Jonas Engel, Matthew Ryals, Niloufar Shiri and Fan-Qi Wu
Events
Performance
Handmade Music
Handmade Music at Accidental Theatre returns to Sonorities with a special extended edition, featuring a roving sound installation and ten live acts, headlined by nomadic father/daughter duo Yeah You (aka Gustav Thomas and Elvin Brandhi). A big element of Handmade...
BIO
The quartet first met during Art Omi: Music 2025, where a spontaneous musical encounter revealed a striking common ground in sound and aesthetics. Drawn together by an immediate resonance, they began this new collaboration with the urgency of something that felt inevitable.
Bringing together pipa, kamancheh, saxophone, and modular synthesizer, their music explores microsound, texture, and noise through improvisation. Acoustic timbres merge with electronics, cassette manipulations, and extended techniques, creating a fragile yet visceral sound world. Their practice embraces unpredictability and the intimate details of sound as a space for connection and discovery.
