FOQL stands for Justyna Banaszczyk – experimental electronic and dance music artist, author of radio dramas, film scores, and video game soundtracks. Her tracks bring to mind IDM and industrial, but their most distinctive feature are complex rhythms and often harsh sounds, constant exploration and contradicting the artist’s own musical identity – a trait that is reflected in her largely improvised live performances.
126-track Benefit Compilation FOR GRASSROOTS OF LGBTQIA+ Community in Poland
“Total Solidarity astonishes with its consistency of quality, if not genre, offering versions of virtually every kind of big room, side room, chillout area, bedroom, backroom, and interzone soundtrack. ”
“‘TOTAL SOLIDARITY’ compilation raises funds for LGBTQIA+ organisations. The compilation features tracks from the likes of Air Max ‘97 (pictured), Violet, TSVI, Lee Gamble, and Rrose”
This work involved the recording engineering of voiceovers with all of the Stratofizyka artists reading the poem by Dagmara Kraus [POL] in a studio night session assisted by Julia Borelli.
Our task was to produce a high quality resource for the sound designer Lenka Kocisova [CZE] to incorporate into the live performance.
The show includes a choreography and performance by Hen [USA] and visuals by Alessandra Leone [ITA]. It premiered for Heroines of Sound Festival at Radialsystem - Berlin in December 2018.
Following our events in London, Berlin, New York and Paris, Sydney is now the latest city to host our book launch and film screening.The anthology book “Little Houses, Big Forests (desire is no light thing)” was published by Repeater Books (UK) and distributed worldwide by Penguin/ Random House.
The accompanying film, “In the dark, dark room” was shot on location at Mustarinda, an artist residency in a remote part of Northern Finland. The Sydney launch and screening was hosted by inner city bookstore, Radio Free Alice.
Siouxzi read a piece of short fiction from the book, the film was screened and then a book signing took place afterwards. As Sydney is Siouxzi’s home city, it was a great thrill to finally present the work on home soil among good friends and family.Stay tuned for further launches around Australia.
Women* have historically been the object of sexual exploitation and fetishism, however that type of objectification increases when it comes to women* of colour and LGBTQIA+. Of course, these are not the only topics of importance but a community that requires more visibility and solidarity.
The WE ARE NOT SAME SAME event highlights the misconception that all Asian countries can be placed under the one umbrella, without regard or respect towards their differences in culture, individuality and history. This event will be spotlighting the implications encircling exotification, sexism, objectification, racism, stereotyping and diaspora. The goal is to create an intersectional feminist platform for people of Asian descent and allies to come together, share experiences, begin discourse and find empowerment.
In October 2018 Rey KM Domurat recorded and mixed Sissip EP in collaboration with second engineer Julia Borelli. The project was generously funded by Musicboard Berlin and accomplished by an all female or non-binary identified team including Yazzmin (keys), Lizzy (drums), Carolin Hauke (film crew), Katharina Hauke (film crew) and mastering engineer Enyang Urbiks. The album was released in November 2018.
Last week, we were invited to play at The Secret Art Engender at Urban Spree, Berlin - an event showcasing video installations, video art, as well as DJs and VJs. The night's proceeds went to TERRE DES FEMMES, an organisation that works for the equal rights of women.Video Installation by Melle Skärfstad, Picture Credit by Yky Galore
A special thanks to Apolline from the Secret Art Engender for the invitation and for helping us to spread the word about our work with The WØMB. Thank you also to all the other event organisers, to the other artists for creating such special performances and of course to the dancers for such great energy on the dance floor.
We will be travelling to Paris for the screening of our 2017 film 'In the dark, dark room' as part of a panel on transgressive literature and performance. Siouxzi will also be presenting her book 'Little Houses, Big Forests (desire is no light thing)' in France for the first time. She will perform an extract from the book and will be open for questions afterwards. The venue is the University of Chicago, Paris. Thank you to Jack Sergeant for bringing to life such an event.Details on the panel:November 9, 2017Panel 3: Literatures, Anti-Literatures, Poetics and Performance (3:45 pm - 5:30 pm)3:45 pm The Crime of Being Born - Or is Psychoanalysis Still Dangerous? (Tom Bland, MA student University of East London, UK)4:15 pm NO(W)-BODY (Dejan Gacond, Kit Brown, and Tenko)4:45 pm Reading: Our Little Wooden House in the Forest (Siouxzi Connor, Independent scholar/ writer / filmmaker)5:15 pm Screening of In the Dark, Dark Room (Klaudia Domurat and Siouxzi Connor, 12mins)
Additionally, Klaudia and Siouxzi will be presenting their film and the book at the stunning Hotel Amour in Pigalle, Paris, at an intimate Salon event with the hotel. The venue has long supported transgressive, feminist artists and fashion designers and Uferlos are very happy to be showing their work in such an environment. Big thanks to the hotel owners for their support! (Image above: https://www.instagram.com/amourhotels/)
We're currently at work on an exciting new film and jazz music recording.Along with a team of SAE Institute Berlin students from the Audio and Film departments, we're creating a promo film of the live recording of Aron Ottingon's & Jakub Gudz's session preparing for the tour with the new album Team Aquatic, recently released with Blue Note and Universal Music France.
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Tomorrow we're heading to beautiful Cologne (Kölln) for the SAE Alumni Convention to hear about new developments and opportunities in the industry.We're looking forward to introduce our Studio to the wide network of SAE Alumni in the creative media industry.It will be a great chance to spend time with like-minded creative people to talk through our upcoming projects and proposals for the rest of the year and the year ahead.If you're also going and would like to make a time to meet, feel free to drop us a line at studio@uferlos.berlin. Otherwise just come and say hi!
'We, all of us creatures, can feel when the new season is coming and it means the same thing in our bones to all of us...'With the new season of autumn just arriving to Berlin, we have just released the teaser for our film and installation work: IN THE DARK DARK ROOM (2017).The work showcases our filmmaking, audio and narrative capabilities as Uferlos Studios and we are very proud to present a taste of it for you here.https://vimeo.com/234725850 For booking enquiries:studio@uferlos.berlin
It was an honour to take part in the Machine Jam music production workshop for female users, here is our new track produced and performed live by Klaudia Domurat during a 4-hour practice workshop, guided by Jane Arnison (Evvol) and Boris Mezga (NI)
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Artist Residency Finissage:Siouxzi Connor & Klaudia Domurat. Music, Sound, Video & Photography / Drinks & Catering. Invitation Only (www.uferlos.berlin)
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Described in an interview with the BBC World Service as a “symphony”, the work incorporates the sound design and voices by Rey KM Domurat and Siouxzi Connor, reading from the Our Little Wooden House In The Forest novel extracts that appear in the newly published book Little Houses, Big Forests (desire is no light thing) by Siouxzi Connor.
Launching on Tuesday January 17 from 8pm and continuing for a week at Tenderbooks, Soho, London, we are very excited to present at the latest work from Uferlos Studios titled In the dark, dark room (2017) - an aural-visual installation by Siouxzi Connor & Klaudia Domurat. The interviews and extracts are soon to be broadcast on the BBC World Service and NTS London.
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