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photo (Gabriele Areal) © Mariana Poggio | (Ach Kuhzunft) © Elisabeth Kramer | (Michael Vorfeld) © Michael Vorfeld

Experimentik #83 / May 21. 2025

doors: 20:00 | concert: 20:30 *no entry during sets

3 x solo

Gabriela Areal - maracas, voice, field recording, sine tone

Ach Kuhzunft - electronics, tapes

Michael Vorfeld – percussion

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Gabriela Areal (1990 - Buenos Aires, Argentina). Performer and musician dedicated to contemporary cello performance and composing works intrinsically connected to live performance. She designs scores and develops methods that explore instrumental and human group behaviors through basic principles of acoustic phenomena, process-based structures and interweaving notions of relief. She mostly works with materialities such as cello, voice, sinewaves, classical western instrument sounds and field recordings.

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photo © Mariana Poggio

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Ach Kuhzunft

Since his childhood, Achim Zepezauer is equally influenced by music and art. His studies at the fine arts school got him closer to music, while he felt connected to art, when he started to work as a musician. Therefor his works often seek the intersection of both and lead to performances, concerts or installations. Beyond that he curates experimental concerts, designs covers for records, does pottery, occasionally produces animated short films and hosts his own radio show. ...for more you can let it continue with this: He has his own radio show at the Dortmund University since 2005, has released a DVD with animated music-videos and joined the large band/collective "The Dorf" the same year with percussion and electronics. He curates the experimental concert series "mex" at Künstlerhaus Dortmund since 2015, at which he also has his own artist's workshop since 2021. Besides releases of vinyls, tapes and cds with in many settings, as well as a floppy disc with his daughter, there were exhibitions and numerous cover artworks, to name just a few of his manifold activities.

photo © Elisabeth Kramer

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Michael Vorfeld is a musician and media artist, plays percussion and self-designed string instruments and realizes electroacoustic sound pieces. He works in the field of experimental, improvised music and sound art, realizing installations and performances with light and sound, and working with photography and film. In addition to his solo activities, he is a member of various ensembles and collaborates with artists who work in many different art forms. Based in Berlin, his list of activities includes numerous concerts, performances, exhibitions as well as the realization of side specific works in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. Michael Vorfeld participated in the documenta 8, Kassel with the sound performance group “Heinrich Mucken“.

www.vorfeld.org

photo © Michael Vorfeld

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Experimentik 2025 is supported by inm - initiative neue musik berlin / field notes

tik - Theater im Kino /  Rigaerstr.77, 10247 Berlin

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Experimentik #82 / Jessie Marino

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Experimentik ＃81 / Tony Elieh

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photo (Jessie Marino) © Tobias Nicolai | (Kreis) © Roberta De Min | (Hervé Boghossian)© Arsenio Quichotte | flyer design: Eric Wong

Experimentik #82 / April 16.2025

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Solo: Hervé Boghossian - acoustic guitar, voice

Duo: Kreis Francesca Naibo - electric guitar, objects, effects Simone Massaron - electric guitar, objects, effects

Solo: Jessie Marino - violin, electronics

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Hervé Boghossian

Musician (guitar, voice, electronics...)/composer & improviser active in the field of experimental music in the last 25 years. He makes minimalist music, using primitive folk & traditional music as inspirations, coming from an indie rock & noise music background. His music can be electronic, acoustic & electric or a mix of the 3. His main focus is the sound for itself, its inner properties, its depth, continuous sound & feedback process as source. He released solo & collaborations albums on international labels (Raster-Noton, Cathnor, Confront Rec. Tour de Bras...) with such musicians as David Grubbs, Matthieu Saladin & Stéphane Rives, John Tilbury & Mark Wastell, Tetuzi Akiyama... & also toured in Europe, Japan & USA...He also created recently (2022-23) several duos with the like as Lise Barkas, Seijiro Murayama, Catherine Guesde (Cigvë) as _ eaux-fortes _ duo. He will release the (first) Ensemble In(dé)fini album "Soufflements Cardinaux" with Owen Gardner (Horse Lords), Merve Salgar & Félix Chaillou-Delecourt on Montagne Noire/GMEA on LP & digital in September 2025.

photo © Arsenio Quichotte

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Kreis is a duo formed by two of the most interesting experimental guitarists active in Italy: Francesca Naibo and Simone Massaron. Both selected by Elliott Sharp for the prestigious collection “I never metaguitar” (publications that collect music by the best creative guitarists around), they play with the possibilities of the instrument by exploiting it in all its sonic extension in the way of Derek Bailey, Helmut Lachenmann or John Cage, but never forgetting the popular and communicative nature of the guitar. Kreis is composition and improvisation, sound and noise, placed on the same plane to draw from a wide and rich expressive spectrum; thus it creates music that is sincere, risky and experimental. Naibo and Massaron play electric guitars, effects, objects and preparations, although they come from different backgrounds. Naibo is a classically trained guitarist with studies in Italy and Switzerland, and her interest is particularly focused on using both the acoustic and electric nature of her instrument. Cellist Hank Roberts says of her, “Francesca sounds like no one else; a dynamic and talented improviser/composer bringing important and original sounds to the world of music.” Massaron started out as an electric guitarist and boasts important collaborations with some of the most interesting guitarists on the American scene - Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Nels Cline. With vocalist Carla Bozulich he released “Dandelions on fire,” an album that was critically acclaimed in the indie/rock scene, and his solo album “The big empty” bears Ribot's liner notes (“an austere, beautiful cd”). Naibo and Massaron met in the common territory of free non-idiomatic improvisation in 2015. When they play, they leave themselves open to creation in the moment in order to capture the freshness and spontaneity of energetic and deep sounds. After 8 years of collaboration, they are in the process of releasing their first duo album.

https://www.instagram.com/francesca.naebow/ https://www.instagram.com/simonemassaron/

photo © Roberta De Min

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Jessie Marino is a Berlin-based composer, performer, and media artist. Her compositions and solo performances abstract ideas drawn from all stripes of popular culture and political discourse, girded by a definitively humanistic sensibility rife with equal doses of wit and pathos. Marino’s pieces score out sound, video, story, lighting, and staging, treating each of these elements as expandable musical materials. She transcends the conventional materials of composition to help audiences locate music in the most commonplace activities and relations.

https://www.instagram.com/atjessiemarino

photo © Tobias Nicolai

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Experimentik 2025 is supported by inm - initiative neue musik berlin / field notes

tik - Theater im Kino /  Rigaerstr.77, 10247 Berlin

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photo (Tony Elieh) © Cristina Marx/Photomusix | flyer design: Eric Wong

Experimentik #81 / March 19.2025

doors: 20:00 | concert: 20:30 *no entry during sets

2 x solo:

Tony Elieh - Acoustic Bass Guitar and Electronics

Olaf Hochherz - Drehteller

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Tony Elieh is a pioneering Lebanese musician and bassist known for his dynamic presence in the experimental and alternative music scenes. Originally a founding member of Lebanon's first post-rock band, Scrambled Eggs, Elieh expanded his artistry into experimental improvisation, blending elements of noise, rock, and electronic music. His versatile approach to the bass guitar often incorporates unconventional techniques, creating layered soundscapes and textures that push sonic boundaries.

Elieh has collaborated with numerous artists across disciplines, from visual art to contemporary composition, and his work often explores themes of memory, identity, and the interplay between sound and space. Performing both as a solo artist and with various ensembles, he has showcased his music at prominent international festivals, including Irtijal in Beirut and Kontakt Festival in Berlin, cementing his reputation as an innovative force in the global experimental music community.

photo © Cristina Marx/Photomusix

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Olaf Hochherz is a sound artist, researcher, and IT-worker mostly performing with self build electronic instruments and computer programs. He works in the field of improvisation, composition and sound art. He performs with self-made electronic instruments and computer-synthesizers. He is interested in associative potential of artificial sound. His work consists of installation performances, sound installations, electro-acoustic compositions, works for CD, solo performances and collaborations with different musicians His interest is in the conjunction of the instability, self-generation, and associative capacity of sounds.

Olaf Hochherz is a sound artist and researcher mostly performing with self build electronic instruments and computer programs. He develops installations and performance installations. His interest is in the conjunction of the instability, self-generation, and associative capacity of sounds.

He presented his electronic compositions at different Festivals. His installations could be realized in Germany, Taiwan and China. He toured with his performances throughout Central Europe and East Asia.

„I didn’t try to make an electronic device, which is controllable in the same way as a classical acoustic instrument, instead I work with the abstraction of the electronics. In my playing i do not control a technical apparatus, but create an associative field. The sounds have their own live. The playing tries to keep them alive.“

He got educated at Folkwang Hochschule Essen in electronic composition, Humbold University Berlin in philosophy and computer science and at Bauhaus University Weimar in sound-art/media-art. He holds a BFA and MFA in Mediengestaltung (Media-Art) and a wrote a PhD on experimental music. His research interest lies in the impact of technologies on artistic practices.

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Experimentik 2025 is supported by inm - initiative neue musik berlin / field notes

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Experimentik #80 / Feb.19.2025

doors: 20:00 | concert: 20:30 *no entry during sets

2 x solo:

Mariana Carvalho - head, voice and set of different speakers

Augustė Vickunaitė - reel-to-reel tape recorders

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Mariana Carvalho (São Paulo/Berlin) is a performer, musician and sound artist working with voices, interactions between bodies, (internal) listening, relation, transduction, materials, mail art and prepared piano. Collaboration is a big part of her work, most lately happening in the fields of performative arts and dance.

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Augustė Vickunaitė is a Berlin and Vilnius based sound experimentalist with a background in physics. Augustė exclusively employs vintage reel-to-reel tape recorders to play, record, and create sounds, articulating diverse layers of recordings including found material, field recordings, voice, music instruments, objects, and the whole spectrum of malfunctions of decaying technology. Auguste specializes in tape music, noise, and collage music, known for her theatrical and darkly humorous approach, often exploiting errors of analog audio equipment. Her solo work encompasses tape loops and collages of found audio tapes. Since 2016, Auguste has been active in Europe and beyond, primarily as a solo performer, although she has collaborated with other artists too. Recently she has self released her first solo CD album “Dance Alone”.

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Experimentik 2025 - meshing gears - is supported by inm - initiative neue musik berlin / field notes

tik - Theater im Kino /  Rigaerstr.77, 10247 Berlin

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Experimentik #79 / Mizuki Ishikawa + Shun Momose

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Experimentik #79 / Masahide Tokunaga

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Experimentik #78 / Javier Areal Vélez

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Experimentik #79 / 20.Nov.2024 / Masahide Tokunaga / Mizuki Ishikawa + Shun Momose

20. November 2024 / 20:30- (doors 20:00) *no entry during sets

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solo:

Masahide Tokunaga - alto saxophone

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duo:

Mizuki Ishikawa - feedback, objects

Shun Momose - feedback, guitar

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title photo © Seiji Morimoto

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Masahide Tokunaga is a Tokyo-based alto saxophone player/improviser who carries out extremely distinctive performances comprised mainly of long tones.

photo © Wataru Matsumoto

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Mizuki Ishikawa and Shun Momose have been working together on experimental music/ sound art duo performance with feedback interference since 2022 in Berlin.

photo © Martín Cortés

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Experimentik 2024  is supported by inm - initiative neue musik berlin / field notes

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Experimentik #77 / chirp crush

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Experimentik #77 / Kristina Warren

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Experimentik #78 / 16.Oct.2024 /

Marina Cyrino / Alexander Markvart / Javier Areal Vélez

16. October 2024 / 20:30- (doors 20:00) *no entry during sets

3 x solo

Marina Cyrino - amplified flute, objects

Alexander Markvart  - feedback acoustic guitar, objects

Javier Areal Vélez - laptop

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Marina Cyrino is a Brazilian flutist and sound artist based in Berlin. She works in the fields of improvisation, composition and performative installations. Her flute playing is characterized by singular techniques developed through the use of internal amplification. The rhythmic use of the flute, the extensive use of objects and balloons attached to the instrument, and the use of disassembled flute parts are other distinctive elements of her playing. She is a member of the Brazilian experimental music label Seminal Records.

photo © Cristina Marx_Photomusix

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Alexander Markvart - is a musician, member of theater projects and organizer of events and festivals. Born on January 5, 1987 in Kemerovo. Now based in Berlin. He is a notable figure on the Russian new improvised and experimental music scenes. Uses in many projects and performances a wide range of musical instruments: as quite common - piano, guitar, accordion, saxophone, trumpet, analog synthesizers, electric drums, flute, laptop, etc., and also various objects, wires, appliances, etc. Stylistically he works in a lot of musical genres from radical free improvisation, EAI, noise, hardcore, to well-structured projects, minimal techno and post-folk.

Founder of such polystylistic musical formations as Studio of Unconscious Music (SUM) and Siberian Improvisation Company (SIC!). Also in different years is a member of another experimental bands and projects - Sacrifices, Verevka, Radical Muzak Septet, MITLO, Klub Demboh, Inorganic Blossoming, PSVSV, Cherubs, Importunate Twins, Sekta Phoenix. Works and plays concerts in various projects with different musicians such as: Axel Dörner, Lucio Capece, Burkhard Beins, Mazen Kerbaj, Joke Lanz, Adam Asnan, Jonas Kocher, Fire! (Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin), Ilia Belorukov, Joel Grip, Nick Sudnik, Michel Doneda, Bryan Eubanks and with many others. 

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Javier Areal Vélez (Buenos Aires, 1985) is an experimental music composer, improviser and curator. His recent work focuses on the coding of digital companions for the performance of live improvised music. Javier's electronic music develops around noisy polyrhythms of extra-human complexity to make the most deformed audiences move. He researches human+machine collaborations through the use of samples, synthesis, lights, and mechanical robots. Additionally, Javier has a long career as performer of prepared electric guitar. His characteristic style relies heavily on a primal technique that emphasizes timbre and rhythm over traditional forms, favoring intensity and dynamic contrast. Javier has released records on labels worldwide and has collaborated with artists such as Heiner Goebbels, Audrey Chen, Chris Pitsiokos, Violeta García, Brian Chase, Shayna Dunkelman and Jorge Espinal. He is a member of CALATO, KYSE and VVU and wrote commissions for ensambles Híbridx, Rotativo and Tempi. Over the past decade, Javier has performed extensively in Argentina and toured across South and North America, Europe and Japan. Javier is the founder and director of RUIDO Experimental Music Festival (active since 2017), and he coordinates the Sound Arts Center (CASo) of the Secretary of Culture of Argentina.

photo © Susi Maresca

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Experimentik 2024  is supported by inm - initiative neue musik berlin / field notes

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Experimentik #76 / Antje Vowinckel