Christof Thewes (trombone)
Hartmut Oßwald (bariton & tenor saxophone)
Benjamin Lehmann (bass)
Martial Frenzel (drums)

The band acts acoustically, but musically uses everything that (popular) music has to offer, there is swing next to rock, New Orleans next to free jazz, collective next to solo, strenuous next to light, musical anarchy next to formal strictness … but above all, the band serves a crucial musical tradition, that of humor.

The SurRealbook consists exclusively of Thewe’s own compositions, an original, exciting, spontaneous, improvised experience.

Tickets @Abendkasse

Tomoyoshi Date and Stijn Hüwels will reunite in Berlin for a two-day residency. After meeting in Tokyo in 2015 and collaborating on the albums Hochu-Ekki-Tou (2019) and Tōki hi, Tōki kumo (2021), they will meet again for the first time in nine years. The residency includes a studio session on November 14th and a concert on November 15th. Date is known for his acoustic and organic sounds with digital processing, while Hüwels focuses on minimalist music using processed guitar and field recordings. They will be joined by Midori Hirano, a Berlin-based pianist and composer who combines acoustic instrumentation with electronic sounds. Her new collaborative album with the German brothers duo Brueder Selke is due for release on Thrill Jockey in January 2025.

Sound Performance by Patryk Lichota and Concert by Larissa O’Grady

Patryk Lichota präsentiert BEELOCATION, eine Performance, bei der Klang und Licht durch Theremins und Bewegungssensoren gesteuert werden. Larissa O’Grady interpretiert Werke irischer Komponisten, darunter Judith Rings Swept Through the Floods, ein Stück für Violine und Elektronik, das Umweltkatastrophen thematisiert. Karen Powers sonic cradle basiert auf arktischen Feldaufnahmen und verbindet die äußere Stille mit einer reichen Klangwelt. David Bremners Salient Memories behandelt Statistik und Erinnerung durch eine sich ständig entwickelnde Ausdrucksstruktur. Amanda Feerys Thighs in Bark erzählt die Verwandlung der Daphne in einen Lorbeerbaum aus der griechischen Mythologie. Anselm McDonnells Rusted Sugar erforscht die komplexe Beziehung zu Zucker durch musikalische Strukturen, die chemische Prozesse widerspiegeln.

The Dystopia Sound Art Biennial, organised by Errant Sound and this year under the artistic direction of Nida Ghouse and Georg Klein, will take place from 7 to 29 September in HAUNT/frontviews in Schöneberg and in the Galiläa Church in Friedrichshain. Featuring sound installations, performances, and site-specific projects by over thirty participating artists from fifteen countries, the exhibition will be accompanied by an event program that runs on all four weekends.

After Turkey and Brazil, Dystopia Biennial 2024 presents sound art from Europe and the Indian subcontinent. The exhibition Often enough I tried language, often enough I tried song, but they didn’t hear you raises questions about canonized European sound epistemologies through a range of positions. “If the German concept of Klangkunst has no equivalent in the South Asian context, sound itself has cosmic significance and the culturally-coded labor of listening draws on long and diverse lineages,” says Nida Ghouse in her curatorial statement. Dystopia, a politically, socially and ecologically charged term, serves here as a provocation or an invitation to imagine another world.

In resonance with the artworks, the symposium Sonic Futurisms, curated by Budhaditya Chattopadhay, offers insight into the concept of futurism in relation to sound practices and thoughts from South Asia that influenced the Western art music of John Cage, La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, and others in the 1950s and 1960s, without recognition having been demanded until now. Among other topics, the symposium explores the under-discussed conceptualization of a future that goes beyond a dystopian vision.

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Errantsound

Day 2: Concert

Doors: 19.00

with: Nathalie Forget (Onde Martenot), Lila Fraysse(voice), Bérangère Maximin(LapTop) 
Caroline Cecilia Tallone(hurdy-gurdy) , Gilles Aubry(Mod Synth, FieldRecording, LapTop) Julius Holtz (Mod.Synth) 

„Entre les Lignes – Zwischen den Zeilen“ is an exchange project happening in two-part, covering two territories and involving six musicians and sound artists who never played together before. 
The first part focused on the Occitanie region in south-west France. 
The artists took part in a Residency format, researched and created in the landscapes between the town of Toulouse & Rabastens, exploring the cultural influences of the Occitan region. 
In this second phase, the creations made in Occitanie will be reworked and contextualized in the metropolitan territory of Berlin and the desecrated Galiläakirche by the end of August.

Curated by Emilie Beffara founder of Blind Signal in collaboration with Allegra Solitude, founder of Liebig12, sound artist Julius Holtz and Isabelle Picard.

In cooperation with le Ring Scène Périphérique, le COMDT à Toulouse, BlindSignal, Liebig12 à Berlin, jugend widerstandsmuseum-galilaakirche à Berlin and the town of Rabastens. 
Supported by Musikfonds E.V., le GMEA à Albi, Impulse Neue Musik, le Goethe Institut de Toulouse. 
within the Frame of Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik

Day 1: Project / Artists / Instruments Presentations & Open Rehearsal

Doors: 18.00

with: Nathalie Forget (Onde Martenot), Lila Fraysse(voice), Bérangère Maximin(LapTop) 
Caroline Cecilia Tallone(hurdy-gurdy) , Gilles Aubry(Mod Synth, FieldRecording, LapTop) Julius Holtz (Mod.Synth) 

„Entre les Lignes – Zwischen den Zeilen“ is an exchange project happening in two-part, covering two territories and involving six musicians and sound artists who never played together before. 
The first part focused on the Occitanie region in south-west France. 
The artists took part in a Residency format, researched and created in the landscapes between the town of Toulouse & Rabastens, exploring the cultural influences of the Occitan region. 
In this second phase, the creations made in Occitanie will be reworked and contextualized in the metropolitan territory of Berlin and the desecrated Galiläakirche by the end of August.

Curated by Emilie Beffara founder of Blind Signal in collaboration with Allegra Solitude, founder of Liebig12, sound artist Julius Holtz and Isabelle Picard.

In cooperation with le Ring Scène Périphérique, le COMDT à Toulouse, BlindSignal, Liebig12 à Berlin, jugend widerstandsmuseum-galilaakirche à Berlin and the town of Rabastens. 
Supported by Musikfonds E.V., le GMEA à Albi, Impulse Neue Musik, le Goethe Institut de Toulouse. 
within the Frame of Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik

Megan Jowett (viola, voice)
James Banner (double bass)

Borage is Megan Jowett and James Banner. They play brittle, strange, dark, weird and vibrant improvised music inspired by animals, plants and politics on strings and voices. Borage self-released their first album transitory in 2023.

Borage (Megan Jowett / James Banner) – James Banner

ALLAN PRASKIN – altosax
HENRIK WALSDORFF – altosax
BEN LEHMANN – doublebass
JAN LEIPNITZ – drums

ALLAN PRASKIN played with stars of modern jazz such as Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land. He was an important part of the New York loft scene and made his first recording for the legendary ESP label. As a member of Gunter Hampel’s Galaxie Dream Band, he came to Europe, where he soon became one of the busiest jazz musicians. He is now highly active in the Berlin jazz scene in particular. Praskin’s characteristic phrasing on the alto saxophone is his trademark, as are his great compositions. A top program of modern jazz awaits us.

OBSiDiAN

Vojta Drnek (prepared accordeon)
Isabel Rößler (bass)
Jan Leipnitz (drums)

There is no long-standing tradition of a free jazz trio featuring accordion, bass, and drums. OBSiDiAN however makes you feel as if like there was, and that they are building on it with great respect and also an infectious joy and love for collective music-making. Energetic and groovy passages are interwoven with deep and meditative soundscapes, constructed with unique and weird sounds of prepared accordion of Vojta Drnek, gentle, yet explosive drums of Jan Leipnitz and the vast range of expression of Isabel Rößler’s bass.

Rupp–Rößler–Hall

Olaf Rupp (guitar)
Isabel Rößler (bass)
Samuel Hall (drums)

Rupp–Rößler–Hall is an all-acoustic band of equal voices, where it’s more about layering textures and structures than supporting a soloist.

Jessie Monk has come back to Berlin from Australia for a few days and they will be on stage together again.

Jessie Monk – vocals, guitar
Conor Cunningham – winds, vocals
Paul Santner – bass, guitar, vocals
Fabiana Striffler – violin, vocals

Luis Borda (guitar)
Ehab Abou Fakhr (viola)
Niko Schabel (clarinet, saxophone)

The music of the Trio Orientación is a rare sound result, stylistically shaped by the musical poles of Argentine Tango and Arabic Taqsim, the sound constructions of new music and the love of rhythm and improvisation

Doors: 19:30

Doors: 19:30

Hildenbrand’s music is defined by the restless nature of a seeker. Over the years his explorations have taken him to a variety of places and spaces, nonetheless, his destination continues to be the ever elusive vanishing point: the realm of the mystical. Ultimate truth and pure beauty remain forever on the horizon. His is a journey into the core of music.
By merging elements from ethno and world music, European contemporary Jazz, neoclassical, cinematic sounds, and the singer-songwriter tradition, he unfolds a multifaceted sonic world.
On this special occasion Hub will be joined by Turkish duduk player Ustad Canberk Ulas.

Bezirksamt und Bezirksverordnetenversammlung von Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg vergeben seit 2016 den Silvio-Meier-Preis. Dieser soll Menschen, Vereine, Initiativen und Projekte ehren und unterstützen, die sich in herausragender Weise gegen Rechtsextremismus, Rassismus, Ausgrenzung und Diskriminierung einsetzen. Bewerbungsfrist ist der 2.6.2024. Mehr Infos im Link unten.

Beginn: 18:00

Master of Azerbaijani Gitara Music

Rəhman Məmmədli’s blazing, psychedelic guitar music sprang from one of the most tumultuous and transformative periods in Azerbaijan’s history, capturing both the spirit and the contradictions of its time. In the years since, he has become the emblem of Azerbaijan’s gitara music – a unique subculture that developed around the electric guitar. Next to the late Rüstəm Quliyev, whose „Azerbaijani Gitara“ (Bongo Joe Records, 2020) introduced the West to this unique genre, which often sounds like Surf Music to untrained ears, Rəhman is the absolute don of this style – often going live on social media for hours on end, shredding.

Doors: 19.00

LES FLÂNEUSES: JOURNEY

Flânerie was long considered a male activity (while street women were either beggars or prostitutes), but a lot of female art and thought is inspired by the experience of a walk in the city. Nevertheless, flâneuses seem to have an element of transgression: they go where they‘re not supposed to. Alexandra Cárdenas and Caroline Siegers take us on their very own musical journey, weaving their street adventures into their performance. Alexandra Cárdenas is producing her own independent code on stage, Caroline Siegers performs with her custom built MIDI controllers, both very inclined to leave the paved roads at any time. 3 Sets à 20 minutes.

Alexandra Cárdenas (live coding, visuals)

Caroline Siegers (cranks and pendulums, visuals)

Doors: 19.00

MOHAMMAD REZA MORTAZAVI
(POLYPHONIC SOLO PERCUSSION)

The diverse sound of tonbak and daf has always fascinated Mortazavi. It connects him with an understanding of music and movement that is as multifaceted as it is constantly evolving. His musical ideas transcend traditional techniques and ways of playing both instruments. Mortazavi describes finding a balance between concentration and letting go as the core element of his musical work: a constantly changing movement in which the boundaries of body and mind dissolve into one another. Mortazavi directs his focus exclusively on music, detached from the instrument and national-cultural narratives, in pursuit of the idea of a universal music in which something human connects in a profound way.

JULIUS GABRIEL
(TWIN & PERCUSSION SAXOPHONE)

Julius Gabriel is a saxophonist whose work explores the boundaries and intricacies of his instrument. He delves into the dynamic interplay between corporeality, acoustics, transcendence, and hypnosis. His musical foundation is deeply rooted in improvisation, drawing inspiration from an eclectic spectrum of genres. A virtuoso, in an existentialist sense, presenting his brand new record „Tales from the Subterranean“.

Doors: 19.00

„They are having a conversation within the medium of sound. But they complement one another in a way that makes any stylistic differentiation irrelevant. With all the transparency in the course of their playing the dialogical principle opens out into an holistic piano language. What counts is freedom and the responsibility to create something new, driven by the awareness of continuous change.“

„One of Europe’s premier free jazz bandleaders, pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach’s music mixes free and contemporary classical elements, with his slashing solos often the link between the two in his compositions.“

Doors: 19.00

Larry Porter is considered one of the most respected Jazz pianists currently playing in Germany. His professional career spans five decades. His personal understanding of the art and language of Jazz has taken him to all corners of the world. Along the way, he has collaborated with some of the greatest American Jazz legends including: Chet Baker, Mel Lewis, Archie Shepp, Thad Jones, Art Farmer, etc. He is known for remarkable imaginative improvisations in his performance of standards and original material.
As a solo pianist, Larry presents a wide range of music, from songs of the 1920s to Jazz pieces by Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington to his most recent original compositions.

Limpe Fuchs is a legend in the experimental music scene. In the late sixties, this percussionist drummed on self-made instruments, together with her then husband Paul Fuchs, in the Ensemble Anima. During that time, Limpe and Paul Fuchs cooperated with the classic pianist star Friedrich Gulda, as well as with jazz luminaries like Albert Mangelsdorff, and continually attracted the interest of their audiences in new constellations. Limpe Fuchs‘ solo performance with „variable wood and stone rows, ringing bronze in the pendulum strings, and a variety of skin and bronze drums“ is a rare occasion to witness one of the early avant-gardists of the scene from the old Federal Republic Of Germany. She attempts, while playing live, to develop her musical ideas from the „resonance of the location where the performance takes place“ – „to make music in the flow of time, with simplicity and emotion“! Her main concern is to sensitize the process of hearing: „Every tone is a sensation. Listening instead of shutting one’s ears. Establishing silence.“

Einlass: 19:30, Beginn: 20:30, Ende: 22:00

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Musicboard Berlin GmbH

Start: 14.00
The CZentrifuga collective invites friends of handicrafts, amateurs and professionals, to the art market at the Jugendwiderstandsmuseum in the Galiläakirche. Screen prints, graphics, wood prints, homemade clothes, cassettes, vinyl records, crochet work, etc.
Musical accompaniment program through the day by musicians and DJs from the CZentrifuga collective. Ignatz Bee, Schmacke, Andres del Tiempo and many more.

Am Start präsentiert: Double Record Release Show

F.S. Blumm Trio:
F.S. Blumm (guitar)
Anne Müller (cello)
Michael Thieke (clarinet)

Guitar alchemist and radioplay writer F.S. Blumm in a trio with cellist Anne Müller (Nils Frahm, Victoria Soundtrack) and Echtzeit clarinetist Michael Thieke.

Marla Hansen & Band:
Marla Hansen (viola, violin, guitar, voice)
Isabelle Klemt (cello)
Mark Pringle (bass)
Andi Haberl (drums, electronics)

Marla Hansen made a name for herself as violinist for Ravi Coltrane, Sufjan Stevens, The National, My Brightest Diamond. Now she presents her new album with band and The Notwist drummer Andi Haberl.

Zinc & Copper is an internationally recognised low brass ensemble founded in 2005 by Robin Hayward, working together with Elena Kakaliagou and Hilary Jeffery since 2014. Through an intensive exploration of microtonal and natural tunings, they have developed a unique ensemble sound characterized by the warmth of low brass instruments and a wide range of extended playing techniques.

Svarte Greiner is a dark ambient project by Erik K Skodvin (full name, Erik Knive Skodvin), half of the Norwegian duo Deaf Center, formed in 2005 in Oslo, Norway. Currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Svarte Greiner is a founder of Miasmah Recordings.

Eleni Poulou has recorded and toured worldwide with many groups including The Fall and Shizuo. She formed Organza Ray with Hilary Jeffery in 2022, her most recent solo album is “Karta” which merges Greek Pontic music with other sounds and beats.

Einlass: 19.00, Beginn: 20.00, Ende: 22.00

Reverend Hunter S. Chicken (titan tenor sax)
Pharoannes Rhea Schleiermacher (baritone saxophone, moon synthesizer)
Yorgos Iapetus Hochapfel (sun organ)
Isis Dione Rößler (horsehead nebula bass)
Yan Tethys Leipnitz (starr drums)
ngoma lugundu (baobabs, aegaeon vulcan dance)
& some very special extraterrestrians

Marshall Allen is best known for his work with Sun Ra, having recorded and performed mostly in this context since the late 1950s, and having led The Sun Ra Arkestra since 1995, after Sun Ra’s death in 1993 and John Gilmore’s death two years later. Critic Jason Ankeny describes Marshall as „one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era.“

Let’s celebrate the birthday of the oldest practicing alto saxophonist and big band leader between the Sun and Jupiter.
Space is the Place!

Anna Kaluza (alto saxophone)
Henrik Walsdorff (tenor saxophone)
Jan Roder (bass)
Christian Marien (drums)

The ensemble draws its energy from the immediate, the music is composed in the moment, is created with the audience and the space and is based on quick reaction and communication.

Blueblut
Pamelia Stickney (theremin)
Chris Janka (guitar)
Mark Holub (drums)

Emerging from Vienna’s underground scene, Blueblut has the intensity of rock, the openness of electronics and the razor-sharp precision and wild improvisation of jazz. „… the most effective wake-up call you can ever experience.“

Puna
Olaf Rupp (guitar)
Meinrad Kneer (bass)
Rudi Fischerlehner (drums, percussion)

Rudi Fischerlehner unleashes a firework of cymbal sounds, tonewoods, rim shots and shaken rattles on Rupp’s sombre sonority, that ricochets like a hail of bullets through the depths of a huge stalactite cave.

Theater

Alfons Kujat in seiner Glanzrolle als Gauner, Dichter, Hurensohn.

„Kehr ich zurück …?“ – Nach harter Haft, nach mehr als 500 Jahren, nach Umsturz, Verbannung und Pestilenz, kehrt er, in unseren Schoß, zurück. Ein Abend voller Weisheit, Turbulenzen und Verzückung. Ein Loblied auf das Leben, die Lust, den Zweifel und all deren Vergänglichkeit. Himmelhoch jauchzend, zu Tode betrübt. Worte wie die Faust auf’s Auge. Wen es nicht packt, den packt er. Wer ihn gesehen hat, der hat ihn getrunken.

Reservierung: 030 212 389 01

Since 2008 Zea has been the solo project of Arnold de Boer. He’s also a singer and guitarist in legendary Dutch band The Ex. Before 2008 Zea was a duo and earlier a five piece band, but the songs were always written, arranged, recorded and produced by De Boer. His label, Makkum Records was formed in 2009 with intention to release his own projects, but since 2012 the label has offered many other eccentric releases.

Xavier Charles is an amazing clarinet player from France working mostly in the international improvised music scene. The combination with the open minimal guitar play of Zea (Arnold de Boer) works like a treat.

Theater

Alfons Kujat in seiner Glanzrolle als Gauner, Dichter, Hurensohn. Wer ihn gesehen hat, der hat ihn getrunken.

„Kehr ich zurück …?“ – Nach harter Haft, nach mehr als 500 Jahren, nach Umsturz, Verbannung und Pestilenz, kehrt er, in unseren Schoß, zurück. Ein Abend voller Weisheit, Turbulenzen und Verzückung. Ein Loblied auf das Leben, die Lust, den Zweifel und all deren Vergänglichkeit. Himmelhoch jauchzend, zu Tode betrübt. Worte wie die Faust auf’s Auge. Wen es nicht packt, den packt er.

Reservierung: 030 212 389 01

Double Record Release Show!

At the age of 17, King Khan’s daughter Saba Lou released her Space-Pop debut, Planet Enigma. Now her latest album Novum Ovum clearly shows the influences of Gospel, Doo Wop, Country, Punk and Funk.

For the record release of his new album, Oska Wald (Chuckamuck / Die Verlierer) plays old-fashioned lo-fi neo-folk craftsmanship with his band Lazy Horse.

Thomas Borgmann (tenor saxophone, flute)
Vinicius Cajado (bass)
Willi Kellers (drums)

The bird image, and the fluttering, soaring of the idiom of Jazz itself, meet here, on the shimmering glacier of Borgmann’s music. No doubt, Thomas ‚Big House‘ Borgmann is one of the leading natives who inhabits the wonderland of his saxophone.

Wire Magazine’s 2023 Top Ten Record

Ale Hop (guitar, electronics)

Laura Robles (cajón)

The two Peruvian musicians take the pulses of dances like Landó, Zamacueca, Festejo, Alcatraz, Lamento and Son de los diablos, electrifying and mutating them into pure textures, or reinforcing the physical character of the cajón through repetition and distortion.
Supported by Musicboard Berlin
Eintritt frei

Am Start präsentiert: Double Record Release Show:

Rita Braga (ukulele, banjolele, synthesizer, organ, vocals)

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rita Braga plays vocals, organ, synths, drum machine, ukulele, banjolele and is influenced by early 20th century variety, electronic music pioneers, post-punk, cabaret and more

Sir Percy
Erik Haegert (organ, vocals)
Jan Rohrbach (bass, vocals)

Ghost Crooner Duo presents their debut «No Name God» on OBJETROUVÉ.