UK ensemble Distractfold is a group of performers, composers and curators acting from a shared passion for the music and culture of our times. Bridging electronic, electroacoustic and instrumental performance, they have commissioned closely collaborative works from Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Hanna Hartman, Weston Olencki, Marek Poliks, Sabrina Schroeder, Lori Freedman and others. They have appeared at festivals such as Klang, Rainy Days, Kalv, Darmstadt International Summer Course, Le Bruit de la Musique, Nordic Music Days, Huddersfield, Trieste Prima, Vertixe Sonora Festival, NeoArte Festival, Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemäßer Musik, and London’s Kammer Klang and Chicago’s Outer Ear concert series, and have been awarded Darmstadt’s prestigious Kranichsteiner Musikpreis.