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Berlin Atonal

Cabaret Voltaire at Berlin Atonal 2014
GenreExperimental music, Music
DatesAnnually in August
Location(s)SO36, Kraftwerk Berlin
Years active1982-1990
2013–continuing
WebsiteOfficial website

Berlin Atonal is a festival for sonic and visual art founded by Dimitri Hegemann in Berlin in 1982.

Overview

Originally held at SO36 in Kreuzberg, the early years of Atonal fostered revolutionary and innovative musical acts such as Psychic TV, Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept, 808 State, Die Haut among many others.[1] Throughout the 1980s Berlin Atonal was at the vanguard of the progressive electronic and experimental music and art scenes in Berlin. The festival closed in 1990 with the fall of the Berlin wall as Hegemann went on to open the legendary techno club Tresor.

In 2013, Berlin Atonal was relaunched at a new location - a massive abandoned powerplant in Berlin-Mitte.[2] The re-launched festival featured performances, installations and workshops from over 50 artists, musicians and experts including Jon Hassell, Glenn Branca, Moritz von Oswald, Murcof and many more. Since then it has hosted landmark performances including the first Cabaret Voltaire show in over 20 years, the one-off European live reformation of Outside the Dream Syndicate with Tony Conrad, a feature performance of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians and world premiere shows by the likes of Monoton, Alessandro Cortini, Shackleton, David Borden, John Elliot and many others.

See also

References

  1. ^ [ Thomas Bailey: How Gray Was My Mauer] (HiS Voice Magazine, access: 23 April 2013)
  2. ^ [ Official website of Berlin Atonal]
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