a niche in the gap

C. Lavender

Lavender Suarez, aka C. Lavender, is a Berlin-based sound artist, electronic musician, and sound healing

practitioner whose work explores the somatic impacts of sound through psychoacoustics, ritual, and

embodied listening. Working with synthesizers, percussion, gesture controllers, and spatial audio she creates

immersive sonic experiences that engage sound as a deeply physical and transformative force.

Bandcamp has called her a “drone expert,” describing her music as having “curative powers” while remaining

“confrontational, primed to change you whether or not you want it to.”

Lavender has worked regularly with spatial audio including her composition “Oneness,” for a 192-speaker

Wave Field Synthesis system that was supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She was the first

Spatial Audio Artist-in-Residence at Sonic Acts (Netherlands) in which she composed the piece “Dissipation

Traces.” Her work has also been developed through residencies at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) (Sweden),

Pioneer Works (USA), Harvestworks (USA), Wave Farm (USA), A+E Lab (UK), and Kurimanzutto Gallery in

collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (USA).

Lavender is the author of the critically acclaimed book Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our

Creative Lives (Anthology Editions), a contemplative artist’s workbook exploring how listening can spark

creativity, foster self-awareness, and cultivate mindfulness. The book draws on her experience in Deep

Listening as an assistant to Pauline Oliveros, her academic background in art therapy, her experiences

teaching sound healing and meditation, as well as her work teaching the science of sound to youth

communities. Transcendent Waves considers how listening can deepen our connection to the world around

us and become an evolving source of creative inspiration.

C. Lavender’s music can be found on the labels Editions Mego, iDEAL Recordings, RVNG Intl., Ecstatic

Peace!, and Old Technology among others.

Previously based in New York City, C. Lavender relocated to Berlin in 2026.

Joke Lanz

Joke Lanz was born in Basel in 1965 and lives in Berlin since the late 90’s.

He is a pioneer of the electronic Independent scene and crossover artist whose work spans improvised and experimental music, noise and turntablism, performance art and musique concrète. He regularly performs with his band Sudden Infant or in various combinations throughout the improv and noise scene or as solo artist with voice and electronics. Joke Lanz is a member of the internationally renowned Schimpfluch Gruppe alongside of Rudolf Eb.er and Dave Phillips.

He collaborated with:
Shelley Hirsch, Peter Kowald, Christian Marclay, Astro, Z’EV, Lasse Marhaug, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Strotter Inst, Christian Weber, Ute Wassermann, DJ Olive, Sophie Agnel, dieb13, Martin Tétreault, Eklekto Ensemble, Alexandre Babel, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mette Rasmussen, GX Jupitter- Larsen, The New Blockaders, just to name a few.

Innumerable releases on international labels:
Schimpfluch, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, RRR, Entr’acte, Artware, Klanggalerie, PAN, iDeal Recordings, Harbinger Sound, Nihilist Records, Voodoo Rhythm Records, Some Bizarre, Cubus Records etc.

In his solo program he will present compositions from his latest studio album “Zungsang” (Force Majeure), a rework of his 2021 cassette on Vice de Forme.
A unique blend of physical sound poetry and epileptic noise bursts, created with contact microphones, voices, electronics and rhythms. Major themes of his intense musical universe are childhood experiences, physical eruptions, psycho mechanisms and absurdities of human destiny.

“Joke Lanz is one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones where performance and body art meet Improvisation and Noise.” (The Wire)

“Joke Lanz has always been a master of contradictions – sound poet and sonic vandal, noise provocateur and collage craftsman, prankster and philosopher.” (Chain D.L.K. / July 2025)

Exhibition by:

Klaus Kamptner

Klaus Kamptner, artist, lives and works in Berlin.

Studied at the HGB in Leipzig and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main

Painting, drawing, installation, collaboration

Gefördert von: Initiative Musik und des Bundes für Kultur und Medien.