Stephanie Castonguay – „soft_cuts“
soft_cuts unfolds as a tactile, luminous ritual for hacked turntables and their interplay using modular synthesis, named for the soft yet lasting marks engraved through time, bodies, and sound. Using Playmobil-built turntables with multiple tonearms, soft_cuts explores fragmented, decomposing bio-vinyls - stacked, layered, and partially erased - read by altered needles, sometimes tracing grooves backward.
An experimentalist at heart, Montreal based artist Stephanie Castonguay develops a hands-on practice rooted in materiality, listening, and transformation. Through the construction of DIY instruments and the repurposing of obsolete machines, she explores sound as a living process shaped by touch, decay, and unpredictability. Her work reveals hidden resonances within analog systems, where fragility, accidents, and attention become tools for improvisation and presence.
JD Zazie – solo
JD Zazie is an experimental DJ, avant-turntablist, sound artist and curator. Coming from a DJ and a radiophonic background, JD Zazie has explored different approaches to real-time manipulation of fixed recorded sound. In her work she redefines DJ and electroacoustic activities.
As a solo performer, in small groups, and in large ensembles, she works in an area which is constantly stretching the borders of what could be defined as DJ mixing, free improvisation and composed music.
JD Zazie is a member of Reanimation Orchestra, is part of Hic Up (w/ Marina Cyrino, Tony Elieh, Matthias Koole) and regularly plays solo and duo with Heidrun Schramm and Peter Cusack. She is the art director of the MuseRuole - women in experimental music festival, a member of the Burp Enterprise collective and broadcasts monthly on Colaboradio and on Reboot.fm.