In the organizer's words:

CURATED BY INGRID LAUBROCK

January 08, 2026 | Konzerthaus Berlin

6:15 pm Curator's Talk with Ingrid Laubrock | 7 pm start of concert

Zentrum-under-construction.berlin: The fourth stopover of the project from January 8 to 10, 2026 at Konzerthaus Berlin shows the extensive possibilities that the creation of a center for jazz and improvised music in Berlin would offer: STOP OVER 4 - Perspectives.

Ingrid Laubrock, Julia Hülsmann and Christian Lillinger are three renowned musicians who have each curated a concert evening with their highly personal perspectives on jazz and improvised music. The line-up for all three events has now been finalized. Before the concerts, there will be an introductory talk with the curators about their perspectives and the curated program.

SET 1

Davies-Marino-Walker present Ecstatic Looms

Jessie Marino, Berlin: strings, electronics

Angharad Davies, London: violin

Deborah Walker, Berlin: cello

Active listening, experimentation and expanding the sonic possibilities of their instruments are the central reference points of the new Davies-Marino-Walker trio. Angharad Davies' unique vocabulary of alternative resonating bodies meets Jessie Marino's abstracted influences from pop culture and everyday life and Deborah Walker's explorations at the intersections of music with other art forms.

Folk traditions influence the artistic practices of the ensemble members in different ways. This gave rise to the impulse to explore the links between music and weaving - a craft that is widespread worldwide and has hardly changed over the centuries. Woven objects permeate our everyday lives in often inconspicuous but profound ways. The trio's Ecstatic Looms pieces are inspired by historical weaving techniques and draw on notations from traditional pattern books. Always open to chance discoveries, they weave improvised musical structures and materials, sound and texture into multi-layered tapestries of sound.

SET 2

Yuhan Su Nuance

Yuhan Su, New York City: vibraphone, composition

Michaël Attias, Berlin / New York City: alto saxophone

Shinya Lin, New York City: piano, electronics

In this Special Trio Edition, vibraphonist and composer Yuhan Su meets Michaël Attias on saxophone and Shinya Lin on piano and live electronics. Together they present music from Su's album OVER the MOONs (2025) as well as a series of new works, including the world premiere of Symphony Behind the Hills.

At the center, Sus' vibraphone paints soundscapes of melodies, harmonies and rhythms. Her music is characterized by memories and language - inspired by her childhood in Taiwan and her fluent Mandarin. Shinya Lin combines self-made electronic instruments, prepared piano and free improvisation in her unmistakable sound language. Michaël Attias enriches the ensemble with his deeply collaborative and curious voice on the saxophone. Between composition and improvisation, the trio explores counterpoint, timbres and rhythmic gravitational fields, creating pulsating soundscapes full of surprises.

SET 3

Fred Moten & Brandon López

Fred Moten, New York City: voice

Brandon López, New York City: double bass

Fred Moten and Brandon López make incendiary music for a world on fire. During their infamous performances, they explore forward-looking, relentless and energetic large, processual forms. Poet and cultural theorist Fred Moten creates conceptual spaces for new kinds of Black cultural production, aesthetics and social life. Composer and bassist Brandon López dedicates himself to work, improvisation and the search for new modalities and sonic possibilities on the double bass. Together they explore the necessity of improvisation to navigate the impending era of institutionalized madness while maintaining humanity and sanity. In 2025, their synergistic interplay as a duo first appeared on the album Revision.