Berlin

What: BENDIK GISKE @ E-WERK Luckenwalde

When: Friday September 19 19:00

In tandem with the opening of the exhibition programme Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth, partners will present Mensch Maschine Musik on 19 September. The inaugural edition of this special interdisciplinary music festival will feature internationally acclaimed artists Bendik Giske, Discovery Zone and Nazanin Noori with intervals of live performance from contemporary artists Rae Hsu, Kira Xonorika, hn. lyonga and David Osaodion Odiase and others from 7pm - 11pm.

Mensch Maschine Musik acts as a convergence point between technology and ecology to showcase experimental formats bridging sound, technology, music, contemporary art, performance and new compositions. The festival will take place in the iconic Bauhaus swimming pool adjacent to E-WERK which is currently being reimagined as a cultural space – Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde.

The event will include Saxophonist Bendik Giske, whose use of circular breathing combines technical mastery with a deep exploration of physicality — Discovery Zone - the experimental pop project of New York / Berlin musician and multimedia artist JJ Weihl, whose work is inspired by cybernetics and neural networks to blur the distinctions between human and post-human — and Nazanin Noori who delves into Ambient Hardcore to create hypnoacoustic compositions that extend into Doom Electronics. The evening will also feature live performances by residency artists Rae Hsu, Kira Xonorika and David Osaodion Odiase & hn. lyonga including works with canine robotics, performances centered on human water consumption as a metaphor for data extraction, and explorations in quantum poetry and a performance that turns from algorithmic violence to body and memory, reimagining technology as spirit and the pulse of becoming.

Bendik Giske is an artist and saxophonist whose expressive use of physicality, vulnerability and endurance have won him much critical acclaim. With his live performances drawing from the repertoire of material found on his three albums to date for the Smalltown Supersound label, Giske draws his audience into an arresting display of musicality, bodily stamina and rich, unfettered humanity. Every element - be it microphone placement, light arrangement or creative sound design - is carefully considered for maximum resonance.