Prelude 2 - Hania Rani presents Chilling Bambino

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PRELUDE 02 · TUESDAY 12 MAY · KRAFTWERK BERLIN

Hania Rani presents Chilling Bambino
Torus

Hania Rani strips back the ornate piano and orchestral work that brought her crossover recognition and rebuilds from the ground up. Chilling Bambino is her electronic alter ego: built around a bank of Sequential Circuits Prophet synthesisers, sculpting ambient structures in real time, moving from long drifting tones into throbbing trance. Developed across a small number of performances in Warsaw, London, Osaka and New York since 2024, the project foregrounds the synthesiser as a live performance instrument, reworking existing material alongside new compositions through dark-tinted electronica and hypnotic rhythmic structures. Rani has resisted the neoclassical framing applied to her work, telling the New York Times that the music "might be slow, not so loud, not upbeat, but it's actually intense." Chilling Bambino makes that distinction physical.

Dutch multidisciplinary artist Torus opens the evening. Working under an alias since 2012, Joeri Woudstra moves between club sets, sound installations and art commissions, with work shown at documenta 14 and the New Museum in New York alongside Kate Cooper. His sound pushes dance music toward maximalist reconstruction, dissecting trance, electro and harder styles and reassembling them with a critical and beautiful edge.

This is the second of three prelude concerts at Kraftwerk Berlin leading into The Infinite Now, the first formal collaboration between Berlin Atonal and Unsound. Each prelude presents a single focused bill as an independent proposition. The thirty-hour continuous programme begins at Kraftwerk Berlin on Saturday 16 May and runs without interruption until Sunday 17 May.