Improvised & Experimental No. 253 (sound installation)
Wednesday August 27, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Rieko Okuda (electronics), Ignaz Schick (turntables, sampler), Beat Keller (feedbacker electric guitar)
-Set 2- Reanimation Orchestra - JD Zazie (turntables, cdjs), Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson (contrabass clarinet), Marie Takahashi (viola), Caroline Cecilia Tallone (hurdy gurdy), Guilherme Rodrigues (violoncello), Elo Masing (violin)
10 €
Improvised & Experimental No. 254 (sound installation)
Wednesday September 3, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Uygur Vural (cello, movements), Valentina Bellanova (ney, flutes)
-Set 2- KvT - Kata Kovács, Tom O'Doherty, Jérémie Mortier (trumpet, bass, electronics, drums)
10 €
DESCENT (A Ritual Performance)
Thursday September 4, 2025 at 6 PM
Friday September 5, 2025 at 6 PM
A modern interpretation of the ancient Sumerian myth of Inanna's descent into the underworld.
A contemporary performance piece by Riley Davidson, with Composer Moritz Ebert and Sound design by Juan Cernadas.
DESCENT is a live performance where flesh, sound, and silence remembers what logic forgot. A performer undresses the myths they inherited. A cellist mourns. A sound designer builds the atmosphere live, breath by breath. As we descend into the collapse of the empire, like Inanna, we must shed the versions of ourselves rooted in colonial ways of thinking. A container for the wordless rage and grief of our own complicity. A ritual for untangling the mess of the generations past. There is no way forward without descent.
20-35 €
Leeza Negelev & Katie Kearns - To close a small distance (exhibition)
Sunday 7 September 2025 at 17:00 (opening reception)
To close a small distance presents new work by two artists who investigate what is both sensible and near. Addressing a world in which knowledge, experience, and sociality are increasingly oriented towards the virtual, this exhibition offers transdisciplinary perspectives on our entanglement with the material world. The exhibition will include multiple site-specific music performances that explore the relational and material elements of sound through alternative tuning systems, acoustic and digital sonic landscapes, and works that rely on proximity and distance.
Exhibition Period: September 7th-12th, Sunday-Friday 13:30-18:00, and 13:30-22:00 during gallery events.
Performances | To close a small distance
Tuesday 9 September 2025 | 19:00 Departure Duo - Between Sound
Edward Kass (double bass) + Nina Guo (soprano). Admission: €10
Thursday 11 September 2025 | 18:00 Cara Dawson - New works for pedal and lever harp.
Admission: €10
Support provided by Studio 170 / Germany at Goethe-Institut Boston.
More information at leezanegelev.com
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Improvised & Experimental No. 255 (sound installation)
Wednesday September 10, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Laura.All (guitar), GubbiAnn (no input, DIY oscilators), Lun Ário (sampling, voice)
-Set 2- DuChamp, Ernesto Carcamo Cavázos, SoundOkapi (synthesisers, pedals, electronics)
10 €
Mikołaj Rytowski - the snare drum project (sound installation)
Sunday & Monday September 14 & 15, 2025 at 8 PM
the snare drum project by Mikolaj Rytowski is an immersive instrument and a composition that fuses music, visual arts, and performance. At its core, the project revolves around an ensemble of twenty snare drums, transformed into a rich sonic landscape that redefines the traditional understanding of percussion. These prepared snare drums are spread throughout the performance space, serving as both a standalone installation and a twenty-channel sound system for live performance.
Duration : 45 minutes.
Before and after the performance, the project will be running as a sound installation.
Part of Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik.
10 €
Improvised & Experimental No. 256 (sound installation)
Wednesday September 17, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Miriam Leo (piano), Berenice Llorens (guitar, electronics), Gustavo Obligado (saxophone)
-Set 2- Julia Biłat (cello, voice), Roman Stolyar (piano), Dudu Kuarte (percussion)
10 €
Patricia Woltmann - Precarious Terrains (screening & artist talk)
Friday September 19, 2025 at 7 PM
Precarious Terrains presents recent video works by Berlin-based artist and choreographer Patricia Woltmann, who investigates the shifting relationship between body, environment and belonging. Developed during residencies at AADK Spain in 2024 and 2025, the works were filmed at the former salt extraction site, Salinas del Curro in Valle de Ricote, Spain. They trace cycles of emergence and disappearance, erosion and renewal - reflecting on how human presence and natural forces shape vulnerable terrains.
5 €
Aus dem Maschinenraum (concert-installation)
Sunday September 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Sounds from historic lorry engines, a Rhine ship engine, diesel locomotives, Lamborghinis and Trabbi cars etc. were combined with live electronics, cello and bass clarinet, video and live overhead projections. Enhanced with snippets of conversations from interviews with specialists and vehicle enthusiasts, which reveal an intimate relationship between man and machine, the evening unites to form a swan song to the combustion engine.
Ulrike Ruf | Concept, Composition, Cello
Heidrun Schramm | Composition, Live-Electronics
Florian Bergmann | Bass Clarinet
Nicolas Wiese | Video, Live-Overhead-Projections
Carlo Grippa | Sound
Fabian Bleisch | Light
Part of Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik.
Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Media partner: Digital in Berlin.
10 €
Improvised & Experimental No. 257 (sound installation)
Wednesday September 24, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Miriam den Boer Salmon (violin), Dimitra Kousteridiou (electronics), Amanda Irarrazabal (double bass)
-Set 2- James Banner (bass), Megan Jowett (viola), Maria Reich (viola)
10 €
Improvised & Experimental No. 258 (sound installation)
Wednesday October 1, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Heather Green, Mamiko Kan, Mary Molnar (voices)
-Set 2- Félicie Bazelaire (double bass), Michiyasu Furutani (butoh dance), Norbert R. Stammberger (saxophone, graphics)
10 €
Improvised & Experimental No. 259 (sound installation)
Wednesday October 8, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Fidan Aghayeva-Edler (piano), Hui-Chun Lin (cello), Sabine Vogel (flute, objects)
-Set 2- Vasco Furtado (drums), Clara Lai (piano), Vinicius Cajado (double bass)
10 €
DIERICH-MATZKE | RAMM | MERENDA - MUTTIKAN (performance)
Saturday October 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sunday October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Neither kinky parties nor Beyoncé have succeeded in cracking the hard core of the millennia-old Roman Catholic tradition—a tradition that continually legitimises itself through the repeated performance of rituals. A tradition that systematically excludes, among others, women and queers. But now we say: enough with the Vatican – it’s time to open the Muttikan.
MUTTIKAN appropriates the Roman Catholic Mass as a performative format and develops a secular counter-model to it. Marco Merenda, Linda Lou Dierich-Matzke, and Christopher Ramm guide the audience through experiences that mischievously sneak new meanings into the actions and proceedings of the Mass. Catholic rituals and liturgical choreographies are translated on three interconnected levels: ritual-symbolic, content-based, and spatial-choreographic.
BY & WITH:
Linda Lou Dierich-Matzke, Marco Merenda [Concept, artistic direction, choreography, performance, dramaturgy]
Christopher Ramm [Sound, performance, dramaturgy]
Carolina Burandt & Anastasia Kriwoscheja [Stage design & visuals]
Steve Leander Oelmann [Costume]
Doria Worden [Light design]
Nathalie Giele, Su Jin Kim [Mentoring dramaturgy & choreography]
Kerstin Henky [Production]
Lorenz Vetter [Photography and graphic arts]
Made possible through the „Wiederaufnahme- und Gastspielförderung“ provided by the Dachverbands freie darstellende Künste Hamburg with the support of Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien.
8/10/15/20/25 €
Improvised & Experimental No. 260 (sound installation)
Wednesday October 15, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Reiner Hess (alt saxophone), Gerhard Gschlößl (trombone), Angela Wingerath (voice)
-Set 2- Anna Stern (vocals, electronics), Michael Kolberg (electric guitar), Anja Kreysing (accordion, electronics)
10 €
Improvised & Experimental No. 261 (sound installation)
Wednesday October 22, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Leonie Roessler (field recordings, live electronics), Soheil Soheili (electronics), Diana Fonseca (electronics)
-Set 2- Mire (midi keyboard drones, audio-reactive video), von jeglichem wort (base, guitar), Paul Brody (trumpet, objects)
10 €
Češi v Berlíně (book launch)
Tuesday October 28, 2025 at 7 PM
Book launch of the new book of Jana Komankova 'Czechs in Berlin'.
Improvised & Experimental No. 262 (sound installation)
Wednesday October 29, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Tangerine - Danielle Friedman (piano), Aviv Noam (alto saxophone)
-Set 2- Taupe Étoile Ext. - Johanna Sandels (voice, looper, effects), Grisha Pankert (E-violin, FX), Mathieu Sylvestre (field recordings, tapes)
10 €
Improvised & Experimental No. 263 (sound installation)
Wednesday November 5, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Sophie Renger (paetzold), Grgur Savic (saxophone, objects, action), Asta D. (voice, sound poetry)
-Set 2- Shiomi Kawaguchi (shamisen), Kriton Beyer (daxophone), Jung-Jae Kim (tenor saxophone)
10 €
Improvised & Experimental No. 264 (sound installation)
Wednesday November 12, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Klaus Janek (double bass), Milena Kipfmüller (electronics) & guest
-Set 2- Denise Dombrowski (violin, vocals, guitar), Mark Loughrey (banjo, mandolin, vocals), Conor Cunningham (clarinet, flute, vocals)
10 €
Improvised & Experimental No. 265 (sound installation)
Wednesday November 19, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Ore Ama Collective - Maddi Fuente Ubani (dance), Ana Kavalis (dance), Lottie Sebes (sound)
-Set 2- Paula Sanchez (cello), Michael Vorfeld (percussion), Markus Krispel (expanded saxophone)
10 €
Improvised & Experimental No. 266 - Closing night of 2025 (sound installation)
Wednesday November 26, 2025 at 7 PM
-Set 1- Wortschmerz ‡ noisedestotrotz - multimedia performance (text, vision, sound) by Elizabeta Kostadinovska (visual art, video, experimental text in multilingual polyphony live), Katharina Keim (electronics, feedback), Margaret Unknown (lapsteel guitar, electronics)
-Set 2- Adam Goodwin (double bass), Elena Kakaliagou (french horn), Tatsumi Ryusui (guitar)
10 €