Michael Delia (USA) is an artist whose work spans a wide range of disciplines and media. His work has encompassed paintings, sculpture, installations, and sound art as well as music performances. 

Central to his visceral work is an irrefutable yet delicate sense of beauty combined with a lingering sense of histories past. Both Delia's paintings and self-made instruments seemingly transcend time and space, often touching on the ephemeral. His musical instruments and installations are interesting not only from the acoustic but also from visual point of view. Inspired by the musical heritage of various ethnical and cultural provenances, contemporary bricoleur Delia constructs his instruments and acoustic objects from found and banal materials. Doing this, he combines the verified achievements of inventive organologies with the rational musical systems of 20th century. Delia's music is crystally microtonal, meditative, but can be also dramatically majestic. 

Michael Delia has presented his art at various American and European venues, including Experimental Intermedia, The Knitting Factory and Exit Art in New York, Stighting Logos in Gent, Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven, Hermit in Plasy, Sound Off and The Rosenberg Museum in Slovakia, Rudolfinum in Prague, Sklenìná Louka in Brno, Kép-Ze-Let in Tatabánya and Mamu Galerie in Budapest. 

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Shailesh is a brilliant Tabla player of the new generation. His tonal quality and feel of the rhythm harmonizes perfectly with the Sitar music. Lives in Bangalore (India)

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Place of my concert: my studio, Kazböckstrasse 21, 86157 Augsburg, Germany (first floor) 

Short bio: Gerald Fiebig, born 1973, is an audio artist and poet based in Augsburg, Germany. His sonic work focuses on radiophonic composition, electro-acoustic live improvisation, and installation and performance concepts for specific sites and contexts. He also performs and records as Sustained Development and with Jesus Jackson und die grenzlandreiter and helps run the experimental music label attenuation circuit. 

www.geraldfiebig.net 

Photo credit: Marc Fischer / brezenstudio.com

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playing from Mountain View (USA)
Robert Rich
Robert Rich is an influential ambient musician and sound designer based in California, who began releasing ambient music in the 1980s. He is perhaps best known for developing the concept of "Sleep Concerts", special events lasting throughout the night which aimed to influence REM cycle sleep with auditory stimulus. Audiences usually slept through the events in sleeping bags, listening to music in affected states of consciousness, waking up to a piano solo and tea served by Rich. His 7-hour album "Somnium" was released in 2001, attempting to recreate the sleep concert environment. His music creates a world of primordial mystery and intense beauty. Electronics merge seamlessly with primitive instruments in lush atmospheres. Above it all float melodies played on bamboo flute and steel guitar. With the fabric of this hypnotic journey, Rich weaves a connection between human cultures both past and present, near and far. 

www.robertrich.com 

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