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Mini Festival of
Experimental Music
24–25 May 2024
PAS, Kaiserin Augusta Allee 101, 10553 Berlin
Topographies Mini-Festival brings together leading exponents of improvised and experimental music from Ireland and
Book Tickets
Friday 24th May
18:00
All welcome to celebrate the beginning of the festival before the first performance at 8pm. Reception kindly supported by
20:00
2017/2022, Francis Heery
MoonPhases is a long-form spectral work written as a homage to W.B. Yeats’ occult work A Vision. This book was derived from notes he took during daily seance-like sessions with his wife Georgie, who would channel messages from the beyond, either through speech or automatic writing. MoonPhases features a ‘hermetically charged’ drone and sets of performance instructions on 28 cards.
Saturday
13:00
2021, Elliot Murphy
Inferno is a work for solo cello and interactive pre-recorded strings written in celebration of the septuacentennial of Dante’s Divine Comedy. It follows Dante’s journey as he descends into the underworld marking each new location with a sonic landscape. Its modular composition allows the pre-recorded aleatoric parts to be flexibly recomposed during performance while the live cello part is improvised simultaneously. Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland.
15:00
A long form improvisation featuring various constellations and clusters of improvising musicians from Ireland and Berlin.
19:00
Panel discussion with artists and composers featured in Topographies, in conversation with the Contemporary
20:00
Three premieres written especially for the Topographies festival, for piano, electric guitar, cello and electronics by Francis Heery, Ellen King and Elliot Murphy.
Dan Bodwell: Double bass
John Godfrey: Electric guitar
Francis Heery: Electronics/composer
Brad Henkel: Trumpet
Jung-Jae Kim: Saxophone
Izumi Kimura: Piano
Ellen King: Electronics/composer
Malwina Kołodziejczyk: Saxophone
Vincent Laju: Cello
Shane Latimer: Electric guitar
Elo Masing: Violin
Elliot Murphy: Cello/composer
Ernst Surberg: Synth
Topographies is part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland