silent green 5

Ale Hop & Laura Robles present »Agua Dulce«, with dancer Natisa Exocé Kasongo

21:00

OSMIUM (Hildur Guðnadóttir, Rully Shabara, Sam Slater, James Ginzburg)

22:15

Coming soon

»Osmium« is a new project from the minds of Oscar-winning composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, Grammy-winning producer Sam Slater, Subtext boss James Ginzburg, and pioneering Indonesian vocalist Rully Shabara, of Senyawa. The four musicians assemble here to create surprising and hypnotic music using specially built instruments, finding a balance between the mechanical and the organic. As Shabara picks up on feedback sounds from the mechanised elements of the instruments to create new rhythms with his extended vocals, the »robots« themselves continue playing whether or not the instrumentalists add their own personal chaos. Heavy on percussion, and spectral timbres, the project explores how organic sounds blend into the sound of machines, and vice versa.  

Alejandra Cárdenas, aka Ale Hop, and Laura Robles grew up houses apart in Lima, Peru, without ever meeting each other; now, the two Berlin-based musicians will present their first joint release, Agua Dulce. Their work is a radical deconstruction of the traditional rhythms of the Peruvian coast, with a focus on the cajón, a Peruvian box drum that enslaved peoples made from fruit boxes when Spanish colonisers banned the more familiar foot drum in the 19th century. Robles uses a processed electric cajón to beat out rhythms from dances like Landó, Lamento, and Zamacueca, while Cárdenas fractures the sounds with abstract electronics, splintering the tracks into noisy markers, both harsh and sweet, as the city of Lima. On this occasion, they will be joined by dancer and artist Natisa Exocé Kasongo, who will perform his dance style based on improvisation and experimental storytelling.

Event Access

Please consult our Accessibility section for information on volume / lighting, mobility, age restrictions and other access information.