Erik Klinga / Shakeeb Abu Hamdan
Erik Klinga, born in Sandviken, Sweden, is a composer and musician. Klinga is known from the bands Simian Ghost, Light Vibes and Horse Show and has played in multiple projects as a drummer including acts such as Solen, Dolce and Mi von Ahn. He has a studio based practice and creates electronic music with an interest in developing works focusing on timbre, melody and harmony in repetition based form structures. Driven by curiosity in finding new sound relations he’s mainly working with synthesized and acoustic sources together with field recordings. A substantial part of his work involves working with modular synthesis in the Buchla format, on which he composes and performs live. His music moves between ambient and more multilayered and rhythmically driven pieces. In relation to the upcoming release his next album “Elusive Shimmer”, he will perform at Mengi (Reykjavik), Ekko festival (Bergen), KET (Athens), Organ Sound Art Festival (Copenhagen), Inkonst (Malmö) and Skaiv (Stockholm). In recent live performances at Norberg Festival and Konstmuseet Malmö, Erik Klinga reimagined his compositions in tandem with the historic church organs and his primary instrument, the Buchla synthesizer.
www.erikklinga.bandcamp.com/album/elusive-shimmer
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan is a Lebanese/British artist, musician and recording engineer living in France. His performances centre around the use of drums, collected metals, bells and cymbals which he augments and amplifies with surface transducers, microphones, pitch and rhythmic modulation effects, adapted megaphones and other electronics. He has toured and exhibited his work internationally. Solo exhibitions at Beirut Art Centre (2021), Cité Internationale des Arts (2023). His Graphic novel “A Life Like Mine, That’s Impossible” was published by Samandal Comics (2021). He was Composer in Residence at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) Stockholm (2021).