Festival Editions
As If We Could Agree
Berghain Säule, am Wriezener Bahnhof, 10243 Berlin → MapTickets: 22 € (includes Berghain and Panorama Bar)
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ThuAn expansive programme spanning caustic noise, infectious rhythms, genre-bending electronics, and all good things in between takes over Berghain, Säule, and Panorama Bar.
Prolific Vietnamese composer, producer, and label-founder Nguyen Hong Giang plays live as part of a formidable noise programme in Berghain's Säule. C-drík is a musician, activist, curator, DJ, and author, in addition to the Syrphe label head. Based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, is Sodadosa, who has been active as part of numerous noise projects such as Punkasila, Feces Anatomy, and Sulfur. Hacklab hosts Peter Kirn, Lintang Radittya, and Andreas Siagian collaborate on a special performance. Following the release of her acclaimed eponymous album, AJA is guaranteed to deliver a bizarre, maximalist hellscape of a performance.
Rambo, Nguyen Hong Gian, Lintang Radittya, Andreas Siagian, and Sodadosa appear as part of Nusasonic, an initiative of Goethe-Institut Southeast Asia that is collaboratively curated by Yes No Wave (Yogyakarta), WSK Festival of the Recently Possible (Manila), Playfreely/Black Kaji (Singapore), and CTM Festival (Berlin).
Nguyen Hong Giang[VN]
Nguyen Hong Giang is a Vietnamese producer, composer, and label head, currently based in Saigon. With 11 years of training at the Ho Chi Minh Conservatory behind him, he now works primarily with experimental noise music.
Rambo[PH]
Mark Rambo J Macatangay, aka Rambo, is an electronic hobbyist, analogue synth builder, music maker, and noise artist, based in Bocaue, Bulacan in the Phillippines.
C-drík[INT]
Born in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), and currently based in Berlin, C-drík is a musician, activist, curator, DJ and author. He runs Syrphe, a recording label focusing on electronic and noise music from Asia and Africa, and establishing connections between different disciplines and media.
Zanias[AU/DE]
Zanias is a singer, performer, producer, and DJ based in Berlin. Born in Melbourne, Australia, but raised in Southeast Asia, Zanias moved to London to study, before finding her voice in music. Having performed in dark wave duo Linea Aspera with Ryan Ambridge between 2011 and 2013, Zanias relocated to Berlin to pursue her work as a solo artist.
AJA[UK]
Noise artist AJA stages some of the most captivating and confrontational performances in the electronic music underground, inviting a reciprocative catharsis between her and the audience. The sonic density in her work borders on the psychedelic, as deep drones are ripped apart by arrhythmic percussion; all the while her stage presence, a mess of fluorescent paint and exposed flesh, create an overwhelming experience.
Sodadosa[ID]
Sodadosa is a moniker of Krisna Widiathama, an artist based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He is a well known participant in the country's experimental music scene, active in many bands and sound projects such as Black Ribbon, Liwoth, The Spektakuler, Punkasila, Feces Anatomy, Sulfur, and more.
Andreas Siagian[ID]
Andreas Siagian is artist/engineer working on a wide range of practice in DIY electronics and interdisciplinary art. His practice began in 2004, when he decided to teach himself how to develop software for highway geometric design calculation and planning in Civil Engineering.
Lintang Radittya[ID]
Lintang Radittya is a self-taught instrument builder and sound artist/performer based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. His current interests include DIY analogue electronics; the relationship between sound and space; randomness; javanese futurism; and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, and experimental music.
