Where Sploh

Rob Canning - elektronika

Tomaž Grom - kontrabas

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Rob Canning is an Irish computer musician, composer and educator. His work is informed by network culture and technologies with an emphasis on homebrew software development and DIY methodologies. After 15 years in London, where he completed his PhD in Music Composition and lectured in Network Media Arts, he now resides between Maribor and Haloze in eastern Slovenia. He is developing, with his family, a rural project and art residency space while keeping one foot in the city of Maribor as instigator of a regular music hackspace meetup in the Transnational guerilla art school (TGAS). He is a user, developer and advocate of free and open source software and regularly teaches workshops at the intersection of creative practice, digital citizenship and programming.

Tomaž Grom understands music as a medium of communication rather than aesthetic pleasure. He wants to find reasons for making music. Uncompromisingly he prods at social norms. Music for him is a form of seeking, unanswered questions, flow of ideas, unpredictable situations. Composition is improvisation. Improvisations offers him space to lose himself, to make mistakes, to come up with intriguing solutions. In music, challenges invite thinking and open up new possibilities. He misses a deep and complex analysis.