Performances and Daytime Music at Celestial Festival

Daytime music by Speedy Boarding (@speedy.boardingg)⁠ and ⁠Kakao Katze @kakaokatze_ and performances by Kei Watanabe @petal.sounds⁠ and Jessika Khazrik #jessikakhazrik⁠

Speedy Boarding

Speedy boarding is the alias of multidisciplinary maker, Nico Lim. Raised in the bustling tropics of South East Asia, Nico has always been exposed to a myriad of sounds and genres. Nico co-founded the party collective Butters Clubhouse, championing bright big colourful dress up themed parties and Mordorkore, a medieval themed hardcore rave. Nico is a big advocate that all music is good and that there are no bad ones. Nico also particularly fascinated by people’s different genre tastes and play music based on the concept of pure euphoria. Nico currently plays a blend of melodic ambient, dance music from Asia, fantasy video game music, trance-like hyper pop remixes, neo-gabber influenced by medieval aesthetics.⁠
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Kakao Katzê

Kakao katzê is all about the finer things in life. Her sets are known for moving crowds with RnB tunes from the 90/00s, perfect for lovers connecting on the dancefloor… and wherever the night may lead… When not performing, the half-cat, half-chocolate femme can be found indulging in various culinary delights.⁠

Kei Watanabe⁠

Kei Watanabe performs ghostly mystifying and electrifying improvisations of found instruments, shuffling loops and odd occurrences. A minimal combination of voice, bells, stringed instruments and electric hums. ⁠
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Jessika Khazrik

Jessika Khazrik scavenges sounds from online and on-site detritus, trans-millennial compendia of healing, and militarised ads and technologies. Jessika Khazrik’s sonic scapes intimately investigate the ecological and techno-political premises of the economies we inhabit or forget. Often born out of vocoded collaborations with multi-modal neural networks skewed with incomputable Arabic rhythms, Khazrik festively uses spaces of congregation to search for locally entrenched universalisms that could collectively respond to the dystopias of our times. Khazrik’s indisciplinary practice as artist, writer, technologist,producer and DJ ranges from composition to steganography, machine learning, ecotoxicology, performance, philosophy of intelligence and history of science and music.⁠
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event photography: @tstrickland716⁠
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Photography by Tianna Strickland. For more Celestial Festival posts, click here.