Laura Cocks is a flutist with “febrile instrumental prowess” (The New York Times), who works in a wide array of environments as a performer of experimental music and “creates intricate, spellbinding works that have a visceral physicality to them” (Foxy Digitalis). Laura is the executive director and flutist of TAK ensemble, “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen), with whom Laura makes musics “that combine crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (WIRE Magazine). They are also a member of Talea Ensemble, noted for their “astonishing fluidity,” “compelling lucidity, ” and “precise control” (the New York Times). As a soloist, improviser, and chamber musician, they have performed with musicians such as DoYeon Kim, Shara Lunon, Timothy Angulo, Luke Stewart, Wendy Eisenberg, Lester St. Louis, Brandon Lopez, and Madison Greenstone, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Sun Ra Arkestra, Wet Ink Ensemble, and many others in NYC and abroad. Their recent solo album, field anatomies (Carrier Records), noted as one of Stereogum’s top-ten experimental releases of the year, charted in the Billboard top ten “Classical Crossover” releases and was praised for its “superhuman physicality” and “disciplined patience” (Bandcamp Best Contemporary Release and Experimental Release). They studied with Michel Debost, William Bennett, Kate Hill, Kathleen Chastain, and Tara Helen O’Connor at The Oberlin Conservatory, The Royal Academy of Music (London), Manhattan School of Music, and The Graduate Center.
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Ian Duclos
Musician, interdisciplinary artist and researcher living and working between Lima, Peru, and Porto, Portugal. His practice is based on experimentation and improvisation through the use of digital technologies, often involving chance operations, remix practices and computer-human co-creation. He has performed and exhibited internationally, collaborating with a wide range of artists and institutions.

Amuleto Apotropaico
Duo originally from Santa Maria da Feira and based in Porto, António Feiteira (percussion) and Francisco Oliveira (guitar and electronics) intersect in definitive music – oracular rituals that lead along the unintelligible routes of vertigo and delirium, concentric only in one deliberate spirituality. They focus on the idea of ​​collective memory through the reinterpretation of folkloric motifs.