Events
Upcoming Events
Open Projector Night
Lineup
- AEONA REX6:15pm – 6:45pm
A music performance drawing inspiration from techno, electronica and hard groove using strudel and hydra. Remote video screening.
- KIKI aka (Omar Kayal)7:45pm – 8:15pm
A remote asynchronous performance. This is the second iteration of the performance "Branching Paths." In this piece, I tried to understand how a slight change in my daily routine could shift my state of mind – in other words, how a tiny variation in an input variable can completely transform the resulting output. By cross-modulating multiple VCOs (like perspectives changing when people share experiences), sequencing notes from Orca as if they were real-time events, and randomising CC messages sent to the modules, I created infinite probabilities. Through this lens, the lack of a linear timeline in VCV Rack feels entirely logical – after all, how could you ever capture such a process in a straight line?
Born in 1994, Omar (Kiki) is a creative coder, sound designer, and music producer based in Egypt. They have been a guitarist since 2009. In 2017, Kiki shifted their focus to electronic music, with a strong emphasis on experimental sound design. They find great joy in discovering new sonic textures through unconventional means, such as circuit-bending electronic devices to coax out unexpected and often mesmerizing sounds. Kiki published their first EP, RITL, in collaboration with ANBA in 2018, and their second EP, KG, in 2020 in collaboration with Beat craft. Since 2019, Kiki has been focusing on creative coding and circuit bending, performing and experimenting with programming languages and tools such as ORCA, Sonic Pi, and VCV Rack. In 2022 Kiki co-founded "Zay Ma Teegy Teegy" collective, interested in live coding performances.
- Quargs8:30pm – 9:00pm
Quargs initialized their sound wave organization journey as classically-trained violist and composer, initially within a one-room performing arts schoolhouse sporting an orchestral strings program. Eventually, the performer composer broadened their musical horizons and co-founded the grunge rock-inspired band Love Ghost, serving as the band's violist, keyboardist, and co-writer from 2015-2019 during the band's release of the album Lobotomy, receipt of the Hollywood Music in Media Award, and travels throughout Japan, Ireland, and Ecuador, while attending USC Thornton's school of music.
In addition to their symbiosis with Love Ghost's palette of Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, and Alice In Chains, their influences range from the discordant melodies and sonic configurations of Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and John Cage, to the cerebral and introspective synth textures of Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Laurie Anderson, Flying Lotus, and Squarepusher, and the genre-bending arrangements of Wendy Carlos. Additionally, they have made a foray into the world of film and television composing, writing 20 songs for Paramount's Global Music Library, and serving as a composer on the 2026 theatrical release Clika, as well as the 2018 feature film Live.
Furthermore, Quargs has cultivated a long-standing interest in the intersection between music, technology, mathematics, and multimedia art, beginning with very early works based on concepts such as the Weierstrass function, and combinatorially-inspired musical forms, later progressing to interactive web installations including sonified data from their first solo album Non Sequitur Vol. 1, and master's studies in computer engineering at Boston University that have involved projects such as transformer-based MIDI generation models based on the Maestro dataset, and the building (coming soon!) of the networked Algorave platform, Trussal. Most recently, the sequel to Non Sequitur Vol. 1, Non. Sequitur Vol. 2, features tracks processed by their very own original audio plugin, Eglof, which calls upon the user to create custom filters using CSV files and is implemented using the JUCE C++ wrapper library.
Quargs also infuses the above constellation of experimental influences with perspective derived from intersectional lived experience as a queer, disabled person of color growing up in the 00's and 10's in Los Angeles, along with a lifelong curiosity about existential and epistemic matters.