Preparing you and ourselves for the weekend, we introduce you to our local hero*ines of sound and imagination. See last week’s featured artists, upcoming workshops and let us introduce you to A-Sound System.

 

 

Even if we’re talking mainly about sound, there’s always a visual component to our experiences. Let our supporting VJ carry you off on a cosmic ride. Flimmerkiste works mainly with geometric patterns and shapes.
Through mapping the environment he invites the audience to a trip in an intergalactic space shuttle rushing through the sound scapes. As a long-time supporter and community member of Berlin’s bass scene, he’s been live-vjing at various occasions like Impulse Berlin or shaping the live shows of Braintheft, Psychedelic Orchestra et. al.

Find more of Flimmerkiste`s art here…

And of course, as we are celebrating Sound System Culture…

We already packed the speakers into the van. Bass, bass, bass and nice, crispy tops put a smile on our faces. With 15 years of experience, celebrating their birthday in June, A-Sound System prepare us already at Mensch Meier for their upcoming birthday bash in the woods of Brandenburg.

 

 

Katja Kettler / E.L.L.I. is a Musician, Music Producer and Visual Artist currently living and working in Berlin. She graduated from the Technical University Dresden where she studied Musicology / Popular Music Studies. She has composed music for a variety of projects including theater and dance. She plays Theremin, Flute, Recorder and is a Singer, playing Solo-Live-Electronics and is part of the Projects Laminat and Akadamage.

The primary focus of her work are the various and changing relationships between the human and the environment in times of digitalization. As a musician she is interested in electronic music as a performance and various relations between the musician, the sound and the audience.

https://soundcloud.com/soundofelli
https://elli1.bandcamp.com/releases
https://vimeo.com/242645138

For our event she will be holding a workshop about collecting audible material and creating loops … Are you ready for the hearing experience?

As it is also part of our next lecturer’s research focus

Lukas Jakob Löcker started out as cultural activist within rural Austrian subculture, thus sound system culture respectively, in the early 2000s – shifting focus throughout the years, evolving into a documentary film-maker, multimedia composer, sonic researcher and lecturer for sound studies at the University of Art and Design Linz. Currently he is researching on performative practices of concrete music (using the acousmonium) and dub music (using sound systems) for their respective spatial delivery of sound!

www.vimeo.com/eliotarts
www.facebook.com/eliot.artist

We`re excited about his tech talk at Sound System Culture!

Facing Sound System Culture as a ‘guy’s thing’, we want to represent and connect several women behind the stacks, talking serious business in the creation, representation and development of sound systems accross dub and tekno culture.

Meetup Berlin and PRIZM invite to a panel discussion (ATTENTION FLTI* only!!!) in the beginning of the night:

The panel wants to explore the discrepancies between th claims and the lived reality in groups and contexts around sound system culture. The invited talk guests are participants from our existing program and beyond. The Meetup Berlin describes the panel approach as follows:

“If we look around in our subcultural environment, so
it is, despite the highly proclaimed self-awareness, a yet
mostly white and male dominated culture. Whether we are talking about the club scene, our own sound collectives or within political groups, the experience remains.
We will not commiserate ourselves. What we want, is to discuss what a subcultural and anti-fascist feminism might look like, not just to make lip service and demand. What are the enlived contexts within sound system culture? What are our requirements and needs? Is it inevitable in this context to create pure women’s collectives in order to finally make sure that women do not do the carework and men build up the technology, but all can do everything?
What would be other alternatives, where are spaces of opportunity and room for maneuver? “

Learn more about the FLTI* Meetup here…

And not to forget our musical part of the event, here are two of our beloved DJanes who showed their skills and knowledge in our previous orbit events.

Introducing…

SMI, who already played on our previous event (underground 90ies rave near Ostkreuz, Berlin) a diverse, exciting and upbeat mixset for us. She will be part of this upcoming event again! ️

Originally from Cologne and annoyed by those tough DJ-guys all over her favorite places, Smi started DJing in her early 20’s. While she is playing her favourite sounds of electronic music she leaves all the daily life struggles behind and enjoys the time with a crowd celebrating with each other, getting collectively lost in rhythms of dark bass and deep beat to feel the power of dancing.

… One Woman Army in Dub has been active in the croatian dub scene for a decade now, taking part in many soundsystem events and festivals. As a former member of the Akc Medika collective in Zagreb and co-operating with Digitron Soundsystem, One Woman Army in Dub has also helped to establish the ‘Days of Soundsystem Culture’ in Croatia.
She spins strictly vinyl selections from Roots to Dub or the other way around with a profound respect for roots and culture traditions and a passion in discovering brand new riddims and crazy dubs.
We are looking forward to have her playing this time, as she was already enriching our panel discussion sharing experiences and speaking about perspectives at the very first orbit event of Sound System Culture – on the radical roots of rave.

Until then enjoy the mix