Illat (aka Új Bála)

Gábor Kovács is a Brussels-based musician and visual artist, also an alumni artist of the Shape platform. Active in a number of projects, he works with a wide range of genres and sounds, although his main output is Új Bála. These days he's experimenting with reductionist urban folk music as Illat. 

In the past couple of years Kovács released on labels such as Plaque, Baba Vanga, Altered States Tapes, Czaszka Rec. or Dalmata Daniel, performed at festivals like Schiev(Bruxelles), Novas Frequencias (Rio de Janeiro), Rokolectiv (Bucharest), Les Siestas Electronique (Toulouse)Tauron Nowa Muzyka (Katowice), Pohoda (Trencin), Next Festival (Bratislava), Uh Fest (Budapest), played in clubs - Cafe OTO (London), Trauma Bar und Kino (Berlin) or Ancienne Belgique (Brussels) - and DIY spaces all across Europe with his live act.

Júlia Koffler

Júlia Koffler is a vocalist and sound artist from Hungary, currently based in Berlin.

Her work is informed by vocal research, an interest in timbre and technology, and the relationship between voice and its varied cultural articulations, taking shape through different formats such as installation, video, spatial audio pieces and performance. Her live shows comprise a use of voice and extended vocal techniques, tape, and electronics to explore how vocal expression and its technological mediation unfold in a spatial setting. Her first solo album is set to be released in 2026 by Prensa Manual. 

Mári Mákó

Mári Mákó is a composer, instrument builder, and researcher based between Rotterdam and Berlin. Her practice combines electroacoustic experimental music, contemporary classical music written for ensembles, and interdisciplinary art. Her music has been described as avant-garde electronic and post-club, characterized by controlled yet abstract complexity. Mári designs and builds her own instruments to produce unique and unconventional sounds, approaching instrument creation not just as a technical task but as a compositional and conceptual act. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Liberal Arts degree at MOME in Budapest. She has performed across Europe, her work is played by ensembles and theaters, and she is a co-composer of the film 27, which received the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film along with other film music awards. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Liberal Arts degree at MOME in Budapest.

https://soundcloud.com/mari_mako_m

Nichiyoubi Intl. (aka Bartha Márk & Esteban de la Torre)Nichiyoubi Intl. is the electronic music duo and audiovisual project of Esteban de la Torre and Márk Bartha exploring the liminal terrain of sound and perception. Drawing from both artists’ interest, the project creates atmospheric environments that evolve through a continuous, awareness-tuned unfolding. Through layered sonic worlds in ethereal overlap, Nichiyoubi Intl. incites audiences into a fleeting space at the edge of temporality—a resonant drift towards contemplative introspection.

Márk Bartha is a Stockholm-based hungarian electronic musician, sound designer, and performer. Known for his site-specific performances, Márk creates works that engage playfully with unique architectural spaces blending sound and light to create an immersive spatial experiences. His installations and soundscapes explore how space and sound-events shape the listener’s perception.

Born in Mexico City, Esteban de la Torre is a sound and new media artist based in Budapest. His practice focuses on defining thresholds and signal paths within a system in order to incite emerging environments into existence. Working between drone music and expanded psycho-acoustic minimalism he strongly pivots on the physicality of spatialized sound. Soundspaces are not spaces containing sound, but spaces created by sound.

He is half of the EJTECH collective where his role as a sound and metamedia artist result into large scale installations, hyperphysical interfaces, multichannel sculptures, and programmable matter.

Kinga Ötvös

Kinga Ötvös is a Berlin-based shape-shifting vocal acrobat. After completing her academic studies in singing and acting, her artistry blossomed at the intersection of various fields: music, theater, drag, and performance art.

Kinga has released an album entitled Fluid Oratorio and an EP entitled Ice Requiem. Her music is an experiment in the deconstruction of forms and archetypes. Phrases reminiscent of sacred music are accompanied by cyborg sounds in a fluid electronic medium permeated by ethereal, soft-dark energies.

https://soundcloud.com/oetvoes-kinga

Palmovka

Palmovka is an experimental electronic, hardware-driven project that explores various introspective moods and outrospective ambiences. 

https://soundcloud.com/palmovka

Public Reptile

Public Reptile has been making music with a no-input mixer and drum machine for over a decade. The current incarnation reads industrial microwave lounge. Originating in Montreal, based in Budapest since 2020, past projects include releases on Ultra Eczema, American Tapes, Ecstatic Peace!, AA Records, EMF, Alien8, Bum Tapes, Not Not Fun and Olde English Spelling Bee.

https://soundcloud.com/publicreptile