For its third edition SONIC DIY*, a music program exploring the creation of sound outside of the regular music spectrum, comes back with a beautiful international program. 

MSHR is an art collective that builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their practice is a self-transforming entity with its outputs patched into its inputs, expressing its form through interactive installations, virtual environments and live improvisations. MSHR was established in 2011 in Portland, Oregon by 

. Their name is a modular acronym, designed to hold varied ideas over time.

Jasna Veličković is a composer and performer based in Amsterdam. She has written around 70 compositions using a variety of musical instruments ranging from solo instruments to compositions written for orchestra with live electronics. Since 2008 she became interested in various layers of interference between magnetic fields and music. This became her ongoing research whose aim is the creation of tools that facilitate playing on instruments or objects using the transformative acoustic possibilities of the electromagnetic field. This gradually led her to the invention of the new instrument, Velicon a tactile electroacoustic instrument made of magnets and coils.

Acheface is an electronic artist from The Netherlands whose only instrument is a Eurorack 

. His hard and distorted industrial beats have a lot of variation, but remain energetic and danceable. The melancholic melodies are inspired by 80s synthpop and 90s black metal.

The overwhelming complexity of the modular synthesizer produces unexpected musical outcomes, which are hard to attribute entirely to the human or the machine alone.

Logue is a startup that creates a customisable MIDI controller to enhance the digital music production experience. Their innovative controller provides the satisfaction of playing a real instrument while leveraging the power of digital tools. Thanks to their proprietary software, Logue's controller works seamlessly with every instrument on the software, allowing for unlimited creativity and experimentation.

Featuring intuitive screens on the hardware, it is easy to track every knob's function and make adjustments on the fly. Logue's MIDI controller is designed to elevate creativity and make the music production process a breeze.

This Enschede-based startup is currently gearing up for their Kickstarter launch next week! Attend the showcase event to witness firsthand the impressive capabilities of the device and experience it yourself. Get ready to elevate your music game with Logue's custom-made MIDI controller!

This program is created with the help of Jack Noise

Doors open at 19.30, performances start at 20.00

20:00 : Jasna Velickovic, live + demo (cinema)

*SONIC DIY is a concept created by Ole Nieling and Patrick Jonkman

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SONIC DIY

To get to know our website, the Sickhouse team, together with Louisa Teichmann, created a game that you can either join online or in the physical space! Just 

, tell us if you want to join in Sickhouse or from wherever in the world you are, and we’ll make sure you’ve got a spot.

You know Werewolves. You know Among Us. Keep those in the back of your head. Swamp Surfers is a puzzle game, filled with tasks and riddles! You solve them from either your computer or from the Sickhouse building. Together, the online and offline players become a team, because you will need both the physical space and the website to find the answers to the clues.

BUT WATCH OUT! IT’S THE INTERNET! There’s a troll in the building, and it wants to stop you from finding the solution! Every night, the website goes into eco-mode, and the players in Sickhouse will fall asleep. Be aware, because you might be the troll's next victim!

However, if you’re in time to gather all the clues, you can stop the troll from trollin’! The doxing tool, the secret antidote to the troll, will be presented if you and your online or offline teammates work together really well, and solve the puzzles!

We absolutely can not wait to play this game with you!

Doors open at 19.30, game starts at 20.00

Swamp Surfers

 are discussion and embroidery sessions to discuss social and womxn related matter while creating a collective meditative work. Embroidery is the craft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn. But embroidery is also a meditative practice that can carry political meaning.

On this new session we welcome Carithea Richards to lead a discussion about inclusion of expat in Twente's companies.

We provide tea, coffee, cookies and the material, your donations are welcome.

Doors open at 18.30, discussion starts at 19.00