On November 27, at 20.00, Baltic Analog Lab and Skaņu Mežs invite you to an analog film screening and audiovisual and music performances by the November artists-in-residence: Chloe Charlton (UK), Katie (Gerardine) O’Neill (IE) and Tomás Novoa (CL).

Chloe Charlton is a 16mm artist filmmaker based in the UK. Through film, she seeks to unearth the politics of landscape by invoking a bodily response in the viewer, achieved through in-camera montage and hand-processing. Her works have been shown at VIDEOAKTION (Berlin, 2025), Market Gallery (Glasgow, 2025), and Alchemy Film & Arts Festival (Hawick, 2022).

In the presentation she will screen a current work-in-progress titled Rosa, made with Emily Charlton, that takes viewers on an intimate voyage through the frenetic murmurings of Scotland’s mountains. Then on 16mm, we will view a repurposing of this footage where repetition, perspective and duration have been played with, achieved through hand produced contact prints whilst at BAL.

Katie Gerardine O’Neill is a multi-disciplinary artist from Ireland. O’Neill works with image and sound, writing, painting, performance and various other mediums. Her work has been described as visceral, tender, and experimental. Interested in the tension between darkness and light, O’Neill explores the textural subtleties of (often analogue) materials in a curious and sometimes destructive manner. O’Neill is interested in metaphysical themes: the unconscious, love, and mystery.

Her work touches upon the uncanny, the sublime, and plays with sensuality via the emotional experience of listening and watching. O’Neill is influenced by the Dada and Surrealist movements, punk and no-wave, existentialism, post-structuralism, Hélène Cixous, Samuel Beckett, and Zen Buddhism. For her performance at BAL she will share a blend of new 16mm, 8mm and 35mm images along with a cassette tape collage and spoken work performance inspired by the work of Jonas Mekas, Agnes Martin, and Stan Brakhage.

Tomás Novoa is a Chilean music composer based in Barcelona. His work explores sound articulation and time perception through object manipulation, the use of synthesizers, digital technologies, field recording, and sound montage.

During his residency at BAL, Tomas developed a musical work that will be presented in acousmatic format, inspired by the legacy of pioneers such as François Bayle and Jean-Claude Risset. Drawing on their artistic visions, he seeks to cultivate a personal sonic language, one that emerges from attentive listening, intuition, and the careful exploration of timbre. Bayle’s acousmatic approach, listening without seeing the source, has guided a process centered on perception, echoing the early era of magnetic tape when sound existed without screens or visual mediation. Taking inspiration from Risset’s methods, the work incorporates FM and additive synthesis to sculpt timbre from its core. Tomas approaches this exploration from a perceptual perspective, engaging with sound as it unfolds across time and space, where memory intertwines with listening.

The event will take place in the Baltic Analog Lab 2nd-floor residence rooms, Lienes iela 19a.

Event language: English.

Free admission, drinks for donation.

Baltic Analog Lab Residency is supported by the Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation.