The first Serge Modulars were released in 1973. In contrast to existing instruments from Moog, ARP and Buchla, the American Russian composer and creator Serge Tcherepnin had his own idea on what an electronic music instrument should be. Serge modules were designed to bring many aspects of the circuitry out to the front panel so modules can be patched in unusual and creative ways beyond the 'normal' functions of that type of module. To celebrate it’s 50th anniversary we invited Serge specialists Thomas Ankersmit and Floris Vanhoof for two special concerts on the opening day of the festival.

The first Serge Modulars were released in 1973. In contrast to existing instruments from Moog, ARP and Buchla, the American Russian composer and creator Serge Tcherepnin had his own idea on what an electronic music instrument should be. Serge modules were designed to bring many aspects of the circuitry out to the front panel so modules can be patched in unusual and creative ways beyond the “normal” functions of that type of module. To celebrate it’s 50th anniversary we invited Serge specialists Thomas Ankersmit and Floris Vanhoof for two special concerts on the opening day of the festival.

Let's Paint TV is an American television show hosted by artist John Kilduff.  At FAQ Festival John Kilduff will record his show for a live audience all 3 days.

After his visit with 100 keyboards at FAQ in 2021 Asuna returns to ‘s-Hertogenbosch with his latest piece called Falling Sweets / Afternoon Membranophone. The work consisting of two meal scenes by a pair. The tableware has been replaced by toy and electronic musical instruments, and the meal is a colorful confectionary. The musical instruments sound along with the gradual act of eating, a theatrical and new performance experiment with a number of devices involving unexpected physical phenomena, all of which are sounded by the eating of the sweets.

Tomoko Sauvage (JP/FR) is a musician and sound artist who is best known for her long-time experimentation on instrument combining water, ceramics, sub-aquatic amplification and electronics. Her research is grounded in live-performance practices that embrace the unpredictable dynamics of materials. Incorporating ritualistic gestures, she playfully improvises with environments, using chance as a compositional method.

Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist based in Rotherham (UK). His practice draws upon electronic music subcultures, experimental film, contemporary philosophy and radical politics. Rian Treanor re-imagines club culture, experimental art and computer music, presenting an insightful and compelling musical world of fractured and interlocking components. Having left a vivid impression with a string of releases on The Death of Rave & Warp sub-label Arcola, his debut album ATAXIA for Planet Mu in 2019 established him as both a disruptive and essential new voice in British underground club music.

Let's Paint TV is an American television show hosted by artist John Kilduff.  At FAQ Festival John Kilduff will record his show for a live audience all 3 days.

Born in Belgium, with roots from Hong Kong and now based in Brussels, Pak Yan Lau is a sound artist, improviser, musician and composer, who has developed over the years a rich, dense and captivating sound universe from prepared pianos, toy pianos, synths, electronics and various sound objects.

YPY is the solo project of Koshiro Hino. He runs Birdfriend, a cassette label that releases underground musicians from Japan and abroad, and NAKID, a label that releases contemporary/electronic music. He is a musician and composer for bands such as GOAT and Bonanzas.

Hailing from Osaka, Japan, GOAT challenge the typical rock-band set up with their unique, intricate approach to minimalism, prioritizing pure percussive sound over melodic content. They build compositions that explore rhythms and bringing audiences into trance like fatigue. Utilizing harmonics outside standard tonality along with clever muting, GOAT craft complex, driven, forceful compositions which are both urban and tribal at the same time. Their percussion, for example, comprising of bass drum, snare and hi-hat with a muted bass for every string to hit with a punch.

between Klara Lewis and Nik Colk Void somehow seemed inevitable. Both artists having seen their releases published by Editions Mego, individually carving out idiosyncratic voices in the worlds of extreme, abstract electronic music. Klara Lewis and Nik Void play ping pong with the conversation of sounds, generating ideas and bouncing them off each other, simultaneously encouraging the other to go further with their ideas opening up an opportunity to engage with previously unexplored terrain.

Norbert Möslang is a Swiss musician in the field of free improvisation. Having played with musicians such as borbetomagus, otomo yoshihide, günter müller, erikm, jérôme noetinger, lionel marchetti, jim o’rourke, kevin drumm, jason kahn, Norbert also creates film scores with his score for The Sound Of Insects winning the Swiss Film Award for best film-score.

Formed in 2012, Tot Onyx is exploration of breaking the preconceptions of live performance by incorporating use of the body, live-painting, noise and poetry, was met with great enthusiasm and excitement from small art spaces to established festivals, such as Berlin’s Atonal. Adept at bending expectations, both live and on record, the band’s formative early work echoes the experiential vocabulary in which Tommi continues to develop today.

Let's Paint TV is an American television show hosted by artist John Kilduff.  At FAQ Festival John Kilduff will record his show for a live audience all 3 days.

Manisdron is drummer Takafumi Okada of GOAT, straight from the depths of Japan. Fast paced, tense and focused motoric metallic drumming fueled by manic vocals which treads the line between the sonic equivalent of futuristic sci-fi nightmares or the remains of post apocalyptic metropolis' in flux. Full on intensity a bad trip in a seedy rock club, spiked drink stumbling, face hits ground glued to muck ridden floor boards, spinning out of control... eyes to the ceiling.. lights flashing as the music pounds you into an oblivion.

Since about 1990 Thomas Lehn's central artistical work is live-electronic music, created on the basis of analogue sound synthesis. After a period of working with the Robert Moog's minimoog synthesizer, since 1994 his main electronic equipment is the Synthi A modular analogue synthesizer combined with the DK-2 keyboard, both developed and produced by the British company EMS in the late 1960ies.

A child of the Dutch underground, Mad Miran has been on an exceptional rise of late. Her mastery behind the decks shows as she smoothly moves between electro, bass music, IDM, dubstep, electronics and breakcore throughout her sets. An infectious energy behind the decks that truly manifests it on any dance floor she takes control over. Her infinite love for obscurities have left many prowling for tracks played, as her sets tend to be an adventure through leftfield novelties and obscurities deeply rooted in 90s rave.