program

While Frank Zappa’s oeuvre is a series of disruptions of musical and other sorts, in this listening session Georg Jansen tries to make a common thread audible through some of Zappa’s important albums, with his second solo album, Hot Rats, as a focal point. Hot Rats was released in 1969, completely instrumental, and is known as one of the first jazz-rock albums.

We listen to the session together in silence.

The session begins on time.

Arriving a bit late? No worries, just come in quietly to preserve the listening atmosphere. We can’t wait to see you!

Please note: we do not take reservations.

Airdmun plays ambient, jazz, electronica, experimental and bass.

Faik Muchs takes us to an evening mood of cross-genre, sofa, ambient, warm and cozy.

Merma Suelo takes us on a listening session: A foggy conversation between waters and snakes of the south, poems, colours and textures.

We listen to the session together in silence.

The session begins on time.

Arriving a bit late? No worries, just come in quietly to preserve the listening atmosphere. We can’t wait to see you!

Please note: we do not take reservations.

Amuleto Manuela holds us in watery, healing, female offerings and resonances.

Get ready for an evening with romcom / MORT-MOI‘s moody romantic grainy set with lost and found disco hits.

For the seventh session of our series on poetry and sound, curator and co-host Pia Chakraverti-Würthwein invites Tanka Fonta for an evening of invocation in the form of spiritual texts, storytelling, and music that touches the soul.

Drawing from diverse spiritual and musical traditions, Tanka and Pia will approach sound as both a physical phenomenon and a symbolic language that threads, interweaves and interconnects human consciousness, cultural memory, and transcendental awakening. Musically, we will travel between the ragas and ballads of virtuosos like Zakir Hussain, Parvathy Baul, and Salif Keita and the folk songs of traveling bards and mystics. Poetically, we are excited to share works from the Therigatha written by the first Buddhist nuns over 2000 years ago; as well as modern and contemporary poets such as Gabriel Okara and Sarojini Naidu.

Tanka Fonta is a multifaceted artist whose expansive oeuvre spans composition, visual arts, philosophy, radio production, and research. Drawing deeply from the rich sonic practices and knowledge systems of African musical heritages and a broad spectrum of global cultural knowledge, Fonta’s compositions and visual narratives probe cosmogenic interconnectedness, sonic memory, and expanded consciousness. Living and working in Berlin, Fonta continues to push the limits of artistic exploration, seamlessly merging traditional and contemporary modes of expression.

Pia Chakraverti-Würthwein is a curator and writer based in Berlin. She previously worked at Esther Schipper as an Artist Liaison, and before that was a freelance curator on projects with Fondazione Prada, Slavs and Tatars, and SAVVY Contemporary, among others.

Image: The Cosmogenic Transformation I, Tanka Fonta, Watercolour and ink on paper, 40x30cm (2025)

Jaxx TMS: Ocean deep, atmospheric, ember glow, aura voiced and clear.

Join Juho Kusti to pay tribute to african rhythms and eastern sounds on this evening.

Image: Album cover of Abu Obaida Hassan & His Tambour – The Shaigiya Sound of Sudan

Ben Osborn‘s Memories of Circular Time is a new series of interconnected works for electronic sequencers, samples, field recordings, layering looping sequences of different lengths, patterns of change and return, exploring how time is perceived when it is considered as a series of interlocking circles rather than a progression.

We listen to the session together in silence.

The session begins on time.

Arriving a bit late? No worries, just come in quietly to preserve the listening atmosphere. We can’t wait to see you!

Please note: we do not take reservations.