24 june 2024 | 20:30 | kunsthaus kule

Kunsthaus KuLe | August st. 10 | 10117 Berlin

Lorena Izquierdo—voice action + Carina Khorkhordina—trumpet
Morimoto/Wong Seiji Morimoto—electronics + Eric Wong—electronics
Tatiana Heuman Voz Sonámbula for shrutibox&electronics

In the June edition of this year’s LABOR SONOR concert series the duo of trumpet player Carina Khorkhordina and vocal performer Lorena Izquierdo will present an intriguing performative set of sounds and actions. The duo Morimoto/Wong explores sonic possibilities within limited gestures to produce sound, with the attempt to reveal different layers of sounds within the parameters and the resonance between objects. Sound, movement and media artist Tatiana Heuman will show her new work “Voz Sonámbula”.

TICKETS 6 – 12 € sliding scale

A production by Labor Sonor in cooperation with Kunsthaus KuLe. Supported by the Berlin Senate, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Spartenoffene Förderung Festivals und Reihen.

2 september 2024 | 20:30 | ballhaus ost

Ballhaus Ost | Pappelallee 15 | 10437 Berlin

Calum Builder—(re)constructed pipe organ & saxophone
Carolina Mendonça & Leticia Skrycky Something is Approaching—performance
Auguste Vickunaite—reel-to-reel tape recorders

LABOR SONOR returns to Ballhaus Ost for the September issue of the 2024 concert series. Calum Builder will play a concert for his self-built pipe organ & saxophone. Auguste Vickunaite mixes tapes on her reel-to-reel machines into obscure sound-collages. Carolina Mendonça will bring a new performance together with light-designer Leticia Skrycky on the stage of Ballhaus Ost.
Calum Builder’s pipe organ is a dismantled organ whose pipes were rescued from old churches in Denmark. The components are reassembled into a fascinating tangle of tubes and organ pipes. Auguste Vickunaite works with tape loops and collages of found tape material. Carolina Mendonça explores the inherent violence in the social structure of the family through writing and muscular reflection.

TICKETS 15/10 €

A production by Labor Sonor in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost. Supported by the Berlin Senate, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Spartenoffene Förderung Festivals und Reihen.

21 october 2024 | 20:30 | kunsthaus kule

Kunsthaus KuLe | August st. 10 | 10117 Berlin

Clare Cooper Mapped Intimacy—guzheng
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval Minos Circuit Rewired—microphone feedback, bassoon
Luciano Maggiore five legs—for speakers and voice

Dafne Vicente-Sandoval’s Minos Circuit Rewired is a site-specific exploration of the contingent musicality of feedback. Various resonant spaces – the cavities of a disassembled bassoon, the concert room itself – are made audible, turning physical volume into frequency and unintended harmony. Luciano Maggiore’s work addresses the performativity of the musical act, the perception of it, and the obscurity that emanates from it. With the use of speakers, several analogue/digital devices as well as acoustic objects, he crafts work of dedicated simplicity and, at moments, absurdity, where the traces of the various sound media in use surface. Clare Cooper is an improviser and a classically trained harpist who also plays Guzheng. She’s ferocious with strings and sticks, her sound inspired by synthesizers and broken boom boxes. “She reveals her entire dancing/musicking being, being-in-place, being-in-now — an unmeasured, poetic immersion of the listening/sounding/dancing body in the immediate.” (Jim Denley)

TICKETS € 6-12 sliding scale—no reservations, just come