Carsten Nicolai and Albert Oehlen are both visual artists with a great affinity for experimental music. Oehlen (*1954) is one of the most important representatives of experimental painting. Since his beginnings in the 1980s, he has been exploring the boundaries of painting in his artistic work as a "bad painter", regardless of any aesthetic criteria and academic rules. His works are shown internationally; he often presents them in the context of musical-spatial installations, for example in 2019/20 at the renowned London gallery Serpentine with a soundtrack by the avant-garde ensemble Steamboat Switzerland. Oehlen has lived in Gais, Appenzell, since 2002 and was already present at KLANG MOOR SCHOPFE in 2017 with an installation together with sound artist Wolfgang Voigt. Carsten Nicolai (*1965) works in the transitional area between music, art and science. In his works, he attempts to overcome the separation of human sensory perceptions by making scientific phenomena such as sound and light frequencies perceptible to the eye and ear. Influenced by scientific reference systems, Nicolai often deals with mathematical patterns and self-organizing structures. Nicolai's works have been shown at documenta X and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennale, among others. He uses the pseudonym Alva Noto for his musical work. With a strong penchant for reductionism, he creates sound experiments in the field of electronic music and creates his own code of signs, acoustics and visual symbols. As Alva Noto, he composed the film score for "The Revenant" together with Ryūichi Sakamoto, which won the Golden Globe for Best Film Score in 2016. Nicolai lives and works in Berlin and Chemnitz.