Jane in Ether

Miako Klein (recorders), Magda Mayas (piano) & Biliana Voutchkova (violin, voice) 

Jane in Ether performs two new works commissioned from the composers Jessie Marino and Juliana Hodgkinson.

with kind support from INM Berlin e.V.

Kristofer Svensson, Kacapiblomster for solo kacapi 

The composer and performer Kristofer Svensson has developed a distinctive contemporary practice for the kacapi, a traditional Sundanese zither from West Java. Svensson's kacapi music can be heard on the solo album Andra Segel and For Violin, Snare & Kacapi, a trio recording with Maya Bennardo and Etienne Nillesen. 

Chloë Sobek, solo for violone (Renaissance double bass)

Working primarily with the Renaissance violone, Chloë Sobek treats the instrument as a site of material resistance and historical continuity: a sounding body through which traces of the past are reactivated in the present. Layering archival fragments, environmental sound, improvisation and extended string techniques, Sobek combines maximalist intensity with an attention to material thresholds, pushing sound and instrument toward points of ‘breakage’ where presence begins to fracture, recede and persist as trace.

Jon Rose (violin, amplified tenor violin, recordings), Richard Scott (voltage-controlled electronics, DJ-console) & Nic Collins (!trumpet and electronics)

Three alumni of Amsterdam’s fabled STEIM (Studio for Electro Instrumental Music) present Precarious Technologies, a program of new solo and trio works for unusual and self-built instruments.

Precarious Technologies

Nic Collins, Rustle and Hush, solo for !trumpet and electronics

Jon Rose, solo for violin and aeolian instruments (recordings)

Richard Scott, Stardust for RH, live acousmatic reinterpretation

Collins, Rose & Scott, trio for !trumpet, violin & electronics

Lea Bertucci presents her latest release The Oracle for flute, voice & electronics

Werner Durand, Modal Sax for tenor saxophone, delays & drones 

In Lea Bertucci's The Oracle, the music centers on voice, a shift from the instrumental music of previous albums. Bertucci’s creatively misuses a reel-to-to-reel tape machine to live-manipulate her voice, a process that breaks apart language to instill meaning beyond the word.

Werner Durand performs Modal Sax to mark the 50th anniversary of his studies with Ariel Kalma in Paris.  

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. The second Berlin edition brings together local and international artists for an evening of exploratory sound practices, highlighting dialogue, risk, and collaboration.

Program:

Emilio Gordoa & Lucy Railton, duo for vibraphone and cello

Leslie García & Daniela Huerta, electronics duo

Elshan Ghasimi & Joss Turnbull, to them who didn't shout for tar and percussion

Ghasimi and Turnbull draw on Persian music while taking very different paths of reference and transformation. Tar specialist and composer Elshan Ghasimi works with Persian musical heritage, literature and the renewal of the Radif, while Turnbull combines traditional techniques on the Persian goblet drum with unconventional instrumental approaches.

In to them who didn't shout, their distinct musical languages meet Persian poetics and recitation in a dialogue between inherited forms and comtemporary practice. 

Satoko Fujii (piano), Natsuki Tamura (trumpet) & Angelika Niescier (alto saxophone)  

The renowned NatSat Duo of pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura is joined by special guest Angelika Niescier on alto saxophone.

SNAP

Kit Downes (keyboards), Camila Nebbia (tenor sax), Otis Sandsjö (tenor sax), Ketija Karahona (flute), Marta Warelis (piano), Thorbjørn Stefansson (double bass) & Andrew Lisle (drums)

SNAP grew out of Dr. Snap, Kit Downes’s large-scale improvisation project created for the Reflex concert series at Amsterdam’s Bimhuis. The septet expands Downes’s Exhaust trio with Camila Nebbia and Andrew Lisle into a larger ensemble built around collective improvisation.

Nguyễn + Transitory with Audrey Chen: Nguyễn Baly (modular synthesizer, electronics), Tara Transitory (modular synthesizer, electronics) & Audrey Chen (voice, electronics)

Zhao Ziyi, solo electronics

Alex Zhang Hungtai & Seiji Morimoto, duo for trumpet & electronics

Labor Neunzehn's Cluster #47 

Sabrina Ma, percussion and electronics

Program:

Alessandro Massobrio, Vector-span studies for 5 cymbals (2026)
Joseph Schwanter, Velocities (1990)

Toshi Ichiyanagi, The Source for marimba (1989)

+ screening of Miranda Pennell, A Person of the Forest (34', 2026)