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)

Trio

Liz Allbee (trumpet), Jessie Marino (fiddle) & Andrea Neumann (piano)

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 (amplified saxophone) & Liz Allbee (trumpet, electronics)

Andrea Neumann (inside piano, mixer) & Burkhard Beins (amplified percussion)

Jessie Marino (fiddle) & Werner Dafeldecker (electronics)

Sextet

Liz Allbee (trumpet, electronics), Burkhard Beins (amplified percussion), John Butcher (amplified saxophone), Werner Dafeldecker (electronics), Jessie Marino (fiddle) & Andrea Neumann (inside piano, mixer) 

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.

Christian Wallumrød & Jan Martin Gismervik, duo for piano, synthesizer, drums and electronics 

Christian Wallumrød is considered one of the most prominent and influential musicians of his generation in Norway. Following his debut on ECM Records (No Birch, issued in 1996), he has released a string of albums with Christian Wallumrød Ensemble on the same label. The record Outstairs was rewarded with the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannsprisen) in 2013. In addition to his solo releases and the duo Brutter, Wallumrød is known for another longstanding collaboration, Dans Les Arbres, also with two releases on ECM.  

Jan Martin Gismervik is a drummer known for known for his role in bands such as Oker, Adrian Myhr Trio, O, Monkey Plot, Torg, and PGA.

Sirenjaw

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

Sirenjaw celebrate the release of their debut album Sirenjaw released on Ingebrigt Håker Flaten's label Sonic Transmissions Records in March 2026.

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)

Making Waves #19: Before the War It Was the War; After the War It Is Still the War

This edition focuses on Lebanon, a country that has endured continuous wars and aggressions over the past half century. Today, once again, it is facing one of its worst crises in years, marked by heavy Israeli military attacks, the killing and injuring of civilians, including many children, widespread destruction, and the mass displacement of one million people (nearly a quarter of its population).

Mazen Kerbaj will present Starry Night(s), a listening session that revisits, twenty years later, the recordings he made during the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon: TV and radio broadcasts, discussions with friends, bombs falling on Beirut, and birds at dawn, all often accompanied by his trumpet, as in Kerbaj's landmark piece Starry Night. During that period, he also began a blog where he posted, in real time, drawings documenting the war, works that were later collected in the book Beirut Won’t Cry.

The session will be followed by a conversation with Lebanese multidisciplinary artist Siska. Together, they will discuss the power of art as a form of resistance, focusing on the current situation in Lebanon and how generations of Lebanese people have continually suffered from cycles of war and violence.

Cosmic Egg 

Mathilde Conley, Olivia Newport (DJ FEMNMS) & Runa Roberts, with richi valitutto 

Cosmic Egg, a sonic ritual by queer artists Mathilde Conley, Olivia Newport (DJ FEMNMS), and Runa Roberts, draws on religious, electronic, and experimental traditions to explore medieval devotion and contemporary queer intimacy. Inspired by Hildegard von Bingen’s erotic hymn to the Virgin Mary, they transform her 12th-century chant into drone soundscapes influenced by minimalism and ASMR. This fusion invites reflection on limitless potential and the enduring themes of longing, desire, and transformation across centuries of queer history. 

Lanchinata

Lan Hungh (percussion, electronics), richi valitutto (piano, toy piano, melodica) & Renata Daguerre (analog video)

Lanichinata was born on 21 August 2024, under the compassionate rays of the Sturgeon Blue Moon in Aquarius, a rare supermoon of exceptional size and brightness. Channeling the multivalent energies of time and place has always been a guiding principle in each of their meetings: focused improvised performances in light, sound, and movement that reflect and refract the queer creative forces connecting each of us. 

Ka Baird, solo for voice, electronics, flutes

Audrey Chen & Ka Baird, duo for voices, electronics, flutes

Ka Baird uses extended voice and microphone techniques along with electronics, feedback, field recordings, and traditional instrumentation to explore the outer dimensions of sound through performance. They create a present-tense sound with a vigorous, ritualistic delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension. 

Using the voice, cello and analog electronics, Audrey Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised and completely unprocessed, and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of an analog synthesizer, preparations, and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language.

Adam Goodwin, GRUMSIN for double bass, electronics, field recordings & video

Adam Goodwin's GRUMSIN is a multimedia solo project incorporating amplified double bass, electronics, field recordings and projected video material. Each composition is based on a particular ecosystem or biome, incorporating field recordings and video material created during solitary hiking and backpacking trips in these specific environments. This material is combined with double bass harmonics, melodic fragments, microtonal clusters and textural extended techniques to create durational compositions that suggest elements of contemporary classical music, dark ambient, drone, spectralism and noise music, all the while embodying their own sonic identity and conceptual integrity.