Claudia Molitor | PROFILE
By Sam Johnstone The composer and artist Claudia Molitor challenges the idea of music and how we engage with it. Her work uses sound…
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Osmodrama | REVIEW
St. Johannes Evangelist Kirche, Auguststraße, Berlin By Sam Johnstone The idea of using smells in art isn’t new, but its history isn’t particularly illustrious….
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Nico and the Navigators | REVIEW
Radialsystem V, Berlin By Sam Johnstone Nico and the Navigators are a Berlin-based theatrical ensemble describing themselves as ‘full-body poets’, using music, dance and…
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Spur | REVIEW
Uferstudios, Berlin By Sam Johnstone At a disused public transport depot in an unfashionable district of Berlin, Taiwanese choreographer Shang-Chi Sun and chamber group…
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Phonopticon | REVIEW
ausland, Berlin By Sam Johnstone Hidden in a small bunker under a quiet apartment block in Berlin, ausland has acted as an incubator for…
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Blurred Edges | REVIEW
Various venues, Hamburg By Sam Johnstone Since 2006 the Blurred Edges festival has been drawing connections between disparate scenes of contemporary music in Hamburg…
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Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present | REVIEW | a documentary about the American experimentalist
Volksbühne, Berlin By Sam Johnstone By the time he died in 2016, Tony Conrad had accrued a mythic aura. He was there at the point…
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Scores | REVIEW
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin By Sam Johnstone Music and visual art have a porous relationship. Wassily Kandinsky depicted his encounter with Schoenberg’s music with…
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