On March 27, at 19.00, Baltic Analog Lab and Skaņu Mežs invite you to a film screening and sound performances by March artists-in-residence: Sander Saarmets (EST), Hanga Toth (HU) and Berk Yağlı (CY).

Sander Saarmets is a composer and sound artist from Estonia, focused on electronic composition and performance. In recent years he has gravitated toward analog and older digital technologies, drawn to their tactile immediacy and the creative potential of tools that have outlived their “consumer” lifecycle. Sander explores how sound interacts with visual and material media, and how biofeedback can open new forms of artistic exchange.

Hanga Toth is an artist and filmmaker from Budapest, currently living and working in Paris. In her video installations and experimental films, she explores everyday gestures, forms of attention, and marginalized experiences through the lenses of phenomenology, care and ecological thought. Her works are often process-oriented, collaborative, and socially engaged. During the residency, she worked on editing her short film Wetland as Method, in which a domestic space unfolds as a wetland where every being tends to become another. She also began developing a slide installation using a carousel projector exploring the movements of time.

Berk Yağlı is a Cypriot guitarist, composer, and producer. He is working on hybridisation between electroacoustic music and metal, which he also recently completed a PhD on the same topic at the University of the Arts London. Even though his current works specifically explore methods for hybridising electroacoustic and metal, the ultimate goal of those methods is to enact them in ways that can also apply to other genres. During his residency in Riga, he focused on developing his new composition, which stems from his recent novel method, Cannibalistic Hybrid, and pushed it to explore further possibilities for generating another framework for composing hybridity.

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.