Iriai Verlag label night

Sebastian von der Heide & Elizabeth Davis, duo for percussion, violin and electronics 

CDNoé, solo electronics

Iriai Verlag presents Sebastian von der Heide of Inner Cop Avoidance in a new duo with Elizabeth Davis, as well as a solo set by CDNoé presenting their new release Ornamental Hermits (Iriai 2025).

Sawt Out presents its new album Sawt Out: Fake Live in America, in the first of two episodes, the first unplugged and the second plugged.

Burkhard Beins (percussion), Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet) & Michael Vorfeld (percussion)

Over its first six years, the trio Sawt Out focused entirely on their unusual acoustic instrumentation, consisting of trumpet and two sets of percussion. They then invented an electro-acoustic version of the group as their second musical leg. Whether acoustic or electronic, Sawt Out creates bewildering sound worlds rich in detail and tight musical interaction.

Okkyung Lee (cello), Emilio Gordoa (percusion) & Isabella Forciniti (modular synthesizer) 

The new trio of Lee, Gordoa & Forciniti pushes the boundaries of sound, blending acoustic and electronic elements in an immersive, improvisational performance.

In March 2025, Magda Mayas and Boris Hauf released GAZA, featuring contributions from 48 artists, all centering around piano, keyboard and organ-based compositions.  Available as a digital-only release on Shameless Records, all proceeds are being donated to the Ghassan Abu Sittah Gaza Children's Fund, which provides critical medical care to children in Gaza and Lebanon.

Tonight's concert features live performances by 10 of the contributing artists: Ernst Surberg, Harri Sjöström, Achim Kaufmann, Andrea Neumann, Anais Tuerlinckx, Volker Meitz, Simon James Phillips, Magda Mayas, Xenia Hauf, and Boris Hauf. All proceeds from the concert directly support the Ghassan Abu Sittah Gaza Children's Fund—and as a thank you, you'll receive a download code for the album.

Quentin Tolimieri (piano) & Eric Wong (guitar, electronics), record relase concert for Tolimieri/Wong, Erasures (Ftarri 2025)

The music of Tolimieri/Wong is a music of erasure. Specifically, they are attempting to remove various syntactical structures from their work, for example melody, harmony, gesture, and formal development. The impetus for this removal is a desire to evade the historical models that these syntactical structures force upon the listener and that serve, in a sense, to obscure the "sound-in-and-of-itself" (if such a thing exists) of the sonic object. The results of this removal is a music that is extremely minimal and reduced, closer to a kind of sound sculpture than to traditional concert music.​

Gabriela Areal (cello) & Adam Asnan (cartridge looper machines, analog machines)

Gabriela Areal designs scores and develop methods that explore instrumental and human group behaviors through basic principles of acoustic phenomena, process-based structures, and interweaving notions of relief. 

Adam Asnan is an electroacoustic musician and location sound recordist whose work promotes the aesthetic potential of sound-capture, amplification, auditory "imaging," and the virtues of both acoustic and synthetic spatialisation. Most recently, he's been concerned with ideas of "phonogeny" (as a parallel to photogeny) in sound recording and tonal works for instrumentalizing reverb.

Making Waves #11

Melanie Schweizer in discussion with Hanno Hauenstein, with screenings of Éric Baudelaire, [sic] (2008) and Rabih Mroué, Don't Spread Your Legs (2011).

Melanie Johanna Schweizer is a lawyer and political scientist specializing in business and human rights. She served as a senior legal advisor at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs until February 2025, when she was dismissed due to her public statements critical of Israel's actions in Gaza. Schweizer was a Bundestag candidate for the MERA25 party in the 2025 federal elections, representing Berlin-Mitte, and placed fourth on the Berlin state list. Her legal training included placements at the Cottbus District Court, Berlin Police Department, Cottbus Public Prosecutor's Office, a Berlin law firm, and a human rights organization in Jordan. Prior to her government role, she practiced as an attorney. 

Hanno Hauenstein is an independent journalist, author, and speaker known for his incisive reporting on contemporary politics, culture, and media ethics. His work spans both German and international outlets, with bylines in publications such as The Guardian, The Intercept, Haaretz, +972 Magazine, and Berliner Zeitung. He is also the founder and editor of aviv Magazine, a Hebrew-German arts journal that explores cultural intersections between Germany and Israel. Hauenstein's recent articles have addressed issues such as Germany's deportation of pro-Palestine activists and the country's political dynamics concerning the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Nina Guo (voice) & Joe Houston (piano) perform songs by Charles Ives, Matthew Shlomowitz, Kaija Saariaho, and Rishin Singh.

Program: 

Charles Ives, Songs (selection)

Matthew Shlomowitz, Four Songs (UA) and two songs from Songs about words and the pleasure of misery

Rishin Singh, Love at the Border (UA)

Kaija Saariaho, Saarikoski-laulut

Sawt Out presents its new album Sawt Out: Fake Live in America, in the first of two episodes, the first unplugged and the second plugged.

Burkhard Beins (analog synths, samples, walkie talkies), Mazen Kerbaj (crackle synth, trumpet, toys, radio) & Michael Vorfeld (light bulbs, electric switching devices)

Over its first six years, the trio Sawt Out focused entirely on their unusual acoustic instrumentation, consisting of trumpet and two sets of percussion. They then invented an electro-acoustic version of the group as their second musical leg. Whether acoustic or electronic, Sawt Out creates bewildering sound worlds rich in detail and tight musical interaction.

Gruppo di Improvvisazione Giallo

Hanno Leichtmann (electronics, percussion), Magda Mayas (piano, clavinet), Sara Persico (voice, electronics) & Valerio Tricoli (Revox B77)

Gruppo di Improvvisazione Giallo is a new project initiated by Hanno Leichtmann and is influenced by the musician and sound artist’s love for the soundtracks of the Italian crime and thriller movie genre of the late 1960s and 1970s commonly known as "giallo" (yellow), which was named after the dominant color of the covers of the pulp novels that inspired it. 

The project pays homage to them and the legacy of the composer-performer collective Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza and one of its leading figures, Ennio Morricone, who also composed dozens of giallo scores. 

Kathryn Williams (flutes) performs two sets of works taken from Coming Up for Air, a collection of over 150 works limited to a single breath, as well as new works by Christopher Fox and Jobina Tinnemans. She is joined by Ed Cooper, performing The Heart Is an Empty Membrane.

Program:

• Coming Up for Air (set 1)

Mark Dyer, Memento for Kathryn (and being able to hold that forever) for flute and tape

John Webb, One breath bop for flute and inflatable hammer

Megan Grace Beugger, Asthmatic Inhalation and Exhalation for flute 

Cecilia Muylaert: Puzzle of a Breath for flute (UA)

Jenny Jackson, Expel for flute

Eleanor Cully Boehringer, Snow Geese for speech (UA)

• Ed Cooper, The Heart Is an Empty Membrane for heartbeat, field recordings, poetry, live electronics (performed by Ed Cooper)

• Christopher Fox, Bernauer Straße for diffusion

• Christopher Fox, Free Diver for amplified bass flute (UA)

• Jobina Tinnemans, Panoramic Book 9 for alto flute (UA)

• Coming Up for Air (set 2)

Robin Haigh, ARPIL for alto flute and piccolo

Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh + Kathryn Williams, PIXERCISE for piccolo

Oskar Bałdyga, Scherzo for Piccolo

Ed Cooper, For Kathryn Williams: Vermillion for flute and acrylic paint on canvas 

Lailah Arafah, Passive Living for flute

Tilman Kanitz (cello) & Jared Redmond (piano) perform solo and duo works by Morton Feldman.

Program: 

Piano Piece (1964), realisation 1 

Durations 2 for Cello and Piano (1960), realisation 1

Projection 1 for Cello (1950), realisation 1 

Intersection 2 for Piano (1951) 

Projection 1 for Cello (1950), realisation 2 

Intersection 3 for Piano (1953), realisation 1 

Intersection 4 for Cello (1953), realisation 1 

Intersection 3 for Piano (1953), realisation 2 

Intersection 4 for Cello (1953), realisation 2 

Piano Piece (1964), realisation 2 

Durations 2 for Cello and Piano, realisation 2

All works by Morton Feldman

Tom Jacques & Felipe Waller, duo for self-made instruments and DC motors

Jacques and Waller present an improvised performance using recently built, rotation-based instruments. In this sonic exploration, constantly spinning gears open and close physical apertures, acting as dynamic filters and sound enhancers. Controlled via MIDI, the rotation speeds become part of the improvisation—blurring the lines between invention and performance in a continuous, evolving musical dialogue.

Jacob Greenberg & Viola Yip, duo for harmonium and air-based electronics.

Greenberg & Yip devise a counterpoint loop of jointly originated air sounds, with a nuanced exchange of the acoustic harmonium bellows and a newly-developed instrument that allows electronics to emerge from inflatables and human body movements.

Poor Isa 

Frederik Leroux (banjo, woodblocks, flute) & Ruben Machtelinckx (banjo, woodblocks)

Fredrik Rasten, Strands of lunar light (Aspen Edities 2025) for electric and acoustic guitars, with Ruben Machtelinckx

Poor Isa, the duo of Ruben Machtelinckx and Frederik Leroux, has a remarkable instrumentation: the combination of prepared banjo and woodblocks expresses a surging condition in which silence and sound are equivalent. From improvisations, elements are magnified, isolated or developed further until rippling compositions arise in which subtle and hardly audible sounds come to the surface. In spring 2019, Poor Isa released Let’s Drink The Sea And Dance (Aspen Edities) followed by Dissolution of the Other in 2023. 

Fredrik Rasten's Strands of lunar light is an otherworldly exploration of spectral microtonality for multiple guitars, all played by Rasten and Ruben Machtelinckx. In the context of his other compositions, Strands of lunar light explores a new territory comprising a dense, spectral harmony derived from a complete segment of a harmonic series. The work is part of Rasten’s continuing exploration of just intonation realized on guitars, building on his earlier released works Six Moving Guitars, Svevning and Lineaments. 

andPlay

Maya Bennardo (violin) and Hannah Levinson (viola) 

andPlay perform their new program, the willow bends, featuring works by Magnus Granberg and Angharad Davies that explore texture, ritual, and timbral extremes.