Hybrid series 2 – October 31st – 20:00 studio db Berlin
Date : October 31st - Door 20:00 - Start 21:00 (promptly) Studio DB : Uferstraße 8-11, 13357 Berlin Getting There: U8 – Pankstraße, S41/S42 – Gesundbrunnen, M27, 255 – Pankstraße Entry fee: 15 euros
Elektramusic, in collaboration with studio dB Berlin, proudly presents the Hybrid Serie – a new concert series dedicated to adventurous listening and sonic exploration, curated by Paul Clouvel from Elektramusic.
Blurring the lines between sound art, electroacoustic music, free improvisation, voice and contemporary composition, Hybrid Serie invites audiences into a space where experimentation thrives and boundaries dissolve. Join us for an ongoing journey through the unexpected, the immersive, and the unheard, with Manon McCoy, Alice Brookes, Katharina Bévand and Sarah Grace Graves.
To mark this special occasion, three bespoke cocktails will be crafted, each perfectly paired with a musical set.
PART 1 - MANON MCCOY & ALICE BROOKES voices and electronics Manchester based collaboration between electronics/sound artist Manon McCoy and vocalist/ composer Alice Brookes. Together they work on immersive performance art using the voice, electronics, found sounds and objects. Their performance draw from research into alternative performance practices as a way of exploring the relationship between self and space. They create vast improvisations for voice and objects using live signal processing as an extended instrument. With DIY values at the core of this project, the due have self built a rig for their performances, combined instrument of electronics and objects, which constantly evolves with their work.
PART 2 - KATHARINABÉVAND modular synth Katharina Bévand is a sound artist, live synthesist, lecturer and cultural professional with a background in Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in Sound Studies at UdK Berlin. Her work explores the intersections of sound, architecture and bodies, generative processes and authorship as well as fostering a less anthropocene view on the built environment and machines. She is drawn towards expanding concepts of time in music, such as Drone and Deep Listening as well as physical sound experiences. Her sound oscillates from metallic object sounds towards noise, industrial, axperimental, ambient, dreamy atmospheres and synthesized sounds. From fiield recordings to room atmospheres, sound sculptures and 3D Sound, she constructs and investigates sonic architectures and vibrating materials.
She exhibited internationally, in Germany, Spain, Egypt, Taiwan, the Autonomous Region Kurdistan in Iraq, Finland, Switzerland and Austria. She played live at venues such as the Club/Gallery Ohm, SUPERBOOTH 25 and for SELVA HYUGENS at the Giri Pop-up during Berlin Fashion Week, she played at the Mille Plateaux Nonference at Forum Stadtpark in Graz, exhibited at the Madou Sugar Industry Triennale(Taiwan), was part of Kunst im Bau: 90 Jahre Haus des Rundfunks RBB(Berlin), Begehungen Chemnitz in the former Braustolz Brewery, Dystopia Sound Art Biennial(Berlin), Space21 Festival(Kurdistan/Iraq), among others.
PART 3 - SARAH GRACE GRAVES voice Sarah Grace Graves is a singer and composer working where recital meets ritual. From 2020-2022 she studied voice with Nicholas Isherwood while conducting an artistic residency at the Fondation des États-Unis on interdisciplinary collaboration with voice. In summer 2023, thanks to the Michiko Hirayama Scholarship, she was singer-in-residence at the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome. In 2022, she joined the PhD program in composition at the University of California, Berkeley.
An avid collaborator, she has duo projects with Eda Er, Virginia Guidi, and Julie Zhu and has appeared with line upon line, collective lovemusic, Del Sol Quartet, Carol Robinson, Volti, and the Italian vocal ensemble Fragmente. She is an alumna of the Voix Nouvelles Academy at Royaumont and the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship at the Fondation des États-Unis.
Curated by Paul Clouvel for Elektramusic Special thanks to Kate and François from Studio DB
