In Tao Yuanming’s fifth-century fable, a fisherman follows a stream lined with peach blossoms through a narrow cave and finds a village the outside world has forgotten. When he leaves, he can never find the way back. TaoYuan 桃源 is built on that feeling: a place you reach only by stepping off the known path, and that exists only while you’re inside it.

SENAIDA and NÏAR are a Berlin-based duo who weave sound and live visuals into hypnotic, ritual performances. In their sets, they combine field recordings, analog art, and archetypal symbolism inspired by Jung, into blurred dreamscapes. Their work draws on underground culture and a longing for futures that were promised and never arrived. A TaoYuan 桃源 set feels like wandering an empty city alone after dark, until you notice everyone around you is wandering too.

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SENAIDA is a Hakka-Canadian transdisciplinary artist, producer, and DJ rooted in the underground scenes of New York and Berlin. A classically trained concert pianist and sound engineer mentored by Grammy Award–winning producers Jim Anderson and Bob Power, they channel that foundation into bold, high-energy hybrid sets. Their debut album KUNST KAPUTT won the 2026 AI Creative Future Award and was featured in MixMag Asia; their work has been presented at Berlin Art Week, CTM Festival, LA Art Show, Cannes Next Film Festival, NYC Media Lab, Abbey Road Red, NAMM, and Maschinenhaus Berlin, and earned a "Best Performance" nomination at the Wavy Awards.

NÏAR is a multidisciplinary artist from Budapest, Hungary, based in Berlin, creating live hypnotic visuals that fuse motion graphics, 3D and stop motion animation with her own analog paintings and drawings. Her visuals are rooted in spirituality, surrealism, psychedelica, ancient symbolism and her own footages of real life experiences. The dreamlike scenes tell stories aligning together with the music. The past year took her into Osaka and Tokyo's underground techno and experimental scenes, an immersion that reshaped both her work and her sense of belonging. In summer 2026 she played on the stages of Daad Gathering and Ozora Festival for multiple nights and created visuals for the mountain projection of MoDem Festival.