tekhnē #11 - Kārlis Tone & Erik Alalooga - 18 May 2026

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project **https://tekhne.website/?partner=tekhne&type=blogs**, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. **tekhnē** is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

This episode features two talks with the Latvian artist Kārlis Tone and the Estonian artist Erik Alalooga, presented in sequence. Interviews are accompanied by sounds captured during the performance of Kārlis Tone's commission at the Skaņu Mežs festival and Erik Alalooga's performance at the joint Baltic Analog Lab and Skaņu mežs residency in Riga, Latvia, in the autumn of 2025 and early