Daniel Gerzenberg is a German-Russian-Jewish artist based in Berlin. In 2009, he began his international career, forming a successful piano duo with his brother Anton Gerzenberg, consequently appearing at major festivals and venues. Daniel has appeared as a soloist with internationally renowned orchestras and has toured as a concert pianist with Martha Argerich, Lilya Zilberstein and his brother, subsequently producing recordings for EMI and NDR. Alongside his professional career as a musician, Daniel is a professional poet, award-winning translator, actor and recitator; he speaks 6 languages, has published two books, and is currently professor of poetry at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. In 2016, there he began his studies of song accompaniment and quickly established a reputation as an accomplished lied pianist.
DuChamp is a Berlin-based Italian scientist and musician, devoted to drone. Drone is related to a precise childhood memory: the sound of the hair dryer, that her mother used to fix her hair. That was the sound of care, bliss, and infinite love. In her music, other than her baritone guitar, DuChamp uses organs, no-input mixer and field recordings, related to her personal memory, by adding layers of sounds and noise in attempt to recreate some kind of apophonias.
Friedemann Slenczka was born in Göttingen in 1994. At the age of 6 he received his first violin lessons. When his family moved to Berlin, he switched to viola at the age of 13 and became a young student at the Julius-Stern-Institut. In 2012 he began studying viola at the University of Arts Berlin, where he successfully completed his Master's degree in 2019. Since February 2020 he has been a member of the Academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin and plays internationally as a chamber musician and soloist at numerous festivals.
Composer, pianist and producer Kaan Bulak was born in 1991 in Aachen, spent his childhood in Istanbul and finished high-school in Stuttgart. During this period he was studying piano with Andrej Jussow. In 2015 Bulak completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Audio Production at SAE Berlin. Under the supervision of Martin Supper for composition and Jean-Boris Szymczak of Funkhaus Studio P4 for sound production, Bulak graduated in 2017 as Master of Arts in Sound Studies from University of Arts Berlin. While studying, his studio at the Berlin club “Wilde Renate” served as a hub for collaborations with electronic artists. Bulak is currently artist-in-residence at ZKM Karlsruhe as a fellow of #bebeethoven and runs the label Feral Note with its own studio and concert salon in Berlin.
Kamilija Tekle Cizaite is a filmmaker, photographer and musician currently studying Film Production at Catalyst Institute For Creative Arts and Technology. She was born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania surrounded by culture, art and nature. Kamilija is most interested in building worlds and creating art pieces with strong atmospheres and important messages that leave the audience feeling and thinking.
Lucilla Schmidinger is a music manager, curator, and label manager of Feral Note. Growing up with the violin from an early age and later on receiving vocal lessons, she has taken part in various vocal ensembles and early music projects. She studied Theatre Studies and Musicology (LMU Munich) and completed a Masters Degree in Arts and Music Management (University for Theatre and Music Munich). Having worked for Theatre Academy August Everding, SPIELART Festival, BR Klassik, Grammofy, PODIUM Esslingen, as well as several other festivals, artists and ensembles, she is currently working in the artistic division of Konzerthaus Berlin.
Loud Lemons is the project of Ludovic Laviec. It is an absurd prototype of Disco-Dub “à la French”: Intended to add zest
and well-being to Pop music. This project is an example of a breathing/meditation technique I used during my commutes in Paris. It showed me how I could use sounds such as traffic or machinery, superposed to an inner rhythm, to calm myself. Given the high amount of stress the city life and today's news brings, I felt the urge to contribute with rhythmic clues both inspired by this location and this technique.
Hüseyin Evirgen is a composer, producer and DJ. He is one half of Cassegrain as well as works on his own solo material as Magna Pia since 2016. He studied composition, piano and electronic music at the University of Istanbul and Mozarteum Salzburg. He has composed music for theatre, dance performances and mixed media for almost two decades. After meeting Alex Tsiridis at the Red Bull Music Academy in 2008, they formed the techno duo “Cassegrain”. Since their first release on Mikrowave in 2010, they have worked with a variety of labels such as infrastructure NY, Prologue, Killekill, Ostgut Ton, Counterchange and Semantica. In 2016 they formed their own imprint called “Arcing Seas”, which is now home to both collaborative work as Cassegrain, solo projects as well as guest artists. As Magna Pia, Hüseyin Evirgen focuses on providing combative dance floor trips and unorthodox sonic moods with subtle 90s techno references while he keeps his interest in combining contemporary techno music with archaic symbolism.
OIIA (aka Gabriel Strobel) is a freelance audio-visual artist based in Berlin. He is known for his work as a music producer for fashion, designer for digital media and portrait photographer. OIIA’s portfolio also includes immersive spatial sound installations and live ambient-techno performances utilizing synthesizers, field recordings, electro-acoustic instruments and found objects. His work had been showcased at Monom and fashion shows in Brazil. OIIA’s philosophy is “no problem is too big for creativity“. He is not afraid to try something new and loves to be challenged creatively.
Japanese-American cellist Raphaela Paetsch was born in 1996 in Lugano (Italian Switzerland) into a musicians family. At the age of 13 she studied at the Conservatory of Lugano and later attended the University of Arts Berlin, where she completed her Bachelor's degree in 2019. She has won numerous prizes and scholarship grants and has been in a Master's degree Program since 2019 at the Zurich University of the Arts. She performs nationally and internationally as a soloist and chamber musician.
Raven Grace is a Swiss-American music producer and DJ based in Berlin, Germany, producing a mixture of house, electro and minimal music, subtly spiced with dub grooves and bass lines. She promises to deliver crispy, crunchy, punchy and groovy moods. Grace’s production process involves heavy use of sample manipulation combined with progressive evolving rhythmic
movements. Dissonant and rhythmic synth harmonies carry a spooky momentum alongside hair-raising melodies that float atop subtle dub bass lines. As a producer, she also embraces minimalism and uses a ‘less is more’ approach to
her music. Alongside her main musical project, Raven Grace produces experimental/ambient music for collaborative and modern dance projects, which often explore themes of psychology, technology, and mysticism and require analyzing and interpreting visual input from choreographers and transforming it into audible output.
Samaquias Lorta is an interdisciplinary artist from a Mexican migrant community in USA currently based in Berlin, Germany. With over 10 years of professional experience as a cellist and composer, Lorta has slowly moved towards new media formats such as audio-visual
productions, 360 binaural video, motion-based installations, and VR interactive films that enhance his conceptual artistic ethos. Samaquias became an orphan at a young age and has grown into a nomadic lifestyle where his diverse skillset has enabled him to discuss topics such as mental health and ecological thought. Lorta has toured through 48 states in the USA as a dancer while his musical career has brought him to Germany, Austria, Colombia, and
Nicaragua. Within Berlin, Samaquias has performed in venues such as ACUD MACHT NEU, Dock 11, Suicide Circus, Sari Sari, and Funkhaus.
Shehryar Ahmad is a multidisciplinary sound artist, with a focus on using spatial sound and field recordings to convey sonic narrative. A mainstay at the MONOM 4DSOUND studio in Berlin, he recently received a distinction in his Sound engineering MA, and has a keen interest in music for film. Combining these disciplines, his work aims to push the boundaries of sensorially driven experiences, bringing more immersive forms of media, narration and composition into light.
Tatsumi Ryusui (Drone/Ambient Guitar) is a Japanese-born, Berlin based experimental/noise/ambient
sound artist. He processes several proper, accidental or self-build instruments to generate delicate,
yet powerful and astonishing ambient textures that connect drone with the cathartic side of noise.
Zac Roger Yeates is an artist who was born and raised in the western lands of Australia and now resides in Berlin where he studied Film Production at Catalyst Institute For Creative Arts and Technology. Zac is a painter who wants to capture figures who seem out of place in our society but have a belonging to the world in the artwork.
grischa lichtenberger (born 1983) is an electronic music producer,
visual and installation artist living in berlin. grown up in a withdrawn
farmhouse near bielefeld (westphalia), his artistic approach developed from surveying the landscape as reference for the condition of art production itself. landscape, in this sense, is understood not only as the picturesque or sublime recreational facility of nature, but as an interaction between the traces of biographical history and the material concreteness of the present surroundings.the aggressive tone in his sound design has its counterpart in an emotional depth of the musical structure - a hermetic idiosyncrasy of rhythm and melodies that implement a personal handwriting into the arrangement and sculpture of the sound elements. the music aims towards a paradoxic parallelism of introspective moods on the dance floor and unsettling contemplations in an intimate listening situation. tumbling between funky, highly energetic beats and trembling, concerning melodies, an almost tactile honesty reaches out to the individual listener. technology appears not as the perfect, mathematically defined
form, but as an index of failure and error, as a shadow of the spooking despairs and desires of its producer, engraved in the finiteness of the concrete form to be embraced by the attentive.
in 2009, he released his ep »~treibgut« as part of the unun series on raster-noton, followed by his debut album »and iv (inertia)« in 2012.
he played audiovisual live sets on international festivals and realized several commissioned installations on both local and international sites.