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), Jeremy Viner (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)

Kosack & Gray, 37 Halloween Melodies

Liz Kosack (synthesizers, masks) & Devin Gray (drums, electronics)

Liz Kosack is a keyboardist and mask maker whose projects over recent years have included the KIM Collective, VAX (with Devin Gray and Patrick Breiner), The Liz (with Liz Allbee and Korhan Erel), **Y** (with Steve Heather and Sundland), SPOILER (with Jules Riedy, Brad Henkel, and Sam Hall), and Meow! (with Cansu Tanrikuku, Jim Black, and Sundland).

Devin Gray is a drummer and composer whose projects include Hz of Gold (with Andrea Parkins and Frank Gratkowski), Melt All the Guns II (with Ralph Alessi and Myslaure Augustin), To the Point (with Robin Verheyen, Bram De Looze, and Nicolas Thys), Space Bubbles (with Liz Kosack and Cansu Tanrıkulu), and VAX (with Kosack and Patrick Breiner). 

smallest functional unit

launch concert for Graphéme Vol. 6

Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet, electronics), Ute Wassermann (voice, objects), Tony Buck (percussion) & Magda Mayas (piano)

smallest functional unit perform scores by Baehr, Savić, Ballantine, Devenish/Wyatt, and Spinks to mark the latest edition of Graphéme, a journal for unconventional, hybrid notational formats and graphic scores by international composers, performers and artists.

Ava Mendoza, The Circular Train for voice and guitar

Through decades of collaborations with Nels Cline, Carla Bozulich, William Parker, Fred Frith, Matana Roberts, and Mick Barr, as well as years leading her power trio Unnatural Ways and playing in Bill Orcutt’s quartet, Ava Mendoza has become synonymous with virtuoso technique, raw passion, and visceral resonance, a player pushing the edges of the guitar’s possibilities. Between 2007 to 2023, Mendoza also wrote the slow-burning, incandescent songs collected on The Circular Train, an album consisting entirely of her single-tracked guitar playing and, on two songs, her strikingly corporeal singing.

Marcelo Galter Trio with Ilessi

Marcelo Galter (piano), Ilessi (voice), Ldson Galter (double bass) & Reinaldo Boaventura (drums, percussion)

Pianist and composer Marcelo Galter is one of the defining voices in contemporary music from Bahia. Originally from Salvador, he brings together Afro-Brazilian rhythms, jazz, free improvisation, and modern harmony in his compositions, creating a distinctive musical language. Inspired by the cultural and spiritual traditions of his homeland, Galter develops music in which complex rhythmic structures, lyrical melodies, and open forms come together.

Stemeseder–Lillinger with Axel Dörner

Elias Stemeseder (keyboards), Christian Lillinger (percussion) & Axel Dörner (trumpet)

In Stemeseder–Lillinger, manipulations of signal paths and the use of self-produced samples allow for novel causal chains within the music and a reciprocal feedback between the perfomers and their instruments. Stemeseder–Lillinger have released three duo albums—Penumbra, Penumbra II, and Antumbra (all on Plaist)—as well as three ensemble records on Intakt:  Umbra (with Peter Evans, Russell Hall, DoYeon Kim & Brandon Seabrook), Umbra II (with Peter Evans & Russell Hall), and Umbra III (with Craig Taborn). 

Harsh Narayan, sarangi

Evening raga with Friedemann Zintel, tabla

Grégoire Simon, violin/viola
Under the Voice (for solo viola) and a collaborative work with Irene Galindo Quero for violin and pedals

Roy Montgomery, solo guitar

Across an array of peerless solo and collaborative releases on labels like Kranky, Siltbreeze and VHF, Roy Montgomery is the architect of a widescreen drone aesthetic exploring psychedelic abstraction and pastoral minimalism.

“The slow washes and thunder-cracks of guitar. . . come across like a grey Antipodean version of the tone poems of late European Romanticism, in which landscape might somehow be translated straight into musical texture: Sibelius in Lyttleton” – The Wire

ELISION

Paula Rae (flute), Peter Veale (oboe), Ryan Williams (recorders), Joshua Hyde (saxophone), Benjamin Marks (trombone), Alex Waite (piano)

ELISION is Australia’s 17-member ensemble focusing on complex and virtuosically challenging aesthetics, a unique instrumentarium, and work in cross-disciplinary artforms. ELISION is especially acknowledged for its authoritative interpretations of the music of Liza Lim, Richard Barrett, Mary Bellamy, Aaron Cassidy, Evan Johnson, Turgut Erçetin, and many others.

Apricot trees exist

• Liza Lim, throat song excerpt from Sex Magic (2020) for solo ocarina

• Aaron Cassidy, l.d._p.c. (t.c.h.) (2010) for solo piano                                                        

• Nardi Simpson, new work (2026) for solo trombone

• Richard Barrett, sorcerer (2023-24) for solo pedal steel guitar

• Victor Arul, new work (2026) for flute, oboe and trombone

• Liza Lim, apricot trees exist, apricot trees exist (2026) for solo alto saxophone

• Richard Barrett, all night invisibility flickers on & off visibly (natural causes VI) – duo 2 (2021-22) for soprano saxophone and electronic keyboard

Morton Feldman, Crippled Symmetry (1983)

Ensemble KNM Berlin & Guests

Rebecca Lenton (fluters), Joseph Houston (piano, celesta) & Michael Weilacher (percussion)

Paul Lytton, Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley Trio

Paul Lytton (drums/electronics), Ken Vandermark (reeds) & Nate Wooley (trumpet/electronics)

In celebration of their upcoming double album, three key figures of the international experimental and improvised music scenes— Paul Lytton, Ken Vandermark, and Nate Wooley—will be touring Europe during November of 2026. The recordings are a double document: the first showcasing Lytton’s rarely heard work on electronics, the other his drumming, taken from the Haarlem stop on the trio's 2025 European tour.

Vandermark and Wooley have been working as a duo for almost a decade, touring in both the States and in Europe, and have released three critically acclaimed albums together. Both have performed and recorded with Lytton many times, and the three of them issued an album of trio material as part of the double CD, The Nows, in 2012.