The 2025 Copenhagen Drum Machine Convention

FIMARA presents:

The 2025 Copenhagen Drum Machine Convention

STEVE KADO

Steve Kado is an artist, musician and writer from Toronto and Los Angeles. He has been performing unsyncopated drum machine solos since 2010. He is a founding member of the Los Angeles Wood Wind Skill Share (LAWWSS), plays drum machine duets with Paul Salveson under the name C-Cukes and is also a sometimes member of LEAD. Along with Nicolas Miller he had a radio show on KCHUNG radio in Los Angeles dedicated to talking in/for/as visual art for over 10 years before it ended abruptly in 2024.

Steve Kado (CA) - Soma Pulsar drum machine

JONAS OLESEN

Rødvig composer and writer Jonas Olesen works as a sound artist, often drawn towards antiquated technology and experimental sound-generating methods. Olesen also runs BIN, a Danish record label focusing on peripheral audio and editions of historical and contemporary electronic and experimental music. Jonas Olesen will present collected experiments with multiple modified analog drummachines

Jonas Olesen (DK) - Hammond Auto-vari64

MICHAEL MØRKHOLT & IRENE BIANCO

Michael Mørkholt is a Copenhagen-based artist, composer and performer working in a field between instrumental music, electronics, installation and performance. He is a co-founding member of Aar & Dag and the founder of Lille Kommune. Italian percussionist Irene Bianco is a Copenhagen-based artist working mainly in contemporary music and free improvisation. Apart from her solo practice, she is an active member of Damkapellet and Wolfskin Ensemble.

Mørkholt & Bianco will share and explore a cybernetic feedback dialog between responsive computer systems and acoustic percussion.

Photo source: 2003 (for Solo Drum Machine), by Steve Kado.