Nowhere Street #22

Christian Wallumrød (piano) and Ivar Grydeland (pedal steel guitar) 

Christian Wallumrød has worked as a musician and composer since 1992. Following his debut on ECM Records (No Birch, 1996), he has released a string of albums with Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, also on ECM. Their record Outstairs was rewarded with the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannsprisen 2013). Wallumrød also focuses on improvisation via another longstanding collaboration, the French/Norwegian group Dans Les Arbres, also with two releases on ECM.  

Ivar Grydeland plays the electric and acoustic guitar, banjo, pedal steel guitar, and various electronics and chiefly performs in the realm of contemporary improvised music. Grydeland’s main groups are Huntsville and Dans les arbres (with Christian Wallumrød & Xavier Charles).

Rubbish Music, duo for discarded objects

Peter Strickmann, solo for ceramophon, objects & feedback

Rubbish Music is the duo of sound artists Kate Carr and Iain Chambers. They use worn-out treasures, empty vessels and broken devices as an orchestra of vivid musique concrète materials, creating "an experience that is visually and sonically mesmerising" (Wire Magazine). In 2022, their album Upcycling was released to critical acclaim on the Flaming Pines label.   

Peter Strickmann aims to reveal and reward the multiple listening habits that evolve from daily routine and sudden surprise. He creates lo-fi kinetic arrangements for exhibitions and employs a set of found objects, custom-built wind instruments, percussion tools, and feedback manipulation.

Carl Stone, solo electronics set

Liz Allbee & Carl Stone, duo for trumpet & electronics

Carl Stone, one of the pioneers of live computer music, has used computers in live performance since 1986. He has been hailed by The Village Voice as “the king of sampling.” He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. 

Liz Allbee is a composer-performer and improviser who works with the imaginarchic potential of sonic material. She performs most often on self-designed quadraphonic trumpet, electronics, trumpet, and voice. Her work encompasses electro-acoustic composition, spatialization, improvisational strategies and instrument creation, with an ear towards embodiment and extension. 

Anthony Pateras & Anthony Burr, duo for piano, clarinet & electronics, with solo sets for piano and clarinet

Pateras & Burr worked together closely in 2014 and 2015, culminating in the release of The Long Exhale (Immediata 2016), featuring Pateras on prepared piano and Burr on clarinet and ARP 2600.

Anthony Pateras is a composer, pianist, and electroacoustic musician active whose practice spans concert works, piano performance, acousmatic diffusion, film soundtrack, psychoacoustic experiments, and percussion ensemble. He is also a member of the bands Sulla Lingua & PIVIXKI. Having cultivated singular languages in the Pateras/Baxter/Brown & North of North trios, he remains committed to piano improvisation as a method of assimilating instrumental practice with compositional thought. His electronic work traverses multiple rhythmic disciplines in an effort to synthesize polyrithmia with timbral otherness.

Anthony Burr is a foremost exponent of contemporary music, presenting solo clarinet works in collaboration with Alvin Lucier, Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, and Magnus Lindberg. He has also worked widely outside the classical arena with artists including Jim O'Rourke, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Mark Feldman, Chris Speed, Jim Black, Ikue Mori, Tim Barnes, Alan Licht, and Mark Dresser. Ongoing collaborations include a duo with Skuli Sverrisson, The Clarinets (with Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega), a series of recordings with cellist Charles Curtis, and live film/music performances with Jennifer Reeves. As a composer he has specialized in epic-scale mixed media pieces, most notably Biospheria: An Environmental Opera, created with artist Steve Ausbury.

Making Waves #5

Dareen Tatour, My Threatening Poem 

A staged reading by Lamis Ammar (in German/Arabic with English subtitles), followed by a discussion led by Jara Nassar (in English). Entry by donation, with all proceeds going to UNRWA.

My Threatening Poem is Dareen Tatour's autobiographical reflection on her experiences with arrest and imprisonment by the Israeli authorities. The Palestinian poet was arrested in the fall of 2015, initially unaware of the reason for her detention. Judges interpreted her art and questioned her suitability as a poet. Tatour was sentenced to five months in prison and spent three years under house arrest, repeatedly appearing in court. 

Tatour's case attracted international attention, and the organization PEN advocated strongly for her release. Her text recounts her experiences with intimidation and dehumanization, as well as solidarity and resilience. It reveals the mechanisms of persecution and raises questions about the role of art in the struggle for freedom and self-empowerment.

My Threatening Poem has been performed in numerous cities, including Nazareth, Jaffa, Östersund, Paris, Brussels, Florence, Washington D.C., and Oslo. The German premiere was scheduled to take place on November 13, 2023 at TD Berlin but was cancelled. It has since been performed as part of Festivalla at Berlin's Volksbühne in July 2024.

Dareen Tatour is a Palestinian poet, playwright, photographer, and political, feminist, and social media activist. She completed studies in engineering, programming, media, and film direction. Through her writings and photography, Tatour seeks to address the injustices faced by Palestinians. She particularly encourages Palestinian women to speak out about their experiences of abuse and human rights violations.

Lamis Ammar studied theater and acting at the University of Haifa. During her studies, she worked at the Freedom Theatre in Jenin (Palestine) and played the lead role in the film Sand Storm, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Festival and was invited to the Berlinale. She writes her own texts and creates video installations for galleries in Haifa. Additionally, she was a member of the ensemble in Yael Ronen's Third Generation – Next Generation at Gorki Theater in Berlin and performed in Helge Schmidt's Dat Leven vun de Liven at the Lichthof Theater in Hamburg.

Jara Nassar is a writer and performer based in Berlin. She writes on topics of belonging, decolonial narratives, and queer futures as well as the resilient present. 

Maria Beraldo & Mariá Portugal, duo for clarinet, percussion & voice

Maria Beraldo is a performer and composer on the Brazilian music scene, performing with Arrigo Barnabé, Elza Soares, Negro Leo, Rodrigo Campos, and Laura Diaz, and a member of Quartabê (with Joanna Queiroz, Chicão, and Mariá Portugal). Her deubt album as a soloist was Cavala (Risco 2018), followed by the recent release of Colinho (Risco 2024). 

Mariá Portugal is a drummer, singer, composer, musical producer and improviser. Among her main projects is the Brazilian instrumental group Quartabê, which is currently promoting their third album. As a composer, she creates original music for dance, theater, and cinema, including the score for Manuela Martelli's acclaimed film 1976, which premiered at Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes 2022

The Dogmatics 

Chris Abrahams (piano) & Kai Fagaschinski (clarinet) 

Chris Abrahams and Kai Fagaschinski began collaborating in  a friend's piano-armed kitchen in 2007. While Chris is best known for his distinctive, repetitive piano playing as a member of The Necks, Kai has focused in recent years more on “compositional” projects like The International Nothing and The Magic I.D.  Within their duo Chris and Kai take a bit of an off-road ride, and their approach here is rather open and improvised, without much of a hidden conceptual motive.  In 2012 they released The Sacrifice For The Music Became Our Lifestyle, followed by 2018's Chop Off the Tops.

Entangled Sounds #5

dj sniff, solo set for turntables

Ignaz Schick, solo set for objects & motors

 
dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a musician and curator in the field of experimental electronic arts. His work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design, and free improvisation. He is also a music technology researcher. Over the years, he has collaborated with Evan Parker, Otomo Yoshihide, Tarek Atoui, and Senyawa. His recent works examine the critical roles that phonograph records played during WWⅡ Japan and its colonized territories. dj sniff’s Turntable improvisations reflect a longstanding practice that merges influences from experimental music, hip hop, and free improvisation through the use of self-built instruments.

Ignaz Schick is a sound artist, composer, concept, and visual artist. He also performs as an instrumentalist on turntables, objects, live-electronics, alto/baritone saxophone, and flutes. For his solo set at KM28, he explores the sound-producing power of vibrations generated by low-frequency oscillations with loudspeaker membranes and small mobile phone motors. By controlling the speed of 8 to 16 motors, the artist scans various objects for their resonant frequencies (paper cups, straws, cans, etc.), some of which come from his rotating surfaces series. 

Entangled Sounds is a series organized by Karin Weissenbrunner to explore object-specific sounds, resonant bodies and (meta-)mechanical motion, featuring performers using self-made instruments or materialities of audio/media devices.

with kind support from INM Berlin e.V.

Fay Victor (voice), Tobias Delius (tenor saxophone, clarinet), Rebekah Heller (bassoon), Achim Kaufmann (piano) &

Sofia Borges (drums, percussion) 

Fay Victor visits Berlin to perform in her Herbie Nichols SUNG project and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) residency at HKW. For tonight's concert she teams up with ICE director and basoonist Rebekah Heller and some of Berlin's punchiest improvisers: Tobias Delius, Achim Kaufmann, and Sofia Borges.