29.11.25 20:00 | ByDS Concert
ByDS is an alternative dance band based in Berlin.
Formed at the 2015 Fusion Festival after the final show of their former band Tanke, the duo blends alternative rock pop with dark electronic, Latin fusion, and trip-hop — creating a sound that’s both emotional and danceable, with lyrics in English, German, and Spanish.
Bee and Diego, a multicultural couple who have been making music together for over 20 years, released their new album Our Long Weekend (2025), a collection of nine songs centred around love. The album is a musical journey through their shared story, exploring themes of passion, fear, regret, spirituality, and joy.
The production is entirely handmade, mixing electronic beats, analog synths, guitars, and expressive vocals.
Influences include Cumbia, Danzón, New Wave, UK drum & bass, and techno — deep yet easy to listen and dance to.
22.10.25 | Satzfolgen
Chatschatur Kanajan (violin) & Georg Witte (texts)
15.10.25 | Double Bass Trio
Szymon Marciniak – double bass
Gerold Genssler – double bass
Ulf Mengersen – double bass
The three double bassists Szymon Marciniak, Gerold Genssler and Ulf Mengersen have known each other for 15 years and began improvising together as a trio this year. All three have very different musical backgrounds and find a common language in improvisation, with which they send deep but also higher frequencies out into the world!
8.10.2025 | KYOT meets OKNO
Amy Green – vocals, gothic harp
Nikolaus Schlierf – rebec, vocals, viola
Mathis Mayr – viella, vocals
Chatschatur Kanajan – violins, electronics, paper and ink
4.10.25 / Concert
Microscopically examined sounds, nature and city noises, live electronics, DIY instruments and sound assemblages
– Duo
Peter Cusack (tablet, field recordings)
Annette Krebs (Construction #4: reinforced metal pieces, strings, voice, glass, computer, paper, microphones, etc.)
Peter Cusack and Annette Krebs are combining real world field recordings and sounds arising from the self-built electro-acoustic assemblage Konstruktion#4 into hybrid soundscapes.
– Quartett:
Angelos Tassopoulos (electric guitar, computer)
Sydney Christinsen (geophone, metal, audio interface, computer, MAX)
Jeremy Segal(mixer, loudspeakers, contact microphones)
Nicole Luhan (water, hydrophone, loudspeaker, computer)
A collective electroacoustic performance in which sonic discoveries are crafted and improvised through amplification and processing of different objects and instruments. Each ite m’s unique timbre is captured and modulated, as a way of voicing quiet sounds.
1.10.2025 | Chatschatur Kanajan and Sasha Pushkin
Chatschatur Kanajan – violins and electronics
Sasha Pushkin – voice and electronics
27.09. | The GAF presents: PROPELLER AT WERKHALLE-ZWO
Reading and concert:
Alexander vom Dorp Nackte Umgebung
Henrik Mayer Baumpilze
Alistair Noon Some People Say
Jordan Lee Schnee Twin Study
Mads Parsum The Portal Surfers
and our very special guest:
Nick Grindell There was an Old Man of Berlin
Concert: ROBERT HAND
Robert Hand is a no-wave/free jazz/poetry duo based in Berlin. Hand plays original compositions on their saxes, axes, sequencers and cymbals. No guitars. Robert Hand was born in 2011 in a Kreuzberg basement. The grit and the greenery of the city filtered into the music, along with post-Ottoman and Krautrock influences. They have played at Berlin venues like Tiefgrund and Wild at Heart and further afield at festivals at The Bauhaus Weimar and Fort Gorgast. This is the release of their cassette “Night Jags” (2025, ¿Qué sello?).
Robert Hand
24.09. | Emilio Gordoa, vibraphone | Guilherme Rodrigues, cello | Ben Benett, percussion
20. September & 2. October 2025 | The Molly Mechanism, The Silent Legacy of Molly Drake
Text and Music in Dialogue
by Rilli Willow, with music by Molly & Nick Drake and Benedikt Bindewald
Reading: Juliane Meyer Gregori
Vocals: Rilli Willow | Cello: Liron Yariv | Viola: Benedikt Bindewald
– Dee Auster Bunny –
The Molly Mechanism, the undiscovered side of Molly Drake, mother of the legendary Nick Drake. An actress, a singer, a viola and a cello transport the audience into a world full of poetry and melancholy. The intimate atmosphere is carried by songs by Molly and Nick Drake as well as compositions by Dee Auster Bunny. An evening that looks deep into the soul and offers a journey into the world of an unjustly forgotten artist.
27. August | Sonic Wednesday in Werkhalle Wiesenburg
Ole Brolin, electronics
Chatschatur Kanajan, violins +
20. August | ARCHIV
sonic event for the exhibition with Adam Goodwin, Natalia Pschenitschnikova und Chatschatur Kanajan
Adam Goodwin, double bass
Chatschatur Kanajan, violin +
Natalia Pschenitschnikova, voice +
13. August | Chatschatur Kanajan, Burdens of Classical Education
stand up / concert
29. July | Chatschatur Kanajan experimental music
23. July | 7pm Reading and Concert
The GAF proudly presents:
PROPELLER AT WERKHALLE
The reading will start at 19.00.
Alexander vom Dorp | Alistair Noon | Mads Parsum | Jordan Lee Schnee | Salah Yousif
New books | Alistair Noon “THE TITANIUM CHICKEN”, Salah Yousif “DER ZAUBERER” (Arabisch – Deutsch)
New sounds | Jordan Lee Schnee “Il concerto lugliano“
Concert | Dan Peter Sundland [e-bass] & Chatschatur Kanajan [violin]
9. July | DARKAN
Darlina Shader – voice, guitar, percussion
Chatschatur Kanajan – violin, keyboard, percussion
An evening of contrasts and sonic colours.
Delicate ballads, rhythmic adventures, unexpected turns.
In their first concert, DARKAN weaves together influences from Baroque, world music, electronica and art song:
Songs by Anoushka Shankar, Henry Purcell, Peter Schilling, Omar Sosa and Robert Schumann meet original compositions by Darlina Shader and Chatschatur Kanajan, creating a rich and layered musical tapestry.
2. July | Chatschatur Kanajan presents Dan Peter Sundland
“Dan Peter Sundland is simply outrageous on the electric bass. Words aren’t enough. You have to see him play!”
– Kresten Osgood
“He takes both us and the instrument along on excursions that vigorously piques curiosity, because his approach to both the instrument and the act of creating music is totally unique.”
– Tor Hammerø, nettavisen.no
Dan Peter Sundland is a unique electric bass player and composer active in the jazz and improvising scenes in Norway and Berlin. His playing is set apart by his expressive, wide ranging playing techniques, including cello-like bowing and a varied palette of percussive colours. In his improvised solo set, he invites the listener for a journey to the edges of electro-acoustic possibilities on the bass guitar, propelled by an inimitable, animated stage presence.
His first solo album was released in March 2022.
27.-29. June | Sommerfest.ival 2025
The annual Tanzhalle and Werkhalle Wiesenburg summer festival!
Three days of performances, installations, readings, concerts and a VHS club among other treasures – an art market along the Panke on Saturday and a children’s painting workshop and face painting for kids on Sunday.
Throughout the weekend: an exhibition, a sound installation, film screenings, and a vegetarian buffet in the Tanzhalle garden.
The Sommerfest.ival 2025 is supported by the production location funding of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion – Culture Division and the Pankstrasse Neighbourhood Management.
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Chatschatur Kanajan in Concert
25.06.25 | BURDENS OF CLASSICAL EDUCATION
musical stand up
A solo evening between virtuosity and irony.
Classical music, improvisation and personal stories — serious and playful at the same time.
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4. 06.25 | Summer concert at the Wiesenburg
with Chatschatur Kanajan and Udo Mader!
11.05.2025 | New York underground Poetry
Propeller Publishers and The GAF present:
SPARROW & VIOLET SNOW
HEY-HO!
1. Jordan Lee Schnee: Introduction
2. SPARROW: Short and Fast
3. Violet Snow: It’s Snowing in Springtime
4. Kitup: Ma’ Kin
5. SPARROW: Shorter and Faster
6. Mads Parsum and his Sonorous Band
VIOLET SNOW will report some unknown details from the history of European and American feminism.
Feminism in the early 1900s wasn’t just about getting the vote. Violet Snow‘s great-grandmother expressed her feminism through a women’s club, part of a widespread movement that brought women into public life in the US and in Germany too, through die Frauenvereine. But to the suffragist women, who were marching and hunger striking, the middle-class women’s clubs, both the literary clubs and the social reform groups, seemed unimportant. Violet’s novel To March or to Marry tells the story of two friends whose relationship is falling apart over how women should behave in the struggle for more rights, even as their roles in the world are transforming. Violet Snow is an American journalist and author, living in upstate New York.
SPARROW is one of the most playful poets on Earth:
Warning:
Most
of my
poems
are
even
worse
than
this!
This poem and many others are included into SPARROW’S new poetry collection Songs my Father Taught Me due to be out at Propeller’s and introduced on this night for our common benefit.
Sparrow lives in a trailer in the snowbound hamlet of Phoenicia, New York with his wife Violet Snow. He has published 11 books, including Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies (Monkfish) and The Princeton Diary (Vinal). His poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Sun, and Reptiles of the Mind. Sparrow writes art reviews for Chronogram. He has run for President of the United States nine times.
Violet Snow
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Sparrow
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Mads Parsum is a Danish beat-poet!
Udo Mader The old songs – Udo Mader grabs tradition by the scruff of the neck and shakes it until something decent comes out – like the old song, for example.
HAUMAKAN – Founded in Berlin in 2024, the duo explores the interface between improvisation and composition, between spontaneity and agreement, using the contrasting colours of the violin (Chatschatur Kanajan) and the drums (Udo Mader) and their infinite abilities to merge.
Resonance – Homage to the Wiesenburg Werkhalle, Chatschatur Kanajan, video, electronics and violins
Mads Parsum + Chatschatur Kanajan – poetry + violin
Adam Neumann Band – The industrial metal band Adam Neumann presents their new programme Basement Bell at the Werkhalle Wiesenburg on 19 April 2025.
At this year’s Easter concert, the young bassist and singer Darlina Shader makes her debut with the band.
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Darlina Shader – solo concert, voice and guitar
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Fruits of Passion – joint Easter happening
