Düsseldorf by Night (DbN) functions as an experimental sound art test area for Swedish composer Patrik K Book. Book sees DbN as a place where anything is allowed and where anything can happen. In his live DbN shows he has previously used old found tapes, field recordings, granular synthesis and contact microphones to make improvised performances often resulting in obscure rhythmical structures, noises and drones. The debut album of Düsseldorf by Night, entitled ”Images for Tape”, was released in 2015 by Lamour Records. It was nominated as best experimental album in Sweden 2015 at the national Manifest Gala in Stockholm. Book started his sonic endeavors making Kraftwerk inspired synth sound using analog synths as a teenager in the 80s with his band Ausgang Verboten. A cassette album entitled ”Entertainment” was released in 1984. After an underground cult-following in many years, ”Entertainment” was re-mastered and released on vinyl by german label Genetic Music in 2004. An american vinyl and CD-release of the original 1984 tape + some rare tracks, is due to be released in 2017. After three decades of working under names such as DA BOOK, Patrik Book, Düsseldorf by Night, AstroFlash (with Simon Warnolf) - Book recently wrote his first piece for string quartet entitled String Quartet No.1, ”Turn Around”. The 30 minute piece had it´s premiere 18 november 2016 at the Pufendorf Institute in Lund, Sweden.

Doron Sadja is an American artist, composer, and curator whose work explores modes of perception and the experience of sound, light, and space. Often working with multi-channel spatialized sound, smoke machines, and high intensity lights, Sadja combines pristine electronics with lush romantic synthesizers, dense noise, and immersive light projections to create hyper-emotive sonic architecture. Although each of Sadja’s works are striking in their singular and focused approach, his output is diverse: spanning everything from 25 speaker sound works to stroboscopic smoke and light shows, 360 degree projection pieces, and custom built motorized speaker systems that can precisely track sound around a room. Sadja founded Shinkoyo Records and the West Nile performance space in Brooklyn (RIP), and currently runs the Sound Portraits lecture/listening series in Berlin. Sadja studied Technology in Music and Related Arts at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and received his MFA in Sound Art from Bard College where he studied with Maryanne Amacher, Marina Rosenfeld, and David Behrman. http://doron.sadja.com