This night at Berghain brings together sound adventurers from avant-garde pop. Equipped with a microscopically precise sense of the complex interactions of individual tonal reagents, Kuedo, d’Eon, Holly Herndon, and Forest Swords each employ systematic scientific rigour to create their unique signature sounds.

Yet despite such conscious control, the processes they use to generate music are highly experimental, emphatic, and not lacking in playful wit. The results transcend the formulas they knowledgeably concoct from countless ingredients. The common thread here is the increasingly important role played by artistic sensitivities honed both by the infinite sources of open digital archives, and a personal fascination with specific themes. Such focused stances enable these artists to leave behind tired, beaten paths and synthesize new musical compounds; Pop-Non-Pop polymers that react with the organic fabrics of personal emotion and intuition, yet paradoxically are also broadly referential and hyper-synthetic– and well on their way into genre-less space.