ABADIR comes fresh off his massive Mutate release on SVBKVLT. What started out as an experiment in layering maqsoum rhythms with the Amen break turned into an entire album in which ABADIR used the same technique with some of his favorite club genres – collecting Arabic rhythms and mutating them with styles such as jungle, jersey club, or reggaeton.
Isabella Forciniti is interested in the potentials of sound within improvisation and spatialised settings, reaching also into the audiovisual domain through her scoring of gender-critical silent movies from the early 20th century. In her current research, she explores the musical and social potential of digital networking via mobile devices, taking into consideration artistic, scientific and technological perspectives.
Musician Katarina Gryvul joins forces with Peruvian multimedia artist Alex Guevara, in an evening at HAU which is in part dedicated to presenting the first edition of Rybachka (Ukrainian for »the fisherman’s wife«). The project created by Mariana Berezovska of Borshch magazine references the namesake poem by Lina Kostenko, one of Ukraine’s foremost poets. Commissioned audio-visual collaborations aim to decode traumatic experiences and honour the willpower of people in Ukraine and elsewhere who are enduring man-made destruction, exile, or displacement dictated by invasions and wars.
Stefanie Egedy will present her »A Sub-Bass Dose« live performance exploring the potential of sound waves – with a special focus on low-end emanations from high-powered subwoofers – to reverberate bodies and nervous systems into more relaxed states. The concert is part of her ongoing investigation of low-frequency sound waves, subwoofer arrangements, and bodies titled »Bodies And Subwoofers (B.A.S.).«
Two artists appear within CTM 2023 with works that are amplified by short residencies with local Berlin artists.
The Polish composer, sound designer and sound engineer Aleksandra Słyż will engage with cellist Judith Hamann, and saxophonist Gerard Lebik in re-scoring and expanding the potentials of »Softness, Flashes, Floating Rage,« a monumental 26-minute long track off her second album, A Vibrant Touch. Working to find connections between acoustic and synthetic sounds, the trio will elaborate on the rich drone structures of Słyż’s modular synthesizers, exploring the physicality of Hamann and Lebik’s respective instruments through the pressure of a finger on the cello’s string, or the intensity of a breath’s attack in the saxophone. Their presentation will take place within MONOM’s 4DSOUND system, as part of the event Spatial Live x CTM 2023.
NZIRIA works in the self-described genre of »hard neomelodic,« a hybridisation of the Neapoletan neomelodic song and hardcore gabber influences. Her debut album XXYBRID came out this past summer on Gabber Eleganza's Never Sleep. As a non-binary artist, Nziria attempts to bring a different perspective to Neapoletan song by metamorphosing heteronormative and discriminative narratives of neomelodic into new stories of fluid identities, queer love, and hybridisation between northern and southern Italian cultures. For her CTM performance she will interact in a tableaux vivant of multiple performers, under the direction of visual artist Bianca Peruzzi, who has also prepared a special light environment of lasers, projectors, and haze. Two Berlin-based dancers join the performance thanks to a short residency: Franka Marlene Foth will contribute choreography to the piece, and will be joined on stage by fellow dancer Janan Laubscher.
The MusicMakers Hacklab Input talks are supported by SHAPE+, and provide an easy entry point into thinking about new ways of performing music and creating sound. Ioana Vreme Moser will dive into the mineral realms of computer hardware and also take a look at fluidics, to give a glimpse into a hardware form that reimagines the morphology of our electronic machines. Celebrating the release of the publication The Listening Biennial Reader, Brandon LaBelle will reflect upon listening as a portal to expanded relationalities. In what ways does listening move us, supporting connections with others?
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