Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (double bass), Marta Warelis (piano), Mette Rasmussen (sax), Karl Hjalmar Nyberg (sax), Jonathan Horne (guitar) & Olaf Olsen (drums) 

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten’s new band Knarr is a musical plethora that draws from the Norwegian bassist’s extensive background across different genres and traditions. Knarr (or "Exit") started as a commissioned work by the Vossa Jazz festival, but soon evolved into a working band, releasing Exit (Knarr) in 2021 with a second album forthcoming in 2024. 

(with kind support from Better Live Music)

Nowhere Street #21  

Maya Bennardo, solo violin

Program: 

Linda Catlin Smith, aria  (2024)

Kristofer Svensson, Så vill jag glömma (2018)

Maya Bennardo, dormant gardens 1b. (2022)

Maya Bennardo is a founding member of the violin/viola duo andPlay and a member of the internationally acclaimed Mivos Quartet. She also performs new and traditional repertoire for violin and piano with pianist Karl Larson in their Bennardo/Larson Duo. Maya's compositions are characterized by slow, unfolding timbral movements exploring the co-existence of pitch and noise. Her compositions have grown naturally out of her improvisational practice on the violin, and the two continue to inform each other. 

Peter Evans (trumpet), Joel Ross (vibraphone), NIck Jozwiak (double bass) & Michael Ode (drums)

Being & Becoming was formed in 2017 by composer and trumpet player Peter Evans. The name of the band, drawn from the writing of Sufi writer and musician Inyat Khan, reflects the group's commitment to the challenge of spontaneous creativity. Evans' compositions for the band draw from a wide variety of sources, traditional and experimental, with a grounding in improvisational idioms, notated concert music and an array of experimental approaches.

Influences for the music range from the work of masters like McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane, 20th-century European modernism, compositional strategies pioneered by the AACM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and many more. The result is something that feels new and old at once, an experimentalism grounded in both rigor and a passion for the undiscovered.

Peter Evans (trumpet), Joel Ross (vibraphone), NIck Jozwiak (double bass) & Michael Ode (drums)

Being & Becoming was formed in 2017 by composer and trumpet player Peter Evans. The name of the band, drawn from the writing of Sufi writer and musician Inyat Khan, reflects the group's commitment to the challenge of spontaneous creativity. Evans' compositions for the band draw from a wide variety of sources, traditional and experimental, with a grounding in improvisational idioms, notated concert music and an array of experimental approaches.

Influences for the music range from the work of masters like McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane, 20th-century European modernism, compositional strategies pioneered by the AACM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and many more. The result is something that feels new and old at once, an experimentalism grounded in both rigor and a passion for the undiscovered.

Power Loom #18

Power Loom kicks off its 2024 series with solo sets by Sholto Dobie and Alanas Gurinas.

Sholto Dobie performs with self-constructed wind instruments. An air pump is attached to a series of reeded and metal pipes from various sources (e.g., organs, bagpipes and khene) which are brought to life by an interrelated system of timer modules and valves.

Alanas Gurinas is an interdisciplinary artist working with sonic performances and audiovisual installations. In his sonic practice he explores sound as a textural phenomena, working with the themes of ephemerality and the relations between various audible and inaudible objects and spaces.

New works by Ramesh Vinayakam, Cathy Milikin, and Jeremy Woodruff, Teerath Majumder, and Uday Krishnamurthy, performed by Shantala Subramanyam (South Indian flute and voice) with Anirudh Bhat (mrdangam), Theodor Flindell (violin) and Theo Nabicht (bass clarinet)

+ open workshop with Shantala Subramanyam from 19:00 to 20:00

The Sonic Borderlines Festival 2024 presents music that integrates new playing techniques across cultural sound boundaries. Sound production, vocal and instrumental techniques are still largely unexplored in Western musical practice because of the immutability of our concept of notes (on paper) in this respect. Most non-European classical traditions are characterized by a more fluid, ornate and flexible sound of voices, instruments and rhythm. In Indian, Turkish and Arabic music, sound production is based less on the concept of notes on a page and more on, for example, swaras (region of sound) or naghmas (originally referring to both "modulation" and "singing“).

program

Ramesh Vinayakam, Arrangements
Cathy Millikin, Unswarad?
Jeremy Woodruff, 100 Foot Road Revisited
Teerath Majumder, Lines that Divide, Lines that Connect
Uday Krishnamurthy, New Work

with kind support from INM Berlin e.V. & Musikfonds

Elias Stemeseder (piano, harpsichord, synthesizers), Camilo Ángeles (flute, electronics) & Christian Lillinger (drums, electronics)

Stemeseder & Lillinger released their trilogy Penumbra, Umbra, and Antumbra from 2022-24 and have now tapped Camilo Ángeles to form an electroacoustic trio that debuted in Mexico City and Guadalajara in Feburary 2024.

Double record release concert for Theo Nabicht's Circle Line Project. Two separate LPs are released for the London and Vienna segments of the cycle, following on individual productions for Berlin, Tokyo, and Moscow. The Circle Line Project focuses on the sonic imprint of transportation lines used by countless passengers in cities around the world. 

Theo Nabicht (contrabass clarinet) with Alexandre Babel (drums, percussion) and Joke Lanz (turntables)

Divide by Zero #3 

Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, solo cello 

Sarah Rossy, voice, electronics

Henrik Olsson, friction, piezo elements, turntable

Marina Cyrino, amplified flute and piccolo

Making Waves #1

Between You and Me It Stinks in Here

Emily Dische-Becker & Basma al-Sharif lead a talk on censorship in Berlin, accompanied by the German premiere of Basma al-Sharif's short film Capital. 

Doors 20:00 / start 20:30 / entry by donation

Emily Dische-Becker is a writer, organizer, and curator. She’s the German director of Diaspora Alliance, an international organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism and its instrumentalization, as well as a researcher for Forensic Architecture. 

Basma al-Sharif is a Palestinian artist working in cinema and installation. Her practice looks at cyclical political conflicts and confronts the legacy of colonialism through satirical, immersive, and lyrical works. 

richard valitutto, solo piano, plays Julius Eastman’s Piano 2 (the only surviving fully-intact composition for solo instrument by the late queer black American composer); Linda Catlin Smith’s half-hour cycle nocturnes and chorales; and shorter works by Federico Mompou, Michael Finnissy, and Frederic Chopin.