Luke Nickel & Weston Olencki, Roller Coaster Lore 

Louis d'Heudieres, solo performance

In a smoggy near-future Berlin, AI has partially taken over the Bundestag; Spreepark is a collectively-run anarchist theme park; and consciousness might be arising in gases found in the city's iconic pink and blue pipes. In Roller Coaster Lore, co-creators and performers Luke Nickel and Weston Olencki weave together sound, image, sculpture, simulated roller coasters, and speculative fiction. 

Louis d'Heudieres' work speculatively (re)imagines pasts, presents and futures of human and non-human music-making. 

with support from inm berlin e.V.

Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik 2024

Jérôme Noetinger & dieb13, duo for reel-to-reel tape and turntables

Jérôme Noetinger is a composer, improviser, and sound artist who works with electroacoustic devices such as the Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape recorder and magnetic tape, analog synthesizers, mixing desks, speakers, microphones, various household electronics and everyday objects and home-made electronica.

dieb13 (Dieter Kovačič) is a turntablist, hacker, filmmaker, autodidact, composer, collageur, and conscientious copyright objector. He has long explored the possibilities of vinyl, casettes, hard disks, and IP protocols as material for collages and compositions. Using extended playing techniques and his own lathe cutter, he has pushed the development of turntables as an instrument. Also performs under the names Takeshi Fumimoto, Echelon, Dieter Bohlen, and dieb14.

Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik 2024

Dylan Kerr, solo voice & electronics

Anna Clementi, solo voice, Intonarumori loops & electronics

Dylan Kerr is a performance artist and vocalist based between Ireland and Berlin. They work within process composition, just intonation, and improvisation, combining their voice and instruments with various electro-acoustic methods. Their work is informed by their research into sacred music and extended vocal techniques.

Anna Clementi sees herself as an “actress of the voice” rather than exclusively as a singer. In this way she also articulates the diversity of her artistic expression, with which she is always searching for new connections between voice, gesture, language, dance, and theater. Clementi loves the combination of play, lightness, and irony and is constantly looking for new means of expression that she can unfold with her versatile voice. 

Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik 2024

Making Waves #4

A conversation with Eyal Weizman and Yasmeen Daher, with a screening of Mohamad Malas's short film Quneitra 74.

Eyal Weizman is the founder and director of Forensic Architecture and professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where in 2005 the founded the Centre for Research Architecture. In 2007, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, he established the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. He is the author of numerous books, including Hollow Land, The Least of all Possible Evils, Investigative Aesthetics, The Roundabout Revolutions, The Conflict Shoreline, FORENSIS, and Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability. He is a member of the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and is on the board of directors of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ).

Yasmeen Daher is a feminist activist and a writer. She has taught at institutions including Bir-Zeit University in Palestine and Simone de Beavour Institute in Canada and is currently co-director and editorial director of Febrayer: A Network for Independent Arab Media Organizations, based in Berlin. 

Quneitra 74 is shown courtesy of mec film.  

Apparat+ presents three new works by Jessie Marino for solo performer, low brass duo, and guitar and a new work by Max Eilbacher for multichannel synthesis and low brass duo.

Program:

Max Eilbacher, new work for electronics and brass

Jessie Marino, Seahorses for performer, electric guitar, and brass 

Jessie Marino, Slow Blink for performer and brass 

Jessie Marino, New Renaissance for performer and brass

Max Eilbacher (electronics), Owen Gardner (electric guitar), Jessie Marino (performance), Max Murray (tuba) & Weston Olencki (trombone) 

Jessie Marino is a composer, performer, and media artist. Her compositions and solo performances abstract ideas drawn from all stripes of popular culture and political discourse, girded by a definitively humanistic sensibility.

Max Eilbacher works with sound. That work materializes in a variety of forms: compositions, musical performances, conceptual systems, perceptual choreography, installations, and theoretical sculpture.

Apparat is a brass ensemble focused on expanding the horizons of brass instruments in the context of new music and sound art. 

with support from inm berlin e.V.

Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik 2024

Flare Gun Hour performs Privacy, a "KOPFKINO" work featuring an interplay of text projected as film and composed and improvised music. A curiously visual effect sprung from the audience’s private imaginations.

Ruby Bilger (text), Fabiana Striffler (violin), Johannes Schleiermacher (flute, saxophone, synthesizer) & Jörg Hochapfel (piano, melodica, synthesizer)

Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik 2024

Ira Hadžić (gong) & Cedrik Fermont (gong & electronics) 

Sarmen Almond, voice & electronics

Ira Hadžić & Cedrik Fermont play acoustic gongs as well as live-processed gongs with additional field recordings. They create quiet music with subtle dynamics. Deep listening, so to speak. In 2024, they released the album Kenopsia, a name derived from the Ancient Greek κενό (emptiness) + -οψία (seeing).

Sarmen Almond uses the voice and its relationship with electronic media to create compositions and decomposition of the personality on stage. Almond makes use of free improvisation, extended vocal techniques, programming and body work to explore the infinite vocal possibilities that the human body utters as instrument, as well as the reflection of these sounds in physical and imaginary spaces.  

Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik 2024

To mark the birthday of the recently passed Phill Niblock, Seth Josel presents the German premiere of Niblock's Stosspeng, along with a new work by Marguerite Brown. 

Program

Phill Niblock, Stosspeng for electric guitar, electric bass and fixed media (2006-07)

Marguerite Brown, quiver/quiver for button accordion & electric guitar (2024) 

Seth Josel (electric guitar), Christine Paté (accordion), Caleb Salgado (electric bass)

Entangled Sounds 2024 #4

Billy Roisz, solo set for video monitor, turntable, electric bass, electronics

Martin Howse, solo set for smoke, light, radio waves and electronics

Billy Roisz is a musician and filmmaker whose work stems from Vienna's extremely open DIY environment of the digital and analog electronic and noise scene from the 2000s on. Her artistic work ranges from the cinematic to pure audio works. Her first solo release Walking The Monkey dates back to 2012 (Editions Mego), and in 2023 she released her followup Bajo on Ventil Records. The aesthetics of image and sound glitches, such as feedback and distortion, are central to her sense of experimentation. Chiseled frequencies mingle with crackling soundscapes and granular image noise with throbbing pulses and restless rhythms.

Martin Howse is occupied with the links between the earth (geological and geophysical phenomena), software, and the a/human psyche (psychogeophysics) through the construction of experimental situations (performance, laboratories, walks, and workshops), material art works, instruments, fictions, texts, and software. His current project Orphans and voids, remains as a headless divination for obscure Eurorack assemblages (ERD/TOAD, caput draconis, and all the colors of the noise) for scattered concrete modules, including dismembered macros, printed-circuit incense clocks, micro-pulsed lasers, dusty CPUs, and ill-programmed, ill-abstracted, ill-simulated neurons.

with kind support from INM Berlin e.V.