KONTAKTOR 2019 Experience Exchange

Published on Jun 26, 2019 Erica Synths

"On May 30th in collaboration with Latvian Investment and Development Agency creative industry incubator / Magnetic Latvia & Goethe Institut in Riga Kontaktor offered educational events. We invited several key players from the music & music tech industry to share their experience, give talks, host work-shops and be present to answer audience's questions and talk face to face a day before they performed at the festival.

Ondrej Merta from Bastl Instruments

talk & presentation about Bastl Instruments products and the model of social entrepreneurship

Marc Caro talk about music in film industry

being a director, producer & a composer Marc will share his knowledge about nuances of creating music for film accompanied by examples from his work

Peter Kirn (CDM) talk about music and creativity in the age of overpopulation

talk about the challenges within the contemporary music and music technology industry, the common models of past, present and future with an approach that reaches beyond the conversation dominated by the USA and western Europe

Tobias von Hofsten from teenage engineering

presentation of previously prepared jams using the latest teenage engineering products and a talk

Music Releasing with T.Raumschmiere / Shitkatapult

Marco Haas - widely known as T.Raumschmiere has been running the Shitkatapult label for more than 20 years and will give a talk on the experience of being a label boss, the process of selecting music to release, working with the likes of Apparat, Cristian Vogel, Oval, Sid Le Rock & others

Camera & video : Kristers Gontarevs
Music : T.Raumschmiere - Monstertruckdriver"

Dr. Walker // Live @ KONTAKTOR

Published on Sep 24, 2018 Erica Synths

"KONTAKTOR - Live Elektronik Musik festival's first edition took place on first of June in Riga Electrical Machine Building works main building, Sarkandaugava Industrial Park. A night long celebration of audacious electronic music brought together carefully curated live acts only. The program of the event aimed to recoil from the currently common and to accentuate mutating and ever evolving forms of techno, industrial, noise & experimental music. The event was created and produced by Erica Synths.

Dr. Walker, a founding member of Air Liquide, Asbest! and the head of the Liquid Sky Berlin and the soon upcoming Liquid Sky Portugal, also a part of Erica Synths team, brought a live set to trap the festival attendees within groovier rhythms eventually growing into harsher bangers and noisy soundscapes.

Live visuals from Zenon generated on LZX Industries video modular system."