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Cross Cuts – September 11ᵗʰ at PAS
Event by: Frank Nagel
Location: PAS Berlin, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 101, Berlin - Mitte
About event
Doors 7:30pm - Concert 8pm
https://www.facebook.com/artspace.petersburg
Frank invited six musicians to an evening of experimental electronic improvisation. They will share the stage in constantly changing duos. Each 20-minute set overlaps: one musician leaves the stage, another enters, and the sound transforms continuously. No solos, no interruptions—just an evolving stream of textures, rhythms, and sound dialogues in constant motion.
1 & 2 → 2 & 3 → 3 & 4 → 4 & 5 → 5 & 6 → 6 & 1
Intro: Jo
burgund t brandt, Olaf Hochherz, Jina0king, microplásticos, Francis Heery, Frank
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* Jo
…puzzles crooked tone songs from field recordings. In live performances she is playing the glasambel, an unique instrument, which she developed to present her music in her own way. In each of her songs she deeply steps into the world of her sound sources and discovers her own musical terrain by falling in love with hidden and dirty sounds, shaping them sensitively and developing a unique feeling for combining them.
https://orange-ear.de/jo
* burgund t brandt
...is a sound thinker, composer and artist living in Berlin (and Leipzig). She creates installations, performances and compositions in the field of tension between visual and auditory perception. In her artistic research, she explores and transforms the relationship of the in-between under aspects of performative listening in theory and practice. In particular, her focus is on phenomena of minimal, microtonal, soft noise and psychoacoustic sounds.
Her working method can be described as a playful dissection of everyday, in particular the inherent instabilities in the constructions of human(ity) and nature(ality) as well as communication and medium form the underlying concept. The intersection and connectness of ecology and experimental music are explored artistically through the use of field recordings, synthesis methods, and (electro-)acoustic instruments.
https://soundcloud.com/burgundtbrandt
* Olaf Hochherz
…is a sound artist and researcher mostly performing with self build electronic instruments and computer programs, developing installations and performance installations, interested in the conjunction of the instability, self-generation, and associative capacity of sounds.
„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.“
https://hochherz.klingt.org
* Jina0king
…observe everything connected to the present as it is and record the clues of the universe she discover within it in various ways. Mainly expressed through sound, visuals, and performance, it creates resonant sounds by recognizing the sense of connection from the inside to the outside.
Usually play using electric guitar and effect pedals, objects and natural things.
https://linktr.ee/Jina0king
* microplasticos
Mel, formerly of Buenos Aires, now based in Berlin, performs sonic experiments as microplásticos. Combining processed vocals, bass, field recordings, electronics, distortion, and effects to create immersive, evolving soundscapes. Through collage, improvisation, and the interplay of subtle and abrasive, silence and noise, and layered elements, each sound interacts as part of a dynamic process, shaping textured, complex, and fragmented sonic landscapes that reveal unexpected forms of musicality.
https://soundcloud.com/microplasticos
* Francis Heery
…is a composer, performer and curator. He uses synthesizers to speculate about non-human consciousness and the otherworldly nature of animal subjectivity. Stemming from his interest in science-fiction, surrealism and post-humanism he is interested in exploring the metaphor of music as a quasi-organic phenomenon.
He is co-founder of untergrün and Nexus, two monthly concert series dedicated to improvised and experimental music. He also makes ‘Fortean’ electronica under the name The Cube Of Unknowing, with eight albums released on various international labels.
https://www.francisheery.com
* Frank
Frank creates a unique soundscape in the transition from noise to music. He has arranged his improv set with hints of melodies, sporadic rhythms, and sound structures formed by a variety of analog sound samples. These are integrated into the digital signals of a no-input mixer. Another element is a modified resonator guitar. Driven by a motor, a coil, and a closed circuit, its strings are set into permanent vibration, generating an endless sustain. This results in a radical transformation of both the sound and the handling of the instrument.
https://orange-ear.de/frank
https://www.facebook.com/artspace.petersburg
Frank invited six musicians to an evening of experimental electronic improvisation. They will share the stage in constantly changing duos. Each 20-minute set overlaps: one musician leaves the stage, another enters, and the sound transforms continuously. No solos, no interruptions—just an evolving stream of textures, rhythms, and sound dialogues in constant motion.
1 & 2 → 2 & 3 → 3 & 4 → 4 & 5 → 5 & 6 → 6 & 1
Intro: Jo
burgund t brandt, Olaf Hochherz, Jina0king, microplásticos, Francis Heery, Frank
_______________________________________________________________
* Jo
…puzzles crooked tone songs from field recordings. In live performances she is playing the glasambel, an unique instrument, which she developed to present her music in her own way. In each of her songs she deeply steps into the world of her sound sources and discovers her own musical terrain by falling in love with hidden and dirty sounds, shaping them sensitively and developing a unique feeling for combining them.
https://orange-ear.de/jo
* burgund t brandt
...is a sound thinker, composer and artist living in Berlin (and Leipzig). She creates installations, performances and compositions in the field of tension between visual and auditory perception. In her artistic research, she explores and transforms the relationship of the in-between under aspects of performative listening in theory and practice. In particular, her focus is on phenomena of minimal, microtonal, soft noise and psychoacoustic sounds.
Her working method can be described as a playful dissection of everyday, in particular the inherent instabilities in the constructions of human(ity) and nature(ality) as well as communication and medium form the underlying concept. The intersection and connectness of ecology and experimental music are explored artistically through the use of field recordings, synthesis methods, and (electro-)acoustic instruments.
https://soundcloud.com/burgundtbrandt
* Olaf Hochherz
…is a sound artist and researcher mostly performing with self build electronic instruments and computer programs, developing installations and performance installations, interested in the conjunction of the instability, self-generation, and associative capacity of sounds.
„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.“
https://hochherz.klingt.org
* Jina0king
…observe everything connected to the present as it is and record the clues of the universe she discover within it in various ways. Mainly expressed through sound, visuals, and performance, it creates resonant sounds by recognizing the sense of connection from the inside to the outside.
Usually play using electric guitar and effect pedals, objects and natural things.
https://linktr.ee/Jina0king
* microplasticos
Mel, formerly of Buenos Aires, now based in Berlin, performs sonic experiments as microplásticos. Combining processed vocals, bass, field recordings, electronics, distortion, and effects to create immersive, evolving soundscapes. Through collage, improvisation, and the interplay of subtle and abrasive, silence and noise, and layered elements, each sound interacts as part of a dynamic process, shaping textured, complex, and fragmented sonic landscapes that reveal unexpected forms of musicality.
https://soundcloud.com/microplasticos
* Francis Heery
…is a composer, performer and curator. He uses synthesizers to speculate about non-human consciousness and the otherworldly nature of animal subjectivity. Stemming from his interest in science-fiction, surrealism and post-humanism he is interested in exploring the metaphor of music as a quasi-organic phenomenon.
He is co-founder of untergrün and Nexus, two monthly concert series dedicated to improvised and experimental music. He also makes ‘Fortean’ electronica under the name The Cube Of Unknowing, with eight albums released on various international labels.
https://www.francisheery.com
* Frank
Frank creates a unique soundscape in the transition from noise to music. He has arranged his improv set with hints of melodies, sporadic rhythms, and sound structures formed by a variety of analog sound samples. These are integrated into the digital signals of a no-input mixer. Another element is a modified resonator guitar. Driven by a motor, a coil, and a closed circuit, its strings are set into permanent vibration, generating an endless sustain. This results in a radical transformation of both the sound and the handling of the instrument.
https://orange-ear.de/frank