About
Bart Demey and Tania Gallagher began their collaborative journey as the anonymous music and performance duo Galacticamendum—a project that gradually dissolved the boundaries between sound, visual art, and performance.
Their first public interventions took the form of enigmatic mail-art CDs sent to Belgium’s national radio station, Studio Brussels. From there, their work expanded into a multidisciplinary practice encompassing music for theatre, television, fashion shows, sound installations, and experimental performance.
Their music has been released on labels including R&S Records’ Apollo offshoot, Soulwax’s DEEWEE label, and their own imprints Digital Piss Factory and Gong Ear.
In 2015, they were appointed music directors for the avant-garde fashion label KTZ (Kokon To Zai), led by Marjan Pejoski—best known for designing Björk’s iconic swan dress. That collaboration continues to this day. In 2020, their Indonesian-inspired project Gamelan Voices was featured in Iris Van Herpen’s Hypnosis couture show in Paris.
Over time, Demey and Gallagher cultivated a constellation of sonic identities— Galacticamendum, Nid & Sancy, Gamelan Voices, Tarot Twilight, Screen Shadow— and more recently HATIHATI, each marking a shift in form and focus, but always carrying the spirit of their symbiosis.
Their compositions have featured in theatrical productions across Europe, in collaboration with directors and companies such as Benny Claessens, Ersan Mondtag, Nona Demey Gallagher, Dood Paard, De Onderneming, Campo Victoria, Toneelhuis Antwerpen, NTGent, KRAPP VZW, Gorki Theatre Berlin, Neumarkt Zurich, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Theater Basel, among others. They have scored the music for both seasons of the dystopian TV series Arcadia (VRT/KRO/WDR) which aired in 14 countries.
Driven by intuition, experimentation, and a deep sensitivity to place and process, their work forms a body that is immersive, shape-shifting, and constantly in motion—tracing the contours of process, identity and transformation.
Text by Alison Mounia. Published first in 80Hz.