Andrejs Poikāns

Andrejs Poikāns is an artist and researcher from Riga, Latvia. He works with sound. Mainly this manifests through the creation of idiosyncratic computer programs: sometimes for sound synthesis presented through the form of a concert or a composition, at other times it results in a performative lecture, or a script for scheduling long durational text-based instructions for an audience to engage with either using the calendar or the universal clock as a reference.

Often he is fascinated by topics such as archeology of sound and communication media, voice in Lacanian psychoanalysis and algorithmic music.

He regularly performs live computer music (formerly as absence administartion) and occasionally makes sound for theatre. He enjoys writing on a daily basis, usually diary entries.