The trio was founded in early 2024 by bassist Jonathan Aardestrup, who got along very well with the other two players. Since Peter Ole and Jonathan had previously worked together as a duo and organized meetings with international guests in Denmark and abroad, they invited Czech saxophonist Radim Hanousek in February and the result was a magical musical meeting. The three musicians immediately caught each other’s eye and played four concerts for enthusiastic audiences all over Denmark. In October, the trio went on a small tour of the Czech Republic and Austria, where they met with similar reactions. Admission 150,- in advance, 200,- on site, priceless experiences
Der in Wien lebende Trompeter und Veranstalter (Monday Improvisers Session) bewegt sich in den Genres frei improviserte Musik, Zeitgenössischer Jazz und World Music. Seit seinen Studienzeiten in Linz und Graz lotet er melodische Möglichkeiten verschiedener Pentatoniken und Symmetrischen Skalen aus.
Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der Erforschung innovativer, unkonventioneller Klänge sowie der harmonisch-klanglichen Gestaltung durch den Einsatz von Trompete und Gesang in Kombination (Soloprojekt „Frames of K“).
Seine musikalisch umfangreichen Beschäftigungen führten ihn zu Kooperationen und Konzerten mit Mars Williams, Marco Eneidi, Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Georg Gräwe, Oskar Aichinger, Joëlle Leandre, Wolfgang Mitterer, Wolfgang Reisinger, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Peter Herbert, Frank Gratkowski, Tobias Delius, Mamadou Diabate und Ensembles wie Orchester 33 1/3, Grubenklang Orchestra, u.v.a.m.
Aktuelle Ensembles als Co-Leader sind G.B.K., bzss & pulsinger, Crop Sequences, Unity M. Duo Wang & Berghammer
Dimitra Kousteridou (DIY circuits) & Miriam den Boer Salmón (Violine)
Long time collaborators Dimitra and Miriam meet in an outward bound journey, always reaching for the next challenge with a shared love for the infinite world of sounds. Ever since their first collaboration on the project ‚6.8KOhm‘ in 2017, their work is in constant movement. Tapping into the moment, researching the physicality of music synthesis and questioning everyday shapes and structures. With both newly invented instruments and a centuries old violin the duo is inherently electroacoustic, often working with sculpture, paint or movement to amplify their reimagining of a space in time.
Dimitra Kousteridou is a composer, researcher, and sound artist. Her work is driven by a desire to invent a language in composition that examines tactile and sound aspects within site-specific installations and performances, originating from improvisation. Through multidisciplinary forms that include ephemeral situations and fractures of objects, she creates a space for research while using the sound and natural attributes of materials in time. Recently, she’s been diving into improvised sound compositions using handmade instruments and no input mixing techniques. She has presented her research at conferences and festivals, solo and group exhibitions in Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway, Lebanon, Serbia, and the UK. She is a founding member of the experimental intermediate project “6.8KOhm Improvisation Series,” an ongoing improvisation action, in collaboration with musicians and artists.
Miriam den Boer-Salmón is a violinist and creator based in Amsterdam. Her multicultural background reflects in a love for diversity, for ever-changing perspectives on society and reality which shows in her musical ventures. With improvisation at its core, she is constantly exploring musicking cultures, combining worlds together in her own unique language through both written and improvised music, including influences from folklore to new contemporary music and curious collaborations across disciplines, searching for the sounds physicality, shape and colour. Current projects are Mediterranean prog folk band Ell Sol&los Saturnos, improvisational strings duo FAUCES with Amanda Irarrazabal, and performances with Dimitra Kousteridou and dancer Maria Mavridou.
Sara Käser (Violoncello) & Natalie Peters (Stimme)
Sara Käser and Natalie Peters play their music uncompromisingly, unconventionally, and uniquely. They improvise and, through their spontaneous expression, create a flow between conscious and unconscious realities. Between dream and heightened alertness, they resonate with their immediate conditions and surroundings while also creating contrasts that highlight their clear positions and artistic solutions.
Their musical language initially seems closely tied to their personalities, yet it dissolves in the interplay of influences and aesthetic visions, releasing entirely new dynamics. Their sound textures are wild and fragile, simple and complex at the same time, always permeated by an inner breath that carries and evolves the ephemeral nature of their music.
It is a search for the wondrous, a sense of wonder that turns every moment into an intense experience while simultaneously encouraging the listener to let go of what has just been experienced.
Sara Käser is a freelance cellist and music educator based in Wiesenberg, Nidwalden. She specializes in contemporary and experimental music, both as an improviser and interpreter. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with various artists, ensembles, and bands, including Stimmenfeuer, Ensemble der Dinge (theater), Natalie Peters (voice duo), Ensemble Nachhall and Ensemble Sargo. Käser completed her Master degree at Arts in Music at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts including attendance at the Darmstädter Ferienkurs für Neue Musik und Donaueschingen Musiktage. In collaboration with author Noëmi Lerch, Käser formed the duo Käser & Lerch, which was honored as Pro Argovia Artists. Their performances intertwine music and text, exploring themes of traditional craftsmanship, passion, and love. Käser’s artistic journey is marked by her exploration of the cello’s expressive possibilities, her interest in the healing and transformative power of music, and her commitment to blending genres and crossing artistic boundaries. www.saracello.ch
Natalie Peters ( D/CH) / Locarno is an improvised music vocalist, performer and curator who explores the human voice in its simplest and most extravagant forms of expression. The spontaneous, unpredictable and playful nature of improvised music allows her to find a vivid artistic expression that brings to consciousness the surreal, intangible side of human existence. In her music, she seeks presence and a natural communication that allows for unconventional and surprising possibilities and explores boundaries. Listening to a human voice inevitably brings us into contact with it and allows us to reason within our own bodies, because every muscle has a memory of its biological function. Natalie tries to merge music and life into a story that is not there to be decoded, but to address deeper human mysteries.
In her solo concerts, she creates a presence that plays with temporal notions through direct resonance with her environment, audience and herself. For her, remembering, forgetting, visions and conditions are states that she carefully touches and reintegrates into consciousness through the unusual but precise use of her voice. Her current projects are the duo Sara Käser / Natalie Peters, the duo Sebi Tramontana/ Natalie Peters, the quartet SYNC and the ensemble Sous-Sol, which she leads in Locarno. She has performed at festivals such as Archipel Festival Genève, La Fête a Bruit, Biel, Performance Festival Oerlikon, Zurich, Filmpodium Zurich, BangBang Social Elegance, Museum Tinguelly Basel, etc. She works continuously in various projects with artists and collectives such as Sebastian Strinning, Sofia Borges, Klaus Janek, Jacek Chmiel, Yara Li Mennel, Sebi Tramontana, Sara Käser, Thomas Rohrer,Marina Tantanozi, Alfred Zimmerlin, Heike Fiedler, Amin Alavi, Caroline Tallone, PANCH, Collettivo Conserere, Casa Stanata and others. As a curator, she organises the music series ‘Frequenze Libere’ in Locarno. She is the initiator of the cultural association and artist network Carovana091.
Oslava svátku svatého Michala. Zahrají Delia, Hrubý, Nejtek, Rataj, Wroblewski a Zbořil.
Improvizovaný koncert českých Michalů, českých muzikantů, proběhne v rámci série WHO'S CRAZY, kurátorované Helenou Konvalinovou. Doporučené vstupné je 200 korun.
Noctiluca – Yakochu – is a Berlin based band. It formed in 2018, and consists of electronics musicians who perform effects with guitar, keys, and analog hardware synths. Their sounds blend into one canvas like an endless abstract drawing that consistently but slowly evolve into another abstraction. https://noctiluca.bandcamp.com/
Antti Virtaranta & Blandine Casen Improvised music and visuals / Berlin
silent green Open Lab #3: megouem + Dara Shikoh + Kkoki
silent green Kulturproduktionen GmbH & Co. KG Gerichtstraße 35 13347 Berlin +49 (0)30 - 120 822 10 E-mail: info(at)silent-green.net
silent green presents
We are excited to establish a new format with silent green Open Lab for young Berlin musicians taking their first steps onto the stage — free from pressure or market-driven presentation.
Supporting young talent and revealing artistic processes is very important to us at silent green — and that’s exactly what Open Lab is about. It is intentionally not a pure showcase but a space of possibility: for stepping into the public, for encounters, for resonance, and further development.
Both solo acts and ensembles/bands from Berlin were invited to apply, especially those whose approaches not only show individual artistic expression but also a desire to explore and transcend genre boundaries — between electronic music, improvisation, pop, spoken word, or performance.
megouem megouem sings, reads, writes, and performs.
The poems, pieces, and songs manifesting and given form in melodies and chants are impulses, observations, and reflections.
Occasionally, illuminating insights also find their way into the musical manifestations.
Inspired by her Grandmother's spiritual legacy, the preservation, transmission and mediation of knowledge are central to megouem's artistic practice.
At the silent green Open Lab, megouem will present various fragments located somewhere between vocal performance and musical theater, bringing them together in a harmonious concert piece.
Dara Shikoh Dara Shikoh is a Berlin-based Sindhi interdisciplinary artist whose music inhabits the threshold between language and emotion. For him, sound is a vessel for feelings not yet shaped into words — raw, intuitive, and sacred. His creative journey is an attempt to dwell in this in-between and render it audible.
Blending field recordings from places he has called home with electro-acoustic textures and intimate vocals, Dara Shikoh crafts immersic sonic worlds that reflect memory, migration, and inner states.
Kkoki Kkoki is a Korean musician based in Berlin. Her songwriting is shaped by a long-standing interest in pop and pop culture, with influences drawn from movies and TV shows.
Most of her time is spent writing and recording music with collaborators such as Emil Gabriel, COBEE, Kev Koko, Mathis Ruffing, Valentin Hansen, and others.
In August 2025, she released her debut single, with more planned for release in the coming months.
Monday, September 29 Kuppelhalle 8 pm Admission free
Mario Guarnieri (drums) + Andrea Bolzoni (guitar) are part of the new generation of London improvisers, building a new network of sound. The drum/guitar line up is opening up a lot of new possibilities and Mario and Andrea are bringing their new thing.
Samuel Mead is a poet, illustrator and performer. He will present a new cycle of work based on his experiences as a bicycle courier.
Kasper Pincis is an ambiguous visual artist, working with multiple means of production. Charles Hayward is a long term musician using multiple means of production. They are both Lewisham Arthouse members. Their performance will use visual and musical materials found at Deptford market.
Flowers we are consists of the versatile, Serbian-based exceptional pianist Marina Džukljev, the sound architect Matija Schellander on bass and electronics and the cello extremist noid /aka Arnold Haberl. The three musicians move with equal ease, playfulness and elegance from minimal electronic sounds to melodic fragments to orchestral fullness. The trio convinces with the wide spectrum of its musical languages. Marina Džukljev is a pianist and educator renowned for her dynamic performances in free improvisation, classical, contemporary, and applied music. With numerous awards to her name, Marina has passionately explored contemporary and free improvised music, collaborating with a diverse array of global artists and ensembles. Her innovative approach and dedication to exploring new sonoric possibilities of piano playing are evident in her wide-ranging performances across prestigious festivals and venues worldwide. Matija Schellander is a composer, double bassist, and electronic musician. He works with experimental music, improvisation, and electro-acoustic sound, focusing on the interaction between sound and space. His projects range from solo performances and ensemble compositions, music for theater and radio. Through cello, electronics, studio manipulation and more, Arnold Haberl aka noid produces music of intrigue and beauty, that interrogates our own sonic perception whilst retaining an almost violent intensity. His work on the cello draws forth sounds that are far from typical, sometimes evoking the shifting and shimmering soundscapes of granular synthesis.
„These nuanced and captivating journeys rely on the rich vocabularies of these idiosyncratic improvisers, their deep listening dynamics, an orchestral vision that denies any distinction between sound art and music, and their irreverent but surprisingly elegant sensibility of form and structure.“ (Percorsi Musicali, December 20204)
„The album’s strength lies in its refusal to be pinned down. It drifts effortlessly between minimal electronic experimentation, free improvisation, and moments of lush, orchestral grandeur. If you squint, you might catch a glimpse of Morton Feldman’s meditative patience, but blink, and you’re in a sonic realm closer to Fennesz’s shimmering noise-scapes or the visceral immediacy of an AMM improvisation. For fans of boundary-pushing sound art, „Flowers We Are“ is a triumph – a testament to the power of collaboration, the beauty of imperfection, and the endless possibilities of sound. It’s a bouquet of sonic blooms that may bewilder at first but ultimately rewards those who linger to savor its intricate details.” https://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/12550
„There is very quiet, intense yet quiet interaction for minutes on end, reminding me of some of AMMs work, but with more electronic means. These draw the piece into a more electro-acoustic improvisation, with touches of real instruments. (…) Great stuff.“ (Vital Weekly, January 2025)
TAU is the new trio of three internationally renowned musicians of improvised and experimental music. Their music forms a polyphonic, organic body of sound – permeated by energetic tensions, ruptures and unexpected abysses. The result is an acoustic space of heightened alertness and resonance.
Tiziana Bertoncini works between contemporary composition, improvisation and electro-acoustic music. Her training as a violinist and visual artist also shapes her interdisciplinary work – from space-sound installations to music theater. She is a member of Ensemble]h[iatus and has performed at ZKM, WDR3 and Horizons Sancy, among others.
Angelika Sheridan defines the sound of the flute beyond classical conventions through contemporary and her own playing techniques. She is active in new and improvised music – among others with the Ensemble]h[iatus, Multiple Joyce Orchestra and the musicians’ collective impakt. She teaches at the HfMT in Cologne.
Ute Wassermann is a vocal artist, composer and performer. Her voice oscillates between electronics, creature and sound sculpture – enhanced by objects, whistles and acoustic costumes. She composes for international festivals and ensembles, including MaerzMusik, Transart and Musik der Jahrhunderte.
The concert is part of the Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik Berlin.
exploratorium berlin Zossener Straße 24 10961 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
Marheinekeplatz (Bus 248, 20m) U Gneisenaustraße (Bus 140, U7, 200m) U Mehringdamm (Bus M19, U6, U7, 900m) U Hallesches Tor (Bus M41, Bus 248, U1, U3, U6, 1000m)
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