TONTON w/ Juan Awile & Tejus Menon // Masha Ten & Agonis // Rhodia
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Wir starten in die TONTON-Saison 2025/26 mit
Juan Awile & Tejus Menon
Masha Ten & Agonis
Rhodia with atmosphere Sounds und freuen uns sehr darauf!
Juan Awile (he/him) creates soundscapes for both somatic dancefloors and transcendental states of consciousness. He manipulates sounds that explore the perception of movement, time, space, memory, and the imagination of a future past.
Coming from the global south, activism plays a significant role in his life. As a result, his artistic practice often ranges from subversive critiques of hypercapitalist club culture to an unapologetic advocacy for the oppressed.
Juan’s work spans music that transcends genre boundaries, mixed-media pieces, and contributions to the community fabric within club culture. For him, resistance is key—in art practices and beyond.
Tejus Menon (he/they) is a performer and dance maker from Kerala/New Delhi, based in Bern, Switzerland.
He creates works for public space and for the stage, with a focus on post-colonial stereotypes. He has shown work at the Zürcher Theater Spektakel, far° festival Nyon, Tanzhaus Zürich, Serendipity Arts Goa and the India Art Fair. He is part of the Danse et Dramaturgie Programme for 2024-26, co-elected by the Tanzhaus Zürich and is a recipient of the DanceWeb Scholarship at Impulstanz Vienna 2025. He is also engaged with the artistic collective Spazio 500 in Italy as a host, performer, chef and gardener.
Masha Ten ist eine vielseitige Musikerin, Geigerin, Komponistin und Pädagogin mit Sitz in Basel. Ihr künstlerisches Spektrum reicht von klassischer Musik (solo, kammermusikalisch, orchestral) bis hin zu experimenteller elektronischer Musik. Nach einer fundierten Ausbildung in St. Petersburg und an Hochschulen in Lausanne und Basel entwickelte sie einen eigenen Stil, der elektronische Klänge mit verzerrter Violine und Einflüssen aus Minimal Techno, Ambient und Bass verbindet.
Früh experimentierte sie mit verschiedenen Genres wie Metal, Jazz und Pop. Von 2011 bis 2020 war sie Mitglied des Synergy Orchestra in St. Petersburg und beteiligte sich an interdisziplinären Projekten. Ab 2020 arbeitete sie intensiv mit dem Produzenten Jules Hildebrand zusammen und begann, ihren unverkennbaren experimentellen Stil zu entwickeln.
Zwischen 2023 und 2024 war sie Teil des FOG Kollektivs Basel und mitverantwortlich für Projekte wie das FOG Festival. 2024 gründete sie mit Marie Delprat das Duo Marytronics, das 2025 sein Debütalbum Dull Star Doll veröffentlichte.
Agonis derives from the greek agon, which refers to an “assembly, a mass of people brought together” and the verb agein, “to put in motion, move”. A molecule that activates a receptor to produce a biological response, a muscle that contracts, a gathering that moves.
Raised with the sounds of Detroit techno and UK breaks & dubstep, the co-founder of Amenthia Recordings has carved out a signature sound that fuses vintage feels with the crystalline sounds of a speculative future’s past. EPs and tracks released on Midgar, Smoke Machine, Kynant, his native Amenthia, and her Basel-based sister label A Walking Contradiction showcase exquisite rhythm experiments that range from bitter-sweet ambient to UK-infused breaks to niche 4×4 bangers.
Perfected over years of performing live from Turtle Island’s West Coast to the Eastern edge of the Eurocentric world map and the territories now referred to as Australia, his sonic alchemy culminated in his first album Neutropia.
Perception has evolved through an excess of stimuli, and that excess is now our greatest asset.
