The Sound Performance 'Whole Is Less Than the Sum of its Parts' explores the limits of audible frequency through algorithmic restriction. The authors (Sten Saarits & Sven Sosnitski) experiment with very narrow sound layers that gradually expand to encompass the full sound spectrum. While some elements of the performance may fall outside the natural range of human hearing, they are made apparent through visual cues. Please note that this piece may not be suitable for individuals who are sensitive to sound.


SSSS is a sound artist duo from Tallinn, Estonia. They began their collaboration in 2013 with a project titled “SSSSI: TheGreat.wav”.

The artists, Sten Saarits and Sven Sosnitski, experiment with soundscapes and sonic objects to find challenging acoustic experiences for listeners. Previously SSSS has worked with site specific sounds by recording all sorts of audible phenomenons to produce new soundscape installations.

Main chararacters as sound carriers of Katrin Enni´s live performance are copper sculptures. Objects formed out of sheet metal are in use as speakers, which amplify and modulate sounds of synthesizer. The result is a spatial soundscape. You can perceive physical aspects of sound both visually and sonically.

Katrin Enni is a sound artist with a background in sculpture and installation. Her artistic practice s defined by exploring the situations where the languages of music and visual art intertwine. She is interested in the sonic properties of materials and sonic sculptures as musical instruments.

In performance artist trio Jaanika Arum, Helen Västrik ja Mari-Liis Rebane will interfere into their own installation “All the Comets I've Missed Out”, exhibited in show of the festival, using it as interactive instrument and stage, which will be surrounded with new soundspace.

Mari-Liis Rebane, Helen Västrik, Jaanika Arum graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts majoring in contemporary art. Their collaboration began in 2021 with the experimental sound performance "No One's Desert", which premiered at the Sakala 3 theater. In their common artistic practice, they are interested in creating new meanings and environments for materials and objects under the influence of an external intervention. The work "All the Comets I've Missed Out" promises to alternately take on the role of observer, interventionist, creator as well as destroyer.

Mari-Liis Rebane explores sound as a versatile material by interweaving interaction, documentation and fiction. As an artist, Mari-Liisi is interested in how, next to the dominant visual medium, it is possible to use sound as a tool that triggers a narrative.

Helen Västrik is a freelance sound artist and musician with a degree in both photography and new media. In the field of art, Helen is mostly involved in creating performative sound installations.

Jaanika Arum is a freelance actress who graduated from EMTA in Performing Arts. As an artist, she moves in her works on the border of installation and performance art, both in the context of gallery and theatre.

Simonas Nekrošius is an interdisciplinary artist. He actively participates in the fields of contemporary art, experimental music and sound art, constructing sound objects, sculptures and enabling them in his aural performances. The principles of “DIY” and “ready-made” are common in Nekrošius’ work and form his unique creative style. He mainly focuses on processuality, intuition, experimentation and improvisation. Simonas is looking for unconventional forms of sound extraction, exploring and practising a mutual connection of artist and sound object. Since 2015, he is one of the founders and operators of an independent initiative, the DIY-art project space “Studium P”.

Yuri Landman is an inventor of musical instruments. During his performance he will play on about 20 different instruments: zithers, kalimba's, metal rod percussion, amped soda pop bottles, hacked hard disc drive, motors, a mutilated baby doll, and amped heat sink.

Expect a mixture of rhythmic noises blended with 90s noise rock and electronic absurdism.

In Tallinn he will perform with a special friend from Finland.

Drawing inspiration from West African and Arabic trance induction approaches, Matthias Kampf is exploring perception-bending, psycho-acoustic possibilities through a synaesthetic performance centered around achieving altered states of mind.

Time, perception, physical and sonic space become expandable, interchangable variables that blend together in a sort of musical Dikhr, in which ecstasy and trance become the gravitational centre.

Pounding tribal drums, dark ambient soundscapes, shifting rhythmic noise.


Matthias Kampf (AT) is an improvising musician who explores ecstatic and entrancing music through percussion, vocal drones and live processing. As a soloist (under the moniker THRVS) he has performed throughout Europe and has been active in several international improvisational collaborations.

His project have involved time-processed Livonian folk songs, looped and transformed into tribal drones.

Matthias is a member of various groups such as the impro drone/noise duo BOORII, the ambient/drone trio Meru and The Soft Power Ensemble of Vienna, a 12 piece improvisation-ensemble, as well as the now defunct experimental rock band Neonstream.

The Random Light Orchestra is a sound-performance with self made mechanical machines, moved by slow motors run by alternating current. Performance is composed as a synthesis of analog random-generator (RG) and improvisation of author. Every machine has its own independent RG. Cycles of every RG are bit diferent according to power of a bulb and unpreciseness of relay. It guarantees that patterns of motions of machines are always changing, which change patterns of sound. Randomness of soundscape is magnified because of fact that in case of alternated current motors you can never predict a direction of movement while switching on.

Erik Alalooga is mostly known by exploration and application of DIY analog-technological solutions in his artworks. Since 2005 his focus has been on immediate relationships between human and machine. Since 2014 Alalooga performs as solo artist in experimental music, exploring an alternative position against over-digitalization of sound art and surviving possibilities of unconventional music. A cornerstone of Erik Alalooga´s musical expression is an analytical interaction with matter and self-made objects.

Sabotanic Garden (Jussi Saivo & Pasi Mäkelä) introduces itself laconocally – Uncompromising Finnish music and performance group – Combining harsh physical movement and obscure live music with unique presentation.

Summoning Ugri since 2006! Obscure study and portrait of everyday!

Jussi Saivo – finnish sound-artist with Theatre-Academy education.

Headlines: Brutal Sounds and Harsh Movements from Finland / Obscure study and portrait of everyday life and death / Voyage to the dark matter and beyond

Keywords: Love / Death / DIY / Folklore. Sound artist working internationally with variety of media. Bringing the arts of mesmerization and self-hypnosis into daily practice.

Selected Methods: DIY / Attitude / Timing / Mineralization and Immobilization / Glossolalia / Alternative Physics / Experimental Biology / Sleep Deprivation

Pasi Mäkelä – finnish performance artist with Theatre Pedagogy education. Lives and works permanantly in Europe´s capital of mysticism – Prague. Works also as choreographer and musician. His performances are largely based on Butoh, form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement.