ISOLABS SITUATIONS
S³ Sorcerers, Shamans and Scientists
~ POSTPRIMA EDITION
SUNDAY 08 JUN / 18h~22h
We’re thrilled to announce a sequel of ISOLABS S3, stalking the twilight expanse of Day 3 at NiANSA2k25, featuring 4 time-decanted, veil-piercing sonic voyages.
QOA + Primeiro are about to re-emerge at ISOLABS as a liminal duo in full symbiosis mode, channeling site-specific Andean sonics for the vast karst terrain which is at the very heart of our deep-listening zone.
Ulla’s xenolithic yet sublimely comfortable sonic transmissions, dissolve into hypnagogic ambient architectures, smudged tape loops and gauzy melodies, inimitably hypnotizing and transportive, limboing between tactile and the transcendental.
Roméo Poirier warps time with his trademark hyper-fragmented textural wizardry and sleek, subaqueous electro-acoustic alchemy.
Finally, TUUM cloaks this 4-hour slot in a rare, arcanely inverted DJ selection, threading ancient-futures through oneiric sonic praxis.
ROMÉO POIRIER
live performance
Roméo Poirier is working in the field of electronic music, focusing on heavy processing of samples and digital collage. He released albums on the London based record label Kit Records (Plage Arrière), the mancunian record label Sferic (Hotel Nota), and Jan Jelinek’s own imprint Faitiche (Living Room), transforming the layering of different times into a free-flowing pulse that sounds both nostalgic and mysteriously ahistorical.
“Poirier takes music seriously as a time-based art – not just in the sense of duration, but also in the way time is refracted into autobiographical experience, historical dimensions and stages of evolution. By immersing and reflecting himself in these different layers, he creates a succession of new balances between various tempos, iterations and developments.
Poirier’s music emerges from a continual questioning and reformulation of his own oeuvre and thus of his own past, drawing on an ever-expanding archive of self-recorded loops. “I always resample myself, using fragments of a track to make a new one, as an ongoing process,” he explains: “The sound is evolving with me in parallel and the loops carry in their DNA all transformational stages, filled with previous tracks, sedimented.”
Originally a drummer, Poirier connects his various sources almost without a clearly identifiable beat. He prefers an organic pulse, mutable like the human sense of time and its fluidity. The aquatic feel of certain tracks on Living Room is no coincidence: among other devices, he uses a waterproof loudspeaker and a hydrophone to play back and rerecord tracks in the bathtub.”
Poirier’s music emerges from a continual questioning and reformulation of his own oeuvre and thus of his own past, drawing on an ever-expanding archive of self-recorded loops. “I always resample myself, using fragments of a track to make a new one, as an ongoing process,” he explains: “The sound is evolving with me in parallel and the loops carry in their DNA all transformational stages, filled with previous tracks, sedimented.”
Originally a drummer, Poirier connects his various sources almost without a clearly identifiable beat. He prefers an organic pulse, mutable like the human sense of time and its fluidity. The aquatic feel of certain tracks on Living Room is no coincidence: among other devices, he uses a waterproof loudspeaker and a hydrophone to play back and rerecord tracks in the bathtub.”
- Text excerpt by Lamiral Poirier taken from Living Room (faitiche28) release liner notes.
ULLA
live performance
Ulla is a Berlin-based musician/composer renowned for crafting intricate and resonant ambient music—characterized by a vaporous blend of gliding electronics and electroacoustics, offering intimate and spectral soundscapes that invite deep listener engagement. Since 2016, they have released several critically acclaimed albums, including *Big Room* (2019) and *Tumbling Towards A Wall* (2020), both praised for their depth and innovation. In 2022, Ulla introduced *Foam*, which incorporated piano, guitar, and chopped vocal fragments, presenting a glitchier sound, celebrated for its sound design, emotional depth, an its challenge to traditional ambient music conventions.
Ulla’s most recent work, *Hometown Girl*, released under the alias U.e. on their own label 28912, marks a departure from earlier electroacoustic and digital compositions, embracing a more acoustic approach with clean-toned guitar, woodwinds, and piano. Throughout their career, Ulla has worked with an array of respected experimental labels such as *Quiet Time*, *West Mineral Ltd.*, *Motion Ward*, *Longform Editions*, and *3XL*.
Ulla’s most recent work, *Hometown Girl*, released under the alias U.e. on their own label 28912, marks a departure from earlier electroacoustic and digital compositions, embracing a more acoustic approach with clean-toned guitar, woodwinds, and piano. Throughout their career, Ulla has worked with an array of respected experimental labels such as *Quiet Time*, *West Mineral Ltd.*, *Motion Ward*, *Longform Editions*, and *3XL*.
QOA + PRIMEIROlive performance
Nina Corti / QOA is an experimental electroacoustic musician, sound and visual artist, well known in the Argentine and Latin American experimental contemporary music scene.
Their sound is characterised by the collage of field recordings in natural environments and their multiple transformations, combined with spoken word, live sampling, drones, synthesis and frequency rhythms, creating an extended listening experience.
They are also a part of the AMPLIFY Digital Arts Initiative, an international network of women and non-binary artists supported by Mutek and the British Council. She one of the eight Latin American artists selected for Nicolas Jaar's Ladridos Project 2023. In 2024 they released Sauco, on the L.A. label Leaving Records.
Their sound is characterised by the collage of field recordings in natural environments and their multiple transformations, combined with spoken word, live sampling, drones, synthesis and frequency rhythms, creating an extended listening experience.
They are also a part of the AMPLIFY Digital Arts Initiative, an international network of women and non-binary artists supported by Mutek and the British Council. She one of the eight Latin American artists selected for Nicolas Jaar's Ladridos Project 2023. In 2024 they released Sauco, on the L.A. label Leaving Records.
Primeiro is an experimental electronic musician from Buenos
Aires. His music transcends conventional boundaries,
delving into the realms of ambient, hand-made trance, and
beyond.
While his work may initially evoke a sense of tranquility akin to artists like Hiroshi Yoshimura, a closer examination reveals the intricate layers and meticulous arpegios. In 2023, he released his first album, "Music for Horses," with the Berlin-based label Danzee.
As part of Lujo Asiático, he has toured Europe and Japan, performing at events such as the Kampnagel Summer Festival (Hamburg) and Mutek (Buenos Aires).
Shared stages with various artists, including Jeff Mills, Caterina Barbieri, Jan Jelinek, and Upsammy, while performing at a range of venues, such as Silent Green and Het Bos, among others. Additionally, he organizes Feed the River festival hosted in Hamburg, Chemnitz and Berlin.
INSTAGRAMWhile his work may initially evoke a sense of tranquility akin to artists like Hiroshi Yoshimura, a closer examination reveals the intricate layers and meticulous arpegios. In 2023, he released his first album, "Music for Horses," with the Berlin-based label Danzee.
As part of Lujo Asiático, he has toured Europe and Japan, performing at events such as the Kampnagel Summer Festival (Hamburg) and Mutek (Buenos Aires).
Shared stages with various artists, including Jeff Mills, Caterina Barbieri, Jan Jelinek, and Upsammy, while performing at a range of venues, such as Silent Green and Het Bos, among others. Additionally, he organizes Feed the River festival hosted in Hamburg, Chemnitz and Berlin.
DJ SELECTION
TUUM is Brandon Rosenbluth, half of the shamanic electronics duo Shaddah Tuum and co-founder of the Berlin-based avant label collective Portals Editions. Whether conjuring via his mixes for Secret Thirteen, Electronic Explorations, radio.syg.ma, NOODS and HKCR or live from Berghain to abandoned railway tunnels in Yerevan, TUUM DJ sets are always a total immersion in alternate realities of sound and body/mind. Extending his alchemical practice, he is also active as a curator including collaborations with ISOLABS, Indigo, and Sonica festivals alongside the co-creation of ARIA (Algo-Rhythmic Ideation Assembly), produced by ŠUM and Projekt Atol.
ISOLABS is conceived as a landscape of forensic investigations of and dialogues with the intricate interplay between art, science, technology, language and the environment, extending from the source to the mouth (delta) of Soča River. In ISOLABS, fieldwork, environmental and remote sensing, mapping, and reflective practices intertwine with local and global communities, probing and reflecting boundaries between disciplines, cultures, subcultures and natural systems. This set of situations are a critical step in our exploration of complex systems that shape our world, blending the precision of scientific inquiry with the expansive possibilities of conceptual art.
The ISOLABS program of NiANSA 2k25 is co-presented and co-produced by Zavod Projekt Atol.
Curation and event production: Sašo Puckovski.
Co-curation and art direction: Marko Peljhan.
ISOLABS is a series of situations that are part of European Capital of Culture GO!2025, Nova Gorica - Gorizia
ISOLABS SITUATIONS S³ Sorcerers, Shamans and Scientists
is produced by ZAVOD PROJEKT ATOL.