Performers – Modellbahn

Alex Kozobolis

kelly wyse — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:27:45 +0000

London / Brighton based composer and visual artist, Alex Kozobolis fell in love with the piano through first hearing Thelonious Monk and through hip hop samples. Through self training and a good ear, Alex found his own style with the piano at a young age.

Today, he has released several s olo and collaborative albums in addition to film scores and fashion campaigns.

As a photographer and film-maker he has worked with Moses Sumney, Penguin Cafe, Victoria Canal, Max Cooper, Nils Frahm and Erland Cooper to name a few.

His latest release, The Seasons Are Not Four, a collection of real-time compositions is out now.

Andrew Lafkas

ingmar — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:01:28 +0000

Andrew Lafkas is a musician currently living in Berlin, Germany. His primary instrument is the contrabass. He is currently focused on developing pieces for largish ensembles that encourage group intuition; this interest is greatly inspired by and influenced by experiences working in groups led by Milo Fine and Bill Dixon. He is also active in the groups Oceans Roar 1000 Drums, with Todd Capp and Bryan Eubanks, and a trio with Marcia Bassett and Barry Weisblat. He has performed at venues and festivals including Walker Art Center, The Living Theatre, Experimental Intermedia, the Vision Festival, and the Seattle Improvised Music Festival.

Atlas Glaas

kelly wyse — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:31:12 +0000

Atlas Glaas is a Berlin-based composer and sound designer of American origin, originally from Northern Virginia. His work spans multiple genres from Modern Classical, to Techno and Ambient, with a focus on psychoacoustic sound design, minimalism, and hypnotism. He has also composed for film and dance, his work prominently featured by The Berlin Dance Institute (“To Fall Asleep Under The Sweet Burden of Thought”), the French-German film “Echoes of The Moon” (dir. Vincent Jondeau, 2022) and the Japanese-American film “Daughters of Monster Madness” (dir. Kosaku Horiwaki, 2023).

Benjamin Geyer

kelly wyse — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 09:17:12 +0000

“For me it’s important to find Sounds, which can be brought into different and unusual contexts. I like to enter symbioses to other ranges of Art like performing arts or spoken words”

In search of new musical inspiration, Benjamin founded his alias BernsteinZimmer. Since then, he has been pursuing a desire to combine his musical origins, improvisation, classical and jazz music with electronic-conceptual music. A three-month trip through the USA helped him to get to know people and artists who consciously and naturally break down these genre boundaries.

BernsteinZimmer was already performing as a warm up for international well known Artist Max Cooper and Beatrice Dillon and performs in modern Ensembles as Holly Schlotts UNIQUE, with the hypnotic experimental artist Laure Boer or the VKKO Ensemble. He participated as a synth and electronic musician at the Neuköllner Oper. He is also the Bandmember of the Berlin Duo MONONOKE and Amsterdam trio FLORA SOPHI. During the pandemic the debut Album of FLORA SOPHI – If/When was partly written, recorded, produced and mixed at BernsteinZimmers home-studio in Berlin.

CEEYS

ingmar — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:01:59 +0000

CEEYS are brothers cellist Sebastian Selke and pianist Daniel Selke.

Having grown up in East Berlin during the final decade of the German Democratic Republic, CEEYS work explores recollections of their youth, contemporary music and vintage electronic instruments. Exploiting their knowledge of songwriting, textures and repetitive patterns, CEEYS creates an experimental but accessible sound that incorporates elements of jazz, pop, ambient and classical chamber music. This is combined by their early influence of Bach, Beethoven and Debussy and their passion for almost-forgotten compositions of East German based acts like Reinhard Lakomy, Wolfgang Paulke and Frank Fehse.

Having collaborated with some of Berlin and Germany’s finest composers and musicians (Ólafur Arnalds, Carlos Cipa and Martyn Heyne) the brothers were inspired to set up the Q3Ambientfest, a festival for experimental modern classical music. Launched in 2017 the festival is a collaboration with CEEYS and the Dutch event label F/uister.

Christoph Berg

kelly wyse — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:52:35 +0000

Christoph Berg is a composer and musician living and working in Berlin. He is focusing on chamber music and music for film.

In 2017 he released the chamber music album “Conversations” on Berlin-based boutique label Sonic Pieces and wrote the original sound track of the German feature film “Leanders Letzte Reise”.

Erik K Skodvin

ingmar — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:02:13 +0000

Erik Knive Skodvin (born 1979 in Norway) is a Norwegian experimental / ambient musician. Raised in Langesund, Norway, he currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany after a long period in Oslo. Skodvin runs the record label Miasmah Recordings and also works freelance as graphic designer (Miasmah Design) mostly for record labels, artists and within music business. He also makes music himself under the aliases Svarte Greiner, and (with Otto A Totland) Deaf Center.

Islaja

kelly wyse — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:53:06 +0000

Islaja is Merja Kokkonen: a composer, performer and recording artist based in Berlin, Germany.

Since her debut in 2004, she has released four albums on Finland’s Fonal Records, one on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label and one on Berlin-based monika enterprise, as well as a series of singles on labels such as Not Not Fun and Root Strata.

The most recent album Tarrantullacame out on Svart Records in December 2017.

She earned quick praise in the international music press for her unique vocal style and daring DIY approach to music composition, with kudos from the Wire magazine, Pitchfork and Tiny Mix Tapes.

In addition to her solo work, she also performs with Monika Werkstatt, an all-female collective founded by Gudrun Gut. This Berlin-based group of international artists organizes workshops, panel discussions and collaborative concerts and aims to provoke discussion about women in electronic music.

John Kameel Farah

ingmar — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:02:28 +0000

John Kameel Farah is a composer, pianist and visual artist based between Toronto and Berlin. He studied composition and piano performance at the University of Toronto, where he received the Glenn Gould Composition Award twice during his studies. In 1999 he had private lessons with Terry Riley in California, and later at the Arabic Music Retreat in Hartford.

His live solo concerts uses a setup which surrounds the piano with synthesizers, as well as processing the piano through computer filters and effects. His music draws upon an interest in astronomy, history, mythology and painting. As a visual artist, his intricate ink drawings have been presented at solo and group exhibitions.

Collaborations have included Canadian choreographer Peggy Baker, ballet star Robert Binet, and astrophysicist John Dubinski. In 2010 he became a member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, the oldest continuously active live-electronic performing group in the world. In Berlin, he frequently works with the Oriel String Quartet and the early vocal ensemble Vox Nostra.

He has toured worldwide and has given concert-lectures at several universities and colleges in Canada and Germany.

His newest album “Time Sketches” has been released on the label Neue Meister/Edel Kultur.

Jonas Nordberg

kelly wyse — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 13:13:10 +0000

Swedish lutenist and guitarist Jonas Nordberg belongs to the new generation of exciting musicians in the field of plucked instruments. A graduate of the Mozarteum University Salzburg (MA Summa cum Laude 2011), he has an active schedule as a performing artist on lutes and historical guitars. Thereby his repertoire ranges from early renaissance lute music to contemporary soundscape explorations. In between we find solo repertoire for renaissance lute, baroque lute, baroque guitar, early 19th century guitar and theorbo.

Venues and festivals the past seasons include Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus, Greenwich Early Music Festival, Stockholm Early Music Festival, BAM New York, National Sawdust NYC, Concertgebouw Brügge, Theater Bonn Opernhaus, Grand Théatre Luxembourg, Mozarteum Salzburg, Malmö Opera, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Stockholm, Helsinki City Theatre, Salzburger Landestheater, Herculessaal München Palladium Malmö, Gothenburg Concert Hall, Stockholm Concert Hall, Stavanger Concert Hall, Movimentos festwochen Wolfsburg, Vadstena Gamla Teater and Norrlandsoperan amongst several other concert halls and churches around Sweden and Europe.

He has two solo and three collaborative albums out on Eudora Records and BIS Records to wide acclaim. The most recent, ‘Heroines of love and loss’ was given a Diapason d’Or award. His work has also been seen and heard regularly on Swedish state television (SVT), BBC Radio, Sveriges Radio, Deutschlandfunk and on radio stations worldwide.