MADEIRADIG

08/04/2025

4 months ago we hosted our final MADEIRADIG. After so many years it was not easy for us to say goodbye. But perhaps we shouldn't say 'bye'—but rather 'see you later.'

In case you were wondering what we've been up to in the last months: Here is our new Kiezsalon 2025 program! From May to November, we are set for a new season across Berlin and Brandenburg with over 50 artists—70% of Berlin debuts—and new venues.

Featuring: Adriaan de Roover, Agua Dulce—Ale Hop & Laura Robles, Ann Annie, Atsuko Hatano, Başak Günak, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Carme López, Cassie Kinoshi, Cerys Hafana, Christina Kubisch, Danae Palaka, Dana Schechter & Paul Wallfisch, Elaine Howley, Erwan Keravec, Evicshen, FUJI||||||||||TA, Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko, James Blackshaw, Jasmine Guffond, Jason Kunwar, K not K, KUUNATIC, Limpe Fuchs, Maika Garnica, Maria Rodés, Masayoshi Fujita, Mayssa Jallad, Merope with Shahzad Ismaily, OHYUNG, Róbert Kerényi, Sven Helbig, Szilvia Bognár, The Space Lady, Thorn Wych, Ubaldo, Ulla and many more.

Tickets are available — https://tickets.digitalinberlin.de

30/11/2024

Due to unforeseen events beyond our control, we have to move today's Contagious concert to tomorrow.

After his brilliant opening concert on Thursday, we are delighted to present Raphael Roginski once again — this time, however, for the first time, as a premiere in a duo together with David Grubbs.

Thanks for your understanding, your MADEIRADIG team ❤️

28/11/2024

After he played a wonderful concert at the Kiezsalon in Berlin earlier this month, we are looking forward to the Ukrainian sound artist Heinali. He will be playing alongside Bendik Giske on Friday evening at the MADEIRADIG main stage.

In his core practice Oleh Shpudeiko reimagines medieval music with a modular synthesiser, an instrument informed from artistic research to improvise polyphony and monophony.

“Kyiv Eternal,” by the composer and sound artist Heinali (real name Oleh Shpudeiko), submerges listeners in the sounds of the prewar Ukrainian capital.

27/11/2024

We are very sorry to inform you that Christina Kubisch has to cancel her festival appearance due to illness. This is a great pity and we wish her a speedy recovery.

As one of the most important sound installation artists in the world, she is of course irreplaceable and we hope to invite her again next year again.

26/11/2024

Polish guitarist Raphael Roginski’s newly reissued 2015 album ‘Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes’ received a whopping 8.5-star review in Pitchfork, lauded as “a perfect encapsulation of his music’s mystical, spiritual energies.”

He opens MADEIRADiG 2024 this Thursday at the John Dos Passos Cultural Center in Ponta do Sol. Admission is free of charge.

Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the album.

26/11/2024

Dear friends and festival guests, here is this years program! See you tomorrow on the island for the MADEIRADIG. As always, our opening dinner is at Sol Poente on the cliff from 7 pm. The program starts on Thursday at 21:30 at Centro Cultural John Dos Passos with Raphael Roginski, admission is free.

25/11/2024

Hailing from San Francisco, noise experimentalist Evicshen, aka Victoria Shen, joins us at MADEIRADiG 2024. Her unconventional sonic havoc is carefully built with analog modular synthesisers, vinyl and resin records, and self-built electronics.

Shen currently works at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics Stanford and School of Visual Arts NY, she is also a serving member of the Board of Directors for The Lab in San Francisco.

22/11/2024

Christina Kubisch, a pioneering figure in the first generation of German sound artists, originally trained as a flautist and composer. Now, her work sits at the interface of music, media and art through innovative research.

She plays next Friday, November 29, at Casa da Mudas along with Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske.

21/11/2024

Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of Celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipe. A native Gaelic speaker, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture. After rising to prominence as a prodigy of traditional music, she has since taken the smallpipes into uncharted territory.

She closes MADEIRADiG 2024 at the John Dos Passos Cultural Center in Ponta do Sol on Monday, December 3. Admission is free of charge.

20/11/2024

Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske is known as a composer who continuously pushes the boundaries of his instrument and body. On his second solo album ‘Cracks’, he “continues to develop an entirely new vocabulary for his instrument,” yielding a “curiously disembodied sound,” writes Pitchfork.

Bendik plays on Friday night at Casa das Mudas along with Christina Kubisch.

19/11/2024

A trailblazing musical polymath, NikNak has carved a niche for herself in the music industry with her distinctive turntablism, immersive compositions and captivating improvised performances.

Witness her sonic storytelling on Monday, December 2 at Casa das Mudas before Evicshen aka Victoria.

18/11/2024

Described by The Quietus as “one of the most adventurous, uncompromising and thoughtful figures on the experimental side of American composition,” guitarist, composer and professor David Grubbs is known for traversing artistic communities.

Moving from the 1980s hardcore punk scene into academia, Grubbs boasts a colourful career and a discography to match. Catch him at MADEIRADiG 2024.