Knistern

KNISTERN is back from summer break on 04 October at Richten25, in Berlin Wedding, on Sunday afternoon. We are excited to welcome with performances: Otis Mensah Nour Sokhon with the conversation hosted by Jumoke Adeyanju Brunch by the Richten25 collective A meeting point for the artists is where storytelling, archives, poetry, lived experience and oral history weave together with music and sound.

What difference does it make to narrate through music, and how do sound and stories come together. Both artists look forward to exploring artistic ideas for their upcoming albums with an audience. Knistern is a Sunday afternoon session, to spend time together, have brunch, listen and exchange. Doors and Brunch at 12:00. Performances begin at 13:00.

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. Knistern is a project by Andrea Goetzke, Melissa Perales & Sumugan Sivanesan. Graphic design by Ghostwork Studio…