For the first time in Berlin, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst will present the new expanded version of their live show with a 9-piece vocal ensemble. The performance will explore themes of AI and frontiers (technological, geographical, and otherwise) while celebrating community and endorsing hope in the face of despondency. In the first half of the show, six ensemble members (houaïda, Annie G, Albertine Sarges, Marshall Vincent, Josa Peit, and Lyra) present short vignettes of their solo projects.

Versatile media artist Marco Donnarumma will appear at HAU2 tonight in the perfomance "Eingewide," which is the second piece in his "Corpus Nil" trilogy. The trilogy is a series of solo performances at the crossroads of body art, sound art, and technology. In them, Donnarumma probes the physical, psychological, and physiological relations between machine intelligence and the human body.

Today's discourse events at Kunstquartier Bethanien continue with four presentations upstairs in Studio 1, two talks downstairs in the Projektraum, and two events at the Red Bull Music Studios. In Studio 1, Aden Evens will speak about "digital creativity"; Leigh Alexander will address play and promise in digital culture; George Lewis will discuss his interactive computer system Voyager; and Lewis & Roscoe Mitchell will speak with Wire editor Daniel Spicer. The Projektraum will host two sessions focusing on gabber & hardcore—the first will address the history of the genres and the second on its recent resurgence & appropriation by younger generations of activists. At the Red Bull Studios, Hanna Bächer will speak in two sessions with festival artists: Hanin Elias, who performed last Saturday, and Equiknoxx, the collective performing tonight at YAAM.

Tonight's stacked Berghain lineup visits older and newer traditions of gabber and hardcore. Downstairs features PCP founder Marc Acardipane, Rotterdam gabber legends DJ Panic and The Darkraver, the Polish collective WIXAPOL S.A., and hi-octane kids Kilbourne, KABLAM, HAJ300, and HDMIRROR. In Panorama Bar the tempos will fluctuate some. Laurel Halo will deliver one of her broad-ranging DJ sets; Bampa Pana & Makaveli of Nyege Nyege's excellent Sounds of Sisso compliation present Tanzania's version of bassless happy hardcore; Luz, Perel, Lakuti, and Batu all add individual flavour to a kaleidoscopic programme.

James Ferraro's new stage performance runs tonight and tomorrow night at HKW. “Plague,” which including live visuals and scenographic elements by Nate Boyce and features Berlin new music choir Phønix16, is a multidisciplinary work built around speculations on a future society in which an AI is simulating reality through the manipulation of living humans with the goal of creating the ultimate consumer product. 

American experimental music innovators George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell will perform with Lewis's interactive computer system Voyager, which was one of the earliest strides in the development of a real-time relationship between a music-making machine intelligence and human musicians. Both Lewis and Mitchell are long-term activists for the visibility of African-American composers and have left their indelible marks through visionary work with ‘non-musical’ noise and computers. On the same programme, Marcus Schmickler and Julian Rohrhuber will explore the Mind Reader, an invention that helped lay the foundation for machine learning in the midst of the Cold War.

The discourse programme continues today with three AI- focused talks upstairs in Studio 1 and a panel discussion downstairs in the Projektraum. Upstairs, Marco Donnarumma discusses AI and body politics; Guy Ben-Ary shares his knowledge of bio-engineering, and Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst speak with coder Jules LaPlace about experiments with AI and sound. Meanwhile, the Projektraum will host special roundtable presentations related to the topic of overseeing community spaces. Participants are Coral Foxworth, Lauren Goshinski, Luz Diaz, Rene Bosch, Smiley Baldwin, Stella Plazonja, and the moderator is Christine Kakaire.

Tonight and tomorrow night, CTM will take over Panorama Bar in addition to the Berghain downstairs. "On Edge," the party on the main floor, features a diverse roster of young artists working at the forefront of experimental club music: Zoya Bassi, Swan Meat, VIOLENCE, BLISS SIGNAL, Schwefelgelb, and Olivia. Upstairs, "Phasing" showcases Perera Elsewhere, Jason Hou, Jana Rush, Champion & MC Serious, and Hyph11E.