LINE UP Friday december 14th & Saturday december 15th
Mission of Burma
Mission of Burma were known for their unusual live performances during their early years. They recorded live sounds on tape,...
Boris
Boris formed in the early 90s as a four piece just-for-fun endeavor with the sonic template of influences like Melvins and Earth....
NoMeansNo
“I first used NoMeansNo on my kitchen floors and I loved the shine! Now I use NoMeansNo on everything! Thanks NoMeansNo!”...
David Lynch presents Chrysta Bell
Over the past years Chrysta Bell collaborated with film director David Lynch, whose. His muses will now be translated by Bell...
Otto Von Schirach
According to the man himself, describing Otto Von Schirach would best translate into Earth Wave Surf Electro Bass Tropical...
Tall Ships
Tall Ships have come a long way before finally releasing their debut album Everything Touching. They’ve toured all over Europe...
Fantastic Mr Fox
Fantastic Mr Fox gained quite some awareness as being the in between DJ together with for The XX on their American tour in 2010....
Bong-Ra
You might know Jason for being the ex-bass player of doom metal band Celestial Season, or maybe his side-project The Kilimanjaro...
Breach
Maybe the name Ben Westbeech rings a bell? The soul/jazz singer and producer released two albums on Gilles Peterson’s...
Hostage
Besides being a very hairy man, Hostage is also a huge rave-fan, producer, remixer and DJ showman. From jungle influenced rave...
Bambounou
Bambounou will keep you dancing ‘till the early hours of State-X New Forms 2012! He’s currently quickly working his way up...
The Hague Philharmonic (Residentie Orkest) with Ties Mellema
Opening the festival will be The Hague’s own Residentie Orkest (also known as The Hague Philharmonic). Under the guidance of...
Gum Takes Tooth
Gum Takes Tooth is a noisy duo from London with drummer Thomas’ drums from homemade gadgets being controlled Jussi to distort...
Plus Instruments
Truus de Groot started in Foolsband (which became Doe Maar later on), fronted the legendary band Nasmak and followed her career...
David-X
When David-X supported Brother Ali in Paris, Brother Ali came up on stage after his show saying “I ve never seen no shit like...
Coevorduh
The name comes from the Dutch town Coevorden, the place where all the drugged up weirdo’s come from according to Bastiaan and...
Casperelectronics
Casperelectronics is Amsterdam/New York-based artist Peter Edwards. Edwards creates and performs on handmade sound and light...
Sardonis
After a tour through Japan, we’re happy to welcome Sardonis to State-X New Forms 2012. With supporting bands like Saint Vitus,...
Whistlejacket
Whistlejacket are a four piece band from London, creating warm and dreamy ambient rock, grounded in shoegaze and dream pop. After...
Monomyth
Monomyth only made their debut live performance earlier this year, but are surely no newcomers to the scene as all of the members...
Joe Volk
Joe Volk made a name for himself as singer in the stoner rock band Gonga and the lyricist and singer for post-rock band Cripple...
Elektruck
This year the festival won’t start the usual way by just entering the venue. Upon arrival you’ll notice a huge 12 meters long...
Ventriloquism
The latin word Ventriloquism means “speaking from the belly”. A ventriloquist manipulates his voice in a way that it sounds...
Alek Et Les Japonaises
Alek Et Les Japonaises is a collaboration between Belgian and Japanese artists, creating a sound described as “Electropicalism...
Guerilla Training: David-X presents “human beatbox” workshop
Before his show at State-X New Forms 2012, the French human beatbox machine David-X will be giving a beatbox workshop in the...
Peter Edwards “The NovaDrone” Workshop
The NovaDrone is an open source, hackable analog experimental sound and light synthesizer. It can create effects from slowly...
Stargazer
… the drone continues! After a memorable show from Trapper at State-X New Forms 2011, the band is teaming up with Slyder for a...
Rooie Waas
Rooie Waas was formed in 2011 by Dutch vocalist Gijs Borstlap and the Finnish musician Mikael Szafirowski. Their cooperation...
Knotwilg
Knotwilg is a new formation around Bas Flier and Julie Scott (also known from can_of_be, Mizpah, Kirsten, BTP and DASH!). They...
A.T.S.
Hip-hop so underground we barely have any information about them! Agga Terror Squad is a The Hague based rap crew. The crew...
Nina Boas
Sometimes a giant and sometimes a very small girl.... Nina has been active as a performance artist for several years. For State-X...
Macxi
Macxi is a new young artist from The Hague. With only 18 years old, isMacxi relatively new in the scene but his sounds are very...
Iloisa Fortes
She enters into character and takes you into her musical, theatrical and sometimes more absurdist worlds, which can be seen in...
Droppings
Droppings is a new noiserock trio from The Hague, featuring two guitarists, a drummer and combined vocals. Their common interest...
Bissy Bunder
Bissy Bunder is an international interdisciplinary artist collective based in Antwerp, Belgium. Through performances,...
Bas de Boer
Visual Artist from The Hague. As a kid i started drawing , later that developed into painting, and now i also make 3 dimensional...
Cloud
CLOUD is a network for dance and performance artists, based at Danslab, Den Haag. Artists, from Holland and abroad, interested in...
Michele Matyn
In Matyn’s photos the fields have eyes and the woods have ears, as in the medieval drawings of Hieronymus Bosch. Her...
Soephoer
They’re young, they’re wild and they’re making a disco in your toilet. Soephoer is a collective from Amsterdam, known from...
State-X TV
State-X TV is back, with a new bite out of the international video art scene, tasted and salted by returning video curator Ana...
Pieterjan Ginckels
With a sense of humour tinged with gravity, Ginckels (1982, lives and works in Brussels) works on an intelligent oeuvre that toys...
Katinka van Gorkum
A monkey in a suit exploring the borders of a fake forest, a girl with a vacuum cleaner, cleaning an exhibition space while being...
