CONVERGENCE 9

For their ninth edition, they welcome visual artist Keiji Matsuoka from Japan, who will perform alongside musician Makoto Sakamoto. drusnoise & Erbse present their performance "Can you hear the Earth breathing?", which revolves around improvisation that dissolves the boundaries between humans and nature and decenters the Western concept of "human" in performance. The evening will be rounded out by the collective akademische Noise, highly skilled poets (Laura Leiner, Rocío Rodríguez, and Elsye Suquilanda), and Kross Collective co-founder MIRE.


Biographies of the participating artists

Keiji Matsuoka
A visual artist from Japan. He focuses primarily on the fluid movements of liquids, creating improvised visual performances that project live drawings from paper, wire, brushes, glass, and other objects. The flow and mixing of liquids is full of chance and improvisation. He has collaborated with many musicians, dancers, and performers in Japan and abroad. His unique theme of ambiguous boundaries allows him to express subconscious sensations and shifts in consciousness. In his solo performances, he presents visuals and sounds simultaneously in a style he calls "Drawing Drone."

https://www.youtube.com/@keijimatsuoka-nuee
https://www.instagram.com/keijimatsuoka_/

Makoto Sakamoto
Makoto Sakamoto is a Japanese sound artist and improviser based in Berlin, working at the intersection of electronic and experimental music. He explores the relationship between sound, space, and human perception, frequently utilizing real-time synthesis via multiple hardware synthesizers. His improvisational approach invites viewers into unexpected events, blending waveforms and electronic sound textures into tangible, unadulterated sonic experiences. This method emphasizes the immediacy and physicality of sound, resulting in performances and compositions that are both responsive and immersive.

https://makotosakamotorecordings.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/makoto_sakamoto_recordings/


MIRE
MIRE is the sound project of Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Andreea Hriscu, co-founder of the Kross Collective. Working with dark ambient, drone, and noise, MIRE crafts long-form, improvised compositions using synthesizers, computer processes, and field recordings. The result is immersive soundscapes shaped like fluid architecture—at once intimate and vast, hovering between industrial decay and underwater silence.
Described as "music forged in flooded ruins" and "a craggy key to a utopian mirage," MIRE's soundworld shimmers in a tension between structure and entropy, silence and annihilation. Releases include "We Left No Message" (LOUDsilence) and "All That Time" with Grabschlamm (ArrhythNia), as well as over a dozen independent works. Previous performances include Convergence, Hosek Contemporary, and Poetic Hafla—each act a fleeting organism, whispered once, then vanished.

https://www.instagram.com/mire.berlin/
https://mire-berlin.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.youtube.com/@mire-berlin

akademische Noise, hoch qualifiziertes Poetry
akademische Noise, hoch qualifiziertes Poetry born by way of rebellion, has its roots to manifest the opposite to the “established”. Enjoyment through noise, punk, rock, mantras, sounds, immersed with live audiovisual work creating different scenarios where the viewer will be transported to different universes of the hand of posthumanist poetry recited and sung in multilanguage, including animal language, voices and movements of all of us.

https://soundcloud.com/rukisukye/akademisches-noise-hoch-qualifiziertes-poetry-frau-mit-haaren-auf-der-brust

Elsye Suquilanda
Elsye Suquilanda is a posthumanist poet, filmmaker, and performance artist, and co-founder of Dogsofia Chichoismo. Her art raises awareness of human and animal rights, as well as the natural environment. Rituals, courage, fantasy reality, and humor are interwoven with unique costumes, audiovisual elements, and chants in various rhythms such as chanson, punk, metal, rock, pasillo, techno, noise, ska, and mantras.

https://soundcloud.com/rukisukye
https://elsyesuquilanda.bandcamp.com/album/lensi-lusikka-suussa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmMta3si8KI
https://www.literaturport.de/wab/person/elsye-suquilanda/en/


Laura.aLL
Laura.aLL is a guitarist, experimental composer, and curator. She plays guitar in various contexts, from ambient music to noise and trip rock. She works in various experimental settings, exploring the sound of strings, objects, or public spaces with effects, synthesizers, field recordings, or recycled instruments.

https://lauralmusik.wordpress.com/
https://lauraall.bandcamp.com/
https://mipv-musik.com/
https://mipv.bandcamp.com/


Rocío Rodríguez
Rocío Rodríguez is a video artist and videographer with a focus on performance. She began her studies in dance, then film and communication, and completed her master's degree in philosophy and culture. Her work explores the intersection of live performance with innovative techniques and technologies, aiming to expand the possibilities of audiovisual performance experiences.

https://vimeo.com/804876899
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk-H9XiThTI

drusnoise & Erbse
Erbse (no/all pronouns) is active in the fields of visual arts, music, dance, and philosophy. She is a queer feminist, learning, researching, and experimenting, seeking to create networking and boundary blurring as resistance. Erbse lives in Berlin and Bremen and currently works primarily with dance and social sculpture. Steve Williams, aka drusnoise, is a live electronic music producer, sound artist, and curator of sustain.fm. drusnoise integrates analog modular synthesizers with digital effects and organic samples, creating a style that ranges from rich ambient sounds to raw techno.
Dr. Steve Williams is known externally as Dr. Steve Williams. His academic work includes conducting and publishing research on sustainable energy transitions, energy justice, and sociomaterial acoustic methods in Canada, Germany, Norway, and Sweden.

https://www.instagram.com/drusnoise/
https://www.instagram.com/ochjoa/