Aude Langlois is a French sound artist and composer who holds degrees in Sound Studies from the Universität der Künste Berlin and in Music and Musicology from Paris-Sorbonne.
Aude’s work explores spatial audio and the perceptual boundaries of listening. Engaging critically with the aesthetics of lo-fi and hi-fi sound, she investigates how new media affects sensory experience, often examining the tension between stimulation and overwhelm.
Her practice spans live performance, multichannel composition, and collaborations with filmmakers, dancers, sound artists, and visual artists. Her works appear in films, documentaries, theatre, and music releases, continually seeking to expand the listener’s perceptual and auditory horizon.
Awu Yuhua Li is a Chinese artist, video game developer, film director, and theatre producer whose work explores the intersection of video games and live performance. Her practice merges the mechanics of interactive media with theatrical dramaturgy, pushing the boundaries of both forms. Her recent project Virtual Collision is an interactive video game performance created for a 4D sound system developed by Ableton and presented at Muffathalle in Munich.
Awu teaches Game Audio in the Music, Sound & Visual Media (MSVM) programme and is Programme Lead for Visual Effects, Digital Arts & Animation. She has worked as Audio Director at Inkuim Game Studio and as a sound designer at Shanghai Canbox TV Film Studio. She holds an MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from Universität der Künste Berlin and has performed in several Chinese punk bands as a vocalist and bassist.
Chrisna Lungala (b. 1997 in Germany) is a composer and sound engineer specializing in music for film and media. He has collaborated with studios such as Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Music, 2WEI Music, Invisible Arts, and Extreme Music.
Chrisna’s film credits include Istina (2023), Get Home Safe (2022), and Der Verbotene Ball (2017). He has received a Student Academy Award® and nominations for the BAFTA Student Awards and the German Film Music Award.
His discography includes ISTINA (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Subtle Cinematics, and Mitläufer – Original Score EP, all released in 2023. His music blends emotional nuance with cinematic structure, developed through both solo and collaborative work.
Dragana Jovanović (b. 1985 in Belgrade) is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist working across directing, screenwriting, editing, and dramaturgy. She studied Production in Cultural Management and Film Directing in Serbia, followed by Media Arts at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
Dragana has worked as a screenwriter, art director, producer, casting agent, assistant director, image researcher, sound designer, editor, and actress. She received a scholarship from the Serbian Ministry of Youth and Sports (2004–2008) and a DAAD artist grant (2014–2016). In 2010, she participated in Berlinale Talents, and in 2018, she was nominated for a First Steps Award by the German Film Academy.
Felipe Vareschi is an Italian experimental electronic musician, performer, and mastering engineer. Their practice explores the social and sonic dynamics between people, technology, and nature, often blurring lines between performers, audiences, and environments.
Vareschi’s work includes generative composition, gestural performance, field recording, and spatial sound installations. They use sound to investigate the systems and objects that structure everyday life, aiming to deepen awareness of the soundscape around us and celebrate the noise of interconnected living.
Felix Nicholson is British-American musician and sound designer who graduated from the Berklee College of Music. With a background in commercial sound for clients like Apple, Intel, and Honda, they now focus on composing for contemporary dance.
They’ve collaborated internationally with choreographers including Pauline Payen (FR), Julian Weber (DE), Stefan Hahn (DE), and Studio Alta (CZ), combining experimental sound with traditional composition. Their musical influences include industrial techno, bass, and noise. Felix emphasizes technical skill and artistic voice in their teaching, especially in preparing students to collaborate with choreographers, directors, and editors.
Florentin T is a composer and sound designer specializing in film, video games, installation art, and sonic branding. In 2024, he composed the score for Erogenesis, a film by Xandra Popescu, following his work on Sentimental Stories, presented at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
As composer for the artist collective Keiken—winners of the Chanel Next Prize and the Lumen Prize—Florentin helps shape immersive digital worlds and speculative narratives. In 2024, he also scored The Soul Station, a multimedia series by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, showcased by LAS at Halle am Berghain, Berlin.
In 2022, Florentin co-founded Currents, an avant-garde electronic music festival near Berlin, which featured legendary composer Suzanne Ciani. He is also one half of Khidja, an electronic duo with releases on labels such as Hivern Discs and DFA Records. Khidja has performed internationally at festivals including Dekmantel, Sonar, and Primavera Sound, and at venues such as Vent Club Tokyo, Basement New York, Berghain Berlin, and Corsica Studios London.
Gary Schultz (b. 1982 in Michigan) is an artist and musician working in film, video and installation. He holds an MFA from CalArts and was awarded a postgraduate fellowship from the University of Art in Berlin (UdK Graduate School). He’s the founding director of Care Of, a label for music and art, and the programme lead for MSVM (Music and Sound Design for Visual Media) at Catalyst. Under his alias, Juniper Foam, his work has been shown internationally at the Triennale Milano, Cannes International Film Week, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, featuring collaborations with Oval, Charlemagne Palestine, Karin Ferrari, Mila Panić and Roshanak Amini.
Ivan Marković (b. 1986 in Belgrade) is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores the spatial dynamics of everyday life and the entanglement between architecture and ideology.
He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade (2012) and earned a master’s in film at the University of the Arts Berlin (2019). As a cinematographer, he worked on acclaimed films such as Landscapes of Resistance (dir. Marta Popivoda, Cinéma du réel 2021) and Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, But…, winner of the Silver Bear at Berlinale 2019.
As a director, his works include Centar (2018), White Bird, and From Tomorrow on, I Will (co-directed with Linfeng Wu). His films have screened at Berlinale, Doclisboa, Viennale, and Jeonju IFF, and his installations have been exhibited at Bethanien Berlin, ICA London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade. He lives and works between Belgrade and Berlin.
Jojo Schütt is a German sound designer, composer, and researcher exploring the material relationships between space, sound, and the body. Their work spans installations, performances, concerts, and collaborative music projects, guided by an experimental approach to dramaturgy and spatial perception.
Jojo investigates how sonic environments shape memory, presence, and perception, treating sound design as a method of material inquiry and relational world-building.
Khaled Kurbeh (b. 1987 in Syria) is musician and composer whose work blends experimental electronic textures with Middle Eastern instrumentation, piano, and field recordings. His projects explore cultural memory, identity, and displacement through sound, drawing from his personal practices muhawalāt and hawāmesh.
In 2017, he released Aphorisms, a debut EP with oud player Raman Khalaf, on !K7’s Between Buttons imprint. His upcoming album Likulli Fadāin Eqā‘eh [لكلّ فضاء إيقاعه] will be released in 2025 on Research Records (Naarm/Melbourne). He holds a master’s degree in Spatial Strategies from the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin.
Khaled has collaborated with artists and ensembles including Collective Ma’louba, Omar Elerian, Rhum and Clay, Nora Thiele, RaumKlangEnsemble, and Oriel Quartett. He has performed at Funkhaus Berlin, Norla Dome (Melbourne), Edinburgh Festival Fringe, New Diorama Theatre (London), Münchner Kammerspiele, and XJAZZ Festival.
Roberta Busechian (b. 1990 in Trieste) is a sound artist, curator, researcher, and lecturer working at the intersection of sonic art, activism, and technology. Her work explores how listening can shape collective spaces, often using live streaming and temporal displacement in urban environments.
Roberta studied Fine and Performing Arts in Venice and completed a Master’s in Art in Context at Universität der Künste Berlin. She has taught sound art at various Berlin art schools and lectured at IUAV Venice and Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Her practice spans performances, installations, and public interventions, with appearances at Elevate Festival (Graz), Transmediale Vorspiel (Berlin), and venues across Europe and the U.S.
She is the founder of spazio (T)Raum and a member of the sound art platform Errant Sound.
Roshanak Amini is an Iranian-Canadian artist, researcher, and curator currently living and working in Berlin. She was born in Iran and immigrated to Canada as a child. Over the last years, Roshanak has focused on how art can enter into and impact the space of everyday life. She considers making art as a way to respond to the world around her, to place some stones in the river in the hopes of slightly changing the course of the water.
Uroš Pajović (b. 1993 in Belgrade) is a researcher, curator, and creative director. He is a founding member of the artist collective Center for Peripheries and the research collective Kollektiv Quotidien. Since 2022, he has been the Art Director (2022-2024), and then Creative Director (2024-) of Berliner Zeitung, Berlin’s newspaper of record. He crosses streets on red, loves signage in public space, long walks throughout street-view archives, and Californian toponyms and odonyms.