Frank Bretschneider (Raster Noton/Klitekture) works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. Known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach, his work has been described as "abstract analogue pointilism", "ambience for spaceports", and "hypnotic echochamber pulsebeat”. Bretschneider's visuals echo his subtle and detailed music – they are perfectly translated realizations of the parallels between music and visual phenomena.
TokTek vs. VJ MNK (Lomechanik) is the live audio-visual improvisation act of Tom Verbruggen (TokTek) and Karl Klomp (VJ MNK). TokTek builds and converts his own instruments: synths, toys and computers become instruments with a totally unique sound, and are controlled by means of a joystick. VJ MNK creates images assembled from deliberately generated glitches created from self-constructed video tools. Their performance is about live sampling and de-structuring sound and video noise using DIY instruments.
Plugexpert (Lomechanik/Upitup Records), AKA Richard Jonas, serves up detailed descriptions of mangled digital soundscapes filled with filigree creatures and atmospheric scenery. Imagine a tracking shot through a world with swampy basslines, racing snares and drum sets flying in on helicopters that are looking over sinus-wave-snakes hanging from infinite tree structures of hierarchical noise.
