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For the fourth session of our monthly series on poetry and sound, curated and co-hosted by Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein, we are excited to invite Erin Honeycutt to explore the echoes across time and space that link Carla Grandi’s book of poetry “Contraproyecto” (1985/1987) and Meredith Monk’s film and album “Book of Days” (1988). It will be a rare chance for English speakers to be introduced to Grandi’s work, with several poems translated from Spanish for the first time specially for the event.

In a time of increasing authoritarianism, misogyny, and lethal polarization, we revisit these works to learn strategies of mourning and political defiance. And to understand the appeal of medieval settings to capture repressive regimes and the subversive potentials of magic, myth, and madness.

Conceived of at roughly the same time and yet under very different circumstances, both works interweave medieval storytelling and contemporary events to protest racial and political violence and to celebrate intellectual and physical survival. Carla Grandi wrote “Contraproyecto” as a personal and affective response to the everyday restrictions and heinous violence of Augusto Pinochet’s regime in Chile, which barred her and many other leftists from teaching and publishing. Written and produced in the late 1980s, in the midst of the AIDS epidemic, and affected by the uncertainties and injustices of the Cold War, Meredith Monk’s film “Book of Days” shifts between a fictional medieval town and contemporary footage from New York City. With a soundtrack composed by the avant-garde artist and composer, and voiced by herself and a twelve-voice ensemble, the film deserves to be listened to as much as to be seen.

Erin Honeycutt is a writer and bookseller based in Berlin. Their writing revolves around ekphrasis, the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device. Erin began CUTT PRESS in 2020, publishing artist books, zines, and reprints rooted in bootlegging practices with the archives of Hopscotch Reading Room, a bookshop in Berlin with a focus on queer and anti-colonial literature. 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.

Marylou will play for us in a continuum of noise, folk, improv and drums.

Welcome to Tobleronchik and her electronic, ambient, downtempo, dream-pop and folk set.

We listen to the album together in silence.

The session begins on time.

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Together with Rami Abi Rafi we are honoured to share the evening with the brilliant artists Edna Martinez, Eleni Poulou, Rami Abi Rafi, Richard Akingbehin and Yuko Asanuma, and we will keep our doors open until late in the night.

All proceeds and donations will go to Nation Station, Tunefork Studios and Beirut Synth Center equally.

Spread the word and help support these organizations who are keeping their communities and displaced families warm and nurtured.

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Rami Abi Rafi is back to tickle our hearts and ears with a selection of Lebanese folk and instrumental pieces, deep listening pieces, coldwave and electronic music.

Our friends Bill Kouligas and Llupe are bringing their treasured records to make our ears tingle and our souls glow.

Enyang Ha presents a dedicated listening session with poetry, spoken word, ambient frequencies and resonances.

We share the music together in silence.

The session begins on time.

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Spiritual, spookie, polyrhythmic, sandy and windy sounds to enter into a new season, brought to us by Zeda Vega.

Keishi Akashi will play a set characterised by minimal, electronic, nature, mellow and hypnotic.

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.

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Come listen to Din Daa Daa who plays organic, kosmische, autumnal and acid bauhaus.

Disco Atlas & Sono Mayrit will join forces and bring mediterranean, flamenco, chaabi and aita vibes to our evening.

We share the album together in silence.

The session begins on time.

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Eiliyas brings us an evening of Blues, Soul, Experimental, Hip Hop and Jazz.

Nelson of the East‘s meditative set brings us into an eclectic electronic setting full of romance and sensuality.

Photo: Alicia Carrera

We share the album together in silence.

The session begins on time.

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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

We share the album together in silence.

The session begins on time.

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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 will treat us to warm and wet sounds to make our summer feeling last.

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.

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.

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.

Sara Pinheiro’s composition, curated by Jonáš Kucharský of Prague’s Národní filmový archive, explores Barrandov Studios’ long considered lost Foley archive. Established in the late 1950s, the archive had a major influence on the sonic landscape of Czech cinema into the 1990s. Pinheiro’s piece presents digitized sounds from tapes recently found in the archive, offering a glimpse into this vast sonic treasure. Using the sounds acousmatically, Pinheiro investigates how we perceive mediated sounds when taken out of their original context and explores sound’s translation between cultures. The work raises questions about the boundaries between sound and music, particularly in the realm of Foley and sound effects. It is also a contribution to debates around the preservation of transient actions and reflects on the epistemology of sound in the age of recorded media. By presenting the heterogeneous contents of the Foley archive, the composition attempts to answer the question: What does Czech cinema sound like? This work-in-progress offers a unique perspective on Czech film history, sound preservation, and the nature of mediated sound in audiovisual art.

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.

We invite you to investigate crucial connections between the musical practice of Savanna Sweetwater Morgan in her debut EP Sweetwater and the trans-Atlantic and cosmopolitan songs of Bessie Smith. Morgan invokes the blues, a centuries-old African-American form of poetic storytelling, as a carrier of joys, sorrows, and knowledge – with the understanding that music and rhythm are the only containers big enough to hold the vast complexity of black histories. In the session, the audience will also be invited to join in on conversations between minds and bodies.

This is the second session of a monthly series on poetry and sound curated by Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein.

In the spirit of Third Cinema, this is a non-visual exploration of the fundamental contradictions in attempts to construct a new nation in the image of the former colonizer: neo-colonialism. It begins with the extraction of raw materials – coal – and tangentially touches on what is usually missing from global film studies: How cinema is entwined with colonialism. The main thrust of this journey into the sonic past is how archival practices might unlock the political imaginary of an ex-colony. Using sounds (and text) from Nigeria’s National Film, Video and Sound Archive, this sonic installation seeks to chronicle sound recordings as a record of what might be called the sonic imaginary of the “post-colonial” nation state: As both a record of state protocols and rituals as well as an archive of possibilities for imagining different pasts and futures of this nation state. Given that Third Cinema arose in the 1960s and 1970s as a clash between Third World filmmakers and the social forms hostile to them – colonialism and neo-colonialism – what line of continuity could be drawn between contemporary Third World (sound) archival practices and the Third Cinema that derived from the anti-colonial struggle for national liberation? What does it mean to think of Third Cinema in relation to the sound 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.

Since 1971, Arsenal has organized the Forum section of the Berlinale. For decades, the discussions in Delphi Cinema were legendary: When a film ended, a table was carried onto the stage and a moderator, in most cases a translator, and of course the filmmaker would sit down to take audience questions, with sometimes very heated discussions ensuing. Occasionally, there were group discussions, about experimental film or in connection with a country’s political crisis. Almost all the discussions were recorded, at first on reel-to-reel tape and later on cassette. In the 1990s, discussions at Arsenal Cinema outside of the Berlinale began to be recorded, a practice that continues to this day. During the lockdown, Arsenal projectionists digitized these recordings. The result is an archive that not only says something about the reception history of hundreds of films, but above all about cinema as a social space, a space for discourse, and about film talks as a cultural technique that has drastically changed over the decades. At migas, a two-hour audio montage will be played, giving an impression of debate culture in the 1970s and 1980s.

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.

What do DJ-sets and puzzles have in common? They’re connecting pieces together to create something bigger.

For their first instalment of puzzle, tobha has invited some friends to join them behind the decks. Pass by migas on September 13 to put the pieces together with us.

Playing this night in alphabetical order: Abibi, Arnav, Blume, Buoy, Disco Samir, Impérieux, jan k, klu, Marylou, Max Held, Nono Gigsta, ophélie, and Sarj.

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.

Akïi and Alberto Boni will present an evening rooted in experimental, ambient, rap, deconstructed, romantic and emo.

Photo: Kattako

Mat Fink presents a soft, loving and funky storytelling set.

Nour Sokhon invites us to a listening session of contrasts, from experimental and enchanting to nostalgic and traditional.

We share the music together in silence.

The session begins on time.

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Unfortunately the event is already sold out.

22:00: Doors Open
23:00: Hermanos Gutiérrez
Until End: Jimbo

Join us for another evening of off beat jazz, soul & electronics with Johannes Ehmann.

Presented by Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein.

We share the album together in silence.

The session begins on time.

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Get ready for a musical evening that the artist Josephinex describes as juxtaposed, congruent, honeymooning, carbon-based, and umami. We can’t wait!

The album will be presented by Terence Goodchild.

We share the album together in silence.

The session begins on time.

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Gautier will be spinning some deep, modern jazzy grooves for us.

Come for an aerial, delicate, enigmatic, fluid and weird set by soo:k.

Alma Negrot will play for us. Sometimes embracing melancholy can take you to bright places to dance.

Photo: Victor Takayama

Sono Mayrit presents a listening session of innovative Flamenco, Andalusian, Roots and Fusion.

We share the music together in silence.

The session begins on time.

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Old school reggae, conscious and joyous.

We are honored to welcome alright (Space Teddy) to migas. He transformed slow Wednesday nights into celebrations of music when he grabbed his turntable and brought it to a West German bar, and went on to host full ambient nights at Tresor during the first years of the Love Parade.

Expect a record selection of kraut, ambient, slow acid, atmospheric, and art pop.

We are in for a night of Low Class, Popular, Danceable, Tropical, and Psychedelic with Jimbo.

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The session begins on time.

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Welcome to Eric Brwn who is bringing Jazz Hop, Instrumental, Lo-Fi, Undergound Mass Appeal, and Neo-Soul to bless our ears.

Get ready for readymade circus hosted by ortansia rhastoni.

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The session begins on time.

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Join us for an evening of off beat jazz, soul & electronics.

We’re honoured to have Oscar Atanga back with the good tunes.

Jazz jazz jazz with DJ Sonar. And maybe a bit of Dub, World and Ambient.

We share the album together in silence.

The session begins on time.

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Listening to the Land

With this event, migas will begin a new listening series at the crossroads of sound and poetry curated by Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein in conversation with a different special guest each session.

In our first session, “Listening to the Land,” Pia will be joined by poet emet ezell. Combining field recordings, conversation, songs, and poems, we will listen to the pulse of the land.

How can we listen to the land’s cries of joy and dispossession? What stories soar on a white stork‘s wing?

Come listen to the abandonment abend music of B-Manesh.

#gutenabend #Ab’bendan

Delve into a listening session of open voices from the villages that Ola Zielińska shares with us from the archives of Eastern European music traditions.

Photo credit: Witold Roy Zalewski, Białowieża forest

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Can’t wait to have ELLIS over for a rolling, groovy Saturday night.

In this listening session, Malak Haynes takes us on an ambient journey of atmospheric breaks, trip-hop and keys.

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The duo Karolina i Piotr is bringing dreamy, ambient, experimental and deep food for thought for the night.

Photo credit: Gabriela Müller

Discover what Space Kelly has to share from his collection of Indie, Jazz, Shoegaze, Bossa Nova, 60ies and Modern Pop Sounds.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042, Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041, and Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin in D minor, BWV 1004 (played by Daniel Lozakovich and the chamber orchestra of the Bayrischer Rundfunk, Deutsche Grammophon, 2018, 63 minutes)

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RBL community radio will be hosted from migas to give us a soundtrack of a summer day hangover. A selection of records to chill with after the party.

The line-up for this day is:

JC~FQ
AFROΔITE b2b Quan
Ada aka Afida
TRU:L
Izzy Demzky
Marco Ohboy

Until 22:00.

keinblume.com

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https://www.radioraheem.it/artists/phonon/

We share the album together in silence.

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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.

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.