Dror Feiler carries across his work an uncompromising engagement with politics and resistance. He channels this commitment into his new project NO IS Orchestra. The project’s title fractures language at its root, splitting the idea of noise into a double negation rejecting the world’s given order.

Joined by fellow experimental musicians Ghayath Almadhoun (voice), Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet + electronics), Gustavo Obligado (saxophone + electronics), Greta Christensen (turntables), Boris Baltschun (Serge Modular Synthesizer), Laure Boer (monochord & electronics), Mats Lindström (electronics), Camilla Sörensen (turntables), Magda Mayas (clavinet) and Feiler himself on reeds + electronics, high-pressure cacophonic fields collide with Almadhoun's searing poetry, speaking from the wound of exile and ongoing catastrophe. Speech becomes a counter-violence, unmasking the »is« that legitimizes oppression and silence. Noise shears open the audible world while poetry shreds the linguistic one in stark clarity, each performance unique.

Ghayath Almadhoun is a Palestinian-Syrian-Swedish poet whose powerful work grapples with war, exile, loss, and identity and has been translated into nearly 30 languages. He’s published multiple poetry collections including Adrenaline (2017) and I Brought You a Severed Hand (2024) and has collaborated with artists and poets such as Marie Silkeberg, with whom he also made award-winning poetry films. Almadhoun’s poems have been incorporated into visual and performance art projects by Jenny Holzer and Blixa Bargeld, and his work has earned international recognition including awards and residencies including the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

Mazen Kerbaj is a Lebanese jazz and free-improvisation trumpeter and experimental musician from Beirut, widely recognized for pushing the limits of the trumpet with innovative techniques and a personal sonic language that often blends acoustic and electronic textures. A foundational figure in the Lebanese free improvisation and experimental music scene, he’s also co-founder of the Irtijal festival and the Al Maslakh record label.

Gustavo Obligado is a Berlin-based experimental musician, improviser, composer, and performer born in 1990 in Buenos Aires whose work spans free improvisation, noise, experimental electronics, and acoustic exploration with saxophones and clarinets. His extensive discography includes more than 20 albums, and he’s active in projects like Arura, Falsx Conejx, Supernintendo Archundia, Sanchez, Motor, NoWa, and Tripas.

One half of mistreaters of turntables and vinyl records Vinyl Terror & Horror, Greta Christensen is a Berlin-based experimental sound artist and musician who uses manipulates broken, reassembled and found records to create unpredictable sculptural soundscapes between performance, noise, musique concrète and installation art. The other half of Vinyl Terror & Horror, Camilla Sørensen is a Danish experimental musician and sound artist who’s developed a practice treating sound as both physical object and performance medium, often integrating visual and sculptural elements into her work and live sets. Their work transforms the gramophone and its media into exploratory sound objects, generating looping patterns, unexpected structures and abrasive goodness.

Boris Baltschun is a Berlin-based musician, composer and sound artist whose work navigates the intersections of live electronics, sampling, improvisation, installation and radio art. With roots in piano and early ensemble playing, he studied sonology and electronic music in The Hague before developing a practice that treats sound as material and performance as context. For over two decades he's collaborated with Serge Baghdassarians and a wide range of improvisers and ensembles, creating radio pieces, installations and performances.

Magda Mayas is a Berlin-based pianist, composer, and performer whose work over the past 25 years has redefined the sonic possibilities of the piano. She's developed a distinctive vocabulary that explores both the interior and exterior of the instrument, employing amplification, preparations, and objects that serve as extensions of the piano itself. Drawing from the traditions of prepared and inside piano techniques, Mayas has crafted a highly personal and innovative approach that expands the language of internal piano making.

Laure Boer is a Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist, singer and sound artist whose live performances unfold as hypnotic, ritual-inflected sonic journeys built from an array of acoustic instruments, DIY electronics and odd percussive objects, often punctuated by French vocal texts. Boer’s output spans immersive live shows, residencies and releases on experimental labels, and her soundworld radiates a raw, tactile energy between folk roots and electro-acoustic abstraction.

Mats Lindström is a Swedish composer, electronic musician and sound artist best known for his long-standing leadership of Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm, one of Europe’s seminal centres for electronic and experimental music. His work often involves live electronics, self-built sound devices and site-specific compositions that have been presented in concert settings as well as in theatre, dance, radio art and sound installation contexts. A former electronics engineer, he’s designed unique instruments and apparatuses for his projects and released material on labels including Ideologic Organ.