KM28

Karl-Marx-Straße 28, Berlin

Upcoming Concerts  

Doors 20:00 / Concerts 20:30 / Entry by donation

Mar 27 Wednesday

Tricoli & Leichtmann | Katinka Kleijn 

Valerio Tricoli & Hanno Leichtmann, record release concert: Cinnte le Dia (NI VU NI CONN 2024)


Cinnte le Dia is the third collaborative album by Hanno Leichtmann and Valerio Tricoli, following 2016’s The Future of Discipline and 2018’s La Casa delle Chimere, both on the Entr'acte label. Cinnte le Dia presents a synthesis of the two approaches, features Leichtmann with his synth-bass again and Tricoli with his trusted Revox B77 and combines the special energy of their performance in front of a live audience with the intimate atmosphere of a studio session. The pieces are marked by their sonic density, but also a rhythmic intricacy that negotiates a place between bass-heavy, dubbed-out club music and electroacoustic and musique concrète techniques. 


Katinka Kleijn is a Dutch-born cellist who enjoys a genre-defying, interdisciplinary career. Much of her work illuminates the cello’s anthropomorphic qualities, often by placing the instrument in thought-provoking new contexts. In 2019, Kleijn and cellist Lia Kohl waded with 30 cellos in Chicago’s Eckhart Park Pool for their devised piece Water On the Bridge. Similarly, Kleijn’s The Body as a Variable Resistor (2021) uses a shared-circuit synthesizer to articulate relationships between the human and cello body. RESIDUUM (2022), a short experimental film by Kleijn and Aliya Ultan, pairs Kleijn's cello with large amounts of mylar, plastic bottles and soda cans. Her collaborations with Daniel Dehaan and performance-art duo Industry of the Ordinary resulted in Intelligence in the Human-Machine (2014), a duet between Kleijn’s cello and her own brainwaves which Time magazine called “a balancing act for Kleijn’s whole body.”

Mar 28 Thursday   

Space

Nowhere Street #20

Lisa Ullén (piano), Elsa Bergman (bass) & Anna Lund (drums)

Space is a piano trio based in Stockholm that plays free jazz channeling the American free jazz tradition as well as contemporary classical music. Combining raw power with an exquisite attention to detail, the three musicians (all members of Anna Högberg Attack) make every moment sparkle with possibilities. In this aural space, every movement matters.  

Mar 29 Friday

Christina Wheeler & Dudù Kouate  

Christina Wheeler and Dudù Kouate first met playing with the Art Ensemble of Chicago for the album recording and performances tied to their 50th Anniversary season. Tonight's concert features a solo performance by Christina and the first duo performance of Christina and Dudù .


Christina Wheeler, voice, glass armonica, Array mbira, QChord, autoharp, Theremini, electronics


Dudù Kouate, percussion, xalam, kanjira, djembe, tama, calabash, African flutes, vocals, electronics

April 5 Friday 

Ale Hop | Sascha Brosamer

Entangled Sounds 2024 #1


Ale Hop, solo set for electric guitar & electronics

Sascha Brosamer, solo set for gramophone & electric guitar


The relaunch of Karin Weisenbrunner's Entangled Sounds series begins with solo sets by Ale Hop and Sascha Brosamer.


For complex pop arrangements and contemporary electronic music, Ale Hop combines synthesisers with the tactility of the electric guitar. The Peruvian-born sound artist combines an extensive repertoire of advanced techniques and modifications for electric guitar and real-time sampling devices to create a sonic vocabulary of striking physical intensity. 


Sascha Brosamer combines electric guitar and gramophone. By interactively transmitting the sounds of his gramophone playing to the audience's mobile phone speakers, he projects his archaeological sound research into the digital context of the present.


(with kind support from INM Berlin e.V.)

April 6 Saturday

Camilla Battaglia | Carvalho & Sanchez 

Divide by Zero #2


The second concert in Nick Dunston's series features a solo set by Camilla Battaglia for voice & SuperCollider and a duo set by Mariana Carvalho (prepared piano) and Paula Sanchez (cello), who perform following the release of their album RASGO (Neue Numeral 2023) 

Apr 10 Wednesday

Olencki & Cocks | Ostendorf, Rasten & Gouband

Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks, record release concert:  Music for Two Flutes (Hideous Replica 2024)


Recorded in Brattleboro, Vermont in 2021, Music for Two Flutes features one piece each by Weston Olencki and Laura Cocks. Olencki's Ceol Meadhonach references the "middle music" of Highland bagpipe, which lies between Ceol Mor (the "big music") and Ceol Beag (the "little music" of quicksteps and dance music). Cocks's piece SLUB attempts to reconfigure the flute's scales and acoustic systems and submerge into the instabilities created thereby.


Nils Ostendorf (trumpet), Fredrik Rasten (acoustic guitars) & Toma Gouband (percussion)


With a high sensitivity for orchestration and compositional dramaturgy, the trio Ostendorf, Rasten & Gouband play music in long arcs, in which the handling of textures and states of suspension is a central theme.

Apr 12 Friday

Lotto

Alternative rock band Lotto performs music from its recent album Summer, which marked a major change of pace for the band with its acoustic sound and intimate performance style.

Mike Majkowski (bass), Łukasz Rychlicki (guitar, bass) & Paweł Szpura (drums)

Apr 13 Saturday   

18:30 Doors, 19:00 Concert

Peter Ablinger 65

To mark his 65th birthday, Peter Ablinger presents musical works and video produced over the past two decades, featuring performances by Peter Ablinger (voice), Biliana Voutchkova and Nurit Stark (violins), Erik Drescher (flute) & Wolfgang Musil (sound design)

Program:

And den Mond (2021) for chanting violinist and playback

Wieder die Natur (2020) for glissando flute, 19 bottles, ultrasonic flutes, bird calls and playback

Golden Grate (2020) found situation, audio/video

Ohne Titel 1-10 (2005), two violins

out of commission (2020/23) small study with in-throat mic 

SS Giovanni e Paolo (2007/2012) for glisssando flute und playback

GLÄSERSCHRANK for metal shelf, glasses, transducer, from Projektionen (2022) 

PEOPLE'S PEOPLE for Violin and Wallstreet, from instrumente und rauschen (2019/2022)

Countdown for voice, from augmented studies (2014)


For decades, Peter Ablinger's work has been forcing open fault lines in the topography of the audible. His vast output of scores, electronic pieces, installations, and conceptual works consistently finds ways—funny, pointed, disturbing—to put the ear's organization of reality in doubt. Is that a voice, and what is a voice? When is something newly or no longer music? Noise? Information? In Ablinger's cunning scramble of sonic categories, listening loses its lay of the land. Concepts come unmoored from sounds, and the land changes shape. (Seth Brodsky)  


Since 1982, Peter Ablinger has lived in Berlin, where he has initiated and conducted numerous festivals and concerts. In 1988 he founded the Ensemble Zwischentöne. He has been guest conductor of Klangforum Wien, United Berlin and the Insel Musik Ensemble. Since 1990, he has worked as a freelance musician. In 2012 he became a member of the Academy of Arts Berlin, and from 2012-2017 he was research professor at the University of Huddersfield. 


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(with kind support from INM Berlin e.V.)

Apr 16 Tuesday  

Apparat+ plays Hanna Hartman | Ute Wassermann

Apparat+ kicks off its New Music for Brass series with a solo set by Ute Wassermann (voice, bird whistles) and three works by Hanna Hartman.


Program:  


Metusalem for solo horn and tape

The Fog Factory, electroacoustic work

The Garden for horn, trombone and tuba


Weston Olencki (trombone), Samuel Stoll (horn), Max Murray (tuba)

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