A giddy, childlike glee roams the toy-box electronic music of Carmen Jaci, a French-Canadian experimental music producer who currently resides in the Netherlands. Mixing acoustic instruments with synthesisers and vocal recordings and samples, her sound builds a sunny, playful sense of place. Her debut album, joyfully titled Happy Child (2023), is a flourishing garden of chirpy video-game sounds, deep sound design, chiming bells, and wind-instrument flourishes, with vibraphone melodies blooming throughout.

Matthew Schoen is a Canadian 3D artist and motion designer currently based in the Netherlands. In his artistic practice, he conceptualizes, models and animates familiar objects and spaces that are detached from their function and their original context, in order to be repurposed into new systems. He draws inspiration from machines to create networks of complex constructions. His work is heavily influenced by commercial graphic design and animation, having himself worked for many years as motion designer for television and film.

In the live performance Weekly – Monthly – Yearly at BLAUES RAUSCHEN, the duo combines their respective practices into an adventurous audiovisual performance grounded in experimental dance rhythms and 3D rendered visuals. They present an uninterrupted series of visuals and sounds that form a non-narrative and non-linear storyline: as sounds are triggered, visuals react, and a highly synchronised interplay emerges to express a poetic interpretation of our relationship to data and digital systems.