Program

Operant is the collaboration between Luna Vassarotti (founder of Berlin based record label, Instruments of Discipline) & August Skipper. The project exists in a unique realm, passing between power-electronics, industrial, techno and dark ambience, exploring themes of gender, body morphology and its ability to be altered through violent reconstruction, psychic and psychological manipulation.

Their live shows are a collision between machines and the body, encompassing gestural noise, synths, drum machines and dual vocals distorted to the point of surreality.

In the past year OPERANT have released two EP’s on Instruments of Discipline, the second 'Zero-Knowledge' co-produced with Blush Response.

Kollaps, band formed in Melbourne in 2014, uses scrap metal, raw plastics, steel beaming and various raw materials to create an atmosphere of confusion within control, violent performances of downbeat tracks. The lyrics focus on romance, existentialims and nihilism, distinguishing them from most of the the other industrial projects.
They released their first EP 'Heartworm' in 2015, recorded and produced by Ash Wednesday (Einstürzende Neubauten, The Models, The Metronomes) and will tour Europe November/December 2017 presenting his new record 'Sibling Lovers' out on Silken Tofu and TRAIT Records.

For fans of Swans, The Body, Whitehouse.