Closing out Durations 2024, this leftfield lineup is [literally] one for the heads.

Salamanda is the Seoul-based leftfield ambient duo of Uman Therma (Sala) and Yetsuby (Manda). Also DJs and producers, their live sets are designed as meditations into the world of dreams and imagination. Therma’s and Yetsuby’s full-length albums on Good Morning Tapes, Small Méasures, and Human Pitch as well as their regular appearances on Seoul Community Radio, NTS Radio, and LYL Radio have garnered international praise for their signature contemplative and polyrhythmic melodies.

Jan Jelinek’s works deal with the transformation of sounds, translating source materials from popular music into abstract, reduced textures. Bypassing traditional musical instruments, he constructs collages using tiny sound fragments from a wide variety of recording devices: tape recorders, digital samplers, media players and the like. The recordings are processed into repetitive loops that boil the original down to its essentials, the source material becoming indecipherable in most cases.

Roméo Poirier, a Brussels-based musician and photographer who also performs as Swim Platførm, creates highly-textured, hybrid digital-analog sound collages. His debut EP, SURFACES, is inspired by swimming pools; the follow-up, Plage Arrière, Greek beaches. His latest, Kystwerk, is a collaboration with poet Lars Haga Raavand, exploring Norway’s coast. Poirier’s work combines industrial clicks and complex rhythms to visualize glimmering reflections of water in all its states.

Japan-born DJ Healthy has rightfully become a staple in New York’s electronic music scene, running his label, Will Records, hosting his club night, Doghausu, and organizing international party series, Pacific Mode and Sustain-Release Tokyo. His anything-goes dance sets turn the dancefloor inside out through a heady fusion of low-end frequencies and clicking percussion, though he is equally a shapeshifter for deeper listening and low BPMs.