silent green Open Lab #1: Nino Dava + Conjunto Desenfreno Tropical

In the organizer's words:

silent green presents

With silent green Open Lab, we are delighted to be able to establish a new format for young Berlin musicians who are taking their first steps onto the stage - beyond the pressure of expectation or market presentation.

Promoting young talent and revealing artistic processes is very important to us at silent green - and that's exactly what Open Lab is all about, which is deliberately not intended as a pure showcase, but as a space of opportunity: for the step into the public eye, for encounters, for resonance and further development.

Both solo acts and ensembles/bands from Berlin whose approaches not only demonstrate individual artistic expression, but also a desire to explore and cross genre boundaries - between electronic music, improvised practice, pop, spoken word or performance - were eligible to apply.

Nino Dava
Nino Dava is a Tbilisi-born, Berlin-based composer and sound artist whose practice combines field recordings, noise, electro-acoustic composition and site-specific sound installations. In her work she explores the intersections of sound, public spaces, memory and noise as a performative practice.

In her latest works, Dava shapes heavy drone sounds, synthetic vocals and prepared accordion. By incorporating choral folk music scales into an unpredictable sonic turbulence, the performer addresses noise both as a political construct and as a means of expanding listening - in a thoroughly aggressive manner.

Nino Dava presents Mosquitos, Fireflies - a four-channel live noise performance (partly improvised, partly composed) based on electromagnetic resonance, FM distortion, accordion amplification and vocal processing.

Conjunto Desenfreno Tropical
Conjunto Desenfreno Tropical embark on a search for the lost spirit of the festival and its sonic manifestations with their musical and interdisciplinary performance: an anthropophagic exploration and experimental approach, rooted in tropical and Latin American music, which feeds on "modern" musical influences such as contemporary jazz, electronics and psychedelic rock to enable an encounter with a diffuse origin.

Tuesday, August 19
Dome Hall
8 p.m.
Free admission