Sounds Different – CKTRL

Stegreif - The Improvising Symphony Orchestra shows what a contemporary orchestra can look like: cross-genre musicians play without notes, without a conductor, freely in space and improvise on symphonic music. This is how classical arrangements are created in a new guise. For the Long Night, they play their way from the Humboldt Forum along the Spree to the opening at the Altes Museum.An event of Kultursommerfestival Berlin 2023.

A drum installation conceived by N.U. Unruh (Einstürzende Neubauten). For this hands-on event self-created drumtables are provided for the audience and will be playedwith sticks. Everybody can immediately participate without particular knowledge. Groovy play-along tracks monitored from the P.A. system function as rhythmical orientation during drumming. Beating The Drum is a sonic and physical common experience!An event of Kultursommerfestival Berlin 2023.

Mitsune is a Japanese folk fusion band based in Berlin, with members from Japan, Germany, Australia and Greece. Fronted by a trio of female shamisen players, accompanied with percussion and double bass, Mitsune take Japanese folk music and infuse it with eastern blues, jazz, rock and cinematic music to create an evocative music fusion experience.An event of Kultursommerfestival Berlin 2023.

AVR is a 4d pop artist exploring on the intersection of art and music, innovation and tradition. The Berlin and London based pianist, singer and producer seeks to create transcendent experiences that remind us of our shared humanity. Drawing inspiration from Radio Pop, Jazz, Classical Music, Hip Hop and experimental Electronica, AVR's music travels through cinematic landscapes, ecstatic beats and hypnotic melodies, leading the listener into sensual day dream glitches.An event of Kultursommerfestival Berlin 2023.

Zebra Katz is a Jamaican-American rapper, producer, songwriter and performing artist. His style of music is minimalist, futuristic, doomy and left-of-center. Produced in Berlin and London his album "Less is Moor" sums up influences from hip hop and minimalistic soundscapes to the high-energy club sounds of drum & bass, gabber and techno.An event of Kultursommerfestival Berlin 2023.

Berlin-based DJs 11:68PM and data plan are influenced by electronic music in all its constancy and discontinuity. data plan's stylistic crossovers of electro, acid house and IDM were last featured in Berlin as part of the Staub series at ://about blank and Tresor. In the field of tension between UK house and Detroit techno lies the musical sweet spot of Berlin's 11:68PM, who can be heard regularly on Radio 80000 with his radio show label "What If It Works".The joint DJ set will be staged with a light show by multimedia artist Grinderteeth.An event of Kultursommerfestival Berlin 2023.