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INTONAL 2024: Elektron Super Sekvens

The sonic smörgåsbord that is Elektron Super Sekvens is coming to Intonal Festival. Get ready for an evening of live music as Dungeon Acid, Sofie Birch, Johanna Knutsson, Synd, and The Elektron Team bring their own distinctive audio flavors together to create a unique real-time collaborative performance.

These artists will sometimes take the spotlight, and other times share it, melding together the varying tones, beats, and melodies into a one-off – and at times improvised – experience, full of electronic and acoustic instruments.
Dreamed up and puzzled together by Gothenburg-based electronic drum machine/synth brand Elektron Music Machines, Super Sekvens had its debut in January at Gothenburg Film Festival, helping lead the opening night’s festivities into the early hours of the next day.

Johanna Knutsson
For over a decade, Johanna Knutsson has been crafting otherworldly, alluring techno infusions both from her studio and beaming out onto dancefloors. With a catalogue of explorative composition spanning multiple genres, Knutsson’s sets are full of kinetic impetus and unexpected detours that create singular, enveloping musical moments. Whether it is a soaring BPM-trip or a soothing private carpet ride, the emphasis is on connection with the audience, building a wordless interaction where energy and motion flux freely.

Sofie Birch
Sofie Birch is a sound artist and producer creating lush ambient releases, live shows, and DJ sets. With electronic hardware and field recordings, she conjures melodic compositions that are produced with a sense of brightness and spirit encouraging its listeners to dive into themselves. She has a keen interest in the healing nature of sound and vibrations, which she conveys through her music, performances, and radio mixes.

Synd
Gothenburg-based art-pop band Synd debuted in 2020 with a self-titled album and have become a regular feature of the city’s underground live scene. Their unconventional mishmash of influences– including punk, dub, synth, and drum ‘n’ bass – are boiled together with lyrics that range from the personal to the universal, profound, confessional, pessimistic, and socially critical. With sax, drum machines, percussion, plonky synths, a distorted guitar, and countless effects, they have, in their own words, “taken it upon themselves to accompany the seven horsemen of the apocalypse and drown them in delay” – and they sure have fun doing it.

Dungeon Acid
Dungeon Acid is a solo vehicle for Jean-Louis Huhta to collapse a variety of sounds and genres into one another, inducing relentlessly hypnotic beats and melodies, often with an acidic touch. It makes for an infectious soundtrack whatever the time of day. Unsurprisingly, he has an eclectic background, playing with The Skull Defekts, Lucky People Center, and Anti-Cimex, as well as composing music for several dance works and international exhibitions and installations.