drum majorettes in uniform. The performance dissects one of the choreographic elements of the formation dances they perform: hand gestures. By fusing the movements of these drum majorettes with the melodramatic gestures of white femme starlets and gestures associated with black male rap stars, the work explores the distance between images of African and African-American male-presenting bodies. blackmilk intervenes in this limited repertoire of representations using performativity. Tiran Willemse explores a variety of affective bodies in what can be understood as grey areas of legible identities, opening them up to a complex sensibility that the artist describes as a “black male melancholy”. In this tense performance, the performer, a virtuoso with a haunting, inhabited gaze, overturns conventions and shifts the spectator’s gaze to the margins.

Tiran Willemse will performing as part of Norbergfestival's bleed: lineup.

Torbjörn Fernström is a visual artist exploring the intersection between the organic and the surreal. Their practice constructs immersive environments where natural elements blend with the artificial, guiding the viewer into a liminal space between reality and fantasy.

With a distinct focus on contrast and saturation, their work embraces both the unsettling and the sublime, crafting visual experiences that oscillate between harshness and harmony. Through dynamic interplay of light and form, each piece becomes a visceral confrontation—an invitation to step beyond the safe and familiar.

Torbjörn Fernström is part of Norbergfestival's collaboration with Nonagon Festival.

Type1 is an Estonian-born, Berlin-based producer, DJ and promoter. At the heart of every one of his compositions lies a forward-thinking vision, meticulous craftsmanship and a narrative woven through sound design.

Type1's tracks draw from a wide, ever-evolving palette: Latin or African rhythms might drive one piece, while another might unfold as a drum-less expanse shaped by emotional, nostalgia-tinged synth lines. Eerie, otherworldly textures often surface, and strange monologues, dug up from old archival recordings, puncture the sonic fabric, adding a surreal, narrative-like layer across moods and styles. Some works focus on subtle shifts within a single emotional tone, haunting melodies, shifting micro-rhythms or intricate textural details, while others lean into relentless, percussion-driven momentum. Though these elements aren’t exhaustive, they reveal the common thread: a commitment to immersive, coherent sonic storytelling.

His exploratory sound-installation debut at Dreamscape Festival 2025, sonically adventurous and foundational to his growth, sparked a new interest in the world of sound art, specifically in spatial audio and the desire to weave ideas from biology, ecology, and other scientific fields into future sound installation projects.

A beginners' workshop on how we could use the audio mixer as an instrument in itself, without any sound sources. We will practice the No Input Mixing Board technique, coined in the late 1990s by Toshimaru Nakamura with his release ”No Input Mixing Board”.

The technique to use audio feedback is wildly documented in the history of experimental music, with prominent names as David Tudor, Éliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and cybernetic composer Roland Kayn using audio feedback with no input as experiments and material. Marcus Wrangö from ”Tonis” will guide you. We connect cables, turn knobs, and listen to noise, raw sounds and have fun.

This workshop is endorsed by Gotland School for Composing (”Tonis”) in Visby, a part of Folkuniversitetet.

Traveling through outer space to discover distorted kicks and gnarly breaks, he stumbled upon a civilization unlike any other. The shiny robots of the distant planet Buchlatron just love to rave, they live for it. They've even figured out a way to make their sun oscillate like a colossal membrane in a subwoofer. The bass is so deep and heavy that any organic material in its vicinity instantly turns a vibrant shade of green. Witnessing that sun-shattering bass and its vibrant green side-effects firsthand, he was so utterly blown away that he beamed out an official invitation to the Buchlatronians right then and there. The galaxy needs to experience their incredible low-end frequencies, and he’s hoping they'll bring some of that unique rave energy – perhaps even those legendary green lasers of love – to our planet!

Now, these metallic party animals had the low-end frequencies down, but they'd never encountered the synth sounds from Earth and were most excited about the legendary Roland Juno Hoover sound and the squelchy goodness of the 303s.

But what truly blew their circuits was when they first heard our earthly choppage. Our chopped breaks from Earth sent them into such a frenzy of joy! As the music surged towards peak intensity, they didn't just start duplicating themselves in time with the rhythm on the dance floor; these ecstatic Buchlatronians also began shooting vibrant green lasers of pure love with every joyful split! Truly a sight to behold.

The Buchlatronians simply couldn't get enough of our terrestrial music styles. Because while they had the bass, they'd never heard drums chopped and rearranged with such frantic energy. That’s why they might just be planning a little visit.

So, prepare for an alien-approved selection of Earth's finest rhythmic exports: expect a journey through the sonic landscapes of Jungle, the relentless pulse of Jungletechno, the euphoric energy of 90's Rave, the hardcore intensity and raw ADRENALINE of Ravecore, and the beautifully chaotic sounds of Breakcore. Let's show these intergalactic visitors how we get down on Planet Earth!

Yen Chun Lin is a Berlin-based Taiwanese artist whose practice dwells in the state of falling—falling into sleep, into wakefulness, into the unknown. In her Syn-sleep Listening Experiment, she encountered a dragonfly. Guided by this delicate companion, she explores various nuanced states of being and becoming within their shared environments. These encounters become portals through which she attunes to the subtle vibrations of existence and the shifting edges of perception.

Her practice manifests through spatial installations that interweave sculpture, soundscapes, dreams, performance, collaboration, and speculative narrative. Often inspired by the hypnotic yet awakening rhythms found in nature, her sonic compositions invite audiences to slip into a collective dream—where dripping whispers and the breath of Paiwan’s lalingedan carry a subtle sense of presence. Yen focuses on the tenuous and sensuous space of sound and consciousness, and the misty zone between the “here” and “elsewhere”—a realm that emerges beyond the physical and material frame of the work.

Her works have been exhibited and performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, MONOM Berlin, Creamcake Berlin, SAVVY Contemporary, Skanes Konstförening Malmö, and CAC Vilnius, among others.

Yen Chun Lin will be a part of the all-night Mimer performance/installation Here, a nut falls twice.