To Er is Human

Special guest, Eda Er  – voice, electronics, amplified objects

Alessandra Eramo – voice, tapes, electronics

Korhan Erel – synthesizers

Eremy Woodruff – bari sax, flutes, electronic wind instrument

There is something in the er tonight! To Er is Human makes an approach to human error like tree lizards fighting for the right to spawn. Like hearing owl songs underwater during a red moon. Like feedback from a burnt out telecaster in the ceiling of a cement factory. It is cunningly surprising and yet cannily beautiful. Through samples, voices, velocity nodes and resonant insights, by turn fleeting and crass, subliminal and cranked, a sonic cudgel of revolutionary bliss emerges…  

Eda Er, a native of Istanbul is a composer, sound artist, and singer, currently based in Berkeley, California. She primarily explores the potential of physicality and narrativity in her music. She enjoys collaborating with dancers, actors, visual artists and performing/improvising with electronics and vocals. She has had the pleasure to work as a composer with notable groups, musicians, organizations, and ensembles, including Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Kugoni Trio, Hermes Ensemble, Hezarfen Ensemble, Atlas Ensemble, Vertixe Sonora, Eco Ensemble, Ensemble Suono Giallo, Nordic Trombone Quartet, Nicholas Isheerwood, Christine Cornwell, Tom Collier, IKSV International Theater Festival, Gaudeamus Festival, Festival Mixtur, Ikincikat, Mamut Art Project, Clout Theater, A corner in the world and Berika Collective. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the klank.ist, and besides composing and producing, she performs actively with Klank.ist Ensemble and with her music-dance duo, The Prufrock, her music duo Esse, and solo with electronics and vocals.  She is currently pursuing a PhD in Music Composition at the University of California, Berkeley and CNMAT.  

Bookings

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• Course

13. March 2023 - 19. May 2023, 09:00

Indian Classical Music in Diasporic and Experimental Perspectives

55+ hours of seminars, workshops, talks, lessons and concerts, from expert practitioners and researchers including performance/ presentations by course participants in the Club Raum at Kunsthaus Acud in May. For singers, instrumentalists, composers, sound artists, researchers, musicologists, and rasikas alike.

• Performance

2. April 2023, 19:30

Yogeswaran Manickam- Carnatic Concert "Seven Ragas" with Jens Fischer

Manickam Yogeswaran is a singer and composer, and Co-Artistic director of the Global Music Academy (GMA) in Berlin and co-ordinator of the South Asian music at the GMA.

• Performance

12. April 2023, 20:00

GruppenTRAINING III

Eine Konzertreihe des Duos TRAINING (Johannes Schleiermacher & Max Andrzejewski) mit wechselnden Gästen unterschiedlicher musikalischer Hintergründe. Animierte Grafiken als Spielanweisung bilden die  immer gleiche Grundlage für die immer andere Begegnung. Hierin öffnen sich Räume für Solo-momente der Protagonist*innen.

24. April 2023, 18:00

Uday Krishnakumar and Stefan Keller – Artists' Presentations

Two composers give presentations on Indian influence in their work and insights into their overall compositional processes. Both have premiers at the Zafraan ensemble concert at Berlin School of Sound on April 28th and at the Berlin Philharmonie on May 3rd.

• Performance

28. April 2023, 20:00

Acud Sessions with Zafraan Ensemble: Indian Music Meets New Music

Jeweils ein besonderer Gast und sein inspirierendes Genre werden eingeladen, die persönliche Begegnung und den unmittelbaren Austausch mit dem Zafraan Ensemble und dem Publikum zu feiern. Dabei dient zunächst ein von François Sarhan entwickeltes LOG BOOK dazu, zusammen zu finden, um die aktuelle Zeit zu reflektieren, bevor neues Repertoire erkundet wird.

• Performance

24. May 2023, 20:00

GruppenTRAINING IV

Eine Konzertreihe des Duos TRAINING (Johannes Schleiermacher & Max Andrzejewski) mit wechselnden Gästen unterschiedlicher musikalischer Hintergründe. Animierte Grafiken als Spielanweisung bilden die  immer gleiche Grundlage für die immer andere Begegnung. Hierin öffnen sich Räume für Solo-momente der Protagonist*innen.