Merve Salgar and Sonotopie/Autoskopie

Merve Salgar is a musician from Istanbul who plays the traditional Ottoman music instrument, the tanbur.
Sonotopie/Autoskopie is a protean musical portrait of an imaginary megalopolis, for cello, double bass and electricity.

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CW#24 l SEASON 3 l CW x POSTKLUB SATELLITE

This felt like a long year, and looking back we realize why: «Chromatic Wednesdays» has realized 23 wonderful episodes full of emotion, creativity and diversity. As it’s time for the 24th and final episode of season 3, we’d like to come together one last time this year for «Chromatic Wednesdays». Join us this time for modular, audiovisual and DJ performances by Gina Lo, bianyachichi & sailormenx, B3NJO and special guest at Arkaoda Bar. 

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CW#23 l SEASON 3 l A Desperate Vitality

The poem «A Desperate Vitality» by Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1964 is written in cutting rhythms that move up and down, full of allusions and quotations that change between absurdity and sadness. In their performance at «Chromatic Wednesdays», Dafne Narvaez Berlfein, DuChamp, Ithaka and Seamus O’Donnell circle around this poem interpreting it between words and metaphors, sounds images and screams.

 

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CW#22 l SEASON 3 l On the Verge

What does it evoke to be on the verge of known and unknown realms? The artists in this episode of «Chromatic Wednesdays» explore this question using different approaches. In the improvisational performance «On the Verge», AKS focuses on individuals’ moments, meeting points and the ways they express themselves in relationship to ‹home› through various media.

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CW#20 l SEASON 3 l Talking Nature

«Chromatic Wednesdays’» episode «Talking Nature» features four artistic short films that reflect the shifting notion of intelligence and look closely at the interaction between objects, machines, animals and humans. Intelligence is commonly understood to be the ability to acquire and apply knowledge. For centuries, Western humanist thought has propagated the idea that intelligence is an exclusively human phenomenon and that ‹man› is an autonomous agent, the measure of all things.

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CW#18 l SEASON 3 l Uncomfortable Utopia

Where does dystopia begin and utopia end? The «Performance Museum» designed by Zookunft.Project collective members and performers Hannah Juliane Steenbeck and Milena Sundari explore these transitions, frictions and transformations as part of «Chromatic Wednesdays’» upcoming event.

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CW#15 l SEASON 3 l The Questionarch Solidarity Walk and Fundraiser and FEED

As part of the upcoming «Chromatic Wednesdays» event on the new monthly theme «Collectivity», you are invited to get to know Questionarch. With the alternative exhibition and project spaces Fix-o-tek and the Vide-o-tek in Berlin, Questionarch focuses on sustainability, public space, material reuse, and experimental urban concepts.

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CW#14 l SEASON 3 l Light Exciter

How do improvisation and given structures relate to each other? The musicians Hilary Jefferey, Ignaz Schick, Chris Pitsiokos, Germán Gabriel García and Markus Krispel test the possibilities of improvisation in the framework of Albert Amerioun’s light installation.

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CW#13 l SEASON 3 l Dare You Say: Game Night

«Good Deed Bad Deed» is a board game created by artist İpek Çınar and legal academic İpek Aşıkoğlu that will presented at «Chromatic Wednesdays». It encourages people to express their intentions and discuss their own positions in producing and presenting photographs, while addressing structural discrimination such as racism, sexism, ageism, classism and discrimination based on faith.

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CW#11 l SEASON 3 l Chronicles

How do artists approach myths in today’s rationalized world and how do they enact their artistic practice in their own mythical recitals and rituals?

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CW#10 l SEASON 3 l Equal Distance

This episode of «Chromatic Wednesdays» shows two piano performances that revolve around the meaning of «Comma» in music theory, where it describes a very small interval, bringing two notes closer together by tuning them differently.

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CW#9 l SEASON 3 l Syntax

With the performance «Power Games» Pet the Poet and Zorka Wollny ask «How can new communities emerge and find a language against pressing social justice issues?
«Turbo Summation» by Mark Mushiva features a manifesto, his synth-inspired hip-hop album, spoken words, a music film, and a homemade wearable device that function as speculation, blurring the lines between reality and the imagined parallel present that plays out in Mark’s mind.

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CW#8 l SEASON 3 l Spectrum

n this edition of «Chromatic Wednesdays», light fluctuates through the music, sound and noise performances by Lisa Simpson, Liz Kosack, and Viola Yip.

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CW#7 l SEASON 3 l Gelgit

Gelgit» means «light fluctuation» in Turkish referring to the varying intensity and brightness of light. Figuratively, it relates to a situation or behavior that is unpredictable, fluctuating and changing, much like light.

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CW#5 l SEASON 3 l Refuge Worldwide presents «Parallels»

The theme of «Resistance» takes «Chromatic Wednesdays» to Refuge Worldwide, the host of the next episode, in which artists explore parallel narratives and streams of protest from multiple perspectives.

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CW#3 l SEASON 3 l Tumultuous

Tumultuous sounds take us on a journey in the next episode of «Chromatic Wednesdays». They traverse places in musical, notebook-like observations, reflecting on the cross-cultural connections of the globalized world. On their expedition, they cross paths with eclectic sounds that symbolize the diversity of people and ideas coming together to fight for a common cause.

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CW#2 l SEASON 3 l Sketches of Eastern Ukraine

As an expression of solidarity with Ukrainians, «Chromatic Wednesdays» invites Freefilmers to its upcoming episode. The collective from Mariupol will present three of their short films reflecting eastern Ukrainian cities before and since the Russian invasion in 2022. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A session with Freefilmers co-founder Iryna Berezneva.

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CW#24 l SEASON 2 l 110 × 3:33:08

As part of the last edition of «Chromatic Wednesdays» this year, su dance110 will reflect on their sound practice in their solo performance by engaging metal objects in corporeal movements and voice, combining analog synthesizers and electronics, poetically and wildly navigating in between worlds of perception.

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CW#22 l SEASON 2 l She-Pigeon

In the upcoming episode of «Chromatic Wednesdays», Selin Davasse slips into the role of She-Pigeon: a filthy pigeon with a cooing cunt who pecks at the feet of the audience in Kreuzberg’s Ölberg-Kirche.

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Black On Black “SilkWorm Sessions”

Audio-visual performance collective Black On Black is releasing their first audio-visual album, SilkWorm Sessions. The album brings together Ceren Oykut’s live recorded black and white animations and Fezaya Firar’s live synthesized electronic music.

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CW#21 l SEASON 2 l Presence of the Absent

In collaboration with Errant Sound, «Chromatic Wednesdays» presents three artistic works responding to the theme «Resonance». Through lecture performance, sound performance and film Julia Cremers, Bella and Mykola Ridnyi ask: how can resonance make an absence perceptible? 

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CW#20 l SEASON 2 l Sunken Temple

Usually, the temple is the sacred place that provides sanctuary and keeps objects that are valued for their hallowed nature. In the case of Samuel Hall’s album, the «Sunken Temple» preserves memory through music and sound.

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CW#18 l SEASON 2 l Anatolian Leopard

With the goal of preserving the place they have built their lives on, two characters try to find a sanctuary for an endangered animal in Emre Kayış’ film «Anatolian Leopard»

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CW#17 l SEASON 2 l Phantom Power & Eribòz

Resonance magnifies a stimulus by allowing vibration to makes it oscillate – a phenomenon explored this month by «Chromatic Wednesdays».

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CW#16 l SEASON 2 l Maths, Euphoria, and Misinterpretations

The ambition to explore the unknown is the main engine driving the artists’ presentation of their lecture performances under the «Chromatic Wednesdays’» theme «Curiosity».

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CW#15 l SEASON 2 l Rockindesk & Fine Tuning with Simon Berz and Georg Werner

When we are drowning in instability, creativity can be the saving anchor, as Simon Berz, the guest of the upcoming «Chromatic Wednesdays» edition, states.

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CW#14 l SEASON 2 l Nour Sokhon & AweKid l «Chromatic Wednesdays» in collaboration with «HIVE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM DAYS BERLIN»

The performances by Nour Sokhon and Awe Kid investigate this months’ «Chromatic Wednesdays» theme «Divergence». With her performance «And who are we now?», Nour attempts to imagine a future for her home country Lebanon, worn-out by recent economic and political developments.

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CW#13 l SEASON 2 l Offseeds present «Tales of Extinction»

Offseeds’ album «Tales of Extinction» is a collection of musical and visual stories symbolizing extinct animal spirits. In the performance for «Chromatic Wednesdays», Offseeds present interpretations of these animals through sounds, music, voice and live illustrations

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CW#12 l SEASON 2 l The Matter of Memory with Burak Çevik & Dilşad Aladağ

Memories can reappear again and again like echoes in altered form. The film «Belonging» explores this theme with the means of experimental film.

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CW#11 l SEASON 2 l A.I.D and Abet! #3

For this edition of «Chromatic Wednesdays» the core team of A.I.D, based mainly in Turkey, comes together to give their third concert in Berlin. A.I.D (Art is Dead) is an organization that breaks with defined musical criteria.

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