Sound in the Garden 2026, Sunday (Sound installations for Fujiko Nakaya)
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
This night happened — Sun 16 Aug · 10am → 10pm
10 € · CTM Festival and FREUNDE der Nationalgalerie e.V. ·
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Who was billed5 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
Set times were not published.
the pairs that have met
6 of the 10 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto — 3 shared bills before that night, first on Wed 27 Aug 2025.
- Alva Noto and Stephen O'Malley — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Wed 27 Aug 2025.
- Stephen O'Malley and Ryuichi Sakamoto — 2 shared bills before that night, first on Wed 27 Aug 2025.
- Stephen O'Malley and Kali Malone — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Fri 1 May 2026.
Who they are
“Born 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt he is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area between music, art and science.”
their own biography
the whole biography
Born 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt he is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area between music, art and science. With a strong adherence to reductionism he leads his sound experiments into the field of electronic music creating his own code of signs, acoustics and visual symbols. NOTON is a label founded in 1994 by Carsten Nicolai as a small imprint becoming active in 1996 with the release of noto “spin” record. In the same year the collaboration with RasterMusic begun and by 1999 the two labels merged into Raster-Noton. By 2017 NOTON starts working independently releasing all back catalogue of Alva Noto and currently planning future releases. Diverse musical projects include remarkable collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ryoji Ikeda (cyclo), Blixa Bargeld or Mika Vainio. Nicolai toured extensively as Alva Noto through Europe, Asia, South America and the US. Among others, he performed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Tate Modern in London. Most recently Nicolai scored the music for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newest film, 'The Revenant’ which has been nominated for a Golden Globe, BAFTA, Grammy and Critics Choice Award. His musical œuvre echoes in his work as a visual artist. Carsten Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of the sensory perceptions of man by making scientific phenomenons like sound and light frequencies perceivable for both eyes and ears. His installations have a minimalistic aesthetic that by its elegance and consistency is highly intriguing. After his participation in important international exhibitions like documenta X and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennale, Nicolai’s works were shown worldwide in extensive solo and group exhibitions.Their RA profile lists Mute Records, Raster-Noton, Affin, Mille Plateaux and 4 more.Recently at ZENNER, Philharmonie Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie · often with J. „MO’ONG” SANTOSO PRIBADI AV w, Jerzy Mączyński, Fadi Mohem, none of them here that night
- Their RA profile lists Shelter Press and Ideologic Organ.
Recently at Neue Nationalgalerie · often with performs Does Spring Hide Its Joy ft. Lucy Railton &, Walt McClements, Carsten Nicolai, none of them here that night
- Their RA profile lists Ghostly International, Touch, Raster-Noton, 12k and 4 more.
Recently at Neue Nationalgalerie · often with Carsten Nicolai, Limpe Fuchs, Blackhaine, none of them here that night
“Using synthetic and acoustic instrumentation in repetitive and extended durations, Malone’s rich harmonic textures emit a distinct emotive hue serving to generate a captivating and uncanny depth of focus.”
their own biography
the whole biography
Using synthetic and acoustic instrumentation in repetitive and extended durations, Malone’s rich harmonic textures emit a distinct emotive hue serving to generate a captivating and uncanny depth of focus. Kali’s work has been presented at Berlin Atonal, Moogfest, Cafe Oto, Intonal, Norberg Festival, The Swedish Radio, EMS Elektronmusikstudion & Fylkingen, Angelica Festival, The Royal College of Music, Robot Festival, and Boiler Room among others. _ “Malone’s solo collection of pipe organ musings seems rich with the kind of divinity only discovered alone, in an inner welderness […] These are less dirges than devotionals, holy modal communions with sound and space and self. The music remains minimal in that it is unadorned, naked. And by revealing all, nothing need be implied” - Britt Brown, The Wire _ “Magisterial, glacial, attention-demanding and powerful exposition of Buchla 200 synth tones mapped to acoustic woodwind and brass […] a quartet of diaphanous and slowly unfolding electro-acoustic landscapes that externalise a highly personalised form of emotive topography” - BoomkatTheir RA profile lists Ideologic Organ.Last at Kraftwerk Berlin in May · often with listen, drift, dawn, none of them here that night
Recently at Kater · often with Chaosy, Orkgotik, Max Svitlo, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Blackhaine1 with Ryuichi Sakamoto and 1 with Stephen O'Malley
- Carsten Nicolai1 with Ryuichi Sakamoto and 1 with Stephen O'Malley
- Hania Rani1 with Ryuichi Sakamoto and 1 with Stephen O'Malley
- Limpe Fuchs1 with Ryuichi Sakamoto and 1 with Stephen O'Malley
- Loraine James1 with Ryuichi Sakamoto and 1 with Stephen O'Malley
- Pantha Du Prince1 with Ryuichi Sakamoto and 1 with Stephen O'Malley
- Fadi Mohem2 with Alva Noto
- J. „MO’ONG” SANTOSO PRIBADI AV w2 with Alva Noto
The room
Neue Nationalgalerie — 21 events and 37 distinct artists since Aug 2025.
Who put it on
CTM Festival — 47 events and 195 artists since Aug 2025.
FREUNDE der Nationalgalerie e.V. — 20 events and 37 artists since Aug 2025.