This evening explores challenging and confrontational dealings in sound.

Thomas Ankersmit, who is devoted to music at its most intrusive and gargantuan, will present his new multi-layered composition, "Infra," at Berghain. The work explores the artistic, musical, and perceptual potential of infrasound, triggering strong emotional reactions from unease and angst to awe and even spiritual catharsis.

Radical prophet of anti-music Romain Perrot aka Vomir is known for his uncompromising "harsh noise walls." For him, static sound at the limits of listenability is an opportunity for both isolation and immersion, embodying an existential nihilism and the wish to withdraw from society at large.

Just as for Vomir, music for NYC’s power electronics proponent, Pharmakon, is a fundamental component in a process-based, rageful face-off with contemporary society. She presents new material on this occasion.

Jussi Brightmore and Thomas Fuglesang make up the psychedelic rhythmic explosion that is Gum Takes Tooth. In their own words, the band is a "two-man everything machine endlessly seeking what-the-fuck aural mesmerism in a maze-like arrangement of physically overwhelming rituals of sound system culture, riffs and pan-cultural psychedelics."

Thomas Ankersmit is presented with the SHAPE Platform, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. His composition, “INFRA” is supported by Stimuleringsfonds.