Performing at Venus Fest 2025
never temple[THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 - ALLAN GARDENS]
Welcome to Never Temple, the Temple is a ship, the ship is made of water.
Never Temple spans the Atlantic: Blumas is based in Toronto, and is known for her work with E-Prime and Doomsquad, and Duvekot in Amsterdam, a member of Blue Crime and art collective Meduse MagiQ. Within this ever-evolving collaboration, the interconnections of sound, performance, and ritual are constantly explored.
Never Temple spans the Atlantic: Blumas is based in Toronto, and is known for her work with E-Prime and Doomsquad, and Duvekot in Amsterdam, a member of Blue Crime and art collective Meduse MagiQ. Within this ever-evolving collaboration, the interconnections of sound, performance, and ritual are constantly explored.
Performing at Venus Fest 2025
Coming to you live from beyond the official broadcast band, PRINCESS DASHA is the fm radio live-sampling project of Winnipeg-based artist Dasha Plett. Drawing on traditions and techniques of ghost-channeling, plunderphonics, and illegal leftist radio transmissions, PRINCESS DASHA re-dj’s the radio, bringing you high-femme glossolalias conjured from the dying light of daytime fm itself. Radio pirate, genre mystic, top-40 bottom-feeder, PRINCESS DASHA is scanning the waves and as far as the eye can see it’s EIGHTIES, NINETIES, WHATEVER, FOREVER. Alongside her sound practice, Dasha is a founding member of performance collective We Quit Theatre, an award-winning composer and sound designer, and a professional audio describer. Visit the princess online at www.princessdasha.com.
Photo credit: Tim Plett.
Photo credit: Tim Plett.
Performing at Venus Fest 2025
RANI JAMBAKCo-presented with Debaser, NAISA and Musagetes
[THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 - ALLAN GARDENS]
Rani Jambak, a prominent composer, producer, field recordist, instrument designer, and vocalist of Minangkabau heritage from Medan, is deeply engaged in exploring electronic music and soundscapes sourced from various regions across Indonesia. Her extensive body of work frequently examines themes surrounding nature, socio-cultural dynamics, and the intricate relationship between humanity and ancestral heritage.
Pursuing a profound exploration of cultural identity as a Minangkabau individual, Rani's artistic practice delves into the philosophical dimensions of Minangkabau traditions and investigates how ancestral wisdom can offer responses to modernity. Additionally, her work envisions the concept of future ancestors, grounded in spiritual values that are critically essential in contemporary life.
As part of her creative endeavors, Rani has designed instruments inspired by the traditional Minangkabau watermill, Kincia Aia. This innovation serves as both a critique of the climate crisis's impact and an effort to reinterpret ancestral knowledge in a novel dimension. Moreover, Rani, in collaboration with Hario, has developed performances rooted in the 19th-century manuscript, Tambo Alam Minangkabau, in partnership with Naskah Sumatra of SOAS University of London. In 2025, she introduced her installation piece, Pusako nan Sabana Tinggi (The Most Precious Legacy), a 20-minute sound composition featured at ASIA Topa. And a development work of Hario's Body Sound Performance of Silek Minangkabau with interactive electronic set by Rani Jambak and live coding by Scott Wilson premiered in BEASTFEaST 2025 Southeast/Northwest
In recognition of her groundbreaking contributions to sound, music, and technology, Jambak received The Oram Awards in 2022.
Pursuing a profound exploration of cultural identity as a Minangkabau individual, Rani's artistic practice delves into the philosophical dimensions of Minangkabau traditions and investigates how ancestral wisdom can offer responses to modernity. Additionally, her work envisions the concept of future ancestors, grounded in spiritual values that are critically essential in contemporary life.
As part of her creative endeavors, Rani has designed instruments inspired by the traditional Minangkabau watermill, Kincia Aia. This innovation serves as both a critique of the climate crisis's impact and an effort to reinterpret ancestral knowledge in a novel dimension. Moreover, Rani, in collaboration with Hario, has developed performances rooted in the 19th-century manuscript, Tambo Alam Minangkabau, in partnership with Naskah Sumatra of SOAS University of London. In 2025, she introduced her installation piece, Pusako nan Sabana Tinggi (The Most Precious Legacy), a 20-minute sound composition featured at ASIA Topa. And a development work of Hario's Body Sound Performance of Silek Minangkabau with interactive electronic set by Rani Jambak and live coding by Scott Wilson premiered in BEASTFEaST 2025 Southeast/Northwest
In recognition of her groundbreaking contributions to sound, music, and technology, Jambak received The Oram Awards in 2022.
SUBR
[FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 - ALLAN GARDENS]
SUBR صبر is a deep listening music project by DJ and creative Lougien Dawoudiah. Through reconfigured music controllers and layered speakers, SUBR offers a study into Palestinian traditional sounds, modern productions, and field recordings. The immersive soundscapes are sonically framed with deep ambient tones that carry a series of altered Palestinian music, produced by deconstructing, filtering and examining its bare elements: drums, harmony, vocals, bass.
The name SUBR (صبر) is based on the Arabic word "Sabir" which means patience, forbearance, tolerance. The same word also means cactus
: Thorny, resilient. Sometimes it flowers, sometimes it bears fruit.
Next Artist
The name SUBR (صبر) is based on the Arabic word "Sabir" which means patience, forbearance, tolerance. The same word also means cactus
: Thorny, resilient. Sometimes it flowers, sometimes it bears fruit.Next Artist
OCTO OCTA
[FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 - ALLAN GARDENS]
Octo Octa (Maya Bouldry-Morrison) had logged years as a fringe IDM artist and sound designer before her 2011 debut EP "Let Me See You" lasso'd a mighty wave of international house-heads to the dance-floor and helped push underground label 100% Silk onto everyone's radar. Since then, Bouldry-Morrison's finely-tuned blend of exquisite compositional flare, meticulously-sculpted sonics, and primal dance-floor rhythms has seen her touring worldwide as well as continuing to produce music that reflects her unique artistic perspective. In 2019 she co-founded a label, T4T LUV NRG with her partner Eris Drew, which will be releasing her third studio album “Resonant Body” — recorded at her cabin in New Hampshire in order to channel the resonance of the forest, the beauty of the river, and the energy from the rituals she conducts within it, drawing on themes of togetherness, embodiment, love, healing and survival.