Commissioned within CTM's Berlin Current programme for emerging musicians, multi-instrumentalist Kathy Alberici & analogue filmmaker Martha Jurksaitis present A Sonic Portrait of the Funkhaus Nalepastraße, using a mixed-media approach that captures elements of the history, ecology, and sound and visual environments of the home of the former DDR National Broadcasting Servicen.

Working with tape loops of field recordings, violin, synthesizer, and ring modulator, and joined by repeat collaborators Calvin Xang and Scotch Egg on guitar and bass respectively, Alberici’s musical score is deeply intertwined with Jurksaitis’ combination of archival and original footage projected via three 16mm projectors and a number of homemade optical effects.

Alberici and Jurksaitis explore much more than the unique environment of the Funkhaus – the clash of past and present, the power of aural memory, and music’s potential to change our perception of the visual (and vice versa) all become increasingly present as this slow-building work comes to a thunderous close.