{"id":36934,"date":"2016-09-07T17:46:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=36934"},"modified":"2016-09-07T17:46:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:46:45","slug":"berlin-atonal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/berlin-atonal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wenn das Berghain ein Festival w\u00e4re, dann w\u00e4re es genau das hier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Atonal-Audience-1800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Berlin Atonal Audience\" width=\"1260\" height=\"840\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFour years on from its rebirth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/?s=atonal&amp;submit=Search\">Atonal<\/a> has earned itself the title as \u201cThe Ground-Zero\u201d for new forms of sonic expression and techno culture advancement. Each year, the capacious venue Kraftwerk turns into a playground for the architects of Berlin\u2019s electronic and experimental music scene, which could easily be described as the festival version of a Berghain night\/day out. Video art installations, audio-visual and laser shows also speak to the building\u2019s dark spaces, all harking back to its original function as a GDR power station.<br \/>\nSprawling the venue\u2019s myriad levels were a number of exhibition vessels, each pounding with a unique and\u00a0rotating programme. The\u00a0only constant throughout the five-day event was New York-based artist Rose Kallal\u2019s immersive 16mm loop installations which were\u00a0housed in\u00a0the basement. Saturated and mesmeric, they combined traditional and computer animation techniques with video synthesis and feedback \u2013 all as nonlinear looping prisms.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Berlin-Atonal-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Berlin-Atonal-2016\" width=\"1500\" height=\"951\" \/> Photo: Camille Blake<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nGreeting the swathes of drone and techno aficionados in the main entrance was Sabrina Ratt\u00e9\u2019s \u201cCommon Areas\u201d. A congregation of video works presented on retro television monitors, the images flatly phased in and out of soft digital patterns. Sliced up by geometric black lines, the static two dimensionality of the installation added a calming surface level to the electrifying interventions permeating deep inside the venue.<br \/>\nThe feverish Projektionsraum offered a\u00a0balance between the site-specific panoramic exhibition space and a behemoth audiovisual work, backdropping heavy and intoxicating performances in Kraftwerk\u2019s iconic auditorium. Each day featured a new presentation from a roster of artists including Carla Chan\u2019s large algorithmic video piece \u201cThe Melting Black\u201d and Yuxi Cao&#8217;s self-generative software \u201cMacrocosm\u201d. Luis Sanz\u2019s acoustic experiment entitled \u201cSTM~Intemporal\u201d \u00a0filled the protracted screen, and Valentina Berthelon and Tobias Freund\u2019s collaborative project Recent Arts presented \u201cAnd so on to Infinity\u201d. Atonal darling Rainer Kohlberger was back again to present his algorithmic drone compositions \u201cNever Comes Tomorrow\u201d.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Berlin-Atonal-16-2.jpg\" alt=\"Berlin-Atonal-16-2\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1001\" \/> Photo: Camille Blake<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis year, the Kraftwerk control room \u2013 or the Schaltzentrale \u2013 became a verdant, intimate studio abounding with plants and slouching armchairs. The modular synthesisers, which were central to the durational performance, commanded a first-class schooling in the art of patching. Meanwhile, Stage Null on the ground floor was a pleasing new addition to the programme. Dedicated to site-specific light installations by Marcel Weber, Andrej Boleslavsky and Roly Porter, \u201cAcceleration Space\u201d was a custom engineered piece that tripped between slow and hyper-fast vicissitudes of light. Its varying intervals of depth coupled with the space\u2019s architectural contours, made sensorial impressions that prompted a heightened, immersive state.<br \/>\nWith such a rigorous and involved programme, it would have been easy to overlook some of the pared down events taking place on the Null Stage. A highlight was the understated yet remarkable one-off retrospective of early film and synthesised video works by Steina and Woody Vasulka; founders of the seminal New York-based multimedia centre The Kitchen.<br \/>\nThe final showdown saw Robin Fox present \u201cRGB\u201d, his infamous live laser performance that converts sound directly into light geometry. The bombardment of visual and sonic information is purported to unlock parts of the brain that are rarely used. In doing so, the mechanics of the light drawing are made audible for a synaesthetic experience. The technical gravity of the frenetic laser performance was the perfect coda for five days of noise and fizzing visual experimentation, but it requires a prolonged recovery period due to sensorial overload. Until next year rolls back around, at least.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36958 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Berlin-Atonal-21.jpg\" alt=\"Berlin-Atonal-21\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1001\" \/> Photo: Camille Blake<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>More information on Berlin Atonal is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berlin-atonal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">berlin-atonal.com<\/a><\/strong> \n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techno aficionados have been flying into Berlin only for Atonal<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[5662,38,2998,5663,34,3905,3146,5664,3150,5665,5666,5667,5668,5669,5371,5670,5671,5672],"class_list":["post-36934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-andrej-boleslavsky","tag-art","tag-atonal","tag-audio","tag-berlin","tag-culture","tag-kraftwerk","tag-marcel-weber","tag-rainer-kohlberger","tag-roly-porter","tag-rose-kallal","tag-sabrina-ratte","tag-steina-and-woody-vasulka","tag-synaesthetic","tag-techno","tag-tobias-freund","tag-valentina-berthelon","tag-yuxi-cao"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>If Berghain Was a Festival this Would Be it If Berghain Was a Festival this Would Be it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/berlin-atonal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"If Berghain Was a Festival this Would Be it If Berghain Was a Festival this Would Be it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Techno aficionados have been flying into Berlin only for Atonal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/berlin-atonal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-07T15:46:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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