Ewa Justka UK

Warsaw-raised, London-based electronic noise artist, teacher and self-taught synth builder

This Polish acid-technoise prodigy runs her DIY laboratory of unhinged electronic circuits, flickering light bulbs and strange transistors with the aim of churning outcrushing sound sequences and dismantled, atonal rhythms. Ewa Justka was first introduced to leftfield electronic sounds by her sister as a teen, via Aphex Twin and the Ninja Tune catalogue. She began building her homemade synth circuits after moving to London, where she studied computational arts at Goldsmiths. The main focus of her research lies in the exploration of ontological environments and the materiality of objects. She is involved in a broad spectrum of creative pursuits, from leading DIY workshops and building music instruments to performing her strange and sweetly brutal brew of industrial noise at international festivals such as Unsound Krakow, Club Transmediale and Ableton Loop. Justka likes to describe her liveshows as constant crescendos that accelerate until they’re simply unbearable.