Flyer by HEADSHOP (Mathis Altmann & Jan Vorisek)

s/o Cittipunkt e.V.

Charles Verni is a musician based in London. Their work uses humour and experiments with genre as a means to try and come to terms with popular song, digital audio, and the voice. Their most recent album “I’m Crazy” was released by Vienna-based Plot Toy on CD and digital, with other projects including “I Was Today Years Old” and the radio play “Not That Deep”. Recent live performances have taken place at Festival Hyperlocal, Buenos Aires, and Clout Farm, London, with radio highlights including mixes and original audio for NTS and BBC Radio 4 Extra. Charles Verni was joined by aircode on CDJs.

Steven Warwick is an artist, musician and writer living and working in Berlin. His practice is paradigmatic of an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses theatre-making and DJing along with art, music and writing. Warwick creates assemblages of performance, image, sound and language. In its pluralistic live forms, Warwick’s work redefines the expectations and conventions that accompany events such as performance and public exhibitions. As a musician working under his own name and, previously, as Heatsick, he produces and performs a hybrid live/DJ set, releasing recordings with the club/experimental label PAN and has played at Berghain, Berlin; London Contemporary Music Festival; Trouw, Amsterdam; Bergen Konsthall; LAMPO/ Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago; Issue Project Room, New York; and the festivals Mutek and Unsound. For his show at Roter Salon, Steven Warwick performed in band formation with Ivàn Brito on drums and drums machine, Feli Mueller on keys and Diego Ramos Retamal on bass.

Flyer by Parastu Gharabaghi

DO U WANT TO MOVE BACK TO LDN is a collaborative project between John T. Gast and Solomon Garçon. The project uses experimental techniques borrowed from noise, dub, classical, and film score. Their live performances take an improvisational approach which is echoed in the recorded output available via DOUWANTTOMOVEBACKTOLDN.COM. Previous shows include Cafe Oto (UK), Spanners (UK) and IIR Resideny (DK).

Sara Neidorf is a Berlin-based drummer and film curator. They drum in the bands Mellowdeath, Aptera, Graien, Mad Kate | The Tide, and Sarattma. Neidorf has worked as a musician in theater and dance contexts, live scoring films, and as a session drummer has toured internationally with such artists as The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Hypnodrone Ensemble, Tau, and Sometimes With Others. She co-directs and curates Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, which screens horror films made by FLINTA* filmmakers. Whether in their music or film work, they’re interested in exploring crevices, tensions, transgressions, and the sites where conventions implode upon themselves.

Video by Mika Schwarz

Artjom Astrov (1989) is a musician based in Vienna. His eclectic composition style incorporates both produced and found sound, digital processing and songwriting. Astrov’s use of voice can be characterised by a sense of alienated lyricism. As a sound designer for contemporary performance productions, Astrov has developed a distinctively minimalistic approach that relies on spatial and conceptual properties of sound. Under the name ‘Benzokai’, ‘rin la’ or simply as ‘Artjom’, he has released several EPs for record labels such as Quantum Natives, Baba Vanga, Plot Toy and Serious Serious. Artjom Astrov’s work has been shown at Kunsthalle Wien, Volkstheater Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, Spielart Festival (Munich), Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Tallinn), Grace Exhibition Space (New York), NEXT (Bratislava), ACUD MACHT NEU (Berlin) and others.

scorch is a New York based project that changes its name with each performance. Word of mouth is famous.

Wet Kiss (Brenna O) is making her Volksbühne debut in what will be an unforgettable evening of Rock and Roll broadway, Wet Kiss have performed in Melbourne and Berlin; performing at major venues and festivals including Melbourne’s Rising Festival and Berlin’s Berghain and was the featured television entertainer on the 2022 Horacio Estefania Lafuente film Sounds Expensive. At Volksbühne’s Roter Salon Wet Kiss will consist of Tore Wallert on Drums, Tomas Nervi on Guitar , Feli Müller on Piano and Dino Gollnick on Bass with Miss Brenna O of course providing voice.

great area lives in London with previous releases Light Decline and Follow Your Nature on Relaxin Records as well as hypocrite 21 on Xquisite Releases.

mhm, mhm (pronounced mmmm-hmmm, mmmm-hmmm), is an enigmatic multidisciplinary project and has recently released his debut CALLING FOR A PEOPLE TO COME on parkwuud entertainment. His most recent performances include Rewire Festival, Les Ateliers Claus and Kwia.

Open-decks and instruments were provided or brought so that participants were able to get involved at any time.

‚THOUGHTS ARE BORN‘ by Mica Levi was performed by Artjom Astrov, Bela D., Daniel Hüttler, Michaela Kisling, Samuel Obernosterer, Pia Wilma Wurzer and Chris Attila Izsák. Video recorded by Michel Strümpf.

Hillside-board co-produced by Chris Attila Izsák and Juan Francisco Vera

Aluminium block foils by Leonard Fendler-Moser and Chris Attila Izsák

Stills from snippet-video by Janina Weißengruber

Photos by Chris Attila Izsák

Kisling‘s composition method, highly informed by digital processing, and meant for contemporary DJ equipment, subtracts and morphs live recorded flute samples by Ilja Gussarov into concrete snippets that propose a „new real“. Kisling arranges and distorts her tunes on a set of Pioneer CDJs, enriching this musical experience with the immediacy and spontaneity of mixing techniques. This gives way to an imaginative material that scrutinizes the limits and promise of music

Lolina is an electronic and digital musician, also known for her past projects as Inga Copeland and as a member of the band Hype Williams. Her self-released solo albums include “Because I’m Worth It” (2014), “Live in Paris” (2015), “The Smoke” (2018), “Who is Experimental Music” and “Live in Geneva” (2019). Releases on Lolinaʼs label Relaxin Records (est. 2022) include her last album “Face The Music”; a collaboration with Brandon Juhans “L4b”; “Follow Your Nature” by great area (2022); and “Higher Powers”, the first and last Inga Copeland album (2013/2023). For her live show, Lolina will perform as Geneva Heat and Paris Hell, two characters from her project ‘Unrecognisable’.

SALARY lives and works in Berlin with previous releases on Plot Toy.

LA Timpa is an artist and musician, currently based in London. He was born in Lagos, Nigeria, before emigrating to Toronto, Canada at the age of 6. LA Timpa has released music on o___O?, Halcyon Veil, and Slow Release, and most recently, Time of Marcker, out now via Vulgarteen. He has scored music for Y-3, Burberry and Marine Serre. Timpa has worked with Space Afrika, Tricky, and Lol K, and has frequently collaborated with Klein and Kathryn Tompkins (video and animation). Timpa’s DJ roots are showcased in his mix contributions to NTS, Rinse FM, and The Lot.

There’s not much we can say about Honour that makes complete sense. They may or may not have grown up in the US, making beats with a cousin who sang in a church band; they might have toured as a roadie with platinum-selling R&B outfit Pretty Ricky before acing regional videogame tournaments and moving to NYC. They could have sold their life story to children’s book author C.S. Adler and signed to Violator management; and maybe they ended up stationed in London, working as a runner on music promos. But however plausible it is, the breadcrumb trail provides us with a detailed cultural framework for the artist and their work.

Interview with Honour

s/o to Marlene Engel and Marlene Kager