John Butcher, saxophones

Florian Stoffner, guitar

Chris Corsano, drums

The trio Butcher–Stoffner–Corsano formed in 2022 for a week’s tour in Switzerland. Over seven nights, they produced music of both exhilarating power and subtle transformations. They have since released the live recordings Braids (Hat Hut) and The Glass Changes Shape (Relative Pitch).

“Butcher, the great stylist among saxophonists conjures up sound figures of exceptional beauty. Corsano's drumming is always masterful, and Stoffner's original guitar interjections are almost constantly pleasing. A lesson in poetry and masterly precision mechanics.” (Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen 2024 - Freistil) 

Archer

Dave Rempis (saxophones), Terrie Ex (electric guitar), Jon Rune Strøm (double bass) & Tollef Østvang (drums) 

Archer is a new quartet configuration featuring Dutch punk legend Terrie Ex alongside Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis on the front line, backed by one of the hardest working rhythm sections in Norway with Jon Rune Strøm on bass and Tollef Østvang on drums. After touring Norway in 2023 and the U.S. in 2024, they released Sudden Dusk on Aerophonic Records in 2025.   

The duo of David Grubbs (guitar) & Jan St. Werner (electronics) renew their collaboration with Jules Reidy (guitar) that began at KM28 in June 2024 and continued throughout the fall during David Grubbs's extended residency in Berlin. 

David Grubbs, is a founding member of seminal post-rock bands such as Bastro, Squirrel Bait, and Gastr Del Sol (with Jim O’Rourke). He has authored several books, released fifteen solo albums, and has appeared on more than 200 releases.  

Jules Reidy is known for creating music that blends processed and acoustic instruments, primarily focusing on guitars. Their recorded work, characterized by non-traditional song forms, explores harmonic, rhythmic, and narrative elements.

Jan St. Werner, co-founder of the experimental music group Mouse on Mars, has an extensive background in music and sound art. In addition to his involvement in music production and installations, Werner has also taught at institutions such as MIT and AdBK Nuremberg.

Eric Wubbels presents two recent works, featuring Erin Lesser and Ian Antonio of New York's Wet Ink Ensemble and Weston Olencki.

Program: 

Eric Wubbles, contraposition (2016) for trombone and piano

Eric Wubbles, ne owiht (2025) from Second Nature for flutes, percussion and keyboards

Ian Antonio (percussion), Erin Lesser (flutes), Weston Olencki (trombone), Eric Wubbels (piano, keyboards)

The Prague Quiet Music Collective performs in Berlin for the first time, presenting a programme commissioned for and premiered at the Prague Quiet Music Festival in June 2025, alongside the Berlin-based Phonetic Orchestra. An evening of reductionist, post-minimalist, meditative works for a larger instrumental ensemble. Pieces by members of both PQMC (Mikyska, Kárník Jakeš) and Phonetic (Heilbronn, Houston) are rounded out by a form sprawled against a dustbin by Anthony Donofrio. 

Program:

Jonathan Heilbron, Rehberge (2025)

Joseph Houston, Dwell (2025)

Ian Mikyska, Begin Again (2025)

Milan Kárník Jakeš, It is out of sound every form comes, it is in sound every form lives (2025)

Anthony Donofrio, a form sprawled against a dustbin (2025)

Prague Quiet Music Collective

Ian Mikyska (viola da gamba, electric guitar), Anna Paulová (clarinet, bass clarinet), Milan Kárník Jakeš (violin, viola), Luan Gonçalves (double bass)

Phonetic Orchestra

Jonathan Heilbron (double bass), Rebecca Lane (flutes), Joseph Houston (keyboards), Fredrik Rasten (guitars)

with kind support from the Czech-German Fund for the Future

Kuba Krzewiński presents aerobia, a program that delves into the sonic and physical relationships of anatomies linked through breath and contact between the human body, instrument(s) and space. Through the physicality, “aerobia” dives into forms and the mercurial nature of performance through instances of contact with the body and the extension linked through air—the flute, as well as space, objects, and audience.  

Program:
Kuba Krzewiński, Another Air, No. 2 for flute and media 

Anna Sowa, Piece for Saxophone and Violin 

Christina Kubisch, Emergency Solos for flute solo 

Phoebe Bognár, New work (Hommage to Emergency Solos) for flute solo 

Wojtek Blecharz, Means of Protection for flute solo 

Jeppe Ernst, Behandlung A for 2 performers

Phoebe Bognár (flute) & Kuba Krzewiński (violin)

with kind support from INM Berlin

Nelly Boyd, a Hamburg-based ensemble and composers' collective founded in 2004, present compositions by each of its four members. They are variations on the principle of "music for groups of the same instruments": four melodicas, four cymbals, four electric guitars. They reflect Nelly Boyd's intensive preoccupation with sounds of long duration, which change slowly, sometimes imperceptibly, and fill the space.

Program:

Robert Engelbrecht, Darlegung der elf Wirbel for four electric guitars (2025)

Moxi Beidenegl, Otra mañana for four melodicas, voices, and tape (2025)

Jan Feddersen, Evanescent light for four melodicas and tape (2025, premiere)

Johann Popp, Mühlenberger Loch for four amplified cymbals (2025)

performed by Moxi Beidenegl, Robert Engelbrecht, Jan Feddersen & Johann Popp

Michiko Ogawa

Release concert for Pancake Moon (Futura Resistenza 2025)

Michiko Ogawa's Pancake Moon drifts between darkness and light, weaving sho, piano, and synthesizers into a soundworld where memory, loss, and rebirth dissolve into one another. 

Labor Neunzehn's Cluster #44

Andrés Nuño de Buen, solo for acoustic synthesizer

Andrés Nuño de Buen performs his "acoustic synthesizer" installation with a nod to Hermann von Helmholtz and the 19th-century investigations of overtones that laid the groundwork for electronic music. Vibration and resonance are central to Andrés Nuño de Buen's music, which strives for a sensory immediacy eluding verbal explanation. He works with acoustic instruments, electronic media, objects, and instruments he builds himself. His current solo work focuses on an "acoustic synthesizer"—a sound installation of tuning forks, electromagnets, and glass bottles that produces sound through physical interaction alone. The sound is heard directly from the objects—no loudspeakers or digital processing. 

Skultura 

Cansu Tanrikulu (voice/live processing), Liz Kosack (synthesizer), Eldar Tsalikov (clarinet), Nick Dunston (double bass) & Mariá Portugal (drums) with special guest Merve Salgar (tanbur)

Skultura is Nick Dunston’s primary working band. Based in Berlin, the electroacoustic quintet employs explosive improvisations within the context of Dunston’s compositions. The group does not necessarily run away from any genres and musical traditions, but rather leans into, even exaggerates them while also hybridizing them with many different musical palettes.

Eilliot Simpson (guitar) performs recent works by Walter Zimmermann and Nils Günther.

Program:

Walter Zimmermann, Stücke für Gitarre

15 Zwiefache (1980), Irrgarten (2004/2023), evoL (2001/2023), Est-ce-Mars (1998/2016), Tre Stanze (2017), Sentenzen (2005), Bridget Riley’s Circles (2024), Blindtexte Birke I–V (2025) (Transkriptionen der Zeichnungen von Beate Spalthoff)

Nils Günther, White Cloud Music #1, Purple Fungus Song für Elliot Simpson

Madison Greenstone, exstatic resonances for solo clarinet

Madison Greenstone is a clarinetist, writer, and composer based in Brooklyn. Their solo practice, exstatic resonances, explores phenomenological, material, and spatial expressivities of sound through richly noisy timbral actions.

Die Enttäuschung

Rudi Mahall (bass clarinet, clarinet), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Jan Roder (double bass) & Kasper Tom (drums)

On the heels of its recent releases on Two Nineteen Records—Music Minus One and Die komplette Enttäuschung—the legendary Die Enttäuschung enter their next phase with drummer Kasper Tom. 

Power Loom #20

Solo electronics sets by VOSP and Plastic Bag

VOSP is the solo audio work of Eric Grieshaber, also known for Soft Target and collaborative projects such as Pool and Hand of Food.  With VOSP, a blend of field recording techniques and modular and computer synthesis result in a discomforting approach to concrete music and composition.   

Plastic Bag is the tape noise/electronics offshoot project of Ren Schofield aka Container (Morphine, Alter, Spectrum Spools).