AMPEFF celebrates International Drone Day 2026 with a special streaming broadcast on Twitch, Saturday, May 30th, 2026. The broadcast begins at 20:00 CEST.
https://www.twitch.tv/amplidyneeffect
Drone Day is an international celebration of drone music, experimental sound, and collective listening, a worldwide gathering dedicated to immersive frequencies, sustained tones, and sonic exploration. Created by MCLF of Weird Canada, Drone Day has grown into a global movement connecting artists, listeners, and communities through performances taking place everywhere: online, in galleries, warehouses, parks, basements, rooftops, and beyond.
For this first edition on AMPEFF, the live broadcast presents LIVE performances by Mao Lemieux, Radio Prague, Amplidyne Effect, and Kevin Paul Cahay.
Expect deep atmospheres, evolving textures, analog experiments, ambient transmissions, and journeys into sound that blur the boundaries between performance, improvisation, and meditation.
8pm – Mao Lemieux
Since August 2021, Mao Lemieux has captivated and unsettled audiences through immersive dark ambient and granular synthesis improvisations performed through a virtual entity. Using the SpaceCraft app on iPad Pro, she manipulates waveforms in real time, drawing out deeply otherworldly and visceral textures for performances that are entirely spontaneous and impossible to reproduce. Her sonic landscapes invite listeners into an experience of deep listening and inner exploration.
Since August 2021, Mao Lemieux has captivated and unsettled audiences through immersive dark ambient and granular synthesis improvisations performed through a virtual entity. Using the SpaceCraft app on iPad Pro, she manipulates waveforms in real time, drawing out deeply otherworldly and visceral textures for performances that are entirely spontaneous and impossible to reproduce. Her sonic landscapes invite listeners into an experience of deep listening and inner exploration.
9pm – Radio Prague
Formed as a solo project by Didié Nietzsche in Huy in the early 1980s, Radio Prague is today regarded as a pioneer both in electronic experimentation and in its connections with video art and alternative visual and relational practices. Jules Nerbard joined the project about a year later.
Formed as a solo project by Didié Nietzsche in Huy in the early 1980s, Radio Prague is today regarded as a pioneer both in electronic experimentation and in its connections with video art and alternative visual and relational practices. Jules Nerbard joined the project about a year later.
In recent years, Didié Nietzsche revived Radio Prague as a live project, with Nerbard on bass and visuals, alongside Renata Kambarova, whose classical flute background introduced a new dimension to the group’s strange, unconventional, and exploratory sonic laboratory.
Didié Nietzsche’s broader musical trajectory includes the French-language rock project Nietzsche in the early 2000s, the ambient/post-rock collective 48 Cameras, and the cosmic electronic duo 11:60, developed since 2015 with Christophe Bailleau. He has also been involved with Paradise Now, Neptunian Maximalism, and ZAAAR.
For this special Drone Day performance, the group will be joined by Eric Jacques, also known as RenéDesFlammes, at his own venue.
Formerly a professional visual artist and animator, Eric Jacques exhibited numerous sculptures and paintings over the years. His best-known work, The Fabulous World of the Burqs, was created from assembled scrap metal sculptures.
On July 13, 2005, a life-changing explosion radically transformed his path, leading to a long process of reconstruction and the birth of RenéDesFlammes (“Reborn From Flames”) — an artist working through disability, resilience, and experimentation.
Since 2007, RenéDesFlammes has explored electronic music and analog sound experimentation. After discovering the theremin and acquiring his first Moog-style modular synthesizer in 2008, he developed a deep passion for modular synthesis and experimental sound practices, embracing limitation, transformation, and the creative use of what remains.
10pm – Amplidyne Effect
Amplidyne Effect is a live electronic music project that began in 2009. Rooted in live improvisation and generative compositions, live performances are never fixed or repeated. Each set unfolds in the moment, shaped by the artist’s emotional state, environment, and influences, drifting between newly created material and reworked fragments of older recordings and transformed sounds. The music moves through ambient, drone, electronic, experimental, and noise territories, created entirely live using synthesizers, guitar, samples, loops, programmed rhythms, and extensive effects processing.
Amplidyne Effect is a live electronic music project that began in 2009. Rooted in live improvisation and generative compositions, live performances are never fixed or repeated. Each set unfolds in the moment, shaped by the artist’s emotional state, environment, and influences, drifting between newly created material and reworked fragments of older recordings and transformed sounds. The music moves through ambient, drone, electronic, experimental, and noise territories, created entirely live using synthesizers, guitar, samples, loops, programmed rhythms, and extensive effects processing.
11pm – Kevin Paul Cahay
Kevin Paul Cahay is a French musician and composer based in Paris, recognised for his experimental and distinctive approach. He explores a sound world blending analogue instruments, modular synthesisers, and lo-fi recording techniques. His work is marked by the intentional use of vintage tools and now-obsolete software. Some pieces are recorded in a single take on minidisc, using old Apple G3 or G4 computers and legacy programmes. True to a live, in-the-moment aesthetic, he favours direct recordings, where imperfection becomes a living, expressive material.
Kevin Paul Cahay is a French musician and composer based in Paris, recognised for his experimental and distinctive approach. He explores a sound world blending analogue instruments, modular synthesisers, and lo-fi recording techniques. His work is marked by the intentional use of vintage tools and now-obsolete software. Some pieces are recorded in a single take on minidisc, using old Apple G3 or G4 computers and legacy programmes. True to a live, in-the-moment aesthetic, he favours direct recordings, where imperfection becomes a living, expressive material.
