SHAPE platform

We bid farewell to SHAPE with some data, and would like to thank everyone who participated on this journey over those 10 years! Until we meet next! ❤️

This account will stay but will be checked sporadically only.

Barreiro in Portugal OUT.FEST - Festival Internacional de Música Exploratória do Barreiro to Budapest UH Fest, from Bucharest Rokolectiv Festival to Krakow's Unsound, Berlin CTM Festival to Malmö Intonal, Toulouse' Les Siestes Electroniques to Bern's Full of Lava, Tbilisi's Mutant Radio to Riga SKAŅU MEŽS, Graz in Austria musikprotokoll to Prague's MeetFactory, Brussels' schiev to Milan Terraforma Festival, The Hague's Rewire to Selo Šutci in Serbia’s countryside Polja, Ukraine’s Dnipro's Construction Festival to Ljubljana SONICA, and beyond!

(Showcases at MUTEK Montréal, NYEGE NYEGE, Festival Novas Frequências and more)

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Photos: Libor Galia, Camilla Rehnstrand, Pedro Roque, Srdjan Mančev, Giacomo Alberico, Pauline Van den Neste, Arnis Kalnins, Natalia Knycz, Artūrs Pavlovs, Yoshiko Kusano

As the year comes to a close and with it also SHAPE - at least in its current form - we have gathered some pics from our member festivals around Europe and their SHAPE-related activities, from Barreiro in Portugal OUT.FEST - Festival Internacional de Música Exploratória do Barreiro to Budapest UH Fest, from Bucharest Rokolectiv Festival to Krakow Unsound, Berlin CTM Festival to Malmö Intonal, Toulouse Les Siestes Electroniques to Bern's Full of Lava, Tbilisi's Mutant Radio to Riga SKAŅU MEŽS, Graz in Austria musikprotokoll to Prague MeetFactory, Brussels schiev to Milan Terraforma Festival, The Hague Rewire to Selo Šutci in Serbia’s countryside Polja, Ukraine’s Dnipro's Construction Festival to Ljubljana SONICA, and beyond!

(Showcases at MUTEK Montréal NYEGE NYEGE, Festival Novas Frequências and more)

Part 1

Photos: Tako Skripnichenko, Menyhért Hivessy, Ben Fee, Martin Gross, Queenie F. Charles, Maja Horváth.Stefanyak, Michal Murawski, Vira Dumke

Bucharest-based artist Admina moves through experimental electronic sounds, global bass, leftfield club and abstract textures, featuring tracks by the likes of DJ Narciso and Exile Di Brave & Time Cow.

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Crack Mix 612: Admina Admina's Crack Mix moves through experimental electronic sounds, global bass, leftfield club and abstract textures, featuring tracks by the likes of DJ Narciso and Exile Di Brave & Time Cow. Dive in.

The platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, known first as SHAPE and later as SHAPE+, had been active for more than a decade.

While the individual partner festivals and venues will continue to develop new initiatives, SHAPE+ is reaching its conclusion at the end of December 2025.

Across its ten years of activity, SHAPE facilitated the careers of 676 innovative artists, and is thankful to them for their trust and participation. The creators of SHAPE owe much gratitude also to the core 18 adventurous music festivals of the platform, as well as external partner organizations, media partners, and participating entities from previous versions of the project.

The project has been co-funded by the European Union, in its last years also by Pro Helvetia.

https://shapeplatform.eu/2025/shape-the-project-has-concluded/

"Looking back, I’m grateful that I had to sit through a lot of music that I didn’t like at the time or still don’t like today. That just never happens anymore."

We had a chat with Budapest-based DJ, producer, organiser and label-owner András Molnár aka The Stanley Maneuver.

'I can’t stop making music.' An interview with The Stanley Maneuver - SHAPE+ Platform The Stanley Maneuver is the solo project of András Molnár, a musician, DJ and organiser based in Budapest. His practice focuses on weaving a web of fragile environments that possess their own histories, desires, faults and secrets. Building upon improvisational and generative techniques, he contin...

ARTIST OF THE WEEK - THE STANLEY MANEUVER (HU)

The Stanley Maneuver is the solo project of András Molnár, a musician, dj and organizer based in Budapest. His practice focuses on weaving a web of fragile environments that have their own histories, desires, faults and secrets. Building upon improvisational and generative techniques he constantly repurposes his materials to explore territories in and around experimental music and intimacy.

Besides working on his solo project he is in constant collaboration with multidisciplinary artists and contemporary dancers on performances, installations and experimental computer simulations.

https://shapeplatform.eu/artist/the-stanley-maneuver/

“Imagine if all those ‘we should record something together’ conversations had actually resulted in something.“

We speak to Andreas and who have long been recognised as leading names in Swedish electronic music and jazz, and who have now joined forces.

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Individually, Andreas Tilliander and Goran Kajfeš have long been recognized as leading names in Swedish electronic music and jazz, respectively. Both have consistently pushed and transcended the boundaries of their genres. Tilliander has explored everything from techno, drones, and dub to clicks’n’cuts under monikers like TM404 and Mokira. Kajfeš has been a relentless innovator in jazz, playing a central role in bands such as Oddjob, Subtropic Arkestra, Tropiques, Nacka Forum, and Fire! Orchestra.

Now, they join forces, forging a new path for both ambient and jazz music.

https://shapeplatform.eu/artist/tilliander-goran-kajfes/

We talk to Tbilisi-based musician TeTe Noise about his sonic universe, decay and memory and his city's music scene.

'Decay, memory, and transformation feel inseparable to me.' An interview with TeTe Noise - SHAPE+ Platform TeTe Noise is the experimental music project of Georgian artist Sandro Chinchaladze. Fusing cassette tape loops, analogue electronics, and field recordings, TeTe Noise creates immersive sonic collages that blur the lines between sound art and music. Often accompanied by abstract visuals and rooted i...