Fred Frith (guitar, voice) & Liz Allbee (trumpet, electronics)

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Jessika Kenney & Niloufar Shiri, duo for voice and kamancheh

Zosha Warpeha, solo for Hardanger d'amore

Jessika Kenney is a vocalist and composer internationally regarded for her spellbinding timbres and her in-depth study of oral traditions. Her work takes the form of sound installations, talismanic scores, music for film, electronics, and choir. She released the groundbreaking experimental gamelan album Atria (Sige) in 2015, and has collaborated with Lori Goldston, Holland Andrews, Niloufar Shiri, Tashi Wada, Alvin Lucier, Sarah Davachi, Melati Suryodarmo, Ensemble Nist-Nah, Sunn O))), and numerous others.

Niloufar Shiri is a kamancheh player, composer, and improviser born and raised in Tehran, Iran. Her work exists between traditional Iranian and experimental music. Drawing inspiration from the Radif, intervallic relationships, and pitch settings, her work navigates the space between structure and spontaneity, exploring the familiar and the unexpected.

Zosha Warpeha is a composer-performer working in a meditative space at the intersection of contemporary improvisation and folk traditions. Using bowed stringed instruments alongside her own voice, her long-form compositions explore transformations of time and tonality. She performs primarily on Hardanger d’amore, a sympathetic-stringed instrument closely related to the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Her current work is informed by the cyclical forms, rhythmic elasticity, and the physical momentum of Nordic folk music.  

Will Guthrie, solo for drums, percussion, amplification and electronics

Max Eilbacher, rendition of David Tudor's Pulsers for electronics & tape

Alongside continuing his electro-acoustic work, Will Guthrie has developed a series of solo works for drums, gongs, and other metal percussion instruments. Guthrie’s rhythmically complex, undeniable physical work also touches on aspects of world musics from Javanese gamelan to South Indian Carnatic music. 

David Tudor's Pulsers (1976) explores the world of rhythms created electronically by analog rather than digital circuitry. Tudor's original recording of the piece incorporated an improvised tape by violinist Takehisa Kosugi and a complex modulator designed by Gordon Mumma in conjunction with a sound system devised by Tudor.  

Les Certitudes performs Daylight Extended 

Léo Dupleix (harpsichord), Juliette Adam (clarinet, bass clarinet) & Judith Hamann (cello)

Egil Kalman, solo electronics & mouth harp

Les Certitudes creates acoustic music centered on the richness of timbre and harmonies in just intonation. For this concert, they premiere a new work by Léo Dupleix, Daylight Extended, written specifically for the ensemble. The piece features harpsichord, synth, bass clarinet, and cello, expanding the trio’s sonic palette while continuing their exploration of timbre and harmonic depth.

Egil Kalman performs traditional folk music from Norway and Sweden on the modular synthesizer, paying close attention to intonation and ornamentation in the source material. In addition to his solo work, he’s the double bass player and synthesist for bands such as Marthe Lea Band, Miman, and Völvur as well as in duos with Zoe Efstathiou and Fredrik Rasten.

Magnus Granberg, Place the Stones at My Head and Feet for solo piano

Ellen Arkbro, new work for solo piano

Magnus Granberg's Place the Stones at My Head and Feet is a new piece for solo piano which takes Elizabeth Cotten’s well-known song Freight Train as its point of departure. Granberg is a composer and performer working at an intersection between contemporary chamber music and improvisation. Self-taught as a composer, he formed his own ensemble Skogen in 2005 trying to integrate experiences, methods and materials from various traditions of improvised and composed musics into a new modus operandi.

Ellen Arkbro is a composer, musician and sound-artist working with precision-tuned intervallic harmony. Her work includes compositions for acoustic instruments and for synthetic sound, and for combinations of both, as well as installation work.  In all of her work, Arkbro focuses on the qualities of harmonic sound that reveal listening as an active process of creative participation, inviting the listener to gradually transform into the sound itself. 

Sean Meehan, drum solo

Sean Meehan, Andrea Ermke & Bryan Eubanks, duo for drums, minidiscs & synthesizer

Sean Meehan is a drummer who most notably plays a pared-down kit often consisting of a single snare drum and cymbal, creating sounds that range from the subtle friction of a fork rubbing against a drum to tones that seem electronically generated. These complex, sometimes subtle sonorities require a great deal of concentration for the performer and listener, foregrounding the act of listening just as much as the production of sound, and bringing the audience’s attention to both spatial acoustics and social interactions within a space.

Andrea Ermke is a musician working with samples and field recordings that she records/re-plays/re-mixes from mini disc. She is a member of Sink (with Chris Abrahams, Arthur Rother and Marcello Busato) and Tree (with Burkhard Beins and Chris Abrahams). Her approach to field recording and live mixing is extremely detailed and personal, working with a constantly expanding library of recordings for over 20 years. 

Bryan Eubanks develops his music through solo work and collaboration and is active in a variety of contexts: improvisation; composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, computers, and electronics; organizing and curating concerts for other artists; and building electronic instruments.  

Megan Alice Clune, Repetition Study I: imagine being for clarinet, voice & electronics (Meakusma 2026)

Judith Hamann, Post-Paradise for cello & electronics, written for Adam Man's video installation Paradise

Megan Alice Clune's work explores the dynamic relationships between music, technology, the body and temporality through composition, performance and installation. She draws from a unique combination of techniques and processes, from her training as a classical clarinetist to an interest in conceptualism and the avant-garde in both visual art and music, as well as from her study with La Monte Young and a love of popular and electronic music. 

Judith Hamann's work encompasses performance, improvisation, electro-acoustic composition, field recording, electronics, site-specific generative work, and microtonal systems. Currently their work is focused on an examination of expressions and manifestations of "shaking" in solo performance practice, a collection of new works for cello and humming, and ongoing research surrounding the collapse and the de-mastering of instrumental practice.  

A Short Horse

Jessie Marino (fiddle, voice), Weston Olencki (trombone, voice) & Fredrik Rasten (guitars, voice)

A Short Horse is a new chamber trio working between experimental sound and traditional American and Norwegian music. The trio draws upon centuries-old folksongs originating in North America and Norway in order to imagine the myriad futures of this old music and inject the practices of vernacular music into a modern setting.

with kind support from initiative neue musik berlin e.V

Induction Trio 

John Butcher (saxophone), Werner Dafeldecker (double bass) & Burkhard Beins (percussion)

Sextet

Liz Allbee (trumpet), Burkhard Beins (percussion), John Butcher (saxophone), Werner Dafeldecker (double bass), Jessie Marino (fiddle) & Andrea Neumann (piano)

To mark John Butcher's 65th birthday in 2019, a series of concerts were held that resulted in five LPs released by Ni Vu Ni Connu. The first of the set, Induction, featured John Butcher with Burkhard Beins and Werner Dafeldecker. The trio now returns to KM28 for two days, joined by other key members of Berlin's Echtzeitmusik scene: Liz Allbee, Jessie Marino, and Andrea Neumann.

Three Duos

John Butcher (saxophone) & Liz Allbee (trumpet) duo

Andrea Neumann (piano) & Burkhard Beins (percussion) duo

Jessie Marino (fiddle) & Werner Dafeldecker (double bass)

Sextet

Liz Allbee (trumpet), Burkhard Beins (percussion), John Butcher (saxophone), Werner Dafeldecker (double bass), Jessie Marino (fiddle) & Andrea Neumann (piano)

To mark John Butcher's 65th birthday in 2019, a series of concerts were held that resulted in five LPs released by Ni Vu Ni Connu. The first of the set, Induction, featured John Butcher with Burkhard Beins and Werner Dafeldecker. The trio now returns to KM28 for two days, joined by other key members of Berlin's Echtzeitmusik scene: Liz Allbee, Jessie Marino, and Andrea Neumann.

Lori Goldston presents Sound, Light, Movement: Solo Cello & Handmade Film

Sound, Light, Movement: Solo Cello + Handmade Film is a touring program of live improvised music with short experimental films made on celluloid. The program was curated by Caryn Cline of the Interbay Cinema Society in 2025 for cellist/composer Lori Goldston. With the exception of Jon Behrens’ "Stan’s Salon," all the films are from the Engauge Film Festival archive. Each was originally conceived of as a silent film.

Program

John Behrens “Stan’s Salon” USA 1997

Kalpana Subramanian “Liquid is LIght” USA 2016

Bill Basquin “Late December, East of the Sierras” USA 2015 

Vicky Smith “Shedding” UK 2021 

Derek Jenkins “Herbaria x Pelicula: Field Portfolio” Canada/USA 2021

Rocío Mesa “Tobacco Barn Light Studies” Spain 2019

Wenhua Shi “Monosabishi” USA 2023

Lucie Leszez & Stefano Canapa “Bosco” France/Italy 2023

Anna Kipervaser “And By the Night” USA 2017

Leandro Varela “Puedo Ver Todos Menos Mis Ojos/I Can See Everything But My Eyes” Argentina 2019

Three members of Ghost Ensemble present European premieres of original solo sets of experimental and microtonal works for accordion, harp, and contrabass.

Ben Richter performs original works for prepared just intonation accordion exploring timbral fluctuations, spectral harmony, and uncanny acoustic phenomena, with new compositions building on the sound-world introduced on double album Aurogeny (2023).

Melissa Achten presents new works for microtonal prepared harp. Presented within a séance-like structure, bespoke objects are used as preparations to produce a veiled atmosphere of dampened sonorities and unstable resonances.

James Ilgenfritz will play selections from the forthcoming solo just intonation contrabass album Alien Generator, as well as Almostness (2023), which uses the same alternate tuning and also involves miniature mechanical instruments and live electronics.

Sirenjaw

Kit Downes (piano), Vinicius Cajado (double bass) & Lukas Koenig (drums)

A memorial concert one year after the passing of Peter Ablinger, with music composed by Peter Ablinger, Erhard Grosskopf, Chico Mello, and Georg Nussbaumer

First set: 

Erik Drescher (flutes), Nurit Stark (violin), Chico Mello (voice, piano), Chiyoko Szlavnics (spoken word), Christian Scheib (spoken word), Sophie Notte (cello), Georg Nussbaumer (electronics) and Bryan Eubanks (sound design)

Second set:

Nicolas Hodges performs Peter Ablinger's Voices and Piano (a selection: Bertold Brecht, Guillaume Apollinaire, Setsuko Hara, Bonnie Barnett, Morton Feldman, Hanna Schygulla, Lech Walesa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu (Mother Theresa) and Mao Tse-Tun)