Friday 08 May 2026

RIAS Kammerchor Berlin
MIT DEN VÖGELN SINGEN

Under the baton of Justin Doyle, the RIAS Kasmmerchor embarks on a multifaceted musical and ornithological journey. The programme spans from Renaissance music to contemporary compositions inspired by birdsong: William Byrd and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy follow the sweet love call of the nightingale, Áine Mallon lends an ear to the sounds of twilight, and Orlando Gibbons tells of the ‘unmusical’ swan, which is gifted with beguiling song at the moment of its death. Edward Elgar, Gerald Finzi and Ralph Vaughan Williams are enchanted by the diverse birdlife of their English homeland.

Biologist Dr Uwe Westphal enriches the musical aviary: he can imitate the calls of more than 100 bird species, and will thus ‘sing’ alongside the choir, offering insights into the cosmos of chirping, cooing, whistling and trilling vocal acrobats.

The concert will be broadcast live on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Freitag 8.5.26, 20 Uhr

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Sunday 10 May – Prelude 1

Oneohtrix Point Never with Freeka Tet present Tranquilizer
Piotr Kurek presents The Meeting

Oneohtrix Point Never performs the Tranquilizer live show, a new stage presentation developed with multidisciplinary artist Freeka Tet that translates the intricate sonic architecture of Daniel Lopatin’s eleventh album into a shifting visual environment. Released on Warp Records in late 2025, Tranquilizer is widely recognised as one of Lopatin’s most emotionally direct and sonically refined records, extending his long-standing exploration of the intersection between sound, technology and digital surrealism.

Polish composer Piotr Kurek opens the night with The Meeting, a new live project centred on an early digital piano and a deliberately limited harmonic language. The work unfolds as a minimal, instrumental piece positioned between a late-night lounge concert and an installation, with stage design and visuals by Fabien Lédé. The project was awarded an Honorable Mention at the Giga-Hertz Award 2023.

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Tuesday 12 May – Prelude 2

Hania Rani presents Chilling Bambino
Torus

Hania Rani strips back the ornate piano and orchestral work that brought her crossover recognition and rebuilds from the ground up. Chilling Bambino is her electronic alter ego: built around a bank of Sequential Circuits Prophet synthesisers, sculpting ambient structures in real time, moving from long drifting tones into throbbing trance. Developed across a small number of performances in Warsaw, London, Osaka and New York since 2024, the project foregrounds the synthesiser as a live performance instrument, reworking existing material alongside new compositions through dark-tinted electronica and hypnotic rhythmic structures. Rani has resisted the neoclassical framing applied to her work, telling the New York Times that the music „might be slow, not so loud, not upbeat, but it’s actually intense.“ Chilling Bambino makes that distinction physical.

Dutch multidisciplinary artist Torus opens the evening. Working under an alias since 2012, Joeri Woudstra moves between club sets, sound installations and art commissions, with work shown at documenta 14 and the New Museum in New York alongside Kate Cooper. His sound pushes dance music toward maximalist reconstruction, dissecting trance, electro and harder styles and reassembling them with a critical and beautiful edge.

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Thursday 14 May – Prelude 3

Gavin Bryars, The Sinking of the Titanic (1969)
Gavin Bryars, Jesus‘ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971)
Aleksandra Słyż, Pure Voices (2025)
performed by Sinfonietta Cracovia

Kraków’s Sinfonietta Cracovia performs two of the most significant works in English experimental composition: Gavin Bryars‘ The Sinking of the Titanic (1969) and Jesus‘ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971). Both operate through the sustained accumulation of orchestral material over a recorded foundation: a hymn submerging beneath slowly layering strings in one; a looped recording of a homeless man’s improvised song accruing increasingly rich accompaniment in the other. Repetition, duration and the relationship between recorded and live sound function as primary compositional materials. Bryars‘ trajectory, from free improvisation with Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley through his association with Brian Eno’s Obscure Records to decades of work at the intersection of minimalism, early music and recording-as-medium, makes this programme a direct precursor to the concerns of „The Infinite Now“ happening next weekend.

The evening also includes the work Pure Voices by Aleksandra Słyż, which she will perform live with the orchestra, following a recent show at New York’s Alice Tully Hall.

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Saturday – Sunday 16-17 May

THE INFINITE NOW

On Saturday 16 May, a thirty-hour continuous program begins at Kraftwerk Berlin and runs without interruption until midnight on Sunday 17 May. Among the over 20 participating artists will be legendary Japanese collective improvisation group Marginal Consort; famous theatre director Romeo Castellucci with Scott Gibbons premiering a new performance work To Carthage then I came; Japanese experimental pioneer Keiji Haino; Detroit techno visionary Terrence Dixon unveiling a new project entitled A Cosmic Display Of Beauty; Scottish amplified smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul; the new live show from Actress; Glasgow-based singer and songwriter Joanne Robertson; a powerful new work from the quartet of 2k88, Lauren Duffus, Rainy Miller & Bianca Scout; bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry; producer and engineer Marta Salogni presenting a new work; Polish composers Aleksandra Słyż & Teoniki Rożynek; Bristol-based composer Paul Jebanasam; New York ambient experimentalist 7038634357; American fingerstyle guitarist Shane Parish playing the music of Autechre; and Polish guitarist and musicologist Raphael Rogiński. Further artists, installations and video works to be announced along with the full schedule over 30 hours.

Audiences are encouraged to sleep, rest, eat, watch, listen, withdraw and pay attention. Tickets for each of the three Prelude Concerts are now available, as well as tickets to the continuous The Infinite Now program which permit re-entry throughout the full thirty-hour duration. The space includes dedicated areas for sleeping and rest.

Available now via Resident Advisor