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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The opening of klub katarakt brings together artistic creation, learning, and collective experience. Conceived as a montage of works composed by members of the Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (OEIN), the programme also includes participants from the instrument-building and performance workshops held in Hamburg, making the concert both the culmination and the expansion of a shared process.
Rather than presenting a sequence of separate pieces, the concert unfolds as a continuously transforming sonic organism. Sounds move through space, overlap, approach and recede, exploring different forms of listening and different relationships between performers and audience.
One of the central principles underlying the concert is the Andean concept of the tropa: an ensemble made up of multiple related instruments, distinct from one another yet belonging to the same sonic family. Unity does not emerge from uniformity, but from the interaction of similar voices and from their subtle differences in timbre, tuning, intensity, and spatial position. Each instrument carries an individual voice, yet reaches its fullest meaning only in relation to the others.
From this perspective, the concert imagines space as an extension of the instrument and the ensemble as a mobile architecture of sound. OEIN performers and musicians who have taken part in the workshops become part of the same sonic fabric, producing a music organised not only from the stage, but through movement, distance, resonance, and mutual listening.
The result is less a concert understood as a finished object than a collective situation: an expanded tropa, temporarily formed in Hamburg, in which different experiences, bodies, and instruments intertwine to create a single field of sound.
The improvisation trio Potato Soup + Truffles consists of Elena Khurgina (harpsichord), Max Gausepohl (modular synthesizer) and Jeanne Lavalle (bassoon). Harpsichord and bassoon are modulated live and replenished with synthesized sounds. Multi-layered improvised soundscapes with a broad palette of diverse colours appear in a joint dialogue.
spiegel~ (formerly META) from Darmstadt, Landau, and Cologne will complete this set. The sound and multimedia collective of Karen Fritz, Katharina Hamp and Dirk Dullmaier explores in its immersive ambient, drone, and free folk improvisations themes such as fragility, the unconscious and trance.
The two ensembles will alternate their performances, with overlapping zones of shared activity.
Cooperation with the series female sonic feast.
A concert with compositions for voice, percussion and performance by Frauke Aulbert, Katharina Rosenberger, Annette Schlünz, Ying Wang and Agata Zubel featuring Frauke Aulbert (soprano, experimental singing, performance) and Lin Chen (percussion, performance).
female sonic feast is a feminist concert series launched in 2026 by Hamburg-based vocal performer Frauke Aulbert. The series focuses on the works of female and female-identified composers from various generations and countries of origin, bringing to light their artistic perspectives – which remain underrepresented in both repertoire and performance practice. Guest performers to date have included: Eva Zöllner (accordion), Ruth Velten (saxophone), Trio Generator Berlin, and up-and-coming actress Luisina Nuñez.
