Knistern November

Knistern 4 one goes a little step further beyond the pop routes, where we usually branch off, and connects to relations in our networks. Mark your calendars for Sunday 1 November, at the lovely Richten25. Brunch at 12:00, performances at 13:00.

Looking forward to welcoming:

Sofia Salvo is an active part of the wider Richten25 network of improvised music. Sofia, raised in Buenos Aires, is a baritone saxophone player and improviser dedicated to noise, free jazz and experimental music. She works in real time, and with the acoustics of the place, practicing improvisation and deep listening.

Hassan Umer Amin AKA Dozakhi/Polymath is a Pakistani-born punk, metal and hip-hop vocalist, lyricist and writer. Hassan was key in developing DIY underground music scenes back in Pakistan. Part of the all-immigrant hardcore punk band Zanjeer and the hip-hop collective Daranti Group, his various projects have spanned continents as well as genres.

Music journalist and experienced moderator Aida Baghernejad will join us to host the conversation. Aida writes and speaks about music, culture and food, and is particularly interested in the political dimensions of sound.

Between deep listening and improvised saxophone and an AV hip hop performance - we are curious to explore fluid ways of music making in various ways. How music and sound emerge in a moment, in relation to room, people, sounds and situation. How improvisation and composition influence each other. Moving across different styles in music making seeking emancipatory expression. Both artists have grown up in their respective local DIY and punk music scenes.

Knistern is presented by ByteFM and funded by Musicboard Berlin.

ABOUT KNISTERN

Knistern describes a crackling sound, and is also a metaphor for something that’s in the air between people, be it a crush or an argument. Something invisible that makes the relational space vibrate and spark. Something magical, intangible and not to be pinned down that is happening in the moment of relation to each other.

The series Knistern each time brings together two artists and a musical idea they are currently working on. They present their current work in a short set, and then have space to share their musical ideas in conversation with each other, a music journalist, and the audience. What happens in the space between the two artistic approaches, and what happens between people in the room in the conversation? And also, what happens between the sound and the review, the thinking, the tuning in, the conversation?

Knistern takes place in collaboration with Richten25, project space for improvised music in Berlin Wedding. What we also like about the idea of knistern is that it’s contingent and ephemeral. It lives in the present, and something amazing may come out, or maybe it’s just a brief moment in time.