Michaela Turcerová + Hannan Jones

We are afraid to announce that due to health concerns Marlo De Lara has had to drop out of the festival this year.

In their place Hannan Jones – a previous guest at Counterflows – has agreed to step in, presenting a first time solo set at the festival.

Hannan Jones is an artist of Algerian and Welsh origin raised on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. Sonically, Jones’ approach is rooted in improvisation, electronics, noise, music concrète, and analogue recordings. She leans into archives and sampling; layering of audio material to create alternate possibilities, reclaim parallel histories, and reimagine connections between them.

In 2023, she became a recipient of the Oram Awards, a platform to elevate the work and voices of women and gender non-conforming artists innovating in sound, music and related technology. She has released sound and music on Optimo Music, Weaponise Your Sound, 12th Isle, and in self-initiated pursuits, working across a range of collaborations and aliases.

We also welcome a set from Michaela Turcerová, a Slovak composer and saxophonist who searches for the hidden and otherwise unheard timbres of musical instruments. In her solo project IN FLUX, she interweaves modifications of the alto saxophone’s body, surreal amplification, external sound objects, and sine waves into a hybrid percussive organism. This transformed sonic object is placed within an intimate electroacoustic space, freed from traditional expectations, history, and the cultural identity of the instrument.