KNM Berlin Ensemble

‘repeat!’ builds on this openness. Historical works and new approaches come together to ask: where does language end and music begin? How does an instruction become an action, a space a resonating body, and memory sound?

Alvin Lucier is reinterpreted through two new works: Juliana Hodkinson’s ‘On the line’ takes ‘Love Songs’ as its starting point, whilst Jonathan Heilbron’s ‘Place Fragments’ refers to ‘Memory Space’. Gavin Bryars’ ‘Private Music’ forms the starting point for KNM’s ‘…because of the god in her’. Bryars is one of those English minimalists who, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, re-established a closer link between society and its avant-garde music.

With Klaus Rinke’s ‘Inhalation I’ from 1971, the programme moves directly into the realm of performance art. Rinke, who engages intensively with water, time and physicality, formulates instructions for action which are reinterpreted by the musicians as a musical experimental setup. Ana María Rodríguez brings the exploration of resonance into the present day. In ‘Gold and Silver’, the performance space itself becomes a resonating body: a fragile feedback process unfolds and is continually reframed by the organising force of the gong – a sound ritual poised between fragility and structure.

‘repeat!’ touches upon an age-old question: that of creativity and production, of change and repetition. We yearn for both and oscillate time and again between these poles – between the desire to create something new and the need to revisit the familiar.

• Sat 12 December 2026, 7.00 pm Concert
• Sun, 13 December 2026, 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm Screening with live interventions

FAHRBEREITSCHAFT | teilelager

Works by Gavin Bryars, Jonathan Heilbron, Juliana Hodkinson, Klaus Rinke and Ana Maria Rodriguez.

Ensemble KNM Berlin

Rebecca Lenton, flute | Theo Nabicht, bass and contrabass clarinet | Theodor Flindell, violin | Cosima Gerhardt, cello | Jonathan Heilbron, double bass

Thomas Bruns, Artistic Director, Video

Juliana Hodkinson, conductor of *On the line*

Ana María Rodríguez, live electronics

Andre Bartetzki, sound

Francisco Petrucci, lighting

Address: FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, Herzbergstraße 40–43, 10365 Berlin

Tickets: €12/€8 each | ticket@kammerensemble.de

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Supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.