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FALLING ASLEEP TO THE PALE LIGHT OF YOUR SMARTPHONE, YOU MIGHT FIND YOUR DREAMS VISITED BY APPARITIONS FROM A REALM EXISTING HYPERTEMPORALLY BETWEEN THE NEURAL PATHWAYS OF THE BRAIN AND THE OPTIC SIGNAL ROUTES OF THE ONLINE WORLD. DO NOT BE SURPRISED IF THESE CREATURES HAVE RISEN FROM THE VISIONARY MULTIVERSES OF CROATIAN ARTIST BLUSH FKA. FLUFFLORD AKA. TEA STRAŽIČIĆ. A FRIEND, SPIRITUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ADVISOR TO _SEASIDE_PICNIC SINCE 2019, SHE HAVE PREVIOUSLY PROVIDED LIVE VISUALS AT _SP EVENTS BOTH IN NORWAY AND BERLIN. GAINING INTERNATIONAL NOTORIETY FOR HER UNCOMPROMISING CONFRONTATIONS AND DECONSTRUCTIONS OF POP-CULTURAL TROPES FROM ANIME TO BLACK METAL, IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE WE CAN PRESENT A SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLED _ARTIFACT CARRYING HER SIGNATURE AT THIS PARTICULAR EDITION OF THE PICNIC.

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CARMEN MARIE HILLESTAD IS A NORWEGIAN/MEXICAN MUSICIAN AND PRODUCER BASED IN OSLO. HER MUSICAL CAREER SPANNING FROM 2013 IS INVIGORATED BY A CONSTANT REVISION AND AESTHETIC RE-INVENTION GRANTING A SMOOTH ESCAPE FROM ANY REDUCTIVE GENRE-DESCRIPTORS. HER LATEST RELEASE «PERLITA», NAMED AFTER THE ARTISTS MEXICAN GRANDMOTHER, INVITES THE LISTENER INTO AN EMOTIONAL MEDITATION ON PERSONAL NARRATIVES, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME DEPLOYING A MINIMALIST APPROACH TO SOUND MAKING, ALLOWING DETAIL AND SMALL NUANCES TO SERVE AS CARRIER BEAMS FOR HER SINGULAR AESTHETICS.

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VILDE TUV PERFORMED AT THE FIRST EDITION OF _SEASIDE_PICNIC IN 2018 AND HAS IN THIS WAY CONTRIBUTED TO DEFINING THE PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETICS OF _SEASIDE_PICNIC, THROUGH HER PARTICULAR BLAND OF HYPERMODERNIST SYNTHESIZER TEXTURES, SINCERE EMOTIONALITY AND EMBRACE OF THE ACCIDENT. ALREADY BACK THEN SHE PRESENTED ID VERSIONS OF THE MATERIAL THAT HAS NOW CULMINATED IN HER SECOND ALBUM ‘MELTING SONGS’ TO THE APPRAISAL OF CRITICS ALL OVER THE WORLD. IT IS A GREAT PRIVILEGE TO ONCE AGAIN PRESENT VILDE’S WORK, HER PARTICULAR DISPLAY OF RISK AND WILLINGNESS TO EXPLORE ARTISTIC BOUNDARIES, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME MAINTAINING AN ABSOLUTE INTEGRITY THROUGH TRUST IN VULNERABILITY.

ABOUT 'MELTING SONGS' " Poised and regal – like a sunburst breaking through a rift in the clouds." - Resident Advisor

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" A raw and direct melodic presence." - I care if you listen

"Brings the soft glow of deadpan camp to the next level." - AQNB

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NIKOLINE URSIN ERICHSEN AKA. DRAGONGIRL RECEIVED GREAT PRAISE BOTH NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY EARLIER THIS YEAR, IN APRIL, WHEN HER SECOND EP, ‘TRIPOMATIC FANTASIES’ HIT THE SHELVES. HER WORK IS OFTEN OFTEN DEVELOPED IN ENCOUNTERS WITH DANCE AND PERFORMANCE. SHE EXQUISITELY GATES EMOTIONAL CONTENT, THROUGH CRISP TEXTURAL ELEMENTS THAT CAN AT ONCE SEEM COLD AND DARK, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME CHARGING IT LIKE A SIGIL, WITH THE ECSTATIC LIFE OF THE SOUL.

ABOUT 'TRIPTOMATIC FANTASIES' "(...) throughout Tripomatic Fantasies, Erichsen keeps pushing you inward; her gorgeously complex songs provide the perfect soundtrack for the journey." - Bandcamp Daily, (Album of the Day)

BERGEN-BASED ARTIST AND MUSICIAN SNORRE MAGNAR SOLBERG MAKES HIS FIRST LANDING AT _SEASIDE_PICNIC THIS YEAR. LEGENDARY AS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF BERGEN CLUB-SCENE QUALITY SEAL: CLUB NO NO, SOLBERG NOW ENTERS THE ZONE WITH HIS OWN PARTICULAR BLAND OF FOREST TRANCE, PULSATING, TRIBAL, RHYTHMICAL, FUSED WITH ANALOGUE TEXTURES AND HYPNOTIZING MELODIC SEQUENCER PATTERNS. THE SOUNDS THEMSELVES SERVE AS A PERFECT GUIDING TONE ON THE PATH THROUGH THE DEEP FORESTS OF THE MIND.

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BORA IS THE PERSONA OF FRENCH INTERMEDIAL ARTIST AND MUSICIAN PAULINE CANAVESIO. THIS QUEER, WITCH-LIKE CHARACTER TRAVERSES ACROSS INFINITELY MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE, MUCH AS THE ARTIST HERSELF INTERSECT VARIOUS MEDIA, PERPETUALLY BRIDGING GAPS BETWEEN INNER AND OUTER WORLDS. MUSICALLY SHE MANIFESTED THE ALBUM ‘NOYÉE’ IN 2019, BEFORE THE MORE CRYSTALLINE EXPRESSION OF HER EVER EVOLVING ETHOS, PHILOSOPHY, STYLE AND SUBSTANCE ‘UNHEALED HEALERS’ WAS PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC IN 2020. _SEASIDE_PICNIC PRESENTS AN _ARTIFACT CHANNELING TELEPRESENTLY BORA’S JOURNEY INTO THE BODY, INTO THE SELF-HEALING POTENTIAL AT THE CORE OF OUR VULNERABILITY.

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FRANS IBON SVENDSEN, THE TRANCE LORD BEHIND THE MONIKER DJ IBON IS ALSO OLD ASSOCIATE, ADVISOR AND FRIEND OF _SEASIDE_PICNIC. AS A PIONEER IN THE FAST TECHNO SCENE IN COPENHAGEN, HE HAS GAINED INFAMACY FOR HIS HIGH TEMPO, HARD HITTING DJ-SETS AND PERFORMANCES AROUND EUROPE’S MOST LEGENDARY CLUBS. WITH THE FORMATION OF HIS NEW LABEL KENGU THERE IS EVERY REASON FOR OPTIMISM FOR ALL THOSE WITH A LONGING FOR SWEATY DANCE FLOORS, AS A SERIES OF EP’S WITH EMOTIONALLY CHARGED BANGERS ARE ALREADY ON THE HORIZON.

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LILIANA BORGE’S SOUND-, PERFORMANCE- AND INSTALLATION WORKS ARE DELICATELY INTERTWINED WITH HER PRACTICE AS AN URBAN GARDENER AND FORAGER. ONE PERFORMATIVE DISCIPLINE EXISTS AS AN EXTENSION OF THE OTHER, GRANTING THE PERCEPTIVE AUDIENCE AN ANIMISTIC ENTRANCE INTO THE MATERIAL SHE EXPLORES, WHETHER THROUGH VOICE, FIELD RECORDINGS OR GENERATIVE SYNTHESIS. BORGE RECEIVED HER BFA FROM TROMSØ ACADEMY OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN 2019 AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SHE TRANSMITS HER WORK AT _SEASIDE_PICNIC.

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LAST FALL’S RELEASE OF THE SANDNES-BASED DUO WETWARE SOLUTIONS’ ‘PASTORAL COLLAPSE’ IMMEDIATELY AWOKE A SENSE OF KINSHIP WITH THE ETHOS AND POLITICS OF _SEASIDE_PICNIC. REPRESENTED AT THE PICNIC BY ONE HALF OF THE DUO, MORTEN HAGEN TVEIT, WETWARE SOLUTIONS PRESENT AN ERRATIC, TEXTURAL EXTRAPOLATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY STATE OF NATURE, A SONIC MIRROR IMAGE OF A WORLD ETERNALLY MARKED BY ANTHROPOCENTRIC DEATH DRIVE.

About MortenHD «(…)carved out of trauma, depletion, excess, and palpitation;’ an apt description given how much emotion he works into just one element of a song.» - Tiny Mix Tapes

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