Berlin Atonal – Festival for Avantgarde Light and Sound

Berlin Atonal – Festival for Avantgarde Light and Sound

No city has a deeper connection to electronic music than Berlin. To describe it in the words of Techno legend Dimitri Hegeman, founder and owner of Tresor: “East and West celebrated the new freedom to the sound of electronic music. Berlin became the place for uncompromised youth culture and Tresor was the centre of this movement.”

Right next to Tresor electronic music will discover its avant-garde spirit this week with the Berlin Atonal Festival. The permanent home of this event which had its debut back in 1982, is an abandoned power plant called Kraftwerk Mitte.  With several artistic installations it has been turned into a darkly majestic industrial complex for the duration of the festival.

We heartly recommend to check out the line up of this unique celebration of contemporary music and maybe discover one pearl or another between the several highlights. Also we think that the location and its audio-visual installations are an incredible source of inspiration for the music and light artists presenting their work there. After the jump we show you some of the most impressive pictures of the location.

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House Music

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You may have heard that the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) is celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year. On Friday, the Sound Studies program at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) will hold an auditory exploration on the different layers of the house in a performance called HausKlang, where 12 different artists will be presenting their sound interpretations of that lovely oyster-shaped-Haus in Tiergarten. More event details after the beat.

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