»Agua Dulce« is a collaboration project by Berlin-based artists Alejandra Cárdenas (aka Ale Hop) and Laura Robles, and also the name of the most popular beach in Lima, Peru, near where both artists lived during their childhood, houses apart, without ever meeting one another. Years later, the pair joined forces with Robles on a self-built electric cajón and Cárdenas on electric guitar and electronics. Together, they explore rhythmical structures that form the backbone of the complex Afro-Peruvian music and dance traditions – a broad term used for the various musical developments that occurred in the last two centuries at the shores of the Peruvian Pacific. Their music is a radical deconstruction of these rhythms focusing on the cajón, the Peruvian box drum that enslaved peoples made from fruit boxes when Spanish colonizers banned the more familiar foot drum in the 19th century.

Elisa Balmaceda is an artist and transdisciplinary researcher whose work explores the interplay between the material, the invisible, and the spiritual within contemporary energetic and technological landscapes. Combining diverse forms of knowledge and media—such as light, sound, video, and public space interventions—she creates collaborative projects that investigate ecologies of time and more-than-human forces.

Her work has been shown at venues and festivals including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago (Chile), transmediale (Germany), the Museum of Art of Sonora (Mexico), Akademie der Künste (Germany), Ars Electronica (Austria), the Biennial of Media Arts (Chile), and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (Germany), among others.

She is a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, a guest lecturer at several institutions, and co-creator of the art and ecology platform visionaryecologies.xyz, hosted by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Germany).

Felipe Salmon is a Peruvian electronic music producer, best known as one half of Dengue Dengue Dengue. Born in Lima and now based in Berlin, he has played a key role in blending traditional South American rhythms with global electronic sounds. His solo and collaborative work showcase a unique ability to fuse ancestral musical languages with cutting-edge production, highlighting Peru’s rich sonic heritage through contemporary experimentation.

Violinist, composer, and improviser Gibrana Cervantes has become a prominent voice in contemporary avant-garde music. Based in Berlin, the Mexican artist is known for her dynamic, boundary-defying sound that ranges from lyrical to fierce and chaotic. Cervantes co-founded and curates 316centro in Mexico City, a vital platform for experimental sound practices in Latin America.

Interspecifics is a transdisciplinary research studio based in Mexico City, founded in 2013 by Mexican artists Paloma López and Leslie García. Their work merges contemporary art, transmedia practices, and sound art, weaving together biology, artificial intelligence, and DIY electronics to explore forms of communication, perception, and cognition beyond the human. They are currently DAAD fellows in sound and music.

Miguel Buenrostro is a Tijuana-born artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. His work delves into the intersections of art and territory, conceiving the border as a site of knowledge production and interconnection. His mediums include cinema, moving images and sonic interventions in public spaces. Buenrostro has showcased his work in the Biennale Architettura di Venezia (2016) , The Bauhaus Museum, (2018) Musée National de la Rd Congo,( 2021 ) Konsthall C, Stockholm ( 2022) and Museo Casa Lago, CDMX (2024). His films have been held in different international film festivals, exhibitions and Public screenings.

Mohammad Reza Mortazavi is an Iranian percussionist and composer internationally celebrated for his groundbreaking performances on the tombak and daf—traditional Persian hand drums. Recognized from a young age for his exceptional talent, Mortazavi has developed a distinctive style combining complex polyrhythms, trance-like textures, and melodic interplay, crafting deeply hypnotic sonic experiences. His solo performances transcend the expectations of percussion music, offering a dynamic range from subtle and meditative to explosive and danceable. Mortazavi has graced stages at major festivals and venues worldwide, including Roskilde, Fusion, the Sydney Opera House, and the Philharmonies of Berlin and Cologne. In 2022, he released his acclaimed album PRISMA and performed at ARTE’s 30th anniversary celebration at Tresor Berlin. Constantly evolving, Mortazavi’s work pushes rhythmic expression to new emotional and physical dimensions.

Nour Sokhon is a Lebanese artist based in Berlin. Her practice explores artistic research through interviews, field recordings, and site-specific interventions, which she translates into sound compositions, performances, installations, and moving-image works. She received the Emerging Artist Prize at the Sursock Museum in 2019 and the Sound Art 2020 scholarship from HBK. Her debut album Beirut Birds was released in 2024 with support from AFAC. Sokhon has performed at festivals such as Punkt, Gaudeamus, the Biennale d’Aix, Mapping Sounds in Exile (2025), and Avant Art Festival Berlin, and at institutions including SAVVY Contemporary, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, and Beirut Art Center.