C-STUDIOS presents live performances by Vanessa Amara, Holodec and Dorothy Carlos, exploring the expansive possibilities of electronic music.
Through their distinct approaches to sampling and experimentation, the artists map a diverse soundscape, moving between classical samples, chopped vocals, field recordings, and pop, ambient, noise and club sounds.
The performances explore how blurred boundaries between acoustic and synthesised sound challenge familiar ways of making music, open new pathways for performance and generate new forms of artistic expression.
The afternoon talk features SCRAAATCH and Dorothy Carlos sharing their sonic research practices and exploring the connections between them. The conversation invites audiences to engage with new ideas around sound, experimentation and improvisation.
Roulette’s annual Mixology Festival highlights novel approaches to technology in music and media arts, since 1991, and is supported in-part by mediaThe Foundation.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
Vanessa Amara is a Danish duo consisting of Birk Gjerlufsen and Sebastián Santillana. Their music resists easy classification, operating in a patchwork of playful absurdity, contemporary classical traditions, and experimental music. Through a distinctive blend of classical music samples and chopped-up vocals, they construct fragmented pop.
Released through the former Copenhagen-based label Posh Isolation, Vanessa Amara’s work invites listeners into an elusive yet captivating universe – a space where past and future enter into an ever-evolving dialogue. Beyond their own releases, the duo have brought their textural and exploratory approach to collaborations with other artists, including Two Shell and Rosalía, contributing to LUX tracks such as “La Perla,” “Sexo, Violencia y Llantas,” and “Magnolias.”
Holodec is the alias project for Los Angeles based musician and producer Jieh. Having built a singular sonic world, his discography navigates the edges of ambient, neo-classical, club and pop formations. Over the years, Jieh has worked alongside such contemporaries as Kelman Duran, Nosaj Thing, and acclaimed film composer Lim Giong. His works have been commissioned for projects by Vogue Magazine, Travis Scott, and ASICS, among others. His latest Holodec album TRU FOLK (Phantom Limb, 2026), has been described as “…one continuous movement, part urban memoir, part dimming reverie” by CLOT Magazine and an “Attentive record which treats ordinary sound as a shared, deeply human form of folk music” by Electronic Sound.
Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist working across performance and sound installation. Her work heavily utilizes amplification and digital manipulation to challenge conventional ways of playing the cello. She is interested in electronics as an opportunity to construct alternate realities and seeks to obfuscate the line between acoustic and synthesized sound. Her work has been presented at MoMA PS1, The Renaissance Society, Bemis Center, Artists Space, Serpentine Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art and Big Ears Festival, among others. Her research has been published by the American Anthropological Association, and her recorded music has been released through 29 Speedway and D.O.T. Audio Arts. Her work has also featured in The Wire, The New York Times and Artforum.
SCRAAATCH is a Brooklyn-based electronic duo making experimental music, hybrid DJ sets, multimedia art, and performance. Originally from Prince George’s County, Maryland, they met in high school and developed their improvisational style in dance music and performance art scenes in D.C. and Philadelphia. They make emotional spaces where feelings can be explored without judgment. Their radio show “DOOM IS NO EXCUSE” airs bi-monthly on London’s NTS Radio.
Cynthia Igbokwe is a London-based curator, researcher and strategist working at the intersection of cultural theory and production. Her practice is shaped by emerging directions in music, art, design and media, bringing these fields into closer conversation through strategy and public engagement.
Her curatorial work has been presented at Camden Art Centre, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Music Center LA and Café OTO. Her writing has appeared in The Face, Thaddaeus Ropac, CURA, Contemporary & and Kunstverein Nürnberg. She has also spoken at Whitechapel Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts. Her radio show, Finest Hour, airs monthly on NTS Radio.
She is the founder of C-STUDIOS, a collective of cross-disciplinary translators bringing together strategists, researchers, artists, academics, designers and creative practitioners from across industries and artistic disciplines. The studio is committed to bringing diverse ideas and practices into collision and developing new forms of artistic presentation that challenge convention and advance access and education.
