The two-day festival eavesdrop presents contemporary electronic music and sound art from more than a dozen outstanding Berlin-based and international artists. Taking place at silent green’s Betonhalle, the festival’s 3rd edition uniquely brings together a group of adventurous composer/performers and installation artists that share a common practice in electronic sound composition whilst spanning a diversity of inter-related contemporary tendencies. Electronic is understood in its broadest and most curious sense to include turntablism, DIY analogue electronics, AI voice synthesis, generative sound installation, electric guitar manipulations, analogue synthesisers and the human machine relations apparent in processed, extended vocal techniques.
'To eavesdrop' is a mode of listening intently and eavesdrop invites listeners to consider, from multiple perspectives, new social and technical developments in international music and sound cultures.
eavesdrop is presented at silent green's Betonhalle, historically situated at the former crematorium in Wedding -
Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin
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Tehran-born, Paris-based composer, producer, mastering engineer & violinist uses acoustic instruments, sound synthesis, noise & field recordings to create high-contrast colour combinations & textures. A unique sonic world of juxtaposing musical elements & atmospheres ensues. Solo releases include Kandoo ft. Safir - Kandoo Project - Tehran/Paris 2023, REMS - PTP - New York 2018.
Photo by Laurent Orseau
composer and musician, berlin
started not not being in 1970
started losing trust in 1983
started losing hope in 1989
started losing discipline in 1993
started losing hair in 2005
started losing perspective in 2020
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Louis Cameron is an African American artist that lives and works in Berlin. Cameron works in diverse media including painting, conceptual art, and video. His video works often draw on his encounters with the city environment, extracting color to create lyrical compositions.
Photo by Estefanía Landesmann
As a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American living in Berlin, Audrey Chen’s work explores the displacement of story & history due to migration & integration processes, loss, adoption of language, & how the past can be accessed & traced through inherited & lived experience. Through extreme hyper-extensions of her voice she invokes a joint resonant body/space transforming itself into a feedback loop of imagination, touch, vibration & sound. Deeply intertwined with the act of invocation, Audrey calls upon the physical body to remember beyond the limitations of its own memory, beyond its lifetime into generations past, simultaneously echoing into the present & forwards.
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Hugo Esquinca (Mexico City, 1990) produces actions and conditions utilising audio electronics at excessive levels of amplification. His work has been presented in diverse contexts and venues such as EMPAC-New York, Stedelijk Museum-Amsterdam, National Centre for Contemporary Arts NCCA-Moscow, Museum Nikola Tesla-Zagreb, Festspielhaus HELLERAU-Dresden, CONCRETE Alserkal-Dubai, Namba BEARS-Osaka, 20000V-Tokyo, MIRA Ploschad of Modern Art Siberia-Krasnoyarsk, Le Centquatre-Paris, Fondazione Antonio Ratti-Como, Ujazdowski Castle for Contemporary Art-Warsaw, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Tresor and Berghain-Berlin among others.
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Nina Garcia lives and works in Paris. Through minimal means: electric guitar, pedal and amp, she sculpts sound and delves into chaos to bring out the unheard-of. Her focus is on gesture and research into the electric guitar itself: its resonances, limits, extensions, impurities, and audible recesses, going with or against it, containing it or letting it sound, supporting it or violating it. More a duo than a solo, performances stun with a blend of technical mastery and total freedom. In 2020/2021, she has been in residency at GRM for a commission for the Présences Électroniques festival.
Photo by Paul Bourdrel
Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer, working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures. Through installation, live performance & the sonification of data she engages the affective, embodying & relational affordances of sound as a means of creative inquiry. Research based artistic projects provide sonic experiential platforms that encourage listening as a mode of socio-political investigation, intervening in everyday situations and public spaces, as well as gallery contexts. She has also released solo albums on the Sonic Pieces, Karl Records, Editions Mego & OOH-Sounds labels.
Photo by Camille Blake
ilan katin is a Berlin based artist who currently makes non-figurative drawings, occasionally collaborates with musicians doing live visual performances, and sometimes ventures into the creation of installations.
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Improviser, music producer, DJ and cartoonist, Pogo was born in Rome and now lives in Berlin. He has been a strong voice in the European underground scene since the early 1990s and in recent years has developed his own language as a singer/voice-artist using his experience as a rock singer, an improviser and radio-artist where music, sounds, anecdotal and narrative elements fuse constantly. His solo performances are a mix of rock'n'roll, noise, nonsense language, electronics, abstract story theatre and screaming in an electroacoustic and entertaining mash-up.
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Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award winning composer & turntablist. Inspired by art across genres, she has developed her own unique language, bringing in ideas from free improv & extreme noise. Her music has recently been described as ‘genuinely ground-breaking’ (London Jazz News 2022) & ‘high-velocity sonic surrealism’ (The Guardian 2022). Recent releases include ‘BOWN’ on Heat Crimes, 'SADTITZZ' & ‘SKEEN'. Recent performances include Turntable Trio with Evicshen & Maria Chávez, & as soloist & co-composer of ‘6 Scenes for Turntables and Orchestra’ with Matt Shlomowitz for ICTUS/Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, at IM Darmstadt 2023.
Photo by Angela Grabowska
Lottie Sebes is a Berlin-based sound artist from Australia with a practice spanning the fields of sound, sculpture, performance and video. She is fascinated by the past lives, cultural meanings and living agencies of old and new technologies. She seeks to trace the way power structures are manifested in our relations with machines. Sebes has exhibited and performed internationally, including at Elsewhere Living Museum (USA), Sonoscopia (PT), iMAL Art Center for digital cultures & technology (BE), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (AU), Antre Peaux (FR) and Experimance Festival(DE).
Photo by Hannah Brandes
Ilpo Väisänen formed the legendary Pan sonic with Mika Vainio in 1993, one of the most visionary, ground-breaking and innovating projects in contemporary electronic music for over two decades. Solo, Ilpo rarely uses more than the simplest of devices: analog keyboards and self-made oscillators. He mixes techno with the spirit of the most caustic rock, dub, and the most enlightened side of industrial. Former releases on his own label Kangaroo, a sub-label of Raster-Noton, express his personal affinity with dub music. Further solo albums include ‘Communist Dub’ (2015), ‘I-LP-O in Dub’ (2017), and ‘ÄÄNET’ via the Editions Mego label and ‘Keskipäivän Hetken Sumea Vaillinaisuus’ (2022) on the I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free label.
Photo by Tomoko Nasato
Oren Ambarchi is an Australian multi-instrumentalist, based in Berlin. His practice focuses on the exploration of the guitar. He is a prolific solo artist and consummate collaborator who has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists over the last three decades. Since 2009 Ambarchi has run the Black Truffle record label. Ambarchi's latest album is Shebang released via US label Drag City.
orenambarchi.com
crys cole is a Canadian sound artist, currently based in Berlin, working in composition, performance and sound installation. Cole has performed worldwide as a solo artist and in various collaborations; working with Oren Ambarchi, James Rushford (as Ora Clementi), Francis Plagne, Leif Elggren, Tetuzi Akiyama, Seiji Morimoto, David Rosenboom, Annea Lockwood, Keith Rowe, David Behrman and more. Cole's work has been published by Black Truffle, Penultimate Press, Ultra Eczema, Boomkat, Students of Decay, & others.
cryscole.com
Jessica Ekomane is a French-born, Berlin-based, electronic musician and sound artist. She creates situations where the sound acts as a transformative element for the space and the audience. Her ever-changing and immersive sonic landscapes are grounded in questions such as the relationship between individual perception and collective dynamics or the investigation of listening expectations and their societal roots. Her first LP Multivocal was released in 2019 via Important Records. Since then, her work has been extensively presented internationally in festivals, venues, contemporary art spaces and museums. She was one of the fellows in residence for the villa Romana Prize 2023 in Florence.
Photo by Camille Blake
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EAVESDROP Festival, 2018 from Jasmine Guffond on Vimeo.
