LABOR SONOR

Labor Sonor—a platform for new experimental music, film and performance It is one of the platforms for the echtzeitmusik-scene. The book echtzeitmusik berlin.

Labor Sonor is a monthly series of concerts, performances, and video, now curated by Fernanda Farah, Christian Kesten, Andrea Neumann, Arthur Rother, and Derek Shirley in a small venue called Kunsthaus KuLe in the center of Berlin. Labor Sonor has become a meeting point for the vibrant and innovative music community in Berlin. echtzeitmusik means the field of ‘experimental’ music bordering new mus

ic, electro-acoustic improvisation, trash pop, avantgarde rock, noise, sound art, performance art, or electronica. The members of the echtzeitmusik-scene perform their own music, rather than interpreting the music of other composers or composing for others. These composer-performers work solo or in collective processes, mostly in long term collaborations. The echtzeitmusik-scene gave birth to internationally recognized phenomena like ‘Berlin Reductionism’. Meanwhile its protagonists present their music on festivals like MaerzMusik Sonic Arts Lounge, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, or Darmstädter Ferienkurse. self-defining a scene (german/english; Wolke 2011) collects writings by 40 authors of the scene on its history, theory and praxis. The russian label Mikroton released a 3-CD-set compiling echtzeitmusik berlin. Since 2013 the british label another timbre releases The Berlin Series with works by echtzeit musicians. Echtzeit musicians are part of an international network. In the past 17 years, more than 500 artists from 30 countries performed at Labor Sonor. There are usually three sets on one night, each playing or performing for about 20-30 minutes. The shows are always on Mondays. Labor Sonor: Fernanda Farah, Christian Kesten, Andrea Neumann, Arthur Rother, Derek Shirley

Production Management: Christina Ertl-Shirley

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08/12/2025

Tonight ... & for the last time
celebrating 25 years of LABOR SONOR

LABOR SONOR ° Steffi Weismann, Bryan Eubanks & Kaffe Matthews, Burkhard Beins & Tony Elieh

BEAT WISHES:

BRYAN EUBANKS
saxophone, electronics

KAFFE MATTHEWS
The Ripley

Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, US) develops his music through solo work and collaboration. Since 1999 he has participated in many short and long term projects, and regularly presents his work internationally. Continually active in a variety of contexts: improvisation; composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, computers, and electronics; organizing and curating concerts for other artists; building electronic instruments. He currently lives in Berlin.

Kaffe Matthews pioneering music maker who works live with space, data, things, and place to make new electroacoustic composition, her past has taken her through things such as midi violin, theremin, star maps, NASA scientists, sharks, children, solo walks and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to create a massive body of works for sites such as concert halls, city streets, basement clubs, radio, galleries, deserts, living rooms, and the human body. The physical experience of music is also key to her approach so she also invents unique interfaces such as the sonic armchair, the sonic bed and a range of sonic bikes which offer new paths into composition for makers, and ways in to listening for wide ranging audiences worldwide.

Today she is focused on dangerous unknowns improvising with space, audience and a new modular instrument, the Ripley. A noise filter system designed through the 12 Gates of alchemical discoveries made by the 15th century alchemist George Ripley, backfeeding and live sampling throughout.

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Kunsthaus KuLe
Auguststraße 10
10117 Berlin, Mitte
https://kunsthauskule.de/

The bar opens at 8pm, the first concert starts at 8:30pm. Three sets of 20-30 min each, in-between intermissions.

Tickets: 6-12€ sliding scale
The event is funded by Musikfonds e.V.
www.laborsonor.de

05/12/2025

... & for the last time
celebrating 25 years of LABOR SONOR

LABOR SONOR ° Steffi Weismann, Bryan Eubanks & Kaffe Matthews, Burkhard Beins & Tony Elieh

ZONE NULL
Tony Elieh - bass guitar, live-electronics
Burkhard Beins - bass guitar, live-electronics

The Berlin-based duo Zone Null unites Tony Elieh and Burkhard Beins for an unusal encounter of two bass guitars and a variety of analog and digital live-electronics. While for Elieh the bass guitar has always been a main focus of his musical activities, as an improviser and namely with Karkhana, Calamita and the Lebanese indie rock band Scrambled Eggs, Beins only recently expanded his already wide range of extended percussion, experimental electronics and sound art by co-founding the Krautrock-Noise band Slurge as their bass player. The sonic fiction of Zone Null evolves and florishes on the broad musical horizon these two gentlemen have in common, ranging from musique concréte and contemporary composition via improvised and experimental music to electronic, post-punk and avantgarde rock.

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Kunsthaus KuLe
Auguststraße 10
10117 Berlin, Mitte
https://kunsthauskule.de/

The bar opens at 8pm, the first concert starts at 8:30pm. Three sets of 20-30 min each, in-between intermissions.

Tickets: 6-12€ sliding scale
The event is funded by Musikfonds e.V.
www.laborsonor.de

03/12/2025

... & for the last time
celebrating 25 years of LABOR SONOR

LABOR SONOR ° Steffi Weismann, Bryan Eubanks & Kaffe Matthews, Burkhard Beins & Tony Elieh

We are more than happy to have Steffi Weismann presenting her work „Generation S“ at Kunsthaus KuLe. Steffi is a vital part of the Berlin scene since many, many years, member of the Maulwerker ensemble and works within the field of sound art and performance.

Steffi Weismann: Generation S
for voices, objects, field recordings, live-microscope cam
(2018, 21')

„Generation S“ is audiovisual piece that reflects the relationship between nature and technology over almost five generations. Acoustic spaces and specifically amplified sounds immerse in an abstract microcosm and yet remain close to our physical existence and perception. How does a 10 year old girl imagine life of earth in the future and how are scientists dealing with multi-resistant germs? The timing and process of the composition is characterized by cicles and unpredictable twists. Sounds of amplified brain waves or electrostatically charged hair are part of performative actions with microphoned and microscopized objects. With her live voice, the performer creates laryngeal vibrations, breaths or hissing noises that create synergies between machine, creature and plant, and mix with field recordings and live material sounds.

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Kunsthaus KuLe
Auguststraße 10
10117 Berlin, Mitte
https://kunsthauskule.de/

The bar opens at 8pm, the first concert starts at 8:30pm. Three sets of 20-30 min each, in-between intermissions.

Tickets: 6-12€ sliding scale
The event is funded by Musikfonds e.V.
www.laborsonor.de

01/12/2025

... & for the last time
celebrating 25 years of LABOR SONOR

LABOR SONOR ° Steffi Weismann, Bryan Eubanks & Kaffe Matthews, Burkhard Beins & Tony Elieh

We are closing the celebrations – with the last edition of the 2025 series. LABOR SONOR, Kunsthaus KuLe. 3 Sets, live on stage.
Steffi Weismann will present an audiovisual composition / performance, titled "Generation S", Bryan Eubanks and Kaffe Matthews will join forces as "Beat Wishes" and Burkhard Beins & Tony Eileh present their duo "Zone Null".

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STEFFI WEISMANN Generation S
audiovisual composition / performance
https://www.steffiweismann.de/

BEAT WISHES: BRYAN EUBANKS
saxophone, electronics
https://www.sacredrealism.org/artists/bryan-eubanks/

& KAFFE MATTHEWS
The Ripley
https://www.kaffematthews.net/

ZONE NULL:
BURKHARD BEINS
bass-guitar, electronics
https://www.burkhardbeins.de/

& TONY ELIEH
bass-guitar, electronics, voice, guitar
http://www.tonyelieh.com/

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Kunsthaus KuLe
Auguststraße 10
10117 Berlin, Mitte
https://kunsthauskule.de/

The bar opens at 8pm, the first concert starts at 8:30pm. Three sets of 20-30 min each, in-between intermissions.

Tickets: 6-12€ sliding scale

The event is funded by Musikfonds e.V.
www.laborsonor.de

24/11/2025

D O O R S from 8PM!

We are ready for our next session at Kunsthaus KuLe. Come by!

ADELINE ROSENSTEIN
& YVONNE HARDER
performance

As a fourth act we will have a performance by Adeline Rosenstein & Yvonne Harder. Come early for drinks. The Bar will be open from 8PM, the sets start from 8:30PM!

Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpFf40hunuY
https://soundcloud.com/yvonne-harder-mutzek

Pictures (c) Bea Borgers (Adeline Rosenstein)

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Kunsthaus KuLe
Auguststraße 10
10117 Berlin, Mitte
https://kunsthauskule.de/
The bar opens at 8pm, the first concert starts at 8:30pm. Three sets of 20-30 min each, in-between intermissions.

Tickets: 6-12€ sliding scale
The event is funded by Musikfonds e.V.

www.laborsonor.de

24/11/2025

T O N I G H T

We are ...still celebrating 25 years of Labor Sonor at our home-base at Kunsthaus KuLe. We are very happy to have a trio set Margareth Kammerer, Rebecca Lane & Deborah Walker.

MARGARETH KAMMERER
& REBECCA LANE
& DEBORAH WALKER
voice, guitar / flutes / cello

Links:
https://mikroton.bandcamp.com/album/why-is-the-sea-so-blue
https://discreeteditions.bandcamp.com/.../distances-bending
https://ellirecords.bandcamp.com/album/starflux

Margareth Kammerer is an avant-garde musician, singer and composer. In her artistic work she is focussing on form and sound. She works solo and in various ensembles and projects with other musicians. Her performances include her own compositions, interpretation of works from other musicians as well as music for theatre, film, and radio plays.

Rebecca Lane is a musician who explores intonation as a social and perceptual practice, focusing on just/rational intonation and the relational aspects of sounding/activating this material with others. Her practice is informed by ongoing relationships with composers (such as Catherine Lamb), collaborations (like distances bending with Clara de Asís) and within various duos and ensembles (including Harmonic Space Orchestra), utilizing various flutes (in particular, Kingma System quarter-tone flutes).

Italian cellist Deborah Walker is a new music performer and improviser based in Berlin. She is interested in multiple forms of music creation related to the exploration of sound and interaction with other art forms.

Picture(c) by Jean-Jaques G (Deborah Walker)

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Kunsthaus KuLe
Auguststraße 10
10117 Berlin, Mitte
https://kunsthauskule.de/
The bar opens at 8pm, the first concert starts at 8:30pm. Three sets of 20-30 min each, in-between intermissions.

Tickets: 6-12€ sliding scale
The event is funded by Musikfonds e.V.

www.laborsonor.de

23/11/2025

& still ...
celebrating 25 Years of LABOR SONOR
24. NOVEMBER | KUNSTHAUS KULE | 20:30

NAME CHANGE:
NEO HÜLCKER
& STELLAN VELOCE
instruments, objects, electronics, voice

Link: https://soundcloud.com/name-change-the-band

Name Change is the duo of Neo Heckler and Stellan Veloce.

Neo Hülcker is a composer performer whose work focuses on music as anthropological research in everyday life environments. Their compositions evolve as situations, performance-installations, actions and interventions, and deal with digital subculture (like ASMR), childhood, human-animal-relations, q***r practice and cultural hacking.
They are a part of the Y-E-S collective, who publishes music dealing with performativity, temporality, sound as physical experience and the cultural frames of concerts (y-e-s.org).

Stellan Veloce is a Berlin-based Sardinian multi-instrumentalist and composer. They studied cello at the Cagliari Conservatory and composition at the Universität der Künste Berlin and the California Institute of the Arts.

Their music focuses on timbral research, iteration and modulations of sound densities, integrating composition with improvisation and band playing. Their background in traditional Sardinian music is a important subliminal inspiration of their work.

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Kunsthaus KuLe
Auguststraße 10
10117 Berlin, Mitte
https://kunsthauskule.de/

The bar opens at 8pm, the first concert starts at 8:30pm.
Four sets of 20-30 min each, in-between intermissions.

Tickets: 6-12€ sliding scale

The event is funded by Musikfonds e.V.
www.laborsonor.de

21/11/2025

& still ...
celebrating 25 Years of LABOR SONOR
24. NOVEMBER | KUNSTHAUS KULE | 20:30

VIOLA YIP
inflatable sound performance
Link: https://www.violayip.com/

Viola Yip, born and raised in Hong Kong, now based in Berlin, is an experimental composer, performer, improviser, sound artist and instrument builder. In her practice, she develops unorthodox self-built instruments, compositions and performances that explore the complex and dynamic relationships between materiality, media, space, human body and machine body through sounds.

We are very happy to have her on stage at KuLe.

Don’t miss.

Picture (c) Stephen Harvey

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Kunsthaus KuLe
Auguststraße 10
10117 Berlin, Mitte
https://kunsthauskule.de/

The bar opens at 8pm, the first concert starts at 8:30pm.
Four sets of 20-30 min each, in-between intermissions.

Tickets: 6-12€ sliding scale

The event is funded by Musikfonds e.V.
www.laborsonor.de

Adresse

AugustStr. 10
Berlin
10117

Webseite

http://laborsonor.de/

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