Berlin Atonal 2023 Kraftwerk Berlin 07-17.09.23 BA23
Berlin Atonal 2023 Kraftwerk Berlin 07-17.09.23 BA23
Berlin Atonal 2023 Kraftwerk Berlin 07-17.09.23 BA23

Berlin Atonal 2023

Berlin Atonal returned to Kraftwerk Berlin in September 2023 for its first full edition in over four years. Across a two-weekend concert programme and a four-day exhibition entitled Universal Metabolism, the festival encompassed dozens of shows and invited audiences on a performative journey of audio-visual works, performance, in-situ sculptures, video art, and immersive sonic environments created or adapted for the building.

We are moved by the collective passion and dedication that brought to life our most expansive edition to date. We want to express a deep appreciation to the 200+ artists and performers who entrusted us with their visions. Our gratitude to the indefatigable teams of Atonal, Tresor, and Kraftwerk; your commitment was instrumental in crafting this monumental experience. Endless gratitude goes out to the technicians and producers, whose talent transformed ideas into sonic and visual marvels. A heartfelt thank you to to the volunteers who make an invaluable part of the festival team each year. Above all, to our curious attendees, your engagement fuels our spirit and sense of purpose.

Calendar

    W1
    Thu 07.09
    Fri 08.09
    Sat 09.09
    UM
    Mon 11.09
    Tue 12.09
    Wed 13.09
    Thu 14.09
    W2
    Fri 15.09
    Sat 16.09
    Sun 17.09
    W1
    07-08-09
    Weekend 1
    Aasthma with Sara Parkman, Aho Ssan + Sevi Iko Dømochevsky present Rhizomes AV, Alessandro Adriani, Apeiron Crew aka Solid Blake, Smokey and Mama Snake, aya with MFO present u can make me hole again, BEIGE, Big Ever, Caterina Barbieri + Space Afrika with MFO, CHENG NWSH, Dame Area, December b2b Katatonic Silentio, DJ Holographic, DJ Lag, DJ Plead, DJ Spit b2b mad miran, DJ Stingray 313, Eros (Regis, Boris Wilsdorf, Liam Andrews), FAUZIA, Flore b2b Peder Mannerfelt, Florentina Holzinger presents Étude For Church, Haruka b2b Wata Igarashi, Holy Tongue, Honour presents THE BLOOD (2TEARS & A $UCKET), ISAbella, Jack Dove, James Richards, Jana Irmert, K.P.M., Lamin Fofana, Laure Boer, Laurel Halo presents Atlas, Loraine James presents Gentle Confrontation, Manami, Margaux Gazur, mayo, Moopie, mu”he, Neu-Romancer, Ninasupsa, Nkisi presents NTI-MA, Threshold of Awakening, OK Williams, OKO DJ, Rainy Miller presents A Fugue State, Rebecca Salvadori, Rhyw, Rrose, rRoxymore, Sandwell District, Sarkawt Hamad, Shackleton / Zimpel + Siddhartha Belmannu with Pedro Maia present In The Cell Of Dreams, Sidney + Suleiman, Sigha, Simo Cell, Siu Mata, Somatic Rituals (Kombé, Mafou, and Mukuna), Stella Zekri, The Fear Ratio, TLF Trio, TRAXX + Ron Morelli present The Definitive Articles of House, URIN DJs, Valentina Magaletti, Venus Ex Machina presents Lemurian Tones, Zakia, Zebra Katz presents Less is Moor
    W1
    Thursday 07.09
    Stage Null
    19:30
    Valentina Magaletti
    Main Stage
    20:15
    Laurel Halo presents Atlas
    21:05
    Eros (Regis, Boris Wilsdorf, Liam Andrews)
    21:45
    James Richards
    22:00
    Florentina Holzinger presents Étude For Church
    22:20
    Rainy Miller presents A Fugue State
    23:10
    Caterina Barbieri + Space Afrika with MFO
    Stage Null
    00:00
    Holy Tongue
    01:00
    Alessandro Adriani
    02:00
    Dame Area
    OHM
    19:30
    K.P.M.
    21:00
    Laure Boer
    22:00
    Stella Zekri
    00:00
    Zakia
    02:00
    Sidney + Suleiman
    04:00
    FAUZIA
    Tresor
    00:00
    TRAXX + Ron Morelli present The Definitive Articles of House
    Globus
    00:00
    Apeiron Crew aka Solid Blake, Smokey and Mama Snake
    W1
    Friday 08.09
    Stage Null
    19:30
    Jana Irmert
    Main Stage
    21:15
    Shackleton / Zimpel + Siddhartha Belmannu with Pedro Maia
    22:25
    Venus Ex Machina presents Lemurian Tones
    23:05
    Aasthma with Sara Parkman
    23:45
    Florentina Holzinger presents Étude For Church
    00:00
    Sandwell District
    Stage Null
    01:00
    aya with MFO present u can make me hole again
    02:00
    The Fear Ratio
    03:00
    Rrose
    04:30
    Sigha
    OHM
    19:30
    URIN DJs
    21:00
    Margaux Gazur
    22:00
    Lamin Fofana
    02:00
    DJ Holographic
    04:00
    Manami
    06:00
    CHENG NWSH
    Tresor
    00:00
    Sarkawt Hamad
    01:30
    Haruka b2b Wata Igarashi
    04:30
    DJ Stingray 313
    06:30
    DJ Spit b2b mad miran
    Globus
    00:00
    ISAbella
    02:00
    Rhyw
    03:00
    Simo Cell
    06:00
    mu”he
    W1
    Saturday 09.09
    Stage Null
    19:30
    TLF Trio
    Main Stage
    21:15
    Loraine James presents Gentle Confrontation
    22:05
    Aho Ssan + Sevi Iko Dømochevsky present Rhizomes AV
    22:50
    Rebecca Salvadori
    23:00
    Nkisi presents NTI-MA, Threshold of Awakening
    23:50
    Florentina Holzinger presents Étude For Church
    00:10
    Honour presents THE BLOOD (2TEARS & A $UCKET)
    Stage Null
    01:00
    Jack Dove
    01:20
    Zebra Katz presents Less is Moor
    02:00
    Flore b2b Peder Mannerfelt
    04:00
    Somatic Rituals (Kombé, Mafou, and Mukuna)
    OHM
    19:30
    Ninasupsa
    23:00
    mayo
    01:00
    Big Ever
    03:00
    DJ Plead
    05:00
    rRoxymore
    Tresor
    00:00
    Neu-Romancer
    02:30
    December b2b Katatonic Silentio
    05:00
    OK Williams
    07:30
    Siu Mata
    Globus
    00:00
    BEIGE
    02:00
    Moopie
    04:00
    DJ Lag
    06:00
    OKO DJ
    UM
    11-12-13-14
    Universal Metabolism

    Taking place between the two weekends of festival programme, Universal Metabolism at Kraftwerk Berlin is an extension of Berlin Atonal that inherits the formal experimentation of its landmark predecessor exhibition Metabolic Rift. This new project encompasses over two dozen artworks arranged around the Kraftwerk and its interstices.

    The works range from durable objects in space to unstable and unpredictable sequenced events. This assemblage projects a collection through time, a dynamic series, each day concluding in a specific and different performance based end-point. Using the sparse building, the exhibition borrows from theatre to create a stageless, seatless auditorium where works and protagonists blend with audience members and their perceptions. The exhibition takes as a starting point the bodily and extra-bodily cycles of exchange, adaption and transformation.

    Universal Metabolism is an exhibition composed not just of static objects but is also made of things that start and end, appear and disappear. The below schedule schematic, as well as the map information on site, can be used to orient the visitor in space and time. About 120 minutes is recommended to see all contributions.

    UM
    Monday 11.09
    from 16:00

    Exhibition featuring works from Actress, Ain Bailey, Ana Vaz, Billy Bultheel, Bridget Polk, CTM + Skjold Rambow, Cyprien Gaillard, Deborah Stratman, Frederik Worm + Cæcilie Trier, Fritz Kahn, h.j.huwman, James Richards + Steve Reinke, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh, Livia Melzi, Malika Ziouech, Marco Fusinato, Mire Lee, Rabon Aibo, Rebecca Salvadori, Richard Sides, Romeo Castellucci, Sonia Boyce, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki, Transistors of Mercy + Pixelflowers, VALIE EXPORT, Véréna Paravel + Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

    16:00 – 17:00

    including activations from Marco Fusinato, Billy Bultheel, Rabon Aibo, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki

    17:00 – 18:00

    including activations from Romeo Castellucci, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh

    18:00 – 19:00

    including activations from Billy Bultheel, Marco Fusinato, CTM + Skjold Rambow

    19:00 – 20:00

    including activations from Billy Bultheel, Marco Fusinato, Rabon Aibo, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh

    20:00

    Romeo Castellucci, ‘The Third Reich’

    Workshops
    Tuesday 12.09
    Orchestral Tools Session
    18:00

    Workshop with Alexander Hacke

    19:30

    Track Clinic with Mor Elian + Boris Kummerer

    Wednesday 13.09
    Loop Session: An Event Series by Ableton
    18:00

    Hearing Berlin

    18:00

    Music Maker Meetup

    19:00

    In Conversation with Shapednoise

    20:00

    Listening with Perila

    UM
    Tuesday 12.09
    from 16:00

    Exhibition featuring works from Actress, Ain Bailey, Ana Vaz, Billy Bultheel, Bridget Polk, CTM + Skjold Rambow, Cyprien Gaillard, Deborah Stratman, Frederik Worm + Cæcilie Trier, Fritz Kahn, h.j.huwman, James Richards + Steve Reinke, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh, Livia Melzi, Malika Ziouech, Marco Fusinato, Mire Lee, Rabon Aibo, Rebecca Salvadori, Richard Sides, Romeo Castellucci, Sonia Boyce, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki, Transistors of Mercy + Pixelflowers, VALIE EXPORT, Véréna Paravel + Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

    16:00 – 17:00

    including activations from Marco Fusinato, Billy Bultheel, Rabon Aibo, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki

    17:00 – 18:00

    including activations from Romeo Castellucci, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh

    18:00 – 19:00

    including activations from Billy Bultheel, Marco Fusinato, CTM + Skjold Rambow

    19:00 – 20:00

    including activations from Billy Bultheel, Marco Fusinato, Rabon Aibo, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh

    20:00

    Romeo Castellucci, ‘The Third Reich’

    21:00

    Concert by Robin Fox, ‘Triptych’

    UM
    Wednesday 13.09
    from 16:00

    Exhibition featuring works from Actress, Ain Bailey, Ana Vaz, Billy Bultheel, Bridget Polk, CTM + Skjold Rambow, Cyprien Gaillard, Deborah Stratman, Frederik Worm + Cæcilie Trier, Fritz Kahn, h.j.huwman, James Richards + Steve Reinke, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh, Livia Melzi, Malika Ziouech, Marco Fusinato, Mire Lee, Rabon Aibo, Rebecca Salvadori, Richard Sides, Romeo Castellucci, Sonia Boyce, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki, Transistors of Mercy + Pixelflowers, VALIE EXPORT, Véréna Paravel + Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

    16:00 – 17:00

    including activations from Marco Fusinato, Billy Bultheel, Rabon Aibo, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki

    17:00 – 18:00

    including activations from Romeo Castellucci, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh

    18:00 – 19:00

    including activations from Billy Bultheel, Marco Fusinato, CTM + Skjold Rambow

    19:00 – 20:00

    including activations from Billy Bultheel, Marco Fusinato, Rabon Aibo, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh

    20:00

    Romeo Castellucci, ‘The Third Reich’

    21:00

    Concert by KLEIN, ‘DJ DROP’

    Afterparty
    Tresor
    00:00
    Nadia Struiwigh
    02:00
    Ash Luk
    04:00
    Ireen Amnes
    06:00
    Chloe Lula
    Globus
    00:00
    Orson b2b DJ Hops
    02:30
    Nandele
    03:30
    Kiernan Laveaux
    05:00
    CCL
    UM
    Thursday 14.09
    16:00

    Exhibition featuring works from Actress, Ain Bailey, Ana Vaz, Billy Bultheel, Bridget Polk, CTM + Skjold Rambow, Cyprien Gaillard, Deborah Stratman, Frederik Worm + Cæcilie Trier, Fritz Kahn, h.j.huwman, James Richards + Steve Reinke, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh, Livia Melzi, Malika Ziouech, Marco Fusinato, Mire Lee, Rabon Aibo, Rebecca Salvadori, Richard Sides, Romeo Castellucci, Sonia Boyce, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki, Transistors of Mercy + Pixelflowers, VALIE EXPORT, Véréna Paravel + Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

    16:00 – 17:00

    including activations from Marco Fusinato, Billy Bultheel, Rabon Aibo, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki

    17:00 – 18:00

    including activations from Romeo Castellucci, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh

    18:00 – 19:00

    including activations from Billy Bultheel, Marco Fusinato, CTM + Skjold Rambow

    19:00 – 20:00

    including activations from Billy Bultheel, Marco Fusinato, Rabon Aibo, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh

    20:00

    Romeo Castellucci, ‘The Third Reich’

    21:00

    Concert by Billy Bultheel, ‘The Thief’s Journal’

    Afterparty
    Tresor
    00:00
    Vallmo
    01:00
    Evigt Mörker
    03:30
    Lundin Oil
    04:00
    E-Saggila
    05:00
    Evigt Mörker
    06:00
    Anthony Linell + Jessie Granqvist
    Globus
    00:00
    Arthur
    02:00
    Fadi Mohem
    03:00
    Struktur
    05:30
    Yasmin Sun
    W2
    15-16-17
    Weekend 2
    AceMoMA, Actress, Alessandro Cortini with Marco Ciceri present Nati Infiniti, alys(alys)alys, Atelier Impopulaire + Dreamcrusher present Crosscurrents, Azu Tiwaline, Battle-ax, Billy Bultheel, Black Rave Culture, Blackhaine presents Paith, Blawan, BLUMITSU, BOLT RUIN, Buttechno, Carmen Villain, Christian Love Forum, CORIN presents Lux Aeterna, Crystallmess, Debit, DJ Caring, dj lostboi + Torus, DJ Marcelle, DjBadshape, Djrum b2b Skee Mask, Elena Colombi, Elvin Brandhi + KMRU (A|||oy), Emma dj + cxoxc, Emptyset, Istanbul Ghetto Club, Kode9, LCY, Lee Gamble, Lydo, Mala, Marco Fusinato, Maria W Horn, Marta De Pascalis presents Sky Flesh, Marwa Belhaj Youssef, Maya Shenfeld + Pedro Maia present Under the Sun, Mia Koden, Nastya Vogan, ophélie, Pariah, Pavel Milyakov + Perila present pmxper, Pearson Sound, Persher, Prison Religion, quest?onmarq, Shannen SP, Shapednoise with Sevi Iko Dømochevsky present Absurd Matter, Shinedoe, Special Guest DJ with Mister Water Wet, Pontiac Streator and Huerco S., Teki Latex, The Bug feat. Flowdan, Tikiman + Richard Akingbehin, Tom Boogizm, upsammy, Verraco, Young Lychee, ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, yungfya, Ziúr
    W2
    Friday 15.09
    Main Stage
    19:15
    Billy Bultheel
    21:15
    Maria W Horn
    22:10
    dj lostboi + Torus
    23:00
    Atelier Impopulaire + Dreamcrusher present Crosscurrents
    23:40
    Marco Fusinato
    00:10
    Shapednoise with Sevi Iko Dømochevsky present Absurd Matter
    Stage Null
    01:00
    Persher
    01:30
    ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U
    03:00
    Crystallmess
    04:30
    Black Rave Culture
    OHM
    19:30
    BOLT RUIN
    22:00
    Ziúr
    00:00
    Shannen SP
    02:00
    DJ Marcelle
    04:00
    ophélie
    06:00
    DjBadshape
    Tresor
    00:00
    Marwa Belhaj Youssef
    02:30
    Djrum b2b Skee Mask
    05:30
    Shinedoe
    07:30
    LCY
    Globus
    00:00
    upsammy
    02:00
    BLUMITSU
    04:00
    Buttechno
    06:00
    Young Lychee
    W2
    Saturday 16.09
    Stage Null
    19:30
    Christian Love Forum
    Main Stage
    21:00
    Emma dj + cxoxc
    21:50
    CORIN presents Lux Aeterna
    22:40
    Carmen Villain
    23:20
    Emptyset
    00:10
    Blackhaine presents Paith
    Stage Null
    01:00
    Prison Religion
    02:00
    Lee Gamble
    04:00
    Debit
    OHM
    19:30
    Special Guest DJ with Mister Water Wet, Pontiac Streator and Huerco S.
    00:00
    Actress
    02:00
    Mia Koden
    04:00
    Tom Boogizm
    06:00
    alys(alys)alys
    Tresor
    00:00
    Nastya Vogan
    02:30
    Pariah
    05:00
    Verraco
    07:30
    Lydo
    Globus
    00:00
    yungfya
    02:00
    Kode9
    04:00
    AceMoMA
    06:00
    Elena Colombi
    W2
    Sunday 17.09
    Stage Null
    18:30
    Pavel Milyakov + Perila present pmxper
    Main Stage
    20:00
    Maya Shenfeld + Pedro Maia present Under the Sun
    20:50
    Marta De Pascalis presents Sky Flesh
    21:20
    Battle-ax
    21:50
    Elvin Brandhi + KMRU (A|||oy)
    22:30
    Blawan
    23:10
    Alessandro Cortini with Marco Ciceri present Nati Infiniti
    Stage Null
    00:00
    The Bug feat. Flowdan
    01:10
    Mala
    OHM
    19:30
    DJ Caring
    22:00
    Tikiman + Richard Akingbehin
    23:00
    Istanbul Ghetto Club
    00:00
    Azu Tiwaline
    02:00
    Pearson Sound
    04:00
    quest?onmarq
    06:00
    Teki Latex

    Newsletter

    Artists

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    Aasthma with Sara Parkman

    WE01

    Aasthma is a sonic experiment born out of many collaborative experiences shared between techno jesters Peder Mannerfeld and Pär Grindvik. Taking inspiration from their work on Fever Ray’s last record “Plunge”, Grindvik and Mannerfelt set out to deconstruct the conventional techno sound into a future-centric, collaborative and free-flowing format. The musical result is a startling fusion of pop, trap, EDM, dancehall, R&B, and of course techno. This special premiere live show invites Sara Parkman – who works somewhere between folklore, heavy beats, Hildegard von Bingen, Gregorian chants and dirty violins – into the chaos.

    Aasthma with Sara Parkman plays on Friday 08.09

    AceMoMA

    WE02

    The multifaceted collaboration between AceMo & MoMA Ready, is the embodiment of a bubbling New York scene which is ready to go global. Both accomplished artists in their own right, alongside NY contemporaries like Kush Jones & DJ Swisha, it’s their joint projects which have escalated the duo’s profile to some of the most respected producers in the game. Effortlessly flitting between Techno, Jungle, House, Acid and more, the pair have released countless solo projects, working at a sometimes blistering pace which has been mirrored by their busy touring schedule.

    AceMoMA plays on Saturday 16.09

    Actress

    WE02, UM

    Working with elements of techno, electro, R&B and concrète, electronic luminary Darren Cunningham aka Actress has patented a sound that’s instantly recognisable, impossible to emulate. As one of the most preeminent and singular voices in UK electronic music, Actress’s work has continued to innovate across an already illustrious career. His productions as are his DJ sets, charged with electricity and abstract intensity.

    Actress plays on Saturday 16.09 and is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Aho Ssan + Sevi Iko Dømochevsky present Rhizomes AV

    WE01

    Rhizomes AV draws on the concept of roots reaching out to connect with other roots. They are constantly in motion, expanding in all directions. They possess no definite beginning or end but perpetually reside in the middle, where it grows and overflows. This piece adapts this concept to explore the influence of sound materials on creation, the appropriation of a sound object, and the collaborative nature of a composition that responds to modernity. Aho Ssan creates musical rhizomes by employing a variety of sonic elements and collaborating with artists like Angel Bat Dawid, Nicolas Jaar, Moor Mother, and clipping. Sevi Iko Dømochevsky creates the audiovisual aspect through a hybrid exploration of languages and emotional responses to the piece, that play a crucial role in immersing the listener in an organic, mutating universe. Dømochevsky has worked with Arca, Grimes & Black Midi.

    Aho Ssan + Sevi Iko Dømochevsky present Rhizomes AV plays on Saturday 09.09

    Ain Bailey

    UM

    Ain Bailey, Triosque

    Originally commissioned for Bruckenmusik 27 in Cologne, 2022, “Trioesque” is an evocative musical composition that transports listeners on a captivating sonic journey. Taking as its starting soundscape recordings from within Deutz Brucke, the composition aims to weave together the epic reverb of the interior (the longest in Cologne), the sounds emanating from The Rhine below and an homage to jazz trios. Known for her innovative approach to soundscapes, Bailey masterfully interlaces diverse elements, creating an intricate tapestry of sonic textures. “Trioesque” explores the interplay between these distinct sonic entities, beautifully harmonizing and converging, yet maintaining their individual identities.

    Ain Bailey is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Alessandro Adriani

    WE01

    After several acclaimed releases on Mannequin Records, L.I.E.S. Records and Pinkman, Alessandro Adriani returns to Berlin Atonal with a brand new live set, bringing on stage a full on armor of heavy and noisy analog machines. The Italian producer, based in Berlin since several years, is often incorporating elements of EBM, post-punk and cold wave in his live sets, creating a unique blend of retro and contemporary electronic sounds, picking up the dark and atmospheric basslines, driving rhythms, and experimental textures of bands like D.A.F., Liaisons Dangereuses and Front 242. Adriani is the founder of the record label Mannequin Records, which is celebrating 15th years of activity in 2023.

    Alessandro Adriani plays on Thursday 07.09

    Alessandro Cortini with Marco Ciceri present Nati Infiniti

    WE02

    Alessandro Cortini debuts his live version of ‘Nati Infiniti’ at Berlin Atonal 2023, in an audio-visual show designed together with by Marco Ciceri.‘Nati Infiniti’ was first presented as an immersive audio installation at Sonar Lisboa 2022, and centered around ‘Strega’, the instrument he co-designed with Make Noise. For Berlin Atonal he reimagines this piece into an audiovisual live improvisation: a unique, evolving dialogue, accompanied by live visual elements by Marco Ciceri. Cortini is best known for his haunting, atmospheric work. An acclaimed solo artist, he’s also a member of Nine Inch Nails and has released collaborative albums with Merzbow, Lawrence English, and Daniel Avery.

    Alessandro Cortini with Marco Ciceri present Nati Infiniti plays on Sunday 17.09

    alys(alys)alys

    WE02

    Brazil-born, now Berlin-based, alys(alys)alys main focus is on exploring the (un)common ground between experimental, club, and soundcloud music; crafting a dynamic approach to her own productions and eclectic DJ sets. She also co-hosts a regular show on Mutant Radio called “short attention span”; allowing her to further showcase the b-side of herself and guests, an open-call for experimentation and no expectations.

    alys(alys)alys plays on Saturday 16.09

    Ana Vaz

    UM

    IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA
    41 mins, 16mm digital transfer
    Courtesy Ana Vaz, Pivô and Spectre Productions

    Midday blue. Summer sun. A carcass lies in the middle of the pavement. The only sound is the hum of traffic. My footsteps slow as I approach the body: rough long fur streaked with black and pink, arched paws with long claws as if frozen mid-scamper, the long snout for eating from the earth. This stray body of what must be a grieving mother’s pup knocked me sideways. On the wings of Brazil’s aeroplane-shaped capital city, a necropolis transformed into an oasis by architects, thousands of trapped lives seek refuge in its gardens. How to mourn this dead creature? The baby anteater I can’t find a name for except Flee, struck by the ferocity of traffic, poisoned by noxious plantations, slaughtered by the sprawling city that spits out any life that can’t adapt. 55 million years, this instant…

    …IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA is a film recorded at Brasilia Zoo, habitat of hundreds of rescued species in the city. Giant anteaters, maned wolves, owls, wood foxes, capybaras and caracaras meet with biologists, veterinarians, caretakers and the environmental police in a sombre plot where the challenges of preserving life weave a web of intersecting perspectives. In the end, who are the real captives?

    This work will be shown on the 17. September and additionally will be part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Anthony Linell + Jessie Granqvist

    AP

    Anthony Linell + Jessie Granqvist plays on Thursday 14.09

    Apeiron Crew aka Solid Blake, Smokey and Mama Snake

    WE01

    Apeiron Crew is a DJ collective formed through a shared love of angular techno, breaks and afterparties blasting Italo disco. Members Solid Blake, Smokey and Mama Snake paused the project to focus on their solo adventures in 2017, and have since built names for themselves in their respective pockets of the wider global electronic music scene. Now: they’re reigniting the project for a one-off, limited edition tour at a carefully selected set of cherished clubs and festivals in 2023 – a date that coincides with the 10-year anniversary of their first parties together. It’s going to be a trip.

    Apeiron Crew play all night long at Globus on Thursday 07.09.

    Arthur

    AP

    Arthur plays on Thursday 14.09

    Ash Luk

    AP

    Ash Luk plays on Wednesday 13.09

    Atelier Impopulaire + Dreamcrusher present Crosscurrents

    WE02

    CROSSCURRENTS is an homage as much as it is an invocation. Premiered as the first act of Atelier Impopulaire’s opera Before We Love inspired by the story of New York City’s legendary UMBRA Poets Workshop, the unique performance – fronted by the inimitable Dreamcrusher – focuses on voice, moving images and the revelatory and antagonistic live act of Dreamcrusher, whose transformative essence embodies and liberates the political nature of poetry. A collaboration that brings a decennial research on the legacy of spoken word and the primitive forms of free jazz into a multi-sensorial wall of sound, recalling the rise of socio-cultural struggles that shaped pre-Black Arts Movement experiences and whose potency is more relevant and contemporary than ever. Pia Bolognesi and Giulio Bursi have worked together as Atelier Impopulaire since 2012. Their practice involves moving-image, writing, installation, sculpture. Favoring collaborative methodologies and collective processes AI rethinks received models of dissemination presenting narratives that highlight moments of rupture in our contemporary culture.

    Atelier Impopulaire + Dreamcrusher present Crosscurrents plays on Friday 15.09

    aya with MFO present u can make me hole again

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    aya, formerly known as LOFT, packs force into tiny details to create bracing, emotive, experimental music. Here, she’s joined by visual artist Marcel Weber. Her work is primarily concerned with the transfigurative power of experience and memory on the physical body.

    aya with MFO present u can make me hole again plays on Friday 08.09

    Azu Tiwaline

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    Azu Tiwaline is an innovative artist who blends the rhythms and heritage of the El Djerid desert with modern musical elements like dub and techno. Her music emanates a cosmic sense of belonging, turning inner experiences into danceable energy. Rooted in Soundsystem psychedelia, she masterfully merges Saharan frequencies with contemporary electronic beats, positioning herself as a standout in the modern electronic music scene.

    Azu Tiwaline plays on Sunday 17.09

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    Battle-ax

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    Battle-ax is Sydney-born, Vienna-raised violist Beatrix Curran. With improvisation at its core, her performances are as much disruptive as they are refined. Distortion clips and merges with relentless chains of reverb, testing the characteristics of her instrument as a means of both escapism and immediacy. Battle-ax presents a new series of work featuring arrangements of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies and Jean Sibelius for the viola.

    Battle-ax plays on Sunday 17.09

    BEIGE

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    Detroit-based BEIGE, renowned for diverse and danceable sets, emerged prominently in the music scene following a pivotal performance at the 2022 Honcho Campout. Their unique style merges well-known tracks with inventive arrangements, creating a blend of familiar and novel auditory experiences. Beginning their musical exploration in Melbourne’s vibrant electronic scene in 2013, their career trajectory witnessed significant milestones, including collaborations with influential artists like Eris Drew and Octo Octa, and performances at esteemed venues globally. BEIGE’s dedication to pushing musical boundaries sets them apart in the industry, bridging gaps between iconic hits and innovative soundscapes to curate transformative dancefloor experiences.

    BEIGE plays on Saturday 09.09

    Big Ever

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    Big Ever’s music is a taught assemblage of UK club rhythms, tightly woven basslines, minimal synth experiments and deft percussion – seamlessly combined with a unique club-ready sensibility. While retaining the clinical accuracy, relentlessly deconstructed funk and speaker testing bass tones for which Cop Envy was known, Big Ever’s new material takes a step towards a more colourful and psychedelic sound, dotted with elegiac pad sequences, re-contextualised vocals and nimble drum workouts.

    Big Ever plays on Saturday 09.09

    Billy Bultheel

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    The Thief’s Journal is a spatial and performative extension of Billy Bultheel’s work as a musician and composer. Based on psychoacoustic effects, elaborated between architecture and musical compositions in Renaissance buildings, this new performance and sound installation seeks out parallels between the sacral and industrial within the Kraftwerk setting. Bultheel’s work as an experimental composer and performance artist bridges contemporary composition with techniques and traditions of European Medieval and Renaissance polyphonic music. His music explores performance and installations, often site-specific, leaving the constraints of the concert hall behind in order to find new territory for musical experiences. The musicians become performers, moving through sound tropes, interacting with architecture, sculpture and custom-made instruments. This project unites the performers Steve Katona, Blaise Cardon-Mienville, Amélie Ratle, Rebecca Lane, Adam Sinclaire, Alexander Iezzi, Sara Neidorf, Fanny Meteier, Thomas Pfaffinger, artist Billy Bultheel, curator Marie-Therese Bruglacher and scenographer Andrea Belosi.

    Billy Bultheel plays a concert on Thursday 14.09 as the capstone performance for that day’s Universal Metabolism exhibition and on Friday 15.09 in the concert programme.

    Black Rave Culture

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    Black Rave Culture is a Washington DC supergroup representing East Coast club, junglist rhythms and sunny house music with a truly holistic, cross-genre vision. Their music teems with grit, unbridled energy and most importantly, power. Born from the essence, Black Rave Culture lifts up the torch and begins to walk forward spreading the message of Black Rave.

    Black Rave Culture plays on Friday 15.09

    Blackhaine presents Paith

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    Blackhaine is a UK based project operating between Noise and Drill. With its origins in the static anxiety of 2020, their output focuses on the ‘transition from stomach knotted dread to exhaustive, prang-out negative ecstasy’. A political act – the live show contains deconstructions of their existing sounds and future releases whilst experimenting with genre convention ranging from ambience to hardcore punk. At once confrontational and intimate, Heyes probes the limits of rap machismo, street poetry, experimental dance and, ultimately, what it means to be an artist from a working class background. Aggression, braggadocio and nihilism, intense vulnerability and unrefined honesty all come together for this premiere show at Berlin Atonal 2023.

    Blackhaine presents Paith plays on Saturday 16.09

    Blawan

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    Blawan’s initial foray into the musical world was as a percussionist – an element of his history that is eminently hearable given his inherent command over rhythmic nuance, spanning from the austere to syncopated complexities and swaying everywhere in between. A standout intellect within modern techno, his live performances are viewed as treasured invitations to witness the virtuoso in action. Blawan graces Kraftwerk for the first time for the concluding night of Berlin Atonal 2023.

    Blawan plays on Sunday 17.09

    BLUMITSU

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    Despite only being established in October 2022, London-based duo BLUMITSU have cemented themselves as a force to be reckoned with at lightning speed, birthing one of the most exciting UK club scene partnerships in recent times. The formidable collaboration between notorious DJ/producers and friends Bluetoof and Jossy Mitsu began with the idea to merge their consecutive Wednesday evening Rinse FM radio shows, creating an electrifying b2b show exploring the darker sides of high-octane electro and techno. The BLUMITSU ethos is based around ideals of duality; opposites of each other that are in fact two extremes of the same thing. Their combined power takes shape in their sonic journey, weaving through forward-thinking beats inspired by themes of space, technology and science. Expect nothing less than world domination as the highly sought-after BLUMITSU continue to go from strength to strength on their immense trajectory.

    BLUMITSU plays on Friday 15.09

    BOLT RUIN

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    BOLT RUIN brings immersive electronic music that fuses the energy of black metal with cinematic sonic palettes. An apocalyptic sound described by Loud and Quiet Magazine as “a concept-heavy form of electronica that shares much of its DNA with Tim Hecker, even with the sonic totality of Blanck Mass”.

    BOLT RUIN plays on Friday 15.09

    Bridget Polk

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    Bridget Polk, Reclaimed Damages

    Reclaimed Damages is a collection of towers made of demolition debris, statuary and construction materials without using any affixer other than gravity. Bridget considers not only the shape and size, but also the history of each piece’s elements, creating the opportunity for viewers to ponder the interdependence of past and present world and personal events. Bridget creates new pieces as they inevitably fall, using her meditative practice of stillness, silence, focus, and patience. She is hopeful that viewers will appreciate the ephemeral nature of her work, encouraging detachment from our past and present to make space for an informed future, created anew.

    Bridget Polk is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Buttechno

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    Having achieved certain recognition with his dancefloor-oriented project Buttechno, the Berlin-based artist is currently focused on sonic experiments and artistic collaborations under his birth name. Opposed to the aggressive imperial politics of his homeland, Pavel works in various musical genres and with different media to acknowledge the historical and cultural context, delving into socio psychological issues that haunt the society, and addressing memory — both collective and individual — and its potential to change our visions of the future.

    Buttechno plays on Friday 15.09

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    Carmen Villain

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    The diverse sonic worlds that Carmen Villain has built over her career invite the listener to explore depths, caverns, and intimacy within a discography shaped by her natural curiosity of sound, and of seeing the potential for music in everything. In her creative process, Carmen admits she doesn’t know exactly what the final result will be, preferring to operate by intuition, and seeing the process as a “conversation” with sound. A texture or melody buried in a field recording can be the spark that becomes a sketch.. With any horizon blurred and distant, Carmen Villain will continue to follow those shapes, sparks, and ideals, to build many more worlds for us to explore.

    Carmen Villain plays on Saturday 16.09

    Caterina Barbieri + Space Afrika with MFO

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    This special collaborative performance combines the transformative musical power of Caterina Barbieri, the layered sonic investigations of Space Afrika and the unique visual wizardry of Marcel Weber (MFO) for the very first time. All entities are used to exploring transcendence through the inwardness of auditory experience with a particular emphasis on compelling and profound live performances. The idea to bring these musical realms together for Berlin Atonal 2023 hints at a world where the dizzying musical patterns that Barbieri explores help us understand the mutable bond between the cybernetic world and the fleshy, human domain from which Space Afrika’s musical explorations emanate.

    Caterina Barbieri + Space Afrika with MFO plays on Thursday 07.09

    CCL

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    CCL plays on Wednesday 13.09

    CHENG NWSH

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    CHENG NWSH stands as the co-founder behind Awkwardly Social, a community-spirited dance music collective deeply rooted in Berlin’s community. Armed with a mastery of razor-sharp blends and a penchant for high-energy selections, he swiftly carved his reputation within the local club circuit. Although originally hailing from China, he has charted his journey through Shanghai, Paris, and London, finally finding his home in the heart of Berlin. Cheng possesses an unparalleled ability to intertwine the emotive highs of vintage rave euphoria with the cutting-edge rhythms of halftime steppers, futuristic jungle, deconstructed techno, and an array of other styles.

    CHENG NWSH plays on Friday 08.09

    Chloe Lula

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    Chloe Lula plays on Wednesday 13.09

    Christian Love Forum

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    Christian Love Forum is a devotional band from Thessaloniki, Greece. Their (usually) private performances and recordings charter a higher purpose through ribboning microtonal keyboard jams that sound like Gurdjieff with a Casio and a knackered drum machine after too much sacramental wine. A syncretic blend of durational hillbilly trance, Byzantine newbeat and acid-rock’n’roll, CLF holds JC as its DJ, a Lord working in strange ways and days.

    Christian Love Forum plays on Saturday 16.09

    CORIN presents Lux Aeterna

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    CORIN is Corin Ileto – Sydney-based art working in the field of performance art, sound design and theater. Her productions are an assemblage of converging styles moving somewhere between IDM, grime, EBM, trance, and baroque-laden ambience. In her compositions, traditional forms merge with hyper-digital sounds to create new imaginary realms. Coming from a background in classical piano, Ileto is interested in creating a sonic space in which western classical music can be hybridized with contemporary electronic production and non-western forms. This new audio-visual performance based around her release on Lee Gamble UIQ label is a speculative fiction, in which the artist investigates the possibilities of a collective heightened consciousness in times of crisis.

    CORIN presents Lux Aeterna plays on Saturday 16.09

    Crystallmess

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    Crystallmess is a French producer and artist whose music immediately stands out for its abrasive dancefloor feel. Her DJ sets are uncompromising, ranging from hardcore rap to footwork and her devotion to club music and her multifaceted nature make Crystallmess an unstoppable force to be reckoned with.

    Crystallmess plays on Friday 15.09

    CTM + Skjold Rambow

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    This collaborative performance combines the dance of artist Skjold Rambow and the music of CTM for the first time. A bow is a gesture, a sign that something has happened. It is a choreography that creates the transition from fiction to reality. “Bow” revolves around the intricate relation of entertainment and the weight of expectations that accompany both performers and their audience, on stage and behind the scenes. The backdrop and focal point in the music intertwine, stretching out the moment between what was and what will come, combining intimate presence with a collective language.

    CTM + Skjold Rambow is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Cyprien Gaillard

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    Cyprien Gaillard, Absorbent Figure

    Absorbent Figure is based on an existing object found by the artist at the Kijk-Kubus-museum house in Rotterdam. The origin of what this statue represents is unclear and has been the source of debate over the years. One known recorded entry for a similar figure from the British Museum (1982) notes:

    „wooden figure of a man in a loin cloth sitting cross-legged and holding his head in his hands. This design is known as the ‘weeping Buddha’.“

    One interpretation is that those who touch it will feel a mysterious alleviation of their sorrows.

    With its new industrial skin, the figure sits outside Kraftwerk amidst those gathering, taking part in the collective experiences of music and nightlife.

    Cyprien Gaillard, Nightlife Archive Slideshow

    A sequence of images from Gaillard’s Archive volume “Nightlife”

    Cyprien Gaillard shows these works for the duration of BA23.

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    Dame Area

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    Hailing from Barcelona, Silvia Konstance and Viktor L.Crux (a collaborator of Nurse With Wound and J.Arbeit from Einstürzende Neubauten) have developed over the last years a unique music style recognized as “Tribal Wave”. Mixing synth bassline arpeggios and live percussions, noises and congas, industrialism and tribalism, Dame Area run across the same path and breathe the same air of the EBM/Industrial driven Diseño Corbusier or the drum compositions of Roberto De Simone. Championed by Manniquen’s Alessandro Adriani they appear with him for a special appearance at Stage Null.

    Dame Area plays on Thursday 07.09

    Debit

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    Delia Beatriz, aka Debit, is a unique gem in the realm of electronic music. With her roots in Monterrey, Mexico, and current base in New York, she blends feverish tribal guarachero and gritty industrial techno, whilst also daringly wandering into dissonant ambient terrains. From solo releases on Mexican label NAAFI to audacious reworks of Missy Elliot’s ‘Get Ur Freak On’ and Bad Bunny’s ‘No Te Hagas’, Debit’s repertoire is as vibrant as it is varied. This month, she’s set to unveil her second album, ‘The Long Count’, via respected experimental outlet Modern Love. The album fuses her fascination with ancient Mayan wind instruments and modern machine-learning techniques, promising a novel sonic venture.

    Debit plays on Saturday 16.09

    Deborah Stratman

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    Deborah Stratman, Last Things

    Last Things is Deborah Stratman’s latest film, holding in view evolution and extinction and considering from the vantage point of rocks and future subjects. Catalysed by two novellas by J.-H. Rosny, joint pseudonym of the Belgian brothers Boex who wrote sci-fi before it was a genre, the film takes up their pluralist vision of evolution, where imagining prehistory is inseparable from envisioning the future. lso formative were Roger Caillois’s writing on stones, Clarice Lispector’s “The Hour of the Star,” Robert Hazen’s mineral evolution theory, the symbiosis theory of Lynn Margulis, Donna Haraway’s multi-species scenarios, Hazel Barton’s research on cave microbes, and Marcia Bjørnerud’s thoughts on time literacy. In one way or another, these thinkers have all sought to displace humankind from the centre of evolutionary processes. Passages from Rosny and interviews with Marcia Bjørnerud form the film’s spine. Stones are its anchor. We trust stone as archive, but we may as well write on water. In the end, it’s particles that remain.

    Deborah Stratman's work will be shown on the 07. September and additionally will be part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    December b2b Katatonic Silentio

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    Having released EPs on the most prestigious techno labels out there (Jealous God, Blackest Ever Black, Mannequin, Pinkman, Return to Disorder) December has consistently put out high-quality, singular club music. His touch is powerful but melancholic, minimalistic but romantic, dark but filled with emotions, characterised by his unique use of vocals. Mariachiara Troianiello, the Milan-based sound artist behind the moniker Katatonic Silentio, works at the crossroads of electronic music, performing arts and sound studies. Both as a live performer and an independent researcher, she seeks to bridge different spheres and approaches to sonic production. Active as a DJ for more than 15 years, her sets adopt multiple forms, fluctuating between an analogue past and a technological, fast-paced future. At times, her sets focus on pure abstraction, consisting of ethereal soundscapes that seek to transcend the tangible through a mix of musique concrète, world, spoken word, ambient or dub.

    December b2b Katatonic Silentio plays on Saturday 09.09

    DJ Caring

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    DJ Caring is the name that Carin Abdulá (head of Berlin Atonal’s management and agency arm Outer Agency and key member of BA23’s music curation team) often uses on her days off. Always dedicated to championing the independent spirit of underground music in her working life, as a refined selector of tracks she is dedicated entirely to the spirit of weird and wonderful vibes.

    DJ Caring plays on Sunday 17.09

    DJ Holographic

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    DJ Holographic is a funky force of joy. Born Ariel Corley in Detroit, she is a leading woman of the next generation of the dance music underground, and carries that potent energy with her. When she steps behind the decks, you feel her love as she channels the energy of the crowd and the seasons, curating a soundtrack of house, funk, techno and beyond. The time to enter the world of DJ Holographic—a joyfully soundtracked, ever-expanding, creative, heart-centered glittering disco ball of possibility—is now.

    DJ Holographic plays on Friday 08.09

    DJ Lag

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    At first listen, it might not appear that Gqom’s minimalist, bass-heavy sound would take Lwazi Asanda Gwala from Clermont township in Durban to commanding dancefloors in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia. But DJ Lag’s superb production skills have played a big part in transforming a sub-genre of house – one that began by soundtracking taxi trips around Durban – to an enviably innovative participant in the global scene.

    DJ Lag plays on Saturday 09.09

    dj lostboi + Torus

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    This special collaborative live show builds off the mnestic soundscapes of dj lostboi and Torus’ split album pop music heard on the radio, jumbled street recordings, and everyday technological objects – The Flash evokes the melancholic pull of such recollections without ever succumbing to nostalgia. The moments eked from these samples stretch into quiet eternity – still and suspended – while retaining their quotidian, terrestrial qualities. Their shared body of work reveals a new chapter in their heartfelt wandering, recalling the spatial dynamics of The KLF’s zoned post-rave landscapes flickering with thoroughly modern paraphernalia and emotions.

    dj lostboi + Torus plays on Friday 15.09

    DJ Marcelle

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    Although DJ Marcelle has been collecting music longer than most of us have been alive, she still feels like The Netherlands’ sweetheart. She’s an artist with a mischievous, rule-bending and almost ironic approach to her DJing, producing and radio hosting – cut with her trademark wit yet supported by an unquestionable amount of skill. Well known for her three-turntable setup, DJ Marcelle makes compositions out of songs and symphonies out of mixes – colliding disparate genres, appropriated vocal snippets and warped soundscapes into a giant Frankenstein-like melting pot. Her performances are inventive, euphoric and above all powerful.

    DJ Marcelle plays on Friday 15.09

    DJ Plead

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    DJ Plead is a Melbourne/Naarm producer, based in Berlin and making percussive club music. Drawing on his Lebanese background, DJ Plead makes tough, functional, and percussive tracks. His unique style references the rhythms, scales and timbres of Lebanese pop and traditional Lebanese wedding music, blending them with contemporary RnB, Club and other dance styles.

    DJ Plead plays on Saturday 09.09

    DJ Spit b2b mad miran

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    Berlin’s DJ Spit has surfaced as the new exciting talent pushing for a hybrid set of sounds. Geared towards drum and bass, techno and warehouse to drill and amen-infused breaks, Spit fills a gap between bass, garage and hi-tech industrial as can be seen in his recently launched project EXPLORERS, which investigates the contemporary protagonists and music in these sub genres in many different formats. With him plays a child of the Dutch underground. mad miran has been on an exceptional rise of late. Her mastery behind the decks shows as she smoothly moves between electro, bass music, IDM, dubstep, electronics and breakcore throughout her sets. An infectious energy behind the decks that truly manifests it on any dance floor she takes control over. Her infinite love for obscurities have left many prowling for tracks played, as her sets tend to be an adventure through leftfield novelties and obscurities deeply rooted in 90s rave.

    DJ Spit b2b mad miran plays on Friday 08.09

    DJ Stingray 313

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    Sherard Ingram is a menacing node in the vast tangle of electronic music’s history, present, and future. As DJ Stingray 313 he propagates a seer-like, totalising concept of what it is to be engaged in thinking ahead by making people move. Permit yourself to zoom out of your singular reality enough such that all activity, all that is knowingly accumulated and all that is unnervingly accepted on this earth, is a spectrum of information. This includes the thermodynamics of our own biological structure. Now consider that music is a segment of this spectrum, and DJ Stingray’s 313 nexus of electro, house and techno a further specialised section forged in bypassing normalised circuits to confront the future, to articulate abstract dynamics. It’s a slice of information, it is a bandwidth. Ingram’s crucial and distinctive function in this system is to decode his particular nexus as a speculative software for others, and to encode its conspicuous qualities as a feedback system with the rest of the spectrum. If it sounds intense, it’s because it is, and it’s still just about sweating it out at a club.

    DJ Stingray 313 plays on Friday 08.09

    DjBadshape

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    DjBadshape has become an electrifying force in the bass music scene. With over a decade of experience captivating audiences, this Leipzig-based dynamo has become synonymous with the city’s vibrant club scene. A true sonic adventurer, DjBadshape fearlessly delves into an extensive array of styles and genres, skillfully weaving together seamless sets that transcend musical boundaries. Whether it’s breaks, techno, or experimental electronica, her innate ability to unite different genres leaves a joyful experience for all who are there.

    DjBadshape plays on Friday 15.09

    Djrum b2b Skee Mask

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    To be revealed from the 01. September!

    Djrum b2b Skee Mask plays on Friday 15.09

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    E-Saggila

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    E-Saggila plays on Thursday 14.09

    Elena Colombi

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    Many DJs claim to be a champion of free-spirited eclecticism, but few truly break boundaries or swerve convention. Step forward Elena Colombi, a DJ and radio host whose inspired sets are not only open-minded and mind-altering, but also seek to toy with the emotions of listeners and dancers via switches in intensity, tone, lightness and darkness. The different strands of Colombi’s DJ career are almost as diverse and otherworldly as her on-point selections, a reflection of her ability to translate her vast music knowledge and sets to differing environments. Yet it’s in clubs, where she can truly let loose and take dancers on a journey, that her celebrated talents hit home hardest.

    Elena Colombi plays on Saturday 16.09

    Elvin Brandhi + KMRU (A|||oy)

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    This new collaboration is a dialogue between both artists’ worlds and underworlds, responding to each other’s sonic narratives. Field recordings, voice, noise and drones are transmuted into an obscure abstract image, ebbing in and out of focus, as a creative way finding a profound edge around which both artists linger. This new collaboration creates a meeting place for distinct intensities to synchronise, finding commonality in contradicting tones, towards a non-hierarchical soundscape of mutual expression. The sounds themselves could grow out from the dark, invisibility embodied – a methodology in seeking the unheard.

    Elvin Brandhi + KMRU (A|||oy) plays on Sunday 17.09

    Emma dj + cxoxc

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    Emma dj is a Paris based artist, producer, dj who has been building a rapidly growing catalogue of releases since 2019. A remarkable output from the Finnish native who’s been quietly forging an aesthetic of his own. His productions display a clear penchant for harder, grittier and ever indescribable sounds translating directly into his dj sets as well as his collaborative experimental trap live show ‘g0drm’ which debuted at Bourse de Commerce, Collection Pinault in June 2021. Emma dj will present a new live piece with multidisciplinary artist cxoxc at Atonal 2023.

    Emma dj + cxoxc plays on Saturday 16.09

    Emptyset

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    Emptyset present Ash — a new collection of sound experiments developed over the last three years and assembled in Bristol during summer 2023. The work draws on the project’s roots in structural percussion and physical sonics, employing spatialised recording techniques and an array of analogue hardware, evoking the transformative and sculptural properties of sound. The release marks a return for the collaborative duo of James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas, following Ginzburg’s work within the exploratory performance group Osmium and Purgas’ extensive research into the history of India’s first electronic music studio. It brings them back to Bristol where the project first began, channelling the echoes of the city’s sound system culture and resonant musical continuum, anchoring their sound within its formative origins.

    Emptyset plays on Saturday 16.09

    Eros (Regis, Boris Wilsdorf, Liam Andrews)

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    Einstürzende Neubauten producer Boris Wilsdorf, Karl O’Connor aka Regis and MY DISCO’s Liam Andrews assemble as Eros, bottling no-wave/industrial lightning with a tight set of pulverized, widescreen torched-songs that rasp, grate and throb somewhere between This Heat and Cabaret Voltaire.

    Eros (Regis, Boris Wilsdorf, Liam Andrews) plays on Thursday 07.09

    Evigt Mörker

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    Evigt Mörker plays on Thursday 14.09

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    Fadi Mohem

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    Fadi Mohem plays on Thursday 14.09

    FAUZIA

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    Fauzia first broke through as a DJ inspired by the interwoven legacies of fast music from either side of the Atlantic. Her sets see her blend together the best of footwork, jungle and everything in between.

    FAUZIA plays on Thursday 07.09

    Flore b2b Peder Mannerfelt

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    Peder Mannerfelt and Flore join forces for their first ever b2b. After Peder released Flores genre busting single Get Digit / Base IQ the natural next step is to link up for a shared DJ set that promises to showcase both artists unique talents and taste for slaying the dancefloor.

    Flore b2b Peder Mannerfelt plays on Saturday 09.09

    Florentina Holzinger presents Étude For Church

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    Since 2020, Florentina Holzinger and her team have organized musical activations – ‘études’- in public spaces. These Études have taken place in multi-storey car parks, on streets and in town squares; predominantly metropolitan spaces associated with accelerated transfer, urban crossings, and the motorized sphere. According to Frédéric Chopin, “an étude is a musical composition of considerable difficulty, designed to provide practice material for an instrument and its player.” A stunt is defined as an extreme form of physical activity that requires precise, technical training. In these Études, stunt effects meet the world of music to create scores for bodies as instruments. In Étude For Church, a two tonne iron bell is asked to ‘call in the canonical hours, summon tempests and awake the sleeping soul’.

    Trigger Warning
    Nudity, blood.

    Credits
    Choreography, Concept, Direction: Florentina Holzinger
    Performers: Sophie Duncan, Luna Duran, Fibi Eyewalker, Lucy Fire, Florentina Holzinger, Annina Machaz, Xana Novais, Bärbel Schwarz, Veronica Thompson
    Scenery, Concept: Nikola Knecevic
    Composition and Sound Design: Stefan Schneider
    Bell Arrangement: Almut Lustig
    Conductor: Sibylle Fischer
    Piercer: Philippa Downey
    Technical Direction: Stephan Werner
    Stage Support: Camilla Smolders, Daniela Kuich
    Rigging / Operator: Dörte Wilfroth
    Stunt and Rigging Coordination: Alexander Kusmak, Florian Christoph / Gravity Stunts
    Stunt Supervisor: Ronny Horning / Gravity Stunts
    Stunt Advisor: Joe Tödtling / Stunt Factory
    Production: neon lobster / Giulia Messia, Sarah Parolin, Katharina Wallisch, Tammo Walter

    A production by Florentina Holzinger and neon lobster in co-production with Berlin Atonal and in collaboration with Ruhrtriennale. The series Études is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community – Spartenoffene Förderung.

    Florentina Holzinger presents Étude For Church plays on Thursday 07.09 & Friday 08.09 & Saturday 09.09

    Frederik Worm + Cæcilie Trier

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    Vind, 2023
    43 mins, video
    Courtesy of the artist.

    Vind is a still image film composed of photography by artist Frederik Worm and instrumental compositions by musician and composer CTM. Created for the cinema, Vind addresses the fundamental question of place —Where? — and the threshold between solitude and participation in contemporary subjecthood. As a collaboration the film is concerned with facilitating encounters as well as problematising and speaking of ideas of hospitality. Music and images largely refrain from representing human beings, under which condition the initial question develops into: “How did I come here?”, “What made me?” and “What do I bring?”.

    Worm and Trier's work will be shown on the 08. September and additionally will be part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Fritz Kahn

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    Various Illustrations
    Courtesy of Uta von Debschitz & Thilo von Debschitz

    Dr. Fritz Kahn (1888–1968) was a Berlin based gynaecologist and popular science writer who visualised the structure and function of the human body in a unique way. His magnum opus “Das Leben des Menschen” fascinated laymen as well as scientists with its visual analogies and metaphors and their unusually expressive and contemporary design. To pique his reader’s curiosity for the sciences and anthropology, Kahn tried to be up-to-date in both content and form. The predominant and more conventional illustrations were created in the publisher’s design department, following Kahns instructions. For more complex images, Kahn commissioned freelance painters, architects, and graphic designers who implemented his ideas in their own styles. A famous example was the almost life-sized poster “Der Mensch als Industriepalast” of 1926. This conceptual way of illustration became Kahn’s trademark and is now considered as a pioneer work of information design.

    Fritz Kahn is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

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    Haruka b2b Wata Igarashi

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    Wata Igarashi and Haruka have been two of the leading figures of the Japanese techno scene. They both display a certain commitment to a uniquely Japanese aesthetic, a recognition of the force and beauty that comes from paying careful attention to details. For the first time in Germany these two craftsmen of energy and emotion play together, combining intricate soundscapes layer by layer, blending mesmerising psychedelic elements with exhilarating rhythmic transitions and offering a one off opportunity to experience the highest level of Japanese techno in the most storied location in Europe devoted to the artform.

    Haruka b2b Wata Igarashi plays on Friday 08.09

    Hearing Berlin

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    Hearing Berlin specialises in custom in-ear systems and hearing protection for all forms of noise cancellation and reduction in partnership with manufacturers Fisher Amps and Ultimate Ears. With over 30 years of experience, HB offers reliable and fitting products that ensure the best sound quality possible no matter your situation as music professional or aficionado.

    You can sign up for a discounted custom made ear protection fitting on Wednesday 13th September from 6pm via this link: hearing-berlin.de/shop/club-edition.

     

     

    Holy Tongue

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    Holy Tongue began as a studio collaboration between percussionist Valentina Magaletti and producer Al Wootton. With three critically acclaimed EPs behind them they have transitioned into a live trio with the addition of Susumu Mukai. Their high energy live sets invoke the experimental dub of On-U-Sound, the frenetic rhythms of 23 Skidoo, Liquid Liquid and ESG. Psychedelic, free-form, high energy, spiritual dub-dance music.

    Holy Tongue plays on Thursday 07.09

    Honour presents THE BLOOD (2TEARS & A $UCKET)

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    A sermon that pushes the boundaries of traditional religious oration and modern liturgical music, THE BLOOD (2TEARS & A $UCKET) challenges the audience to confront their own perspectives on love, death, and memory. Employing hip hop as found material, Honour sculpts immersive visuals and abstract vocalizations. The resulting compositions reflect an emotional dynamism that relies on unconventional instruments, rhythms, electronic synthesis, field recordings, and the artist’s voice to immerse the listener in a realm that is both unsettling and captivating—in doing so, mirroring the apocalyptic visions and spiritual depths described in the Bible’s final chapter.

    Honour presents THE BLOOD (2TEARS & A $UCKET) plays on Saturday 09.09

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    In Conversation with Shapednoise

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    The ear is one of the most sensitive organs in the human body. Our ability to pick up, understand, mimic, respond to and appreciate music depends on a complex process that begins in a very delicate part of our bodies, which can also be irreversibly damaged by sound through overexposure. Shapednoise made his most recent album after an unexpected period of hearing loss, which left him unable to produce music, DJ, or attend music events. In this session, he’ll join moderator Jenna Jones to talk about this experience, and how it forced him to reconsider his work and confront his body’s precarious materiality.

    In Conversation with Shapednoise is a free workshop hosted by Ableton Loop on the 13. September. Registration required.

    Ireen Amnes

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    Ireen Amnes is a multifaceted artist and DJ, founder of the collective and label Under My Feet., known for its provocative exhibitions and showcases of power electronics and live experimental music. Her artistic roots in industrial, noise, and experimental genres infuse her live hardware and DJ sets with moody, unpredictable journeys that explore an array of styles and intensities. Based in Berlin, Ireen’s musical odyssey commenced as a singer and instrumentalist in metal bands, eventually weaving her signature style into the world of electronic music. Regardless of the genre Amnes’ music does (or doesn’t) fit into, its intense dynamism, nuance, and emotive power represent the expressions of a deeply complex and passionate artist.

    Ireen Amnes plays on Wednesday 13.09

    ISAbella

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    ISAbella is one of the leading figures of the Barcelona club scene, but her reach goes far beyond the DJ booth. A co-founder of celebrated LGBTQ+ party, platform and collective MARICAS, she’s become a veritable icon within the city’s queer community while carving out space for dancers of all stripes and backgrounds to find connection, both on and off the dancefloor. A native of Colombia, ISAbella has always been passionate about music, but it’s in Barcelona that she’s come into her own as an artist. In 2016, she started the Mistress club night, but it was two years later that she helped launch MARICAS, which immediately injected a new (and distinctly queer) energy into Barcelona nightlife.

    ISAbella plays on Friday 08.09

    Istanbul Ghetto Club

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    Istanbul Ghetto Club is an anonymous art collective that emerges from Berlin’s widely-recognized underground and avant-garde scene. A collaboration borne of an altercation in a Turkish music bar has become an eclectic music collective that blends traditional Anatolian, Greek, and Mesopotamian tunes with modern modular synthesizers and performance art.

    Istanbul Ghetto Club plays on Sunday 17.09

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    Jack Dove

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    Jack Dove is a musician and artist from London working in performance and composition related to mechanical movement, pyrotechnics, electrical light and space. His work makes purposefully ambiguous of what is controlling what, playing between the programmed and the aleatoric. In this opening performance of Stage Null, Dove focuses on rhythmic flashes, forms of immediacy and vibrancy, percussive material textures, waveform and electrical sound.

    Jack Dove plays on Saturday 09.09 and is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    James Richards

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    The Wide World – video intervention

    James Richards’s expanded practice examines themes of obsession, desire, and technology through archival research, found footage, and extensive collaboration. Addressing the relentless flow of imagery in the twenty-first century, Richards’s work carves out a space where personal politics and digital materiality meet. This new video piece navigates symbolic and fragmentary moments from the mass as well as a highly personal ongoing archive used by the artist. Its anti-narrative structure is characteristic of Richards’ restless search for a personal iconography.

    James Richards plays on Thursday 07.09

    James Richards + Steve Reinke

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    James Richards + Steve Reinke, When we were monsters

    Richards and Reinke rework a cache of archival medical photographs used by Gretchen Bender in one of her final projects, recombined with other images and animations, texts, audio and spoken word. The medical gaze of the Bender images is expanded first to a broader scientific gaze where it collapses into some kind of abstract erotics. Pavlov’s ghost dogs. Pastel fovea. Wounds, flowers. Dust and dusty stains. Hallucinations, fire ceremonies, organic flicker, intoxicated language. Plants are the new people.

     

    James Richards + Steve Reinke is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Jana Irmert

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    Jana Irmert is a sound artist who works across spatial composition, film soundtracks and live performance, often exploring the borderline between musical sound and noise through extensive experimentation with field recordings. Bending and melting recordings of lava debris and desert sand with processed voice, synthesizers and manipulated samples, she delves into the layers of rock and sediment, tracing the strata of bedrock deep beneath our feet. In fascination with the ephemeral and impermanent, she conjures up a world that existed long before humanity and will exist long after it.

    Jana Irmert plays on Friday 08.09

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    K.P.M.

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    K.P.M. stands for Kashual Plastik Mix the fictional synonym for the mastermind and subculturalist of Kashual Plastik. A protagonist of the vibrant Neukölln scene, influential disc jockey and selector. He works out of Berlin and is involved in various music/art projects under several dozen mysterious names. Booker, curator at arkaoda in Berlin. With his own label Kashual Plastik, he experiments with an authentic DIY approach composed of an intriguing graphic aesthetic and a hard-to-categorize sound inspired by punk, 80s synth-wave, EBM as well as ambient, folk and leftfield electronics.

    K.P.M. plays on Thursday 07.09

    Kiernan Laveaux

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    Kiernan Laveaux plays on Wednesday 13.09

    Klein

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    Klein, DJ DROP

    KLEIN is one of the most iconoclastic artists to come out of the UK in recent years. Her disjunctive experimentalism is used to create a sensory world that melds popular reference points with personal associations. Her musical style is characterised by elements such as R&B-inspired vocals, artfully distorted audio samples, and ethereal metallic drones, while her specially conceived performances dance between musical events and art pieces. She performs a newly prepared concert entitled DJ DROP to capstone Wednesday night’s Universal Metabolism programme.

    KLEIN plays a concert on Wednesday 13.09 as the capstone performance for that day’s Universal Metabolism exhibition.

    Kode9

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    Kode9 – born Steve Goodman – is a pioneering figure in underground dance music and a key originator of the UK bass music scene. He founded the groundbreaking Hyperdub label in 2004 which was instrumental in developing and nurturing an innovative sound between genres like jungle, dub, and garage, releasing amongst much else, the recording debut of Burial (with whom Goodman released a split single in 2023).

    Kode9 plays on Saturday 16.09

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    Lamin Fofana

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    Lamin Fofana is an artist and musician currently located in New York. His music contrasts the reality of our world with what’s beyond, and explores questions of movement, migration, alienation and belonging. Fofana’s overlapping interests in history and the present, and his practice of transmuting text into the affective medium of sound, manifests in multisensory DJ sets and installations featuring original music compositions, field recordings and archival material.

    Lamin Fofana plays on Friday 08.09

    Laure Boer

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    Laure Boer is a multi-instrumentalist based in Berlin. Her music is inspired by noise music and traditional folk. Her performances are hypnotic improvisations around traditional instruments, electroacoustic and DIY-electronic objects, and sometimes a voice, singing or reciting in her native French; a vibrant universe that is both vulnerable and brutal.

    Laure Boer plays on Thursday 07.09

    Laurel Halo presents Atlas

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    Laurel Halo presents a new live show, Atlas — a culmination of a few years’ research into noir atmospherics, cinematic strings and jazz harmony. Performing at Berlin Atonal 2023 on grand piano, synth and electronics, she’ll create an uncanny ambient, designed to transport. The pieces function as musical maps for late night drives to nowhere, with ambient texture as topography and harmony as highway. She’ll be joined by the cellist Leila Bordreuil, whose own energy as a formidable free improviser will augment and punctuate Laurel’s soundworlds. The performance will be an immersive, modal deep dive into the meeting of two musical minds, headed into the fog.

    Laurel Halo presents Atlas plays on Thursday 07.09

    Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh

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    Petras+Saleh’s Humanities uses tropes familiar to opera to present a duet performance. Through improvisational choreography within Atonal’s infrastructure, Humanities produces a living portrait of the performers alongside Petras’ drawings, which prefigure ideas of ruination.

     

    Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    LCY

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    LCY is a London based, Bristol born musician and visual/audio artist and DJ. A main focus of LCY’s work is world building and storytelling, writing stories and creating art to flesh out their sci-fi and fantasy narratives. Their sets are known to be dark and deconstructed whilst still paying deep homage to UK club music.

    LCY plays on Friday 15.09

    Lee Gamble

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    Lee Gamble is an artist, producer, label owner and DJ of exploratory electronic/dance music. Lee’s work combines the sculptural sound objects of Musique Concrète and the ever mutating dancefloor mechanics of the Hardcore Continuum, He’s created several works spanning the conceptual, filmic, dreamlike, and the straight up and hallucinated dancefloor. He will be present at Berlin Atonal 2023 as well as inviting artists largely drawn from contributors to his UIQ label platform.

    Lee Gamble plays on Saturday 16.09

    Listening with Perila

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    There’s a type of listening that overrides all other senses and leaves us with the blank, vacant look of a person who has temporarily left their earthly body for a higher plane. It can take us beyond casual consumption and into a mental space that’s closer to creation – we can think actively about what the artist has made, how and why they have done it, and what we might want to make ourselves. These moments are valuable for music-makers and music lovers alike, but they don’t happen every day, and when they do, we’re often alone in the experience. This session invites you to spend some time with Perila in an intimate listening environment, and join a guided discussion for expressing the thoughts and connection points that arise from listening to music together.

    Listening with Perila is a free workshop hosted by Ableton Loop on the 13. September. Registration required.

    Livia Melzi

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    Livia Melzi, Le Théâtre Cannibale de Bry

    This ensemble of seven tapestries presented as a polygon is inspired by Théodore de Bry’s 1592 work, Grands Voyages : America Tertia Pars. The Americae retell the story of the great “discoveries” of America – in reality the beginning of a process of colonisation. They were published in Frankfurt in thirteen volumes between 1590 and 1634. The author also created numerous engravings to illustrate his texts, without ever having left Europe. The volume dedicated to Brazil was inspired by the stories and drawings of the protestant pastor Jean de Léry, the French explorer André Thevet, and the German sailor Hans Staden, each of whom encountered the Tupi tribes in the sixteenth century. Théodore de Bry’s engravings depict the indigenous people as barbarian, savage warriors, while at the same time lending them European traits. The Tupi regularly waged combat on other tribes in order to capture prisoners. During an inaugural ceremony, they were enslaved for a period ranging from a few months to several years. They were then executed and eaten entirely in highly elaborate rituals intended to encourage further wars, tribal mechanisms of social control.

    Livia Melzi is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Loraine James presents Gentle Confrontation

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    Loraine James began developing her musical language early in life. Growing up on Enfield’s iconic and colourful Alma Estate in North London, she was surrounded by a plethora of parallel cultures, and thanks to her mum’s obsession with anything from heavy metal to calypso, James was able to experience music from the driver’s seat. She learned to play the piano as a teenager, frequenting emo, pop and math rock shows before teaching herself electronic music production with a MIDI keyboard and a laptop. In her low-key home studio, James channeled her wide range of interests into a personal sound that in time evolved into an identifiable signature. She presents the world premiere of her new live show based on material from her upcoming Gentle Confrontation release on Hyperdub.

    Loraine James presents Gentle Confrontation plays on Saturday 09.09

    Lundin Oil

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    Lundin Oil plays on Thursday 14.09

    Lydo

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    Lydo is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. As a resident DJ of BASEMENT NY, their distinctive sets explode the parameters of techno, deftly cutting across genres while retaining a highly personal emotional resonance. Whenever Lydo plays, it’s best to leave your expectations at the door and simply prepare for an unexpected array of sonic thrills, ranging from visceral and grooving to mind-bendingly experimental.

    Lydo plays on Saturday 16.09

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    Mala

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    Mala is one of the most influential figures in UK music in the last half century. One half of Digital Mystikz, founding member of the legendary DMZ club night and head of Deep Medi Musik, Mala has been stirring dubstep’s musical melting pot with its most primal ingredients before it even had a name. Almost 20 years later, his ideas and his creations continue to influence, push and fuse contemporary electronic music to unchartered place. He arrives to Kraftwerk for a special set closing the Berlin Atonal 2023 festival.

    Mala plays on Sunday 17.09

    Malika Ziouech

    UM

    Dead Chickens, 1989
    21 mins, 16mm digital transfer
    Courtesy of Dead Chickens.

    Over more than 20 years The Dead Chickens have enriched the cultural scene of Berlin with their concerts, shows and magnificent machines. This documentary art-comedy by Malika Ziouech follows the work of the legendary Berlin artists group Dead Chickens in animated and performed sequences. The Dead Chickens for 20 years have enriched the Berlin counter-cultural scene with their concerts, shows and machines. Somewhat like an inversion of the Strugatsky brothers’ Hard to be God, the film follows the Dead Chickens as archaic aliens, sent to earth as development workers to encourage humankind to take a different perspective of art.

    Ziouech's work will be shown on the 09. September and additionally will be part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Manami

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    Manami is an up and coming DJ and producer born in Japan, raised in the UK, currently based in London via Bristol. Her high energy, prog-laced, and UK infused sound have placed her on esteemed lineups across the UK and beyond. Manami takes her influences from a background in classical training, psychedelic grooves and Bristolian Bass music. The result is an intricately woven and refreshing venture through some of the most exciting sounds of our times.

    Manami plays on Friday 08.09

    Marco Fusinato

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    DESASTRES hallucination elation in disorientation exhaustion from confusion Experimental/Noise/Metal/ that synchronizes image, specially adapted for Berlin Atonal 2023.

    Marco Fusinato plays on Friday 15.09 and is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Margaux Gazur

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    As a sound artist, Margaux explores possibilities of sounds, using unconventional instruments, everyday objects and field recording to create a rich and textured soundscape. She studied classical piano at the Conservatoire. Over time, she became increasingly interested in the possibilities of unconventional sound sources and started to incorporate these into her compositions. Using everyday objects and sounds from surrounding environments allow her to create music that is both deeply personal and universally resonant. Margaux started to work with field recording to capture her daily life in Hanoi as a sonic memory. She began by making soundscapes for her dad’s martial art videos before developing her own immersive projects with recordings from those sessions, including the sounds of traditional martial art weapons and instruments used for celebrations. Her love for organic sound pushes her to constantly engage her sonic surroundings, seeking out new sources of inspiration and experimenting with different recording techniques.

    Margaux Gazur plays on Friday 08.09

    Maria W Horn

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    Maria W Horn is interested in the manipulation of time and space through sonic extremes – oscillating between minimalist structures and piercing power electronics utilising both digital and analog synthesis as well as acoustic instruments and audiovisual components. Her work examines aspects of human perception – how audiovisuality and overload/loss of perceptual stimuli can conspire to transcend everyday life and invoke alternate mental states.

    Maria W Horn plays on Friday 15.09

    Marta De Pascalis presents Sky Flesh

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    Marta De Pascalis’ sonic world acts as an uncanny translator that freezes and expands emotions, conveying them into unique soundscapes. Her solo works employ analog, fm synthesis and a tape-loop system, whereby she carves oscillator’s waveforms to shape cathartic sound bodies. She joins this year’s Atonal edition with the premiere of Sky Flesh, a work that reflects the eternal cosmic dialogue with the boundless above, where sound serves as medium to bond with the furthest heavens. A sequence of sound meteors that burst through the show length into clusters of blissful frequencies and tearing resonances, as celestial bodies dipped in mystery.

    Marta De Pascalis presents Sky Flesh plays on Sunday 17.09

    Marwa Belhaj Youssef

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    Marwa Belhaj Youssef is a Tunisia-based Multidisciplinary artist. Her mixes are mental selections highlighting the beauty and violence of sounds as she navigates across cultures, genres and signatures. She is a resident artist at Movement Radio (Athens) and worked as a booking agent/ curator at LYL Radio where her personal goal is to support Arab artists through her show KHENJAR.

    Marwa Belhaj Youssef plays on Friday 15.09

    Maya Shenfeld + Pedro Maia present Under the Sun

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    An A/V show produced over the last two years between Berlin and one of the world’s deepest marble quarries in the south of Portugal. Through a cycle of electroacoustic pieces for analogue synths, woodwinds, voice, and field recordings, and imagery shot under the scorching sun of the hottest summer on record, Shenfeld and Maia explore change and repetition,deep time and the ephemeral moment, equilibrium and imminent threat. Pushing the boundaries of Super 8 film and drones shootings, Maia’s analog film processing is brought into dialogue with Shenfeld’s layered textural compositions to create an immersive radiant live audio-visual experience.

    Maya Shenfeld + Pedro Maia present Under the Sun plays on Sunday 17.09

    mayo

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    Amsterdam’s mayo is a musical multiped, whose path is rather unruly than unlogical. Her DJ sets, as well as her first releases, prove that she’s not easy to pigeonhole. With a focus on downtempo electronics, EBM and techno, she weaves together a wide array of musical styles. Taking music lessons at a young age, she discovered she couldn’t commit to one program. By playing the drums, the guitar, and the saxophone, she worked towards a playfield of her own. Inspired by many musical styles, ranging from punk and metal to reggaeton, mayo eventually moved towards DJing and music production, which would channel her unstoppable energy best. With whatever available to her, she managed to brew her experimental sounds into electronic punk music carrying her uncompromised disposition of character.

    mayo plays on Saturday 09.09

    Mia Koden

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    Mia Koden aka Sancha Ndeko is a South London-based South Sudanese and British music producer and DJ who also works across heritage, culture and community projects. Initially growing up in Ghana and Nigeria soundtracked by her parents’ lively stash of music from across the African continent and beyond, her formative years back in the UK had frequent soundsystem pilgrimages to spaces where roots reggae, drum & bass and dubstep could be heard. At some point during her London university days, two rusty Technics 1210’s arrived. Ndeko has since been creating and championing underground electronic music whilst building an arsenal of records traversing many sonic corners of the world. Having made serious waves within the highly acclaimed duo Sicaria Sound with their penchant for forward-thinking 140BPM, Ndeko’s new alias brings along the same infectious energy and bass-and-percs-heavy sensibilities with her own exciting deviations. Expect a range of carefully crafted content and innovative sets sprinkled with secret weapons as she steps forth.

    Mia Koden plays on Saturday 16.09

    Mire Lee

    UM

    Mire Lee, Black Sun: Room with many holes / Black Sun: Sculpture with many holes

    For Berlin Atonal’s Universal Metabolism exhibition, Lee will create a hanging fabric installation, where worn-out, torn, and ripped fabrics are dipped in viscous liquid clay. Over the course of its exhibition, the clay absorbed by the fabric “skin” of the work will be slowly thinned down by water —sprayed from a set of water pumps, hoses, and misting nozzles situated at it’s top— before collecting in basins located at the foot of the installation. Lee, whose sculptural practice has been profoundly influenced by vorarephilia, the erotic desire to consume or be consumed by the other, is known to create kinetic sculptural installations that appear shabby, ridiculous, and precarious. Lee questions human fantasies of technologies that contradict the realities of subjects that decay and deform through time. While liquid clay could allude to excrement or melting flesh, Lee’s works engage the senses in a visceral way, outside the realm of intellect and language.

    Mire Lee is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Moopie

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    Moopie – born Matthew Xue – started turning heads with his DJ sets impressing the likes of Donato Dozzy and DJ Nobu on their early Australian tours. As A DJ, Moopie is daring and eclectic, connecting strands from far corners of electronic music history and pushing them forward alongside contemporary and unreleased cuts: an open-minded approach. Who else but Moopie dares to release lost indie-pop grails alongside contemplative ambience, four-to-the-floor cuts and forward-thinking soundsystem music, while comfortably playing festival stages and clubs around the world? The sharing of musical discovery remains at his core. Weaving different eras, crossing genre boundaries and tirelessly connecting artists from bourgeoning micro-scenes, Moopie stands out as a uniquely creative force.

    Moopie plays on Saturday 09.09

    mu”he

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    A highly-regarded talent at the forefront of Tokyo’s vibrant underground club scene, mu”he has built an unquestionable reputation as a multi-genre DJ with the versatility to both build up a room and command the peak hours of a rave. Balancing introspective selections with outbursts of collective jouissance, there is careful intentionality behind her mixing philosophy rooted in the history of communal dancefloor experience. Building upon a background collecting leftfield and experimental records as a teenager, mu”he’s style draws from an uncompromising palette of the harder-edged side of dance music. With a range encompassing styles from techno and trance to hardcore, jungle, and footwork, mu”he deftly weaves across the BPM spectrum, unafraid to intersperse tough physical grooves with moments of dancefloor euphoria.

    mu”he plays on Friday 08.09

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    Nadia Struiwigh

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    Nadia Struiwigh plays on Wednesday 13.09

    Nandele

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    Nandele plays on Wednesday 13.09

    Nastya Vogan

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    Nastya Vogan, a musician hailing from Odessa, educated in Kyiv and currently living in Berlin, approaches high-intensity dance music tracks as found objects for engineering odd and varied sonic adventures. Nastya’s dj gigs translate her immediate responses to particular environments, while her recorded dj mixes are a diary of sorts of the path she treads in both stylistic and psychogeographic terms. A Tumblr-era urban dweller, she also constructs hybrid dj-set/live performances utilizing loops cut from YouTube videos, thus exploring both the potential of four- deck mixing and the sonic treasury that is the Internet for a keen ear like hers. Nastya does her own music production and composition work as well, ranging from full-fledged live solo performances to creative collaborations, such as recently for an opera with Albert van Abbe.

    Nastya Vogan plays on Saturday 16.09

    Neu-Romancer

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    Neu-Romancer is the solo venture of Australian musician Laura Bailey. Playing the likes of Zanias (Fleisch) and post-punk band Ciern, her broad aesthetic entangles Dark Disco, Electro, EBM, Italo and sleazy beats – bringing a playful light to the depths of the dark realm.

    Neu-Romancer plays on Saturday 09.09

    Ninasupsa

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    Ninasupsa is a DJ, co-founder of Mutant Radio, community media platform based in Tbilisi, Georgia and a resident at Horoom Club (Bassiani). Nina’s musical style can be described as “broad”, her mixes are versatile and suit different types of venues and are enjoyable not only at clubs and big festivals, but at record stores and listening bars as well.

    Ninasupsa plays on Saturday 09.09

    Nkisi presents NTI-MA, Threshold of Awakening

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    NTI-MA is a multi dimensional and sensorial experimentation in dance, movement, sound, music, sculpture and storytelling blurring and blending the boundaries between music, theatre, and visual art. The project emerges as an exploration of the dynamics between noise as a non-representational aspect of nature, the immaterial legacies embedded in music, the shifting hierarchies of the senses, spaces for non-human intersubjectivity and the use of symbolism as vessels that the invisible can occupy. Music and dance are used as codified science, decoding and recoding ancestral musical traditions and spiritual technologies for a contemporary music experience. While tuning into the living archives of various interconnected indigenous spiritualities and cosmic nature through synesthesia and elements of ritual and ceremony. Most mystical traditions emphasise the importance of connecting with the invisible realms in order to heal and transform oneself and society through communal participation and the blurring of boundaries between performer and audience. The Ancient Kongo traditions are characterised by a belief in the interconnectedness of all things and the importance of community and collective well-being, these have been important notions in the development of contemporary Pan-Africanism (Ubuntu, Kimuntu). The Kongo word NTI refers to the sacred palm tree, and Ma refers to the gift of the feminine, NTI-MA representing the heart chakra, the torus vortex where we connect to others, visible and invisible through the rhythms of our heartbeats. NTI-MA musically challenges the dominant Western notion of music as a form of representation bringing the focus instead on the ways in which music shapes and affects our experiences. This perspective opens up new possibilities for thinking about music and its role in society and offers a way to explore the decolonization of musical composition. As music can be used to reinforce dominant power structures, this is particularly powerful in contexts where indigenous musical traditions have been demonised, suppressed or erased.

    Nkisi presents NTI-MA, Threshold of Awakening plays on Saturday 09.09

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    OK Williams

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    Playing a freeform blend of techno, jungle, club and house, south east London’s OK Williams isn’t afraid to keep a dancefloor on its toes. She’s a magician at work – weaving seamlessly through genres, with mostly upbeat, booty-shaking, hi- energy bangers, peppered with perfectly-timed, calmer cool jams, with this equally effortlessly cool, calm and collected demeanour, totally taking it in her stride. A club selector par excellence, her idiosyncratic take on club sounds has been a highlight of many festival and club lineups. She plays the famous Tresor space for the first time.

    OK Williams plays on Saturday 09.09

    OKO DJ

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    Originally from Paris, Marine Tordjemann alias OKO DJ’s impeccable taste for the weird and wonderful has seen her establish as one of the finest DJs and producers to pace the world’s stages. In her sets, Marine aims at exploring connections rather than divisions, dishing out distinctively rich, genre- busting tapestries that transcend all limitative roles. As a producer, artist and energetic healer, Tordjemann is a master at channeling surrounding energies and forces in her art with unrestrained panache and authenticity. She is greatly inspired by the power of nature and the sacred divine feminine.

    OKO DJ plays on Saturday 09.09

    ophélie

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    ophélie is a France-born, Berlin-based DJ with a strong taste for bass-heavy music in all its forms. They are interested in the fluid, liquid, melancholic, and often emotional aspect of music, achieved through combining multiple layers of sounds, and weird (poly)rhythms. As a producer, they enjoy experimenting with FX, textural sounds, and all different kinds of percussion.

    ophélie plays on Friday 15.09

    Orson b2b DJ Hops

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    Orson b2b DJ Hops plays on Wednesday 13.09

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    Pariah

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    Originally from Scotland, Arthur Cayzer was first into punk and hardcore before he moved to London and became interested in the then-flourishing dubstep scene. Since then has established himself as one of the most striking artists working in modern club sounds. With releases on R&S and Fever AM, plus operating the VOAM imprint with Blawan, his productions and DJ sets instantly recognisable. He joins Berlin Atonal 2023 to play in the famous Tresor floor as well as for the world premiere of Persher, his band with Blawan.

    Pariah plays on Saturday 16.09

    Pavel Milyakov + Perila present pmxper

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    The Berlin Atonal 2023 commissioned new collaboration between Pavel Milyakov and Perila – entitled pmxper – unfolds as an immersive extended performance/happening which will take place on the ground floor of Kraftwerk building. They will work on a special live set that will explore the threshold between being outside and inside of an ongoing performance, softly shifting the gap between listeners and the sound-makers. The act will involve an improvised acoustic piece and sound installation which will be inspired by specific acoustics and architecture of the space followed by a live set presenting their new record on Smalltown Supersound’s Le Jazz Non sublabel.

    Pavel Milyakov + Perila present pmxper plays on Sunday 17.09

    Pearson Sound

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    David Kennedy, known as Pearson Sound, seamlessly blends UK soundsystems’ legacy with modern dancefloor beats. Widely acclaimed as a producer, DJ and mix engineer—as well as one of the three founders of the Hessle Audio imprint—he is synonymous with a wide-angle view of the bass spectrum. Pearson Sound productions, DJ sets and remixes are all brought to life in high fidelity with dark rhythmic grooves, complex percussive arrangements and exacting melodic details.

    Pearson Sound plays on Sunday 17.09

    Persher

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    Persher is the brand new project from British producers Blawan (Jamie Roberts) and Pariah (Arthur Cayzer). Both artists’ solo releases have established them as two of the most inventive and versatile producers in electronic music and their work together as Karenn, both live and in the studio, accounts for some of the most instinctual, exciting techno of the past decade. Persher is the culmination of a long creative partnership and friendship, and sees the two producers exploring and pushing the boundaries of punk, hardcore and metal. As a band they are joined by George Addy on drums and Matt Fidler on bass.

    Persher plays on Friday 15.09

    Prison Religion

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    Prison Religion from Richmond, Virginia shatter all musical certainties we possess in their creation of a dystopian musical soundtrack. Their music meets the need both sonically and subject-wise for what they weren’t hearing elsewhere, evolving over the years alongside the conversation of its two members, friends Parker Black and Warren Jones. Their sound is a genuine reaction to the world around them. This is manifested in the caustic wall of sound, heavy beats akin to public gunshots, mumbled screams like breaking glass, thumping flourishes of techno or weighty drones. Their wails aren’t mere 2D angry yelling or relentless bleakness, either – there is a radical hope and sense of possibility here, coaxing the world to collapse in on itself.

    Prison Religion plays on Saturday 16.09

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    quest?onmarq

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    New York based quest?onmarq is an amorphous and adaptable artist. A living interrogation, quest?onmarq rejects any reductive definition of their style. questioning both status quo and the relationship between sounds from all corners of the global underground. Even when exploring a global palette of genres within their sets what remains consistent in across markets and continents is their handle on audience experience. quest?on infuses their sets with infectious, unbridled dance energy and raw precision.

    quest?onmarq plays on Sunday 17.09

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    Rabon Aibo

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    Rabon Aibo, Hidden Resonance X Kraftwerk

    Hidden Resonance X Kraftwerk is a sound installation consisting of industrial gas cylinders that have been transformed into sound-generating machines, that interact with the sound of the old pipe infrastructure inside the Kraftwerk building. The installation and performance are about transformation and decontextualisation: The old industrial gas cylinders evoke associations mostly true in the network of people, hierarchies, processes, rules and things that make up an “industrial production site”. Torn out of this associative network, dis-placed and re-positioned, the objects no longer fulfil their intended purpose. Thus, they become free to be something else: a resonating body, a source of sonic irritation in space, objects of uncertainty, enigmatic in their aesthetics. Questions arise about our history, the structures and transformations of power and energy, suppressions and conflicts resulting from our limited resources, and the changing contexts of a post-industrial age.

    Rabon Aibo is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Rainy Miller presents A Fugue State

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    Rainy Miller was born and bred in Longridge, Preston in the UK; a typically unremarkable northern market town. Things began getting remarkable once the nascent Grime scene began spilling over from its London birthplace and began taking root in disparate other places, as it did in Preston around 2006. Miller’s live shows are a poetic and emotionally penetrating study of loss and longing that present an idiosyncratic and sonically developed sound. The end result is a full bloodied, emotionally visceral piece of work segueing and stretching across a sound world of contorted pop and laconic drill. For Berlin Atonal 2023, Rainy Miller presents a bespoke one-off performance – ‘A Fugue State’ – inspired by human spirituality at its most volatile.

    Rainy Miller presents A Fugue State plays on Thursday 07.09

    Rebecca Salvadori

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    synchronized and non-synchronized exercises of arrhythmic empathy – Video Intervention (with Sandro Mussida)

    Synchronized and non-synchronized exercises of arrhythmic empathy, [ exercise b ] is an extract taken from the first video collaboration between visual artist Rebecca Salvadori and composer Sandro Mussida. The visual compositions [ exercise a – b ] present a series of animated shapes and colours, assembled together according to constantly evolving combinations of intentionalities, tuned with the compositional process of the piece. The combinations never repeat; the arrhythmic evolving movements attempt to break free from a mechanical, predetermined outcome.

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    Salvadori built a temporary set in Konvikt – Umělecké Centrum, a former Jesuit monastery and filmed a series of mise-en-scènes, exchanges, live performances and one-to-one conversations, together with musicians Kenichi Iwasa and Maxwell Sterling, light artist Charlie Hope, writer, editor and curator Elaine Tam and photographer Henerico Rossi. The footage shot on occasion of PAF Olomouc 21st Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art contains different conversations on the nature of friendship, music and relationships with the city of London; different meta-narratives presented within a very subjective and intimate frame. The deconstructed film set where the mise-en-scènes took place was attended by the audience as an event; the audience became part of the film.

    Salvadori and Mussida's video intervention will occur on Saturday 09. September, Messengers will be screened on Friday 15. September and as part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Rhyw

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    Like liquid mercury in a petri dish—slick, supple, and playfully disobedient—Rhyw’s music dazzles as it defies expectation. The Welsh-Greek artist cut his teeth as one half of Cassegrain and has been finding new paths for his mutant sound ever since. In the studio or behind the decks, he brilliantly fuses different strains of ultra-modern techno and broken beat: eyes-down minimal lights up with modular sass, choppy kicks flirt with rolling grooves, and sharp sound design slices through earthy subs. It’s the kind of amphibious sound that can slip into otherworldly spaces while never truly leaving the dance floor. This is the German premiere of his live show.

    Rhyw plays on Friday 08.09

    Richard Sides

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    RIchard Sides, Shoplifting in the Anthropocene

    Shoplifting in the Anthropocene is a new commission by artist Richard Sides that takes the form of an expansive installation developed with the architecture of Kraftwerk in mind. Considering the building as a conduit for industrial energy production, Sides choreographs a system of interconnected environments which challenge standard exhibition modality to include sculptural interventions and time-based elements throughout the spaces. Each part forms discrete elements akin to a diagram. Made from household waste, printed material, found objects and low-fi elements Sides humorously sets the coordinates of a formal timeline which questions common definitions of the human project.

    Richard Sides is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Robin Fox

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    Robin Fox, TRIPTYCH

    Drawing inspiration from Polish A/V pioneer Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski, Robin Fox’s latest creation, an “audio-visual space-time carving,” employs laser projectors to metamorphose venue architectures into uncharted environments. In his large-scale laser performances, Fox creates experiential one-off sensory experiences intimately situated in a specific place and tied directly to the perceptive bodies within it. This landmark new work entitled TRIPTYCH, for which Fox won this year’s “Isao Tomita Special Prize” from the Prix Ars Electronica, will be shown as the capstone concert performance of Universal Metabolism’s Tuesday programme.

    Robin Fox plays a concert on Tuesday 12.09 as the capstone performance for that day’s Universal Metabolism exhibition.

    Romeo Castellucci

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    Romeo Castellucci, The Third Reich

    This video-installation is based on a spectral representation of all names. All the nouns found in the dictionary are projected, in a sequence, one by one, onto a giant screen. These nouns potentially represent all objects in reality that have a name. The speed of this sequence is given by our ability, based on our retina and our memory, to retain a word that appears in a flash, lasting one twentieth of a second. This constricts our gaze, which soon reaches a tipping point where a fusion occurs, just before our perception loses its grip. In the resulting flicker, it is no longer possible to distinguish the single terms. In the borderline situation created by this frenetic series of words, some of them will leave a trace on each spectator’s visual cortex, while others, the majority, will be lost. All pauses are abolished, occupied. The pause, or the absence of words, becomes a battlefield for the words and their military aggression; the nouns from the dictionary, projected on the screen, are flags planted in a conquered land. The projection will be preceded by a symbolic action in which a performer brings to life a ceremony in which language is “ignited”. The sound that accompanies the installation, composed by Scott Gibbons, will be apodictic.

    Romeo Castellucci is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Rrose

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    The iconic persona Rrose is revered in the techno scene. A Duchamp influenced alter-ego of U.S. artist and London-based DJ Seth Horovitz, Rrose explores microtonality, perception boundaries and machine quirks, in the pursuit of a type of powerful techno elegance. Active since the early 90s, Rrose plays as part of Berlin Atonal 2023 on Stage Null for the first time.

    Rrose plays on Friday 08.09

    rRoxymore

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    rRoxymore’s own music is an intriguing, one-off blend of contrasting textures – organic and synthetic, icy and warm – a fresh step in dance music. The French musician and producer has a long history making music in various ways, with various people, before settling in Berlin and concentrating on the solo project that collects it all. Her DJ sets expand with energetic rawness merging with an energising sense of psychedelia.

    rRoxymore plays on Saturday 09.09

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    Sandwell District

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    Sandwell District – David Sumner (Function), Juan Mendez (Silent Servant) and Karl O’Connor (Regis) – was a label, a collective, an impulse, an in-joke, a suicide mission, a gang, a point of view. Berlin Atonal 2023 marks the very first time this also becomes an audio-visual live show. An amphetamine- fuelled fever dream, a group psychosis, an out-of-hand piss-take which happened to reinvent techno in its own bleakly modernist image. Growing out of the Downwards label that Sutton and O’Connor established in 1993, throughout the 2000s the collective had a powerful mystique. Its records sell and its reputation swells by word of mouth alone. For the longest time it reveled in being faceless, opaque, impenetrable – and now brought into the light again.

    Sandwell District plays on Friday 08.09

    Sarkawt Hamad

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    Between the binaries of darker moods and bliss energies – Sarkawt Hamad’s sound is unmistakable. Grown up in the Netherlands, the Erbil born- Amsterdam based artist finds inspiration in all sorts of elements: from fascination for rock music, to dreamy pop and her roots. Firmly entrenched in the Dutch underground scene, she translates this experience into a melodic flow behind the decks. Diverse in sources, her sets ebb and flow effortlessly between genre – from breaks, to leftfield techno and house, all connected through a contagious energy. Sarkawt creates a space in which euphoria, more pensive states and deep soft noise can coexist.

    Sarkawt Hamad plays on Friday 08.09

    Shackleton / Zimpel + Siddhartha Belmannu with Pedro Maia present In The Cell Of Dreams

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    The duo consisting of electronic music maverick Sam Shackleton and visionary avant-folk virtuoso Waclaw Zimpel, has now engaged one of Indian Carnatic music’s greatest emerging young vocal talents – Siddhartha Belmannu – to perform a piece which is equal parts both a meditative exercise and an urge to transcendence whilst thematising both the acceptance of our mortality and the joyous celebration of living. Avant and forward looking music which doesn’t rely on cynical gestures to keep attention or enhance its artistic credentials but engages with the audience in a direct and honest way. Put more simply, it is intended to go straight to the heart. The trio will be joined by Pedro Maia, who will bring analogue and live film manipulations to create an immersive live audiovisual experience.

    Shackleton / Zimpel + Siddhartha Belmannu with Pedro Maia present In The Cell Of Dreams plays on Friday 08.09

    Shannen SP

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    Shannen SP has been an instrumental part of some of London’s most exciting and forward-thinking music for a few years now. Her DJ sets and curation in both music and the arts explore the spectrum of the global underground, platformed through her event series and forthcoming label E.B.N.X. She treats us to sounds often overlooked by the European scene, making a bold statement of what scenes we should be listening to.

    Shannen SP plays on Friday 15.09

    Shapednoise with Sevi Iko Dømochevsky present Absurd Matter

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    “Absurd Matter” is a labyrinthine sonic conundrum that spirals around the two poles of extreme noise and hip-hop. It’s Berlin-based Italian producer Shapednoise’s most ambitious full-length to date, structuring his ear-bending sonic experimentation into unstable but familiar patterns and featuring guest spots from NY rap duo Armand Hammer, techno-rap trailblazer French producer Brodinski, David Lynch-collaborator Dean Hurley, vanguard Philly poet, musician, and activist Moor Mother, and Bruiser Brigade’s ZelooperZ. “Absurd Matter” it’s accompanied by a new a/v live show in collaboration with visual artist Sevi Iko Dømochevsky; the visual aspect of this live will showcase a delirious and schizoid pseudo narrative CGI adventure based in a sewer world full of nightmarish entities with very experimental and deep-fried energy to it—tons of chaotic and explosive 3d visuals with a twisted sense of humor.

    Shapednoise with Sevi Iko Dømochevsky present Absurd Matter plays on Friday 15.09

    Shinedoe

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    Over the course of two decades, Shinedoe has carved a path into the world of house and techno that is entirely her own. Shinedoe relentless passion for the finer elements of electronic dance music has seen her win over hearts and minds in every aspect she has turned her attention to – from her transformative DJ performances, authoritative productions, and exquisitely curated label – Intacto and MTM Records. Like only a handful others in the scene, her name signifies a strength of purpose and commitment to quality that is rare in the world of dance music. With her deep connection to the sounds of Detroit, Chicago and the often unsung Amsterdam scene, her DJ sets blend these influences with a warmth and style that few can hope to emulate – her mixes take dancers on an explorative trip to the beyond. Shinedoe radiates a positivity that at times can seem in short supply elsewhere in electronic dance music. Dive into her extensive back catalogue of productions and it’s clear she has established a sound that is recognisably her own – both timeless and unique.

    Shinedoe plays on Friday 15.09

    Sidney + Suleiman

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    Sidney Gérard and Souleymane Said’s musical explorations traverse a rich tapestry of genres, moods, and sounds. This is most apparent in the success of the Latency platform they have developed together, which as a label and curatorial platform now celebrates 10 years of existence. Additionally to contributing a special DJ set, their musical interests are also reflected in Berlin Atonal 2023 through their work as guest curators for the festival.

    Sidney + Suleiman plays on Thursday 07.09

    Sigha

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    Drawing on the rich lineage of the UK’ s hardcore continuum and Berlin’s long form Techno culture, Sigha’s sound has proved to be both malleable, and at its core, highly defined. The last few years have seen the British artist in a period of consolidation and exploration, laying the foundations for a new body of work that sets its own pace and takes its own path.

    Sigha plays on Friday 08.09

    Simo Cell

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    Simo Cell is from Nantes. His singularity in the flourishing French landscape results from a style at the crossroads of many genres. As a DJ and as a producer, he blends UK sounds with eclecticism and an experimental approach. Affiliated with English imprints such as Livity Sound, Timedance and Wisdom Teeth, the Paris-based producer is also deeply involved in the French scene working with the infamous BFDM crew and collaborating with artists such as Bambounou, Low Jack and the Pilotwings. DJing for more than a decade and taking part in several collectives, Simo Cell is also not restricted to any one scene or particular style. His original and adaptive repertoire builds unpredictable and dynamic sets.

    Simo Cell plays on Friday 08.09

    Siu Mata

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    French producer Siu Mata has been steadily gaining recognition for his exceptional productions, ranging from dembow-infused bass tracks to innovative dancehall variations. Collaborating both independently and alongside his talented associate, Amor Satyr, Siu Mata has carved out a niche for himself as a meticulous producer and DJ, crafting dancefloor anthems for those with an insatiable energy and zest for rhythm.

    Siu Mata plays on Saturday 09.09

    Somatic Rituals (Kombé, Mafou, and Mukuna)

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    Somatic Rituals is the collective of talented producers and DJs Kombé, Mafou, and Mukuna. Hailing from Basel, Switzerland, these artists are leaving their distinct mark on the electronic music landscape with their innovative ambient techno and deep tribal grooves. Having gained international recognition and with the successful launch of their label, they are not just DJs but also influential curators. Somatic Rituals’ high-energy performances, a unique blend of Afro-diasporic roots, mind-altering rhythms, and percussive grooves, are helping to shape Switzerland’s club scene, encouraging openness and a broader appreciation for bass-heavy sounds.

    Somatic Rituals (Kombé, Mafou, and Mukuna) plays on Saturday 09.09

    Sonia Boyce

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    Sonia Boyce, Oh Adelaide

    Oh Adelaide is a single-channel video by Sonia Boyce and sound artist Ain Bailey, that incorporates found film footage from the internet of the late jazz singer and entertainer, Adelaide Hall (1901-1993). Through re-imagining the footage Hall is re-rendered as an ethereal figure on the stage in which she appears both in and outside of history – a sense that is underscored by Bailey’s immersive and haunting soundtrack comprised of re-worked audio tracks of Hall and other performers from the ‘Devotional Collection’: an ongoing project since 1999 that Boyce has been developing on Black women in the British music industry. Adelaide Hall is widely regarded as a pioneer of jazz scat singing: a wordless technique where the voice mimics a musical instrument. She appears throughout Oh Adelaide, and yet is also eclipsed by the illuminated animation, that threatens to engulf all in its path.

    Boyce's work will be shown on the 09. September and additionally will be part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Special Guest DJ with Mister Water Wet, Pontiac Streator and Huerco S.

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    Atonal has invited artist-of-many-aliases and 3XL label head Special Guest DJ to invite some friends to the club and stitch together an atmospheric hearing session of ambient jungle trip hop dub and all the woozy stops in between for over four hours. In support of this lofty aim he has recruited sound-affiliates Mister Water Wet, Pontiac Streator and Huerco S to contribute to the mood.

    Special Guest DJ with Mister Water Wet, Pontiac Streator and Huerco S. plays on Saturday 16.09

    Stella Zekri

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    Stella Zekri represents an encouraging generation of DJs in Berlin that set out to keep things interesting. She has forged a singular path as an exhilarating DJ unafraid to slow down and sensualize the dancefloor, while providing a myriad of euphoria. Deemed the queen of long sets, Stella’s sets have become somewhat of a phenomenon in the sometimes dense, and spellbound city of Berlin. They are truly an exalting, and gleeful experience. Every song she plays out is a statement, and she is unafraid to jump between pitched down trance, old school hip hop, disco, house and new beat. Each record is something she has found, loved and insists you come along for the ride.

    Stella Zekri plays on Thursday 07.09

    Struktur

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    Struktur, formerly Σ, is Frieder Blume’s current musical project. With a discography ranging from Drone and sonic soundscapes to intricate Techno, Blume’s musical explorations invite listeners to embark on a journey through diverse sonic dimensions. Struktur delves into the repetitive nature of techno, exploring the foundational elements of the genre’s hypnotic loops. Struktur’s intent is to investigate the genre’s range, venturing into its outer spectrum embracing a diverse range of rhythmic patterns. Blume channels this, crafting sonic entities that hover between the temporal and the timeless, where rhythm becomes an enigma and sound unfolds in celestial orbits.

    Struktur plays on Thursday 14.09

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    Teki Latex

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    King of Blends, bon-vivant, living embodiment of the Paris underground, Teki Latex never fails to impress with his high energy sets. He has established himself as a one-of-a-kind sonic architect with a holistic point of view who can provide dynamic, vibrant performances wherever he goes. A man with head turning style on and off the decks, Teki caters to many different tastes while cherishing the specificities of each genre he touches, constantly balancing lesser-known underground gems with nostalgic anthems. Expect anything from Techno, Booty & Hardcore to Grime and Italo with a few bursts of Dance and accelerated pop slipped in, in order to push the euphoria levels to the maximum. Teki Latex takes the crowd on a journey, with some unexpected twists when the time is right.

    Teki Latex plays on Sunday 17.09

    The Bug feat. Flowdan

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    Kevin Martin, under his alias The Bug, has carved an audacious path through the musical landscape for over two decades. Unrelenting and transformative, his sound is an electrifying embodiment of Martin’s unwavering commitment to sonic exploration, his music transcending barriers to become a phenomenon unlike any other. Martin’s interests lie not just in sonic intensity but also in the fusion of seemingly disparate elements. He effortlessly strides between cultures, genres, and scenes, embodying a kind of sonic bedlam that is as compelling as it is confounding. The Bug’s live performances with Flowdan, a longtime collaborator, embody the essence of their creative partnership – dynamic, raw, and viscerally engaging. Flowdan’s commanding vocal prowess weaves into The Bug’s punishing sonic landscapes creating a uniquely transformative synergy.

    The Bug feat. Flowdan plays on Sunday 17.09

    The Fear Ratio

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    The Fear Ratio was formed in early 2011 by two substantial heavyweights of the UK techno scene, James Ruskin & Mark Broom. Originally an outlet project of studio sessions for them to combine their passions for electronica, hip-hop and dub beats beyond the parameters of 4/4 techno, the duo, who are long-term collaborators have created their own signature style with abstract synths, heavy basslines and experimental soundscapes that fit somewhere in between IDM, electronica and ambient.

     

    The Fear Ratio plays on Friday 08.09

    Tikiman + Richard Akingbehin

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    Paul St. Hilaire (aka Tikiman) has become one of dance music’s quietly legendary figures. Born and raised in the Caribbean island Dominica, he moved to Berlin in 1994 and has lent both his voice and his musicianship to some of the most iconic electronic music from the German capital – and beyond. He recently released his firrst solo album in 17 years on Richard Akingbehin’s Kynant Records. They both appear together for Atonal’s last (and long) OHM session.

    Tikiman + Richard Akingbehin plays on Sunday 17.09

    TLF Trio

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    TLF Trio is an experimental chamber music ensemble consisting of cellist Cæcilie Trier, pianist Jakob Littauer and guitarist M. K. Frøslev. Moving between written composition and improvisation they channel minimalism, free jazz and modes of Central-European Classical of the Late Renaissance and Early Baroque. The Danish trio, who is based in Berlin and Copenhagen, released their first collaborative album Sweet Harmony on the French electronic and experimental label Latency in 2022, introducing their de/re-constructive chamber music, that seems more sculptural than narrative and that fluidly shapeshifts between being an object in the room to being the room itself.

    TLF Trio plays on Saturday 09.09

    Tom Boogizm

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    Ask any of the new wave of mercurial musical talent emerging from Manchester at the moment and its likely that you would hear the response “Tom Boogizm is the best DJ on the planet”. He has also developed a reputation for his unclassifiable productions under the Rat Heart moniker, but it is as an eclectic and eccentric DJ that he comes to Berlin for his debut appearance.

    Tom Boogizm plays on Saturday 16.09

    Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki

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    Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki, Metabolic Disruption

    The duo takes on the troublesome role of disruptive force of Universal Metabolism, seeking a disorder in the alimentary canal of Kraftwerk. The abandonment of all prior distinctions of performance, play, happening or event for something unprecedented, a sudden error or mutation. Like a natural orgasm, whatever happens, should happen in its natural time in an organically chosen place in the building. Whether our intervention causes chaos or ends in harmony is the decision of the audience members.

    Tot Onyx (Tommi from group A) and Kaseki started to work in 2021, when Kaseki mentored Onyx during Musikfonds Scholarship Program, in which Onyx studied Butoh in her quest to subvert the boundaries of live music performance. Their on-going project focuses on energy and frequency in terms of spirituality (TodAncestor, 2021-ongoing) and their latest project Anarcho Noise Butoh (2023-ongoing) explores the political side of the two radical art forms, noise and Butoh, addressing current political issues from a feminist perspective.

    Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    Track Clinic with Mor Elian + Boris Kummerer

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    Orchestral Tools and Neumann together with Sennheiser present a pop-up track clinic session. Attendees can get personalised feedback on their compositions and guidance from our mentors: DJ, producer, and label owner Mor Elian and Boris Kummerer (Artist Relations) from Neumann.

    Track Clinic is a free event hosted by Orchestral Tools on the 12. September. Registration required.

    Transistors of Mercy + Pixelflowers

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    Concrete Music Concrete Vision, 2023
    Immersive durational audiovisual installation performance
    Courtesy of the artists

    The audio-visual constructions of Transistors of Mercy and their longtime collaborator Pixelflowers are always tentative, precarious constellations which are sustained only in and through the labour of them as artists at work and the electricity that courses through the circuits that they – more or less – control. Extended and unrepeatable, the artistic output of a Transistors of Mercy work is always about transformation. The transformation of first wild and then controlled electricity into sensible signal-based output whether audio or visual. The transformation of an open situation into one that is dictated by the emerging and disappearing circuits first built, then manipulated, then dissembled by the artists themselves. As long as the system is in place, it remains inseparable from the operators who handle and utilise it.

    Transistors of Mercy + Pixelflowers is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

    TRAXX + Ron Morelli present The Definitive Articles of House

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    Ron Morelli (L.I.E.S. Records) and Traxx (Nation, Kode, DirtyBlends) have been collaborating for many years, and are both intertwined artistically with each other’s labels and outlets. Most importantly they build on concepts together with laser focus, preserving the heritage of dance music in a day and age when it has been conveniently brushed aside by the masses. For Berlin Atonal, Traxx and Morelli will present “The Definitive Articles of House” originally conceptualized as a series of music presentations mixed by Traxx displaying the lineage of original house music in its purest form. The duo will present music that encompasses the tracks that got us where we are today… from essential Paradise Garage productions, unreleased Hardy cuts, rare white labels, to cut and paste megamixes, proto rhythm productions composed on primitive drum machines, formative genre defining staples, unreleased rarities and everything in between. This will be an essential presentation like never heard before behind the cage over the massive Tresor soundsystem.

    The Definitive Articles of House is all night long at Tresor on Thursday 07.09.

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    upsammy

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    As electricity blossoms and leafs glisten, upsammy creates interpretative space, cleverly paradoxical in its concurrent comfort and desolation. With a keen ear for crystalline melody and intricate rhythm, her music sculpts a certain perpetuity and spatiality, sliding across tempo scales, while retaining an organic touch as a gentle hum of nature digitized. Often working together with visual artist Sjoerd Martens during their live show, the two create kaleidoscopic terrains built from micro textures and field recordings, fluidly mixing between inner and outer environments. Guided by an adventurous and narrative approach, this vividness is present in her DJ sets as well. The music she plays takes cues from trippy electronics, the more experimental side of DnB and oddball techno, but tries to avoid clear genres. As a multidisciplinary artist she researches these interactions through sound, photography and video, explorations which simultaneously influence her music production process.

    upsammy plays on Friday 15.09

    URIN DJs

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    URIN are a Berlin-based raw punk/d-beat/hardcore band with noise influences, active since 2018. URIN are radical, fast, blown-out and impress on stages with their almost endless energy, experimenting with sound and trying to push the boundaries of hardcore. As an international band with members from Poland, Sweden and Germany, their countless references, eclectic taste and vast experience from their past and other current projects turn the music into a pool of madness. They contribute to BA23 a rare DJ set.

    URIN DJs plays on Friday 08.09

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    Valentina Magaletti

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    Valentina Magaletti is a drummer, composer and percussionist whose goal is to strategically enrich a folkloristic and eclectic palette through endless listening and experimentation with new materials and sounds. She has performed and co-written with many artists including Nicolas Jaar, Jandek, Helm, Raime, Malcom Catto, Charles Hayward, Graham Lewis (Wire, Dome), Tightpaul Sandra (Coil, Spiritualized, Julian Cope), Thurston Moore, Bat for Lashes, Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), including the project Holy Tongue which performs later on the opening night. She opens the festival however playing solo. Valentina was born in Bari, Italy, and is based in London.

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    VALIE EXPORT

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    VALIE EXPORT, Oh Lord, Don’t Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me

    Pipes hang in the powerplant. The galvanized pipes of an organ dangle like stalactites, while others cast slender, pointed shadows on the glass walls. Smaller pipes made of lead can also be seen on the ground Kunsthaus Bregenz arrives in Berlin for the first time as part of Universal Metabolism and Berlin Atonal 2023. The sculpture is reminiscent of the dreaded rocket battery from World War II, the tubes pointing upwards ready to fire. The whistles are no longer sacred sounding bodies that bring about peace and salvation, but frightening projectiles that bring destruction and death.

    VALIE EXPORT is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

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    Vallmo plays on Thursday 14.09

    Venus Ex Machina presents Lemurian Tones

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    For her Berlin Atonal debut, Venus Ex Machina delves into terra incognita; presenting a new live performance titled ‘Lemurian Tones’. Inspired by Lemuria – a sunken landmass beneath the Indian Ocean, of which there is no surviving recorded history. Wielding the combination of voice, protopian electronics and digital drum rhythms, Venus Ex Machina’s quest to decipher the mysterious radio signal emanating from these elusive depths is the crux of this performance. Conceived and developed while in residence at HQI in London, Venus Ex Machina probes the spatial fantasy of Lemuria, dismantling time and summoning ghosts to haunt the future.

    Venus Ex Machina presents Lemurian Tones plays on Friday 08.09

    Verraco

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    In the daring sonic fiction of JP López, the Medellín artist collides in his productions and DJ sets Latin-influenced tribal techno, hyper-Electronica, carefully crafted IDM and cutting-edge perreo-bass technology with both intensity and precision. Verraco is also one of the heads behind of TraTraTrax and Insurgentes, labels that have become key platforms for Latinx sound explorers in recent years.

    Verraco plays on Saturday 16.09

    Véréna Paravel + Lucien Castaing-Taylor

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    De Humani Corporis Fabrica, 2022
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    Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect everybody in the world.

    Véréna Paravel + Lucien Castaing-Taylor is part of the Universal Metabolism exhibition (11-14. September)

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    Workshop with Alexander Hacke

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    Orchestral Tools presents a hands-on workshop with Alexander Hacke of the iconic avant-garde band Einstürzende Neubauten and hackedepicciotto. Alexander will take a deep dive into drone composition, talking about inspiration, the power of sound, and combining layers to create new soundscapes. Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop and headphones and craft their own sounds with us.

    This workshop is a free event hosted by Orchestral Tools on the 12. September. Registration required.

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    Yasmin Sun

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    Yasmin Sun, also known as YMSun is the owner of Berlin based independent record label Sonidos Del Arbol. As DJ and music producer, she explores the wide territories of experimental electronic music and Techno. Yasmin Sun expands her creative horizons by curating a podcast series and taking the lead in organising events focused on experimental, electronic and ambient music – offering an immersive experience that resonates with her exploration of sonic landscapes. YMSun’s DJ sets are sonic journeys, intertwining themes of space, nature, and organic transformation with hypnotic, reduced Techno.

    Yasmin Sun plays on Thursday 14.09

    Young Lychee

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    Young Lychee is a Berlin-based Dj and Producer. He is as well-versed in the art of creating meticulous, eclectic high-energy DJ sets as he is in producing precise and heavy-hitting electronic club music. As a co-founder of Raiders Records, Young Lychee is engaged in shaping the identity of the collective, fostering a platform for diverse voices in the electronic music scene through collaborations with established and emerging artists. Having started out playing Boogie, House and Nigerian Disco pearls, he quickly pivoted to higher tempos and bigger basses: While the heritage of the sounds of Chicago, Detroit and Miami tend to form the core of his sets, the electronic music cultures of London, Jersey, Paris and Berlin also play a part in the extended Lycheeverse.

    Young Lychee plays on Friday 15.09

    ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U

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    Versatility does not even come close to describing why the humble Japanese DJ ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U is considered to be one of the best in the world by many of his peers. Your favourite DJ’s favourite DJ is originally from Osaka – where he ran his Zone Unknown parties – but is now based in Tokyo. His legendary mastery of the CDJs provides mind-bending but seamless connections of every imaginable genre. The legend of his performances has only grown over the years, his sets have to be heard to be believed.

    ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U plays on Friday 15.09

    yungfya

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    Coming in hard with the bass, yungfya has gained a fast following in Berlin’s clubs since placing herself behind the decks. Her diverse knowledge and passion for selecting is evident from her playfully dynamic, hard pushing sets – where her charismatic, positive energy feeds directly into the dance floor.

    yungfya plays on Saturday 16.09

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    Zakia

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    Zakia is a London-based radio host and DJ whose multifaceted musical taste includes free and spiritual jazz, folk, dub, reggae and pop, psychedelia and other celestial sounds from across the planet. Alongside audio production, Zakia is an enthusiastic and respected collector and sharer of music. Having spent several years working behind the counter at Honest Jons Records in West London, Zakia landed a now-weekly and widely popular show on NTS Radio, called Questing w/ Zakia, where she interviews guests and plays cosmic music from across the globe. She plays at OHM for the first time.

    Zakia plays on Thursday 07.09

    Zebra Katz presents Less is Moor

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    Zebra Katz, born Ojay Morgan, is a Jamaican-American multidisciplinary rapper, producer, songwriter and performing artist. His breakthrough hit Ima Read (2012) became a smash-hit due to its stark production, iconic vocals and oozing, libidinal energy. Genre-defying and self-made, the Zebra Katz character originally surfaced through Morgan’s thesis project at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School. Making music became an extension of Morgan’s interest in theatre and culture studies, identity obsession, and the lively New York City underground arts scene around him. Debut album LESS IS MOOR (2020) further proved his knack for combining experimental music and club bangers in a performative and eccentric mould. Finding inspiration in artists like James Baldwin, Grace Jones, Nina Simone, and Little Richard, the versatile LESS IS MOOR is a pop juggernaut that packs a heavy discursive punch. For this European premiere performance, Zebra Katz’s music translates to high energy weatherstorm that draws the audience into Morgan’s captivating persona.

    Zebra Katz presents Less is Moor plays on Saturday 09.09

    Ziúr

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    Part of the Berlin Atonal festival family, Ziúr joins the artistic line-up of festival 2023 for a special DJ set in OHM. She is innovative musician who has carved out a unique niche in Berlin’s vibrant music scene. Crafting her pieces like a maestro scoring a television series, Ziúr weaves her sounds to depict specific moments, encapsulating their essence within the melodies. Her releases just as her DJ sets serve as auditory narratives guiding listeners across a spectrum of emotions.

    Ziúr plays on Friday 15.09

    FAQ

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    OPENING HOURS

    Concert Nights (07/08/09 and 15/16/17 September)
    The festival contains 6 concert nights over two weekends (07/08/09 and 15/16/17 September). All program for the festival’s concert nights takes place in the Kraftwerk complex, which includes the powerplant as well as Tresor, Globus and OHM. The site opens each day at 18:00. The concerts start at 19:00. The festival includes the Main Stage, Stage Null, OHM, Tresor and Globus on all days. A full schedule for the concert nights including afterparties will be made available on August 15. A ticket to each day allows unrestricted access that day to all concert and aftershow program.

    Universal Metabolism Exhibition (11/12/13/14 September)
    The Universal Metabolism exhibition starts each day at 16:00. It is always possible to come and go during the opening hours. The exhibition includes fixed installations as well as time-based performances. To see all the works and performances, please allow three hours. During the opening hours, drinks and food will be offered in the garden and power station. You can interrupt your stay at any time to take a break in the garden.

    TICKETS

    Full Festival Pass
    Full Festival Pass holders will be admitted to all events from 7 – 17 September. This includes all concert nights on both weekends as well as the Universal Metabolism exhibition and related program. They will receive a wristband on their first visit, which should be worn throughout the festival. Please note that we can only replace wristbands in case of emergency and only upon presentation of the old festival wristband. All areas of the complex are included and accessible.

    Weekend 1 Pass / Weekend 2 Pass
    Holders of a Weekend 1 or Weekend 2 pass will be admitted to the three concert nights of the corresponding weekend. They will receive a wristband on their first visit, which should be worn throughout the three days. Additional tickets to the Universal Metabolism exhibition and program must be purchased additionally. Please note that we can only replace wristbands in an emergency and only on presentation of the old festival wristband. All areas of the complex are included and accessible.

    Day Tickets
    Day tickets only entitle you to admission on the day in question, including aftershows. You will receive a festival wristband at the entrance, which you must wear throughout the evening. All areas of the complex are included and accessible.

    Admission
    You will receive a festival wristband at the entrance according to your ticket. The festival wristband is non-transferable and is generally valid for the duration of the ticket purchased. For a festival pass you will receive a cloth wristband which should be worn for the entire duration of the festival. Please note that we can only replace wristbands in an emergency and only on presentation of the old festival wristband.

    VENUE

    Directions
    Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179 Berlin
    U-Bahn station: Heinrich-Heine-Straße (U8)
    S-Bahn station: Jannowitzbrücke (S3, S5, S7, S9)

    Accessibility
    There is lift access to all floors within Kraftwerk

    Awareness and Paramedics
    We want all our guests to feel comfortable and free regardless of differences of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, economic status or anything else.
    We do not tolerate sexism, racism, queerphobia and transphobia or hostility, fascism, age discrimination, ableism and other forms of discrimination.
    There is an awareness team on site as well as first-aid-workers. Our staff and dedicated awareness team will be available to assist and support you in any case and at all times.

    Cash & Payment
    Only card payments will be accepted at the box office and the festival merchandise stand. At all bars and food stalls you can pay with cash as well as by card.

    No Photo Policy
    Please note that OHM, Tresor and Globus have a strict no-photo policy!

    Age Restriction
    Entrance is limited to 16+ for the Universal Metabolism exhibition, and 18+ for the Weekend 1 and 2 concert programmes.

    CONTACT US
    ba23@berlin-atonal.com

    The Universal Metabolism project is made possible through the support of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

    ÖFFNUNGSZEITEN

    Konzertnächte (07/08/09 und 15/16/17 September)
    Das Festival umfasst 6 Konzertabende an zwei Wochenenden (07./08.09. und 15./16./17. September). Das gesamte Programm der Konzertnächte des Festivals findet im Kraftwerkskomplex statt. Das Gelände öffnet an jedem Tag um 18:00 Uhr. Die Konzerte beginnen um 19:00 Uhr. Das Festival umfasst an allen Tagen die Main Stage, Stage Null, das OHM, den Tresor und den Globus. Das Konzert auf der Hauptbühne endet um 00:00 oder 01:00 Uhr, gefolgt von einer Afterparty auf den übrigen Etagen des Gebäudes. Ein vollständiges Programm für die Konzertabende einschließlich der Afterpartys wird am 15. August veröffentlicht. Ein Ticket für jeden Tag ermöglicht den uneingeschränkten Zugang zum gesamten Konzert- und Aftershow-Programm an diesem Tag.

    Universal Metabolism Ausstellung (11/12/13/14 September)

    Die Universal Metabolism-Ausstellung beginnt jeden Tag um 16:00 Uhr. Es ist immer möglich, während der Öffnungszeiten zu kommen und zu gehen. Die Ausstellung umfasst sowohl feste Installationen als auch zeitbasierte Performances. Um alle Werke und Performances zu sehen, sollten Sie drei Stunden einplanen. Während der Öffnungszeiten werden im Garten und im Kraftwerk Getränke und Speisen angeboten. Sie können Ihren Aufenthalt jederzeit unterbrechen, um im Garten eine Pause einzulegen.

    TICKETS

    Vollständiger Festivalpass
    Inhaber des Full Festival Pass haben vom 7. bis 17. September Zutritt zu allen Veranstaltungen. Dazu gehören alle Konzertabende an beiden Wochenenden sowie die Ausstellung Universal Metabolism und das dazugehörige Programm. Sie erhalten bei ihrem ersten Besuch ein Armband, das sie während des gesamten Festivals tragen müssen. Bitte beachten Sie, dass wir Armbänder nur in Notfällen und nur gegen Vorlage des alten Festivalarmbandes ersetzen können.

    Weekend 1 Pass / Weekend 2 Pass
    Inhaber eines Weekend 1 oder Weekend 2 Passes haben Zutritt zu den drei Konzertabenden des entsprechenden Wochenendes. Sie erhalten bei ihrem ersten Besuch ein Armband, das während der drei Tage getragen werden muss. Zusätzliche Eintrittskarten für die Ausstellung Universal Metabolism und das Programm müssen zusätzlich erworben werden. Bitte beachten Sie, dass wir Armbänder nur in Notfällen und nur gegen Vorlage des alten Festivalarmbandes ersetzen können.

    Tageskarten
    Tagestickets berechtigen nur zum Eintritt an dem entsprechenden Tag, einschließlich Aftershow. Sie erhalten am Eingang ein Festivalarmband, das Sie den ganzen Abend über tragen müssen.

    Eintritt
    Sie erhalten am Eingang ein Festivalarmband entsprechend Ihrer Eintrittskarte. Das Festivalarmband ist nicht übertragbar und gilt in der Regel für die Dauer der erworbenen Eintrittskarte. Für einen Festivalpass erhalten Sie ein Stoffarmband, das Sie während der gesamten Dauer des Festivals tragen müssen. Bitte beachten Sie, dass wir Armbänder nur in Notfällen und nur gegen Vorlage des alten Festivalarmbandes ersetzen können.

    VERANSTALTUNGSORT

    Wegbeschreibung
    Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179 Berlin
    U-Bahnhof: Heinrich-Heine-Straße (U8)
    S-Bahnhof: Jannowitzbrücke (S3, S5, S7, S9)

    Zugänglichkeit
    Alle Etagen im Kraftwerk sind mit dem Aufzug erreichbar.

    Awareness und Sanitäter
    Wir möchten, dass sich alle unsere Gäste wohl und frei fühlen, unabhängig von ethnischer Zugehörigkeit, Alter, Geschlecht, Religion, sexueller Orientierung, Geschlechtsidentität, Geschlechtsausdruck, Behinderung, wirtschaftlichem Status oder sonstigem.
    Wir dulden keinen Sexismus, Rassismus, Queerphobie und Transphobie oder Feindseligkeit, Faschismus, Altersdiskriminierung, Behindertenfeindlichkeit und andere Formen der Diskriminierung.
    Vor Ort gibt es ein Awareness-Team und Sanitäter. Unsere Mitarbeiter und das engagierte Awareness-Team stehen Ihnen in jedem Fall und zu jeder Zeit zur Seite.

    Bargeld und Bezahlung
    An der Abendkasse und am Merchandise-Stand des Festivals werden nur Kartenzahlungen akzeptiert. An allen Bars und Essensständen können Sie sowohl mit Bargeld als auch mit Karte bezahlen.

    Keine Foto-Politik
    Bitte beachten Sie, dass im OHM, Tresor und Globus ein striktes Fotoverbot gilt!

    Altersbegrenzung
    Der Eintritt zur Ausstellung Universal Metabolism ist auf 16 Jahre und zu den Konzertprogrammen von Weekend 1 und 2 auf 18 Jahre beschränkt.

    KONTAKT
    ba23@berlin-atonal.com

    Das Projekt Universal Metabolism wird mit Unterstützung der Kulturstiftung des Bundes ermöglicht.