Katharina Grosse (analog synthesizer), Stefan Schneider (digital synthesizer), Farida Amadou (bass guitar) & Carina Khorkhordina (trumpet)

Katharina Grosse and Stefan Schneider first met while studying fine arts at Dusseldorf Art Academy in the early 1990s and remained friends as their creative paths deviated, resulting in a series of live performances, sound installations and also two albums—Tiergarten (2017) and Permanent Parts (2024)—both of which celebrate musical experimentation, largely eschewing rhythm in favour of a thoroughly improvised forage through abstract clusters of sound.

For this performance they are joined by Carina Khorkhordina on trumpet, and Farida Amadou on bass guitar, to pursue a curious sense of development, where several elements are allowed to exist alongside each other, not in direct contact but in a mode that's somewhere between carefree layering and unconscious juxtaposition.

Zeynep Toraman, Sometimes at Night the Far Away Stars for AI voice, synthesizers & recorded instruments 

Austin Larkin, solo violin

Zeynep Toraman's practice-based research explores the ways in which texts (in the broadest sense of this word) can interact with one another within the larger framework of musical compositions, by way of thinking of her own library as an archive, and enfolding autobiography, poetry, fiction and history within her works.

Austin Larkin's solo violin work stems from the physicality of the violin, a language of gesture unfolded in the shared space of the listener, conferring an intense gravity within performance. Preferring the experience of acoustic sound, the directness of these interlacing gestures carry the energy of its materialization.

Carla Boregas (synthesizer, electronics) & Elshan Ghasimi (tar, setar, robab, voice)

Solo and duo performances by Carla Boregas and Elshan Ghasimi interweaving the classical Persion instruments tar, setar and robab with synthesizer and electronics, creating a dialogue between past and present.

Mat Maneri (viola), Jacob Sacks (piano), Jeong Lim Yang (double bass) & Randy Peterson (drums)

Following up her imaginative 2022 release Zodiac Suite: Reassured Korean-born, Brooklyn-based bassist and composer Jeong Lim Yang created a new band, Synchronicity, which released its debut record in 2025. Partnering with three great fellow improvisers in violist Mat Maneri, pianist Jacob Sacks and drummer Randy Peterson, Yang navigates the indefinable human connections at the heart of this music.

Eugene Chadbourne, voice, guitar and banjo

Eugene Chadbourne is an American guitarist, banjoist, and critic associated with avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, and what’s often called “outsider country.” Emerging in the 1970s New York experimental scene alongside figures like John Zorn, he combines free jazz, punk, country, and political satire into a deliberately unstable, genre-collapsing style. He’s known for extreme prolificity (with more than 80 albums to his credit), DIY production, and inventions like the electric rake. His work ranges from pure free improvisation to absurdist country pastiche and overt political commentary.

Réplicas is a series of concerts and encounters that extend the spirit of the International Festival of Experimental Music and Sound Art (FILEC) beyond Mexico. Conceived as a platform for exchange, the series connects artists working in experimental music, improvisation, and sound art across different geographies. The Berlin edition brings together local and international artists for an evening of exploratory sound practices, highlighting dialogue, risk, and collaboration. By creating temporary meeting points, FILEC Réplicas aims to strengthen the network between the Mexican and Berlin experimental scenes. 

Program:

Sarmen Almond & Carla Boregas (duo for voice and electronics)

Juan Duarte (solo electronics)

Concepción Huerta & Emilio Gordoa (duo for electronics and vibraphone)

these particles we immersed... is a program presenting Anqi Liu and Han Zhang's duo āññā, alongside the duo of Anqi Liu and Jessika Kenney.

āññā:  Anqi Liu and Han Zhang

āññā works through everyday materials and gestures. Aluminum foil, yarn, abandoned clothing, and other overlooked objects become part of an evolving creative ecology. Through DIY interactive systems, instrument building, and biosignal-responsive environments, their practice moves across disciplines, forming a space where the material, the technological, and the bodily continuously reshape one another. Anqi Liu and Han Zhang formed the āññā duo in the summer of 2024. Before and since that moment, they have been close friends and ski companions, carving shared memories across mountains, rivers, and emotional terrains. The duo unfolds as a site of flux, a living field shaped by the movement of two Asian women artists building their lives and practices in the West.

Anqi Liu & Jessika Kenney 

Anqi Liu and Jessika Kenney first met at a performance at Oracle Egg in Los Angeles. They recognized each other with a sense that felt almost displaced in time. Jessika asked if they had already known each other. Anqi replied, perhaps, maybe in another life. They exchanged numbers. Over the years Anqi lived in Los Angeles, they spent long hours in conversation, sharing meals of Mongolian and Indonesian food, playing music at Jessika’s home, and spending time outdoors, alongside Kalila. These encounters formed a quiet, ongoing practice of listening and being together.

* Some of the sounds in this show come from Anqi Liu’s recordings of the Mongolian choor khuur, a traditional two-string fiddle, live processed through a modular synthesizer system. The instrument itself carries a fragile presence here. Due to the realities of self-funded travel, the cost of transporting it internationally remains difficult to sustain. Its absence is therefore also part of the work, a trace of distance, limitation, and longing. It remains a wish that, one day, the instrument can travel and sound freely across these spaces.

Bex Burch, notes 001 for KORG phase8 acoustic synthesizer

Bex Burch & Johannes Schleiermacher, duo for saxophone, synthesizers, and percussion

Celebrating the release of notes 001, an original piece written in four-parts and performed solo in one live take by Bex Burch on phase8, KORG’s new eight-voice acoustic synthesiser. A record that embraces uncertainty, co-creation and the potential for music to connect in deep, unexpected and intuitive ways. 

Bex is also joined by Johannes Schleiermacher to form a joyful new duo, rooted in friendship and love of rhythmic sound play. The set travels between lilting polyrhythmic interplay, twinkling percussion, modular synth and KORG’s phase8 weaving in and out with the controlled and chaotic fluidity of running water. 

Elizabeth Davis, flowers for electronics & voice

Zheng Hao, solo electronics & modular synthesizer

Elizabeth Davis is a musician, writer, and audio engineer whose work uses the interplay of technological limitation, algorithmic processes, and human expression/intervention as subject matter. Davis’ music resists easy categorization, taking equal influence from musique concrète, radio drama, harsh noise, and 20th century dance music.  

Zheng Hao is currently focused on exploring the amorphous in different sound spaces, mainly using electronics or electro-acoustic instruments for solo and group improvisation.

Gruppo di Improvvisazione Giallo

Hanno Leichtmann (electronics, percussion), Nils Ostendorf (trumpet, electronics), Magda Mayas (piano, clavinet), Sara Persico (voice, electronics) & Valerio Tricoli (Revox B77) 

Gruppo di Improvvisazione Giallo is a new project initiated by Hanno Leichtmann and is influenced by the musician and sound artist’s love for the soundtracks of the Italian crime and thriller movie genre of the late 1960s and 1970s commonly known as "giallo" (yellow), which was named after the dominant color of the covers of the pulp novels that inspired it. 

The project pays homage to them and the legacy of the composer-performer collective Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza and one of its leading figures, Ennio Morricone, who also composed dozens of giallo scores. 

Mark So & Manfred Werder, the inferior part of the stars (2025- ) for voices, portable tape recorders and typewriter, paper and notebooks, evidences, traces, objects

Mark So and Manfred Werder have been working together intensively for 20 years, exclusively in the United States and México. They essentially work on long-term writing projects that emerge from a practice that reflects the fragmented everyday. There is nothing but inscription, into the earth and bodies, papers and tapes, as the earliest of techniques in the cosmologically impenetrable that is cultural history.

with kind support from Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

Get Lost Vol. 7

Solo sets by Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixer), Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar) & Gert-Jan Prins (electronics, percussion), with an opening reading by Rebecca Lane 

David Watson (highland bagpipes, smallpipes) & Tony Buck (percussion)

David Watson and Tony Buck met and started improvising together almost 30 years ago in a loft concert in Brooklyn. They've since shared stages in many parts of the world, releasing a trio record as Glacial with Lee Ranaldo and their duo LP Ask the Axes on Besom Presse in 2019.

Heather Stebbins & Ning Yu, Spirals for piano and electronics 

Heather Stebbins, solo electronics

Sound artist Heather Stebbins and pianist Ning Yu make music through iterative, cooperative improvisation. They use a variety of tools, instruments, and electronic devices to build conceptual and technical frameworks designed for experimentation and play. Stripped away from their traditional roles of composer and performer, their work together confronts habits of their individual practices. Over time, their ongoing dialogue has grown into a shared language, one that finds its fullest expression in SPIRALS, a multi-movement work that explores the intangible and malleable nature of sound and experience thereof.

Michael Pisaro-Liu performs in a three-day retrospective spanning his early, middle, and recent works.

May 28 Thursday

• Rhododendron (2024) for solo electric guitar and electronics

• Mind Is Moving IV (1996) for solo contrabass

• asleep, street, pipes, tones (2009) for clarinet, electric guitar, fixed media

Michael Pisaro-Liu (electric guitar, electronics), Jon Heilbron (contrabass), Katie Porter (clarinet), Seth Josel (electric guitar) 

May 29 Friday

• Interference 1 (2003) for cello, electric guitar, live electronics, record player

• moss (2004) for spoken voice, 2 woodwinds, piano, vibraphone

Peter Tracy (cello), Seth Josel (electric guitar), Eric Wong (live electronics), Jessica Gaynor (record player), Michael Pisaro-Liu (spoken voice), Lucie Nezri (spoken voice), Katie Porter (clarinet), Lucio Capece (clarinet), Quentin Tolimieri (piano), Michael Weilacher (vibraphone) 

May 30 Saturday

• The Narrow Path (2020) for solo vibraphone

• Asleep, Forest, Melody, Path (2013) for open instrumentation

Michael Weilacher (vibraphone), Joe Kudirka and Ensemble (Lucio Capece, Michael Pisaro-Liu, Federico Pozzer, Ángeles Rojas, Lucio Tasca)

with kind support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant