On Saturday, June 7, we will be appropriating another church space: At the Galiläakirche we welcome Spoil, the new collaborative project by Rosa Anschütz, Jonas Yemer and Till Funke for their live debut. Influenced by past excursions into the world of experimental pop music, the trio explores the charged relationship between human fragility and obsession. With Yamer and Funke's experimental bass and guitar work, paired with Anschütz’s haunting vocals, the band blends atmospheric textures and visceral emotional landscapes.
Beforehand, Masshysteria Collective – an all female collective formed of twelve multinational dance artists that formed in 2017 at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, and since partly moved to Berlin. Masshysteria Collective creates transdisciplinary work for stage, gallery and digital spaces, facilitating hybrid connections within the realm of contemporary movement practice. They will spread through the church hall, dissolving purity into bone dust, merging dance-based emotional processing with experimental femme performance to growl over remains of male-dominated leftovers.
Lyricdata will kick off the evening with deconstructed ambient soundscapes that will fill the hall with sound. Shannon examines themes such as finding tenderness in dark sounds and creating spaces for introverted feelings within intense sound designs. Shannon shifts from club settings to listening environments, mostly dedicated to genres of bass music, IDM, glitch, and experimental music.
Light & visuals installations by Lyricdata.
About the festival: It's supposed to be nice in paradise, but who can say for sure? In the current conditions, which promise anything but certainty for the many, it seems that the here and now is the more decisive point of reference. With Paradise Must Be Nice we want to appropriate the present despite all its adversities and embark on a quest for sonic unease and enjoyment. We understand music as a means of working through the present, of self-assertion, and dialogue and thus hope that something true will emerge from our relations with and through sound. The festival brings together artists from all spectrums and invites us to shake up our listening habits so that a gentle ringing in our ears still echoes after the three days in June.