Kara-Lis Coverdale + Ellen Arkbro

Kara-Lis Coverdale

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Ellen Arkbro

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Returning to Berlin for the first time since 2021, Kara-Lis Coverdale will perform a new solo piano set that continues her turn toward acoustic intimacy after years of electronic exploration. Rich in layered overtones, ambiguous harmonic centers and gestural detail, the aural world of the Canadian composer favors neither strict minimalism nor lush romanticism, but rather a spectral sensitivity suggestive of shifting planes of memory and afterlife.

Coverdale's interest in sound as a therapeutic tool also extends to composing music for breathwork practices and contributing an expansive library of music for psychedelic therapy, beckoning the listener into a contemplative space where sound is a medium for care and transformation. Alongside these projects, she has explored the metaphorical possibilities of quantum principles in music-making, using ideas of entanglement and cause-and-effect to consider how auricular actions resonate within emotionally connected communities. Her new album »From Where You Came« weaves ambient choral textures, delicate dissonance and intricately-layered sonics into a marvellously introspective listening experience.

• From Where You Came, by Kara-Lis Coverdale

• From Where You Came, by Kara-Lis Coverdale

Prior to presenting the outcome of her CTM x Somerset House residency at CTM 2026, Ellen Arkbro's »Nightclouds« is a solo organ performance that deepens her investigations into dissonance and harmonic instability and physically charged sound worlds demanding patient, participatory listening. Embracing the full resonant power of the instrument while resisting its traditional harmonic resolutions, she builds stark, slowly shifting structures where microtonal tensions accumulate into uneasy, unresolved spaces—a practice of vulnerability and intuition that foregrounds the act of listening itself, transforming the instrument into a site of shared unfolding discovery. 

The performance is an invitation into the Swedish artist's preferred performance mode: intimate, unrushed, and rooted in the communal collective, emphasizing her devotion to »making sound in a room and having people there to experience it.« Arkbro feels that expression of live presence always eclipses studio outcomes, and these feels apply directly to »Nightclouds:« the organ's sustained tones co-create a resonance shaped by both performer and audience.

• Nightclouds, by Ellen Arkbro

• Nightclouds, by Ellen Arkbro