PerformersSamuel Arce Cuiza, Paulo Amendoeira, Frauke Aulbert, Frank Bretschneider, Alvaro Cabrera Irina, Gabriel Capajeña Balderrama, Lin Chen, Willy Chura Alarcon, Dirk Dullmaier, Adriaana Escobar Carvajal, Karen Fritz, Einar Fuentes Nina, Max Gausepohl, Carlos Gutiérrez Quiroga, Katharina Hampe, Elena Khurgina, Peter Kutin, Ariel Laura Huancani, Jeanne Lavalle, Patrik Lechner, Tatiana Lopez Churata, María Victoria Medina Guayao, Mayra […]
The Bolivian Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (OEIN) is invited as ensemble-in-residence for 2027. The OEIN is operating less as a traditional ensemble and more as a collective platform for research, experimentation, and creation. Rooted in the sonic knowledge of the Andean region, the group has expanded its practice beyond performance to engage deeply with […]
The Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (OEIN) is a collective of sonic research and creation that works from Indigenous Andean musical practices to develop contemporary forms of composition, listening, and performance. In recent years, the OEIN has consolidated itself as a singular force within contemporary music, operating less as a traditional ensemble and more as […]
Marta Zapparoli is an Italian sound and radio artist, composer, performer, improviser, and independent researcher based in Berlin. She holds degrees in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, fine arts in Verona, soprano saxophone, and trained as a sound technician. Active in sound art since 2003, her main investigation is in the […]
Frank Bretschneider is a musician, composer and video artist based in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Bretschneider’s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena. Bretschneider was raised in […]
Vluor (Heather, arable landscape, field) is a sound and spatial installation comprising hay, wool, ceramic objects, medicinal plants and sound generators distributed throughout the space. Visitors approach and enter into a dialogue with a soundscape composition made up of multi-layered sounds from places and living beings. Ancient cultural techniques, tied to fauna, landscape and the […]
The Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (OEIN) is a collective of sonic research and creation that works from Indigenous Andean musical practices to develop contemporary forms of composition, listening, and performance.
In recent years, the OEIN has consolidated itself as a singular force within contemporary music, operating less as a traditional ensemble and more as a collective platform for research, experimentation, and creation. Rooted in the sonic knowledge of the Andean region, the group has expanded its practice beyond performance to engage deeply with questions of listening, memory, and the evolving life of Indigenous musical systems.
A defining aspect of their recent work is the integration of research and creation. Projects often emerge from sustained engagement with historical archives, oral traditions, and community-based knowledge, which are then reinterpreted through collaborative rehearsal processes. This has led to performances that feel both grounded and forward-looking, where ancestral practices are neither preserved nor abstracted, but transformed through collective exploration.
OEIN’s performances emphasize spatialization, embodiment, and the social dimension of sound. The ensemble frequently reconfigures the relationship between musicians and audience, creating immersive environments where listening unfolds as a shared experience. This approach reinforces their broader artistic position: music not as a fixed object, but as a dynamic, relational practice.
Through this sustained work, OEIN has positioned itself at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and experimental music, contributing a distinct voice to global contemporary discourse while remaining deeply connected to the territories and communities from which its sound emerges.
Marta Zapparoli is an Italian sound and radio artist, composer, performer, improviser, and independent researcher based in Berlin. She holds degrees in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, fine arts in Verona, soprano saxophone, and trained as a sound technician. Active in sound art since 2003, her main investigation is in the electromagnetic environments through the use of antennas (some self-built), radio receivers, detectors, tape machines and self-made recordings of natural and technological electromagnetic radiations.
Her work investigates “Technological Nature” and other-than-human voices within the Anthropocene through performances, compositions, and site-specific projects. Since 2010 she is core member of Berlin’s Splitter Orchester, and collaborates internationally in electro acoustic music, free improvisation: She has performed at festivals such as CTM, MaerzMusik, Atonal, Darmstadt, LisboaSoa, and Borealis, A L’ARME!, Osillations, LEM, Musraramix, ArtAct, among others. Her work has been broadcast by WDR3, SWR2, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, RTS.ch, RAI3 Battiti.
martazapparoli.klingt.org
Frank Bretschneider is a musician, composer and video artist based in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Bretschneider’s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena.
Bretschneider was raised in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz since 1990), where his aesthetic developed as he listened to pirate radio and smuggled Beastie Boys tapes in the former East Germany. After studying fine arts and inspired by science fiction radio plays and films he began experimenting with tape machines, synthesizers, and modified guitars in 1984, as well as exploring the possibilities of exchange between visual art and music by various means such as film, video and computer graphics.
In 1986 Bretschneider founded AG Geige, a successful and influential East German underground band. After three albums and splitting in 1993, Bretschneider and fellow AG Geige member Olaf Bender founded the Rastermusic record label in 1995, which eventually merged with Carsten Nicolai’s noton to form raster-noton (now raster media) in 1999. Since then Bretschneider has released more than 30 albums on various labels including 12k, Line, Mille Plateaux, and Faitiche, exploring the possibilities and boundaries of electronic music, from beat driven, almost club suitable music, to the more adventurous and abstract side of the genre.
frankbretschneider.com
Since 2025, the trio Potato Soup + Truffles has been blending the sounds of the harpsichord, bassoon, and modular synthesizer.
The harpsichord and bassoon are modulated live and complemented by synthesized sounds. Through their collaborative interplay, they create multi-layered, improvised soundscapes featuring a wide range of diverse timbres.
The trio consists of Elena Khurgina (harpsichord), Jeanne Lavalle (bassoon), and Max Gausepohl (modular synthesizer).
Elena Khurgina is a harpsichordist specialising in early and contemporary music, improvisation and interdisciplinary projects. In her artistic work, she explores the expressive possibilities of historical instruments in a contemporary context.
Born in Charkiv (Ukraine), she began her musical studies at the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow. She subsequently continued her training in Hamburg, where she specialised in the harpsichord and completed her Master’s degree at the Hamburg School of Music and Theatre (HfMT). She also studied Contemporary Harpsichord at the Conservatorium in Amsterdam as part of the Erasmus programme.
She is the first-prize winner of the Prix Annelie de Man for contemporary harpsichord and performs regularly at international festivals, including the Bachfest Hamburg, blurred edges, The Art of Improvisation, Bach & now!, StimmeX, WePresent, the Feminale Hamburg and others. In addition, she develops innovative educational projects centred on the harpsichord for the Hamburg Open Online University.
Jeanne Lavalle is a bassoonist and contrabassoonist from Nice (FR). She trained in Paris and Lyon, as well as at the Hamburg School of Music and Theatre.
She performs with national orchestras in France and, as part of the ensembles BLOC and SPICC, continually explores contemporary sounds, extended playing techniques and improvisation.
She is a co-founder of Ensemble 404 and Ensemble Potato Soup + Truffles.
Max Gausepohl is a musician and sound designer working across a wide range of contexts. His artistic practice lies at the intersection of music, sound art and performative media design. As well as creating sound designs for animated films, he is involved in live electronics and spatial audio performances within ensembles and theatre productions.
As part of the DETEKTOR collective, he develops the sound design for radio plays, which are staged as performative formats at various venues. At the heart of his work lies an exploration of the boundaries between music, abstract sound collages and their spatial composition. His examination of the meaning and impact of sound forms the foundation of his artistic practice.
Patrik Lechner, born in Vienna in 1986, has been working in the fields of experimental music and real-time video art since the 2000s. Publications in the areas of digital audio effects, multimedia programming in general, audio analysis, AI, industry 4.0. Activities as a lecturer eg. at the Music University of Vienna, the University of Applied Arts, UAS Salzburg and UAS St.Pölten.
Previous performances of audio/visual performances e.g. in:
Austria (e.g. Musik Protokoll, Impuls Tanz Festival), Belgium (BAM Festival), Italy, Bulgaria, Germany (ZKM), Canada, Dubai, Mexico (MUTEK), Shanghai 2010 (Expo 2010). Lechner received an honorable mention at the PRIX ars electronica 2019 in the Sound Art category.
Peter Kutin works with sound, space and perception, exploring their compositional possibilities and the ways in which they intersect. His practice is characterised by blending music / sound with image, sculpture, light, kinetic art or video – an in-depth exploration of the interdependence and interaction of auditory and visual stimuli that has expanded his artistic territory far beyond music. This has resulted in a diverse body of work encompassing experimental films, multimedia scenarios, kinetic sculptures and stage performances.
In 2027, his debut feature film, The Sound of Musick [sic!], is slated for completion.
Kutin received numerous awards, scholarships and residencies. In 2019, his kinetic sound-sculpture Torso#1 was honoured with the Prix Ars-Electronica. In 2016, along with the composer Christina Kubisch and his long time collaborator Florian Kindlinger, he received the esteemed Karl-Szucka award for the composition Desert Bloom. He received a scholarship for composition by Austria’s department for culture and arts in 2023 and was an Artist in Residence at WIELS center for contemporary art in Brussels in 2026.
Kutin composed scores and sound-environments for several arthouse-film productions, many of which premiered and received accolades at some of the world’s most significant film festivals.
Critic’s have described Kutin’s work as ’undeniably effective’ (The Wire Magazine), and ’not only good but important’ (A closer listen). He is a founding member of the label Ventil-Records, the concert series Velak-Gala (platform for experimental music), the RealDeal Festival and the ’sonic-laboratory‘ Westbahnstudios in Vienna.
He lives between Vienna and Brussels.
kutin.xyz
Frauke Aulbert is a soprano, extreme vocalist, composer, performer, and curator. She is considered one of the most active and versatile performers in contemporary music. Her work ranges from researching and collecting vocal traditions and singing techniques worldwide (such as P’ansori, overtone singing, Dhrupad, beatboxing, Noh, etc.) to the virtuosic interpretation of musical and performative compositions, as well as to her own music-theatrical works developed in close contact with the audience. These have been (premiered) at festivals such as Warsaw Autumn, Klang! Copenhagen, Resonant Bodies NYC, Átlátszó Hang Budapest, and Ensems Valencia. In 2026, Trio Generator will premiere Aulbert’s full-length music theater performance to try the impossible artwork at AckerStadtPalast Berlin.
The foundation of Aulbert’s vocal virtuosity lies in her extraordinary range and the high flexibility of her voice, the spectrum of which she has continuously expanded since completing her classical vocal diploma. Her techniques extend far beyond traditional possibilities and transcend musical and vocal boundaries.
She was awarded first prize by the Stockhausen Foundation and has received artist residencies in Rome, Paris, Stuttgart and Kyoto, as well as the Musikfonds’ AI grant in 2027. Numerous crossover projects demonstrate her curiosity and versatility. Aulbert performs her own compositions and those of other composers worldwide, from major venues to small off-the-beaten-track stages, from Senegal to New York, from the Opéra Bastille (2028/29, world premiere of Czernowin) to the Berghain in Berlin.
stimmkuenstlerin.de
Born in Nanjing and now living in Hamburg, Lin Chen is an internationally active multi-percussionist. She studied in Nanjing, Weimar and Hamburg, and completed her concert examination with distinction in 2011.
As a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician, she has worked with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra and the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, amongst others. In 2026, she was a soloist with the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra. Together with Kristian Sievers, she forms the Duo Pertar.
Her focus lies on classical and contemporary music, as well as on blending Western and Chinese soundscapes using the marimba, vibraphone, the Chinese drum ‘Da Gu’ and the Chinese hammered dulcimer ‘Yangqin’.
lin-chen-percussion.com
Paulo Amendoeira is a Portuguese percussionist, curator and improviser splitting between Bern, Lisbon and Alentejo. His music deals with concrete blocks made out of sound and noise. Broadly speaking, it is about the need to decelerate, both for himself and hopefully for his audience as well. Interested in both near silence and harsh noise, he seeks for physical ways of experiencing sound.
Plays with different bands and ensembles (side proYect, ruído blanco, Concrète[Lab], VERINNERLICHUNG), works together with renowned composers from the Neue-Musik scene (Ilona Perger, Simon Steen-Andersen, Michael Maierhof, Ángeles Rojas, Zeynep Toraman), played in festivals across Europe (Manifeste, Gaudeamus, OutFest, blurred edges) and is co-founder of the collectives Unproductive Platforms and Cigarra.
pauloamendoeira.com
spiegel~ (formerly META) is a sound and multimedia collective of Karen Fritz, Katharina Hamp and Dirk Dullmaier based in Darmstadt, Landau, and Cologne. The collective explores in its immersive ambient, drone, and free folk improvisations themes such as fragility, the unconscious and trance
Since 2021, they have been performing in varying line-ups and have presented their installations and performances at venues including the Casino Luxembourg, the Experimance Festival and during their residency at the Frise Künstler*innenhaus in Hamburg.
metaspiegel.bandcamp.com
