Sound Metaphors Festival Opening Concerts
Kantine am Berghain, Berlin
Wed 28 Oct 2026 · 7pm → 11:30pm · 5 hours
29 € · 18+ · Kantine am Berghain, OstGut GmbH and Sound Metaphors
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Who’s playing4 artists
In the order the promoter lists them.
Set times not published.
the pairs that have met
5 of the 6 pairings on this bill are first meetings.
- Okkyung Lee and Marylou — 1 shared bill before Wednesday, first on Wed 27 Aug 2025.
Sound Metaphors continues its momentum established over the last years as a select promotional entity and takes a leap into a new plateau of celebrating music with a 3 day affair, October 28, 29 and 30. With a focus on live acts, Sound Metaphors brings you another carefully selected lineup of emerging players and legendary pioneers, all within the confines of one of the world’s most iconic cultural institutions.
With over a decade of finely curated music events, Sound Metaphors Festival represents a natural progression of our commitment to musical appreciation, independent culture, and intentional programming — a highly selected journey throughout a wide range of aural flavours: techno, ambient, dub, live electronics, experimental, leftfield and everything beyond and inbetween.
We invite you to come together once again in our version of a safe space for music to exist with as little constraints as possible. Here’s to human expression and love of music, dance and sound.
from the promoter’s listing on Resident Advisor
Who they are
“Mohammad Reza Mortazavi (b.”
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Mohammad Reza Mortazavi (b. 1979, Iran) is known for his groundbreaking work with the tombak and daf, traditional Persian drums that he has radically redefined through new playing techniques and extended vocabulary. Mortazavi began playing the tombak at the age of six.Recently at Kraftwerk, Tresor/Globus and OHM, Kraftwerk Berlin · often with Doygen, Gavsborg, Niklas Bildstein Zaar, none of them here on Wednesday
“Her sonic practice blends ambient, early music, minimalism, and avant-garde, often combining electronic textures with acoustic instrumentation such as cello and zither.”
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Her sonic practice blends ambient, early music, minimalism, and avant-garde, often combining electronic textures with acoustic instrumentation such as cello and zither. Deeply rooted in both sound and image, she works across mediums to communicate complex emotional states and layered atmospheres. Markowska was classically trained as a cellist at the State Music School in Łomża and later studied Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Her solo releases, including the EP Thrills (2024, Kanu Kanu Recordings) and debut full-length album ISKRA (2025, Miasmah), delve into the textures of time, emotional memory, and the subtle sonic contours of place. Earlier, she co-founded the experimental duo Teufelsberg, releasing EP Uncomfortably Close (2021, SKAN Records), and continues to collaborate with artists such as Piotr Kaliński (Hatti Vatti), Stefan Wesołowski, Olgierd Dokalski (kIRk), and the KYMATIC ensemble. She has composed original music for installation and short feature and documentary films, including scores for Koka (2024) and In Heaven and on Earth (2023), and frequently contributes to benefit and concept compilations. Markowska has presented her work across Europe in both musical and visual contexts, including performances at Rheinsberger Musiktage zu Pfingsten (DE), Electrum Up to Date Festival (PL), Unsound (PL), Mi-So (Berlin, DE), and exhibitions at Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK), Gdańsk City Gallery (PL), and Theaterhaus Stuttgart (DE), among others. She has held residencies at the Musikakademie Rheinsberg (2024, DE), Cratoule Les Musarts (2024, FR), and the Centre of Polish Sculpture (2020, PL).“Pleasure and repetition, declension of the word percussion, Marylou carves raw oneirism.”
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Pleasure and repetition, declension of the word percussion, Marylou carves raw oneirism. Raised between forests and ocean in the south west coast of France, her first languages are painting and cinema before she got involved in different ways (writing, drawing, promoting) in the parisian birthing scene in the 2010's. Her daring and psychedelic sets are always an experimentation of her true style : From Traditional music, improv jazz and Noise to dub, bass, footwork and jungle, there are always special instants in Marylou’s mixes which have already gotten the likes of edgy festivals & platforms like Terraforma, Freerotation, Intonal, CTM, Meakusma, or in clubs from Berghain to cafe Oto.. By hosting two shows on Rinse France and Cashmere radio, and regularly on NTS, she showcases her eclectic and vibrating sound and curates some incredible shows.Their RA profile lists Morphine Records, Ominira and OOH-sounds.Recently at Alte Feuerwache THF, Panke, Berghain · often with ophélie, Gavsborg, Rafush, none of them here on Wednesday
names these artists often play with — not on Wednesday
- Gavsborg4 with Marylou and 2 with Okkyung Lee
- ophélie4 with Marylou
- Abibi3 with Marylou
- Calibre3 with Marylou
- Carrier3 with Marylou
- Coco Calypso3 with Marylou
- Darwin3 with Marylou
- Fukinsei3 with Marylou
The room
Kantine am Berghain — 60 events and 174 distinct artists since Aug 2025.
Who’s putting it on
OstGut GmbH — 202 events and 979 artists since Aug 2025.
Sound Metaphors — 17 events and 153 artists since Aug 2025.
Also that night
- Tresor New Faces hosted by ScheißmukkeTresor / Globus — TRESOR and Marylou keep turning up on the same bills.
- SLIME x OAXISTORTE BAR — also tagged experimental, with electronica too.
how these 2 are connected
- Tresor New Faces hosted by Scheißmukke — TRESOR and Marylou have shared 3 bills; TRESOR is on that bill and Marylou is on this one.
- SLIME x OAXIS — RA tags both listings experimental — and that one also electronica.