program
Radiohead: OK Computer (Parlophone / Capitol, 1997, 54 minutes)
listening session
Radiohead: OK Computer (Parlophone / Capitol, 1997, 54 minutes)
Thursday 14.11 20:00
We listen to 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.
Tobleronchik
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Tobleronchik
Friday 15.11 20:00
Welcome to Tobleronchik and her electronic, ambient, downtempo, dream-pop and folk set.
Marylou
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Marylou
Saturday 16.11 20:00
Marylou will play for us in a continuum of noise, folk, improv and drums.
Counterprojects and the Book of Days with Erin Honeycutt
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Counterprojects and the Book of Days with Erin Honeycutt
Wednesday 20.11 20:00
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) to each other and the present. It will be a rare chance for English speakers to be introduced to Grandi’s work, which has yet to be translated from Spanish.
Conceived 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 life and heinous violence of Augusto Pinochet’s regime in Chile, also barring 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.
At the present time of increasing authoritarianism, misogyny, and lethal polarization, we revisit these works in this session as means of mourning and political defiance.
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.
Field guide to Pauline Oliveros & Deep Listening with eli
listening session
Field guide to Pauline Oliveros & Deep Listening with eli
Thursday 21.11 20:00
Pauline Oliveros (1932 – 2016) was an American composer and accordionist who dedicated her life to expanding our awareness of sound in all its forms. In 1988, after descending four meters into an underground reservoir to make a recording, Oliveros coined the term “deep listening,” a pun that has blossomed into an aesthetic and methodology based upon principles of improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation. Prior to developing “deep listening,” Oliveros was a trailblazing pioneer in the development of experimental and post-war electronic music, and wrote compositions during the anti-war protests of the 1960s–70s that recast listening as a form of activism and healing.
This listening session by eli is a retrospective of her music, offering an overview of her vast sonic landscape and its power for transforming how we experience the world.
In short: expect an exploratory set of drone, experimental, sound collage and free improvisation.
Photo: Jessica Chappe
We share 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.
The little dog laughed
playing
The little dog laughed
Friday 22.11 20:00
The little dog laughed plays an eclectic, jazzy, experimental and ambient set for us, with maybe some hip hop tunes.
YUNJIN
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YUNJIN
Saturday 23.11 20:00
Yunjin is in the house with jazzy, left-field, electronica, breaks and ambient tracks.
Nonkeen: All Good? (Leiter, 2024, 63 minutes) with the band’s bass player
listening session
Nonkeen: All Good? (Leiter, 2024, 63 minutes) with the band’s bass player
Thursday 28.11 20:00
Album listening session with a conversation with the bass player from Nonkeen.
We listen 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.
Ezy Fischel
playing
Ezy Fischel
Friday 29.11 20:00
Ezy Fischel takes us into a set of ambient, jazz, idm, soundscapes and electronica.
Blume
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Blume
Saturday 30.11 20:00
Blume is back to move our worlds with a set of experimental jazz, microhouse, hypnotic techno, post-ambient and fourth world.
Rami Abi Rafi
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Rami Abi Rafi
Saturday 09.11 20:00
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.
Bill Kouligas | Llupe
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Bill Kouligas | Llupe
Friday 08.11 20:00
Our friends Bill Kouligas and Llupe are bringing their treasured records to make our ears tingle and our souls glow.
Enyang Ha
listening session
Enyang Ha
Thursday 07.11 20:00
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.
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.
Zeda Vega
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Zeda Vega
Saturday 02.11 20:00
Spiritual, spookie, polyrhythmic, sandy and windy sounds to enter into a new season, brought to us by Zeda Vega.
Keishi Akashi
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Keishi Akashi
Friday 01.11 20:00
Keishi Akashi will play a set characterised by minimal, electronic, nature, mellow and hypnotic.
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.
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.
Disco Atlas & Sono Mayrit
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Disco Atlas & Sono Mayrit
Friday 25.10 20:00
Disco Atlas & Sono Mayrit will join forces and bring mediterranean, flamenco, chaabi and aita vibes to our evening.
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.
Eiliyas
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Eiliyas
Saturday 19.10 20:00
Eiliyas brings us an evening of Blues, Soul, Experimental, Hip Hop and Jazz.