Kerim Safa

G Operator G Operator is an audiovisual piece produced through a live generative system using FM synthesis, only playing the note G. This is the 6th piece in Sound Machines series on @superrare.co Best experienced with headphones and in fullscreen. Link in bio.

AIR A 12-min audiovisual installation built around an inactive industrial turbine in the former NYMA factory, exploring the memory of a machine through projected light and synthesized sound. Part of the Space in Sound exhibition by @stichtingsinus × @hubert.nijmegen On view in the dark tunnels of Hubert Nijmegen until 28 March, alongside great works by @rubenkotkamp , The Listening Project (@rosa_ronsdorf , @roospeee , @rosalie_wammes ), and @jonasvorwerk There are also performances and workshops, please check Hubert’s website for the full program.

Machines in the wild ⚙️ Swipe through to see a selection of machine loops featured at @demo.festival across various public spaces in the Netherlands! This year’s showcase included special versions of nullMachines—a generative project created with @loackme —and several pieces from the Monolithic Machines series. Here’s where each piece was displayed: 1. nullMachines (16:9) - Utrecht Central Station 2. nullMachines (Triangular) - Rotterdam Alexandrium 3. nullMachines (16:9) - Rotterdam Central Station 4. nullMachines (9:16) - Amsterdam Central Station 5. Component 5 - Amsterdam Central Station 6. Component 10 - Amsterdam Central Station 7. Monolithic Machines - Amsterdam Central Station A huge thank you to everyone who made this experience unforgettable.

Excited to be one of the curators for RGB MTL this year! RGB MTL is a collectively curated digital art exhibition taking place on August 28–29, 2026 in Montreal. For the first time this year, there is also an OPEN CALL for artists. Deadline is June 15: rgbmtl.com/submissions.php Huge thanks to @nicolassassoon , @aitso , and @5tr4n0 for making this possible!

Music Visuals talk yesterday at @debasisnijmegen was really nice. Thanks everyone for coming, it was great to nerd out together. Hope you enjoyed it! There’s a good chance I’ll do more sessions like this in the future, so feel free to send me an email or DM if you’d be interested. Thanks for the photos @niko.met.een.k and @linda.philipsen

𝗛𝗼𝗲 𝘇𝗶𝗲𝘁 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝘇𝗶𝗲𝗸 𝗲𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁? Deze editie van het Producerscafé onderzoeken NEW en De Basis DIY-visuals voor muziek. Hoe maak je ze zelf? Hoe koppel je ze aan je geluid? En hoe stuur je ze bijvoorbeeld live aan als DJ of producer? 🎛️ Tijdens deze introductiesessie onderzoekt audiovisueel kunstenaar Kerim Safa de relatie tussen geluid en beeld. Hij presenteert een live demo van een zelfgemaakte setup met Ableton Live en Videosync en leert je hoe je zelf aan de slag kan gaan met deze software. 🎟️ 4,50 via debasisnijmegen.nl Deze avond is in het Engels.

128×128 low-res grayscale color-cycling motion studies

TL;DR: Habitants tour dates and some personal context. I don’t usually share much on the personal side here, but this feels like a good moment. I’ve been part of @habitants_band over the past year in the studio, with synths and supporting vocals. Tomorrow we start a small tour across the Netherlands, supporting @annekevangiersbergenofficial ! Quite excited for this. It’s been a while since I’ve worked on a music project purely as a musician, without making visuals, even though music has been with me my whole life. Since moving to the NL, the spiralling, tumbling, rewiring, dizzying ride of immigrancy has drained a lot of energy, motivation, and a bit of hair. Arriving somewhere you don’t speak the language in your mid-30s, trying to find your place within and outside, learning to let go of the constant need to justify yourself… it takes its share. And makes you forget. Meanwhile, my visual arts practice has taken the main stage here, which has been liberating and allowed me to explore new territories while physically on a new one. But this can also feel limiting at times, as people tend to associate you with one thing for professional practicality. If you’ve met me in the past 6–7 years, it’s likely you know me as the “pixel guy.” I’m very happy and invested in that path, but I had missed making music purely for the sake of music, with people. Then appears this group of silhouettes from inside that fog, with open hearts and their drop-D guitars. Working together toward a shared goal without expectations beyond showing up and digging for something meaningful feels rare, and it reminds me of many great memories. Grateful to get the chance to build new ones with them. Thank you my dear friends @gemasiul , @rruttenn , @annevdhoogen , @mirtemeraki , and @jeromemiedendorpdebie for inviting me into that circle around the warm campfire you’ve created. And a big hug to my favourite person @black_milk_factory for introducing me to these lovely people (and more) in the first place. In these upcoming shows, we’ll be playing songs from Habitants’ previous two albums as well as some new ones we made together. Hope to see you there! I’ll pin the dates in a comment below.

ARCHITYPES: TLTVPJHJUJLXEMMZMV @kerimsafa & @kris10roos at TezDev: Art After Dark exhibition in Cannes by objkt one + objkt labs 📸: Vinciane Jones

“10 Steps” by Kerim Safa on @night_lights_denver curated by Braw Haus. 10 Steps, is an audiovisual work that maps the ten floors of the Daniels & Fisher Tower into a large-scale musical sequencer. Each row functions as an independent synthesizer track, with individual windows lighting up as rhythmic steps across the facade. Composed in a 10/8 time signature aligned with the window structure of the projection area, the work incorporates the architecture directly into the musical compositional process.

d:m:p.07 Continuing dot matrix pattern experiments with simple rules. 216x384x5 pixels, 2 colors, 100 frames, loop

dot:mat:pat A series of looping animations created on a monochrome matrix. Each loop is constructed through simple rulesets defining pattern, density, and motion. Exploring how minimal input produces rhythmic structures and visual illusions at a larger scale. In this selection, every pixel is treated as a solid element and cannot overlap. Each one resolves onto a larger underlying grid, where it lands, holds, and shifts in sequence. These loops were created at different times over the past few years. Digitally hand drawn and animated frame by frame.