Parallax is the coming together of two ostensibly very different musical traditions. The Deutsches Symphonie–Orchester Berlin has been one of Germany’s leading orchestras for over 70 years. Having recently announced the first season of new Music Director Robin Ticciati, the DSO reaffirms its commitment to recontextualising modern and contemporary classical ...
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Berlin Atonal releases the second batch of names for the 2017 edition of the festival, bringing the total number of announced projects to 50. Individual day tickets are also now on sale, which allow entry into the Kraftwerk complex for the entire programme, including aftershows. Berlin Atonal is excited to announce ...
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Berlin Atonal returns this summer for the fifth edition of its modern era, inviting over 100 musicians, sound and visual artists, performers and DJs for its five day stretch between the 16.–20. August. As the first festival tickets go on sale, Berlin Atonal begins to unfold the covers on its ...
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Berlin Atonal travels to Japan at the end of February 2017 to present the first edition of New Assembly Tokyo. This three day excursion brings together newly commissioned projects, international and Japanese artists as well as highlights from past editions of Berlin Atonal.  The outing begins with a live streaming show ...
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Berlin Atonal is happy to release the dates for the fifth edition of its modern era. The festival will take place in the Kraftwerk Berlin complex across five days and nights from the 16.–20 August, hosting numerous special performances, world premieres and freshly minted projects from around the world, details ...
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Berlin Atonal is delighted to host the Berlin edition of Autechre’s new live tour. Atonal and Autechre will invite some special guests for the Berlin show which will take place on the Null level of the Kraftwerk complex. Tickets are now available from here with more information on the event ...
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Berlin Atonal Recordings is happy to announce two forthcoming releases, both featuring live cuts from two of the most talked about performances at the 2015 edition of the festival. Synthesiser genius Max Loderbauer (NSI, Sun Electric, Vilod, Moritz von Oswald Trio) and techno experimentalist Jacek Sienkiewicz (Recognition) combined for a stunning ...
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The first New Codes after Berlin Atonal 2016 welcomes a stacked line-up as usual to Tresor, Globus and at OHM. Aleksi Perälä’s live show was a festival highlight at Atonal this year, and he has been invited back, this time in the Tresor vault, to reprise his intricate, expansive and punishing take on experimental ...
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This year’s edition of Berlin Atonal sees the introduction of the Projektionsraum, a site-specific panoramic installation-space each night displaying new works from a different artist. On Wednesday, Hong Kong and Berlin-based artist Carla Chan will present “The Melting Black”, a work exploring the dynamic between natural transformations and unpredictable computer ...
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Berlin Atonal is happy to publically announce the remaining names added to its already overflowing roster of performances, aftershow parties, screenings and special presentations, while also releasing the daily schedule for the five big days and nights next month. Alessandro Cortini returns to the Kraftwerk after his overwhelmingly moving performance ...
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Berlin Atonal’s second announcement adds more projects to its growing contingent of brand-new commissions, collaborations, world-premieres and video art – all to be presented in the Kraftwerk Berlin megacomplex this year in August. Founder of the EMS and pioneer of synthesiser technology Peter Zinovieff collaborates with renowned cellist Lucy Railton to ...
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The first release of names for Berlin Atonal 2016 includes a historical, world premiere Death in Vegas show. This specially conceived full audio-visual live performance unites psychedelic auteur Richard Fearless and artist and actress Sasha Grey over a love of Throbbing Gristle and Chris and Cosey. A long time in ...
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The last New Codes before Berlin Atonal 2016 (festival ticket and line-up information released from 17. May) invites festival family-members as well as some fresh faces to the three rooms of Tresor, Globus and OHM on the night of Friday 26. June. Down in Tresor, the big news is Sigha performing ...
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Berlin Atonal has just announced the 2016 edition of THE LONG NOW in combination with Berliner Festspiele’s MaerzMusik. The second edition of the event runs for 30 continious hours in the Kraftwerk, with world premiere presentations from Rashad Becker + Moritz von Oswald, Dan Vicente (Acronym), Caterina Barbieri and Robert Curgenven, an ...
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Berlin Atonal is delighted to present – together with Berliner Festspiele’s MaerzMusik and Deutsche Grammophon – the world premiere public performance of Max Richter’s monumental SLEEP project at Kraftwerk Berlin. Following the tremendous success of the recorded versions of this project, the next phase sees Richter and team adapt the concept for an ...
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The inaugural New Codes of 2016 welcomes in the new year by inviting more than twenty artists to descend upon the Tresor complex over two nights. Things start on Thursday 11 February when two of the most highly regarded label-collectives of 2015 join forces for a special combined showcase at ...
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The first New Codes since Berlin Atonal 2015 is set to take over Tresor, Globus and OHM this November 13th. Leading the line is Minimal Wave founder, Veronica Vasicka, whose name is now synonymous with the best of spare, dark, minimal synthesised music – collecting everything from obscure EBM to ...
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Berlin Atonal is proud to pick up on a tradition begun in 1984 with the publication of two volumes of live recordings from the 1983 edition of the festival. Those records bore witness to the most inventive, adventurous sounds of the festival, and therefore of their time, containing live bits ...
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Hard tickets to the festival are available to purchase from Space Hall in Kreuzberg. Space Hall Zossener Straße 33 10961, Berlin Open 11:00 – 20:00 daily info@spacehall.de http://www.spacehall.de/

Pierre Bastien ‘Mecanology in 4 Rooms’ (2015), World Premiere Kinetic sound producing sculptures, amplifiers Pierre Bastien’s long-standing practice has involved transforming regular objects into dynamic rhythmic machines. In this site-specific formation he lets his percussive creations inhabit the labyrinthine basement of Kraftwerk.   Rainer Kohlberger ‘not even nothing can be free of ghosts’ ...
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Thursday 20.08  18:00 Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay (2015) dir. Amélie Ravalec and Travis Collins Berlin Atonal welcomes the directors of this lively film to its German premiere. The vivid documentary traces the origins of industrial music, from the crumbling industrial cities of Europe to America’s thriving avant-garde scene, and features interviews with, among many others, ...
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From 16:00 each day for the duration of the festival, the Kraftwerk industrial complex will be animated by a number of site-specific, audio-visual and kinetic installations. Each work was either specially commissioned for Berlin Atonal 2014 and the Kraftwerk space, or adapted to meet the specific aesthetic and spatial characteristics ...
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As Berlin Atonal releases its schedule for the big 5 days in August, we are delighted to add a few more names to a lineup that is already bursting to the brim with special performances, premieres, massive A/V shows and more. Ike Yard is an early electronic acoustic group founded in ...
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Berlin Atonal is delighted to announce that it will host the very first Cabaret Voltaire Official live performance in over 20 years. Throughout their long story beginning in Sheffield in 1978, Cabaret Voltaire, in its various iterations, have been credited with founding and destroying genres, introducing new musical technologies while ...
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