X100 is a new one-off festival concept organised by Berlin Atonal which will take place at Kraftwerk Berlin over the 18th, 19th and 20th of November 2022.
The festival celebrates and contextualises the legacy of Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 1997). Xenakis’ pioneering work initialised techniques and directions that continue to inspire a variety of disciplines from architecture and drawing to music theory and light design. But a hundred years after he was born, the continuing presence of this great composer is felt most strongly in the thriving and overlapping tradition(s) of experimental electronic music.
X100 unfolds over 3 performance nights. Tickets for each individual night are available as well as a festival pass which provides access to all three performance nights as well as a workshop programme details of which will be communicated shortly. The main performance area is the upstairs floor of Kraftwerk Berlin – Day 1 (Friday) and Day 2 (Saturday) tickets include access to an aftershow party at OHM.
The idea of X100 is to combine presentations of Xenakis’ legendary works alongside new commissions and special live performances from some of the most innovative artists working in experimental and performative electronic music today. Among the artists that will present new work during the festival are: multi-disciplinary artist Pan Daijing, Moritz von Oswald, Berlin-based experimentalists LABOUR, Puce Mary with Bill Kouligas, Dreamcrusher for their first Berlin performance, experimental rapper JJJJJerome Ellis, Lee Gamble, Florian Hecker and Russell Haswell playing with the Xenakis devised UPIC System and much much more.
The sonic world of Xenakis, this once musical outsider, used formidable musical
techniques such as arborescences, stochastic synthesis, and proto-granular
synthesis in service of high-impact musical events, sensorial immersion, spectacle and noise. Contextualised here amongst diverse practices and trends within contemporary electronic music, the music of this prolific utopianist continues to not only challenge modes of temporal existence, but of how music can be imagined and shared.
LINE UP
Ana Maria Avram’s ‘Nouvel Archae’ by Diana Miron
Bill Kouligas
DJ Marcelle
Dreamcrusher
Emma DJ
Iancu Dumitrescu’s Hyperion Ensemble
JJJJJerome Ellis
Kali Malone presents Living Torch
LABOUR presents sungazing
Lee Gamble
Marcus Schmickler presents Particle/Matter-Wave/Energy
Marylou
Moritz von Oswald presents Metameric 1.2
Okkyung Lee
Pan Daijing
PANDORA’S JUKEBOX
Persepolis (1971)
Puce Mary
Powell
Rashad Becker
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker – UPIC Diffusion Session # 23″
Sergio Luque
Valentina Magaletti
…and the following works by Iannis Xenakis
Concret PH (1958)
Dikhthas (1979, violin and piano)
Evryali (1973, piano)
GENDY3 (1991)
Hibiki-hana-ma (1970)
La Légende d’Eer (1977)
Mikka (1971, violin)
Mikka S (1976, violin)
Mists (1980, piano)
Mycenae Alpha (1978)
Nuits (1967, vocal ensemble)
Okho (1989, percussion)
Persepolis (1971)
Pléïades (1978, percussion)
Rebonds A (1989, percussion)
Rebonds B (1989, percussion)
S.709 (1994)
21,70-26,90€
