FIBER Festival 2026 Symposium: Below the Surface

Panel: Trois-Quatre Taxi System, LNR (Biodegradable Soundsystem), Woody92 (Omen Wapta) Moderator: Chloe Lula (RA) In the post-COVID era, demand for hard music grew exponentially, with the 4/4 hard techno boom serving as a prime example of maximalist outwards tension. At the same time, while being forced to go inwards in the lockdown days, other listeners were drawn to a very different continuum: the emergence of a dormant convergence of various music genres: psychedelic electronica, powerful ambient, trip-hop, and glitchy, sub-murged organic (poly)rhythms. This session brings together music producers,DJs and researchers whose work moves along this broader historical and aesthetic arc. Together they trace how these influences persist, mutate and reappear across contemporary electronic music. Their perspectives span from the materiality of sound systems and the politics of DIY infrastructures to the shifting balance between intensity and fragility, propulsion and drift. The conversation explores how past and present lineages continue to inform the ways we build, imagine, and inhabit sonic worlds today. Timestamps: 00:00–04:49 Introduction 04:50–39:20 Session: Below the Surface – Fragile and vulnerable ways of producing powerful electronic music 39:21–52:18 Q&A