To continue HAU2's festival-long focus on the crossroads of sound and dance, a special event with shows by Rashaad Newsome and Roderick George/Lotic will be presented once tonight and twice tomorrow evening. In "FIVE,"multidisciplinary American artist Newsome will investigate African, European, and North-American roots in the NYC underground dance tradition of vogueing. The show involves five local musicians, five dancers, and MC, an opera singer, and live drawing by Newsome. Beforehand, dancer and choreographer Roderick George joins forces with musician Lotic to present "Embryogenesis" a show that likewise blurs boundaries between "high" and "popular" culture.

As we approach the weekend, our evening and nighttime programmes are quickly getting busier. At HAU1, in an "Antidote" to the turmoil, highly original songwriter and sound-explorer Colleen will perform the music from her last, all-electronic album, A Flame My Love, A Frequency, which was written in reflection upon the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. Local heroine Lucrecia Dalt presents material from her upcoming LP Anticlines, which is concerned with edges, boundaries, porosity, liminality, and tellurics, merging hand-crafted instrumentals with spoken word. At Berghain Säule, ambient techno mainstay Recondite delivers an AV show for the second evening in a row.

Today's discourse programme starts out with a panel discussion led by writer Mollie Zhang with four artists helping to nurture an exciting underground music scene in China. Afterwards, also in Studio 1, composer and 4D sound director John Connell will give a lecture on the value of listening, and The Quietus's Tristan Bath will speak with Drew McDowall. Downstairs in the Projektraum, the SHAPE platform will host discussions between Crack Magazine's Emma Robertson and two different SHAPE-supported artists in the festival: JASSS and Swan Meat. 

A stacked lineup at Berghain tonight explores the immersive and cathartic potential of noise and sonic texture. The night will open with "H A C K" a fierce new piece by Berlin-based composer and sound artist Maximilian Marcoll featuring the electric guitar duo AAA—AAA. Celebrated artist and drummer Cevdet Erek will deliver one of his solo acoustic performances; avant-garde cellist Okkyung Lee will showcase the expressive force of extended technique; Hugo Esquinca will map Berghain's cavernous space using feedback and resonance; and Marcus Schmickler will interweave algorithms and sonification. Meanwhile, Philip Vermeulen's installation will continue at Halle am Berghain. 

Tonight's evening programme will take place at HAU1 and at Berghain's new downstairs space Säule. In a concert focusing on resistance through sound, no-wave icon Lydia Lunch will play alongside violinist Mia Zalbeka and sound artist Zahra Mani in the project Medusa's Bed, and versatile, innovative Egyptian vocalist Nadah El Shazly will present her new debut album. At Säule, Berlin techno mainstay Recondite will play music from the upcoming album Daemmerlicht in a sold-out AV show.

In today's Radio Lab Talks, Marcus Gammel of Deutschlandfunk Kultur will speak with three festival artists, all of whom make work for radio: Zuli, Olaf Nicolai, and AGF. Upstairs in Studio 1, lectures by Lyndon CS Way, Pedro Oliveira, and Carla Schriever explore the interplay of music and resistance, and Lisa Blanning discusses best practices for those affected by misogyny in music culture. 

Our programme at Berghain resumes tonight with five performances and an installation. Scottish musician Drew McDowall will give the European premiere of his solo, "revisited" version of the legendary Coil masterpiece Time Machines, which still packs a punch today as a classic of late-20th-century drone and ritual music. The programme also includes poetess and musical activist AGF, conceptual artist Olaf Nicolai, self-taught UK pop visionary Klein, and Berlin acoustician Jessica Ekomane. It is also the opening night of "Physical Rhythm Machine_Boem Boem", an immersive, playful installation by Dutch artist Philip Vermeulen in the cavernous Halle am Berghain.

For CTM 2018, MONOM, Berlin's new Center for Spatial Sound, has commissioned several artists to use the 4DSOUND system to build intensely visceral experiences that will range from calming and hypnotizing to thought-provoking and radical. The 4DSOUND system is a habitable instrument that merges with and decentralizes the performance space, allowing for sound to come from all around us and move through us. The first programme, this Tuesday 30th, features new works by Gaika and TCF, as well as a performance of "Imagining the Hyperspace" by Ioann, which was developed at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest.