Futura Resistenza: Clara de Asis, Bergur Anderson, Geigen

Clara de Asis

Clara de Asís is a composer, producer and artist who explores the correlations of acoustics, spatiality and the practice of attention. Her work focuses on the elasticity of perception, integrating electronics and sound synthesis in idiosyncratic combinations of different materials, found objects and traditional instrumentation.

Bergur Anderson

Bergur Anderson is an Icelandic visual artist, producer-composer and sound maker, based in Rotterdam. An electric troubadour who plays with songs, voice, poetry and world creation, his practice combines and exists somewhere between music, performance and conceptual sound art. Unisong, his upcoming release on Futura Resistenza, will be his fourth with the label – with previous releases including LP Night Time Transmissions (2021) and soon Memory: fieldwork (2023), a collaborative cassette created with visual artist and partner Katrina Niebergal.

Own

Geigen is a techno violin performance duo founded in San Francisco in fall 2018 by artist Gígja Jónsdóttir and composer Pétur Eggertsson. They discovered that they had both stopped playing the violin in their adolescence after years of training, due to their frustration with the academic culture of classical music. Geigen rebels against the classical image of the violin, it is the need to break away from traditional systems, it embraces the violin and tries to bring it into the future. Geigen is an exploration of how to expand the sonic world of the violin, both preserving the acoustic quality of the instrument and using various effects and filters and mixing them with techno, creating something otherworldly. Using these sounds, lights and costumes, Geigen creates transformative concert experiences, where the audience is participants and fellow travelers in a spaceship nightclub.