We are proud to present two of the most important artists in the field of apparatus art in Norway for the first time. Curator Carsten Seiffarth, from Singuhr, our sister gallery in Berlin, has managed to convince these artists that the Lydgalleriet can host their works. We are touched by their trust and very happy to be able to present this exhibition to our audience. We are talking about automata, electronics and deeply coded logic, found objects and the magic of chance. Beautifully executed objects and carefully planned random processes in one and the same exhibition - a rare combination.

Martin Riches is a trained architect and worked in this profession for ten years before creating his first electronically controlled music machine, the Flute Playing Machine (1979). He has since made several others; perhaps the most famous of these is the Talking Machine (1990), now shown in the Lydgaleriet's most reverberant space. In addition, we are also showing his magical and prize-winning Interactive Field (1999).

Erwin Stache is a composer and sound artist from Leipzig who, in addition to installations and compositions, creates small, self-playing boxes that the audience can play with. He will also hold a concert with his specially built instruments. At Lydgalleriet's windows, the public can play his new, interactive work themselves.