program
From Noun to Verb: Cecil McBee & India Navigation with Louis Henderson
listening session
From Noun to Verb: Cecil McBee & India Navigation with Louis Henderson
Thursday 10.10 20:00
Louis Henderson (DJ Footnote) will present the work of double bassist Cecil McBee on the label India Navigation.
We share the listening 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.
Heiko Hoffmann
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Heiko Hoffmann
Friday 11.10 20:00
Heiko Hoffmann presents an evening of ambient, krautrock, electronica and dub.
Muddying the Waters with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
special
Muddying the Waters with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Wednesday 16.10 20:00
For the third session in a series on poetry and sound curated by Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein, we are excited to host her conversation with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung in which they reflect on their individual practices, research, and past collaborations by trading tracks and reciting poems.
The session explores the idea of “muddying the waters” as a poetic, musical, curatorial, and life practice. Muddying the waters as a rejection of the mainstream through means of contamination, genre-mixing, syncretism, or creolification.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is the Director of HKW and the curator of the 2024 São Paulo Biennial, among other projects. He was the Founding Director of Savvy Contemporary. Pia Chakraverti-Würthwein is a curator and writer based in Berlin. She currently works at Esther Schipper as an Artist Liaison, and was previously a freelance curator on projects with Fondazione Prada, Slavs and Tatars, and SAVVY Contemporary, among others.
Burial: Untrue (Hyperdub, 2007, 51 minutes)
listening session
Burial: Untrue (Hyperdub, 2007, 51 minutes)
Thursday 17.10 20:00
We share the album 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.
special guest
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special guest
Friday 18.10 20:00
Eiliyas
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Eiliyas
Saturday 19.10 20:00
Eiliyas brings us an evening of Blues, Soul, Experimental, Hip Hop and Jazz.
Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 (Light in the Attic, 2019, 42 minutes)
listening session
Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 (Light in the Attic, 2019, 42 minutes)
Thursday 24.10 20:00
We share the album 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.
Dr. Motte
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Dr. Motte
Friday 25.10 20:00
Din Daa Daa
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Din Daa Daa
Saturday 26.10 20:00
Come listen to Din Daa Daa who plays organic, kosmische, autumnal and acid bauhaus.
Linton Kwesi Johnson & Dread Beat an’ Blood with Johannes Paetzold
listening session
Linton Kwesi Johnson & Dread Beat an’ Blood with Johannes Paetzold
Thursday 31.10 20:00
The work of Linton Kwesi Johnson on Dread Beat an’ Blood will be presented by Johannes Paetzold and will be followed by a DJ set that expands the album.
We share the album 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.
Molø
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Nelson of the East
playing
Nelson of the East
Friday 04.10 20:00
Nelson of the East‘s meditative set brings us into an eclectic electronic setting full of romance and sensuality.
Photo: Alicia Carrera
Grimes: Visions (4AD, 2012, 48 minutes)
listening session
Grimes: Visions (4AD, 2012, 48 minutes)
Thursday 03.10 20:00
We share the album 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.
Enyang Ha
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Enyang Ha
Saturday 28.09 20:00
Get ready for a night of poetry, glitch, drone metal, frequency resonance and maximalist ambient with musician and mastering engineer Enyang Ha.
Photo: Max Hartmann
Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through “The Secret Life of Plants” (Tamla, 1979, 90 minutes)
listening session
Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through “The Secret Life of Plants” (Tamla, 1979, 90 minutes)
Thursday 26.09 20:00
We share the album 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.
Tony Conrad, Keren Cytter, Dani Gal, Achim Lengerer, Natascha Sadr Haghighian: Screen Off (2011)
archival assembly #3
Tony Conrad, Keren Cytter, Dani Gal, Achim Lengerer, Natascha Sadr Haghighian: Screen Off (2011)
Sunday 22.09 12:00
Five artists, three rules of the game:
There is nothing to see.
The radio is the screen.
The whole program will take 50 minutes.
Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Forum Expanded presented a joint Carte Blanche program for sound art in the cinema at the 2011 Berlinale Forum. Five artists were given free rein to develop an experimental sound projection into the ether. For Archival Assembly #3, the results will be retrieved from the archives.
Archival Assembly #3: The Politics of Listening to the Moving Image
The third edition of the biennial festival turns its focus to the importance of sound and language within the archival practices of international film history, organized by Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst. The festival venues this year are silent green, Kino Arsenal, SINEMA TRANSTOPIA and migas where a sonic daytime program is presented every day between 12:00 and 18:00. Come any time to enter the two-hour loops.
Please note: this loop is only 50 minutes and is a collaboration with Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Zeda Vega
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Zeda Vega
Saturday 21.09 20:00
Zeda Vega will treat us to warm and wet sounds to make our summer feeling last.
Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Jonas Schöneberg: The Sound of Postwar Cinema: Listening with Hanswolfgang Bergs (2024)
archival assembly #3
Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Jonas Schöneberg: The Sound of Postwar Cinema: Listening with Hanswolfgang Bergs (2024)
Saturday 21.09 12:00
Meters and meters of film sound, radio chatter about stars, movies, and film shoots, a passion for Schlager from German films, outtakes and unused footage, and fragmented interviews with famous and lesser known names of film history: This is what we hear on the hundreds of tapes recorded and collected by Hanswolfgang Bergs now stored at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Bergs understood the sound film not only as a visual but primarily as an acoustic medium. From 1946 to 1969, he produced countless radio programs for German public broadcaster Südwestfunk about films and filmmakers, making radio a now nearly forgotten site of popular film culture in West Germany. To do so, Bergs and his colleagues traveled with tape recorders to festivals, premieres, and film sets. The focus of Bergs’ work gradually became a collection of re-recorded film soundtracks, which he systematically organized into a film sound archive. The question today is: What can we do with this archive?
Archival Assembly #3: The Politics of Listening to the Moving Image
The third edition of the biennial festival turns its focus to the importance of sound and language within the archival practices of international film history, organized by Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst. The festival venues this year are silent green, Kino Arsenal, SINEMA TRANSTOPIA and migas where a sonic daytime program is presented every day between 12:00 and 18:00. Come any time to enter the two-hour loops.
Filipa César, Marinho de Pina, community of Malafo, and sounds from the sonoteca: Matriarchs From Malafo (2024)
archival assembly #3
Filipa César, Marinho de Pina, community of Malafo, and sounds from the sonoteca: Matriarchs From Malafo (2024)
Friday 20.09 12:00
In the rainy season, when rice sprouts still find their way to flooded rice fields, a sonic experiment collapses voices and sounds from now and then. Tales from Malafo are also tales of humanity; they recount dreams, desires, longings, and hopes; they are about people who fight together to heal the wounds circumstances have opened up. Inherited wounds for which one must still take responsibility, in search of a balance where love thrives in the community and land. The vocal testimonies of matriarchs, the songs and tales of children and their children, adult and elderly men, the speech of rivers and boulders, the stories told by birds and the wind. Living and non-living, material and immaterial beings are summoned to bend time in the sonoteca – ringing land, seeding sounds, sonoteca – a space recently built with the Malafo community as part of the Mediateca Onshore to store sounds that have passed through and are still to come. MATRIARCHS OF MALAFO is a sound installation dealing with synesthesia to send messages about the reconstruction of entanglements.
Kae Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos (Fiction/Lex, 2016, 48 minutes)
listening session
Kae Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos (Fiction/Lex, 2016, 48 minutes)
Thursday 19.09 20:00
We share the album 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.
Llupe
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Llupe
Thursday 02.11 20:00