A Forbidden Distance

Ian McDonnell aka Eomac is an Irish producer and sound designer living in Wicklow near Dublin. The Eomac sound draws from obscure samples and raw sound design in an ongoing exploration of intense, visceral music for body and soul. 
Alongside his solo releases as Eomac he's also one half of the duos Lakker, noeverything and Lena Andersson.

Rebecca Salvadori is a London-based artist working at the intersection between video art and documentary. She has a long experience in filming environments with a focus on non-hierarchical/chronological layering and sequencing of audio to footage. Over the last 15 years, she has consistently engaged with experimental music, with a great interest in finding ways to connect the moving image with sound practices, live performances and alternative forms of storytelling.

Formed by two brothers, Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh, raised primarily in the West, away from their family in Iran, Saint Abdullah is designed somewhat as an introduction to a different palette of sounds, creating a charged and anxious, but still assertive mixture of minimalist dub and Iranian samples. The two are particularly drawn to the sounds associated with Shia Islam, predominant in Iran but usually a minority in the Muslim world.

Charlie Hope is a London born visual artist using light, motion, space, video, and coding to build sensorial images and environments across sound, performance and installation. His practice allows for connections between different scenarios to form complex and interconnected ecosystems while also creating custom sculptural lighting fixtures and electronics that feed into this. His work involves crafting multi-textured environments, often through collaborations in a range of contexts, from galleries and clubs to music, theatre and film, with such artists as GAISTER (Coby Sey, Olivia Salvadori, Akihide Monna), Moin, Tirzah, Nkisi, Penumbra (Maxwell Sterling, Dali De Saint Paul, Rebecca Salvadori and Charlie Hope), Eve Stainton, John T. Gast and the collective Tutto Questo Sentire. Shown at various institutions including ICA London, Tate Modern, Berghain, Le Guess Who?, Rewire, Atonal, Muziekgerbau, Ormside Projects, Terraforma Exo, Fold, HetHem.