silent green Open Lab #3: megouem + Dara Shikoh + Kkoki

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 transcend genre boundaries - between electronic music, improvised practice, pop, spoken word or performance - were eligible to apply.

megouem
megouem sings, reads, writes and performs.

The poems, pieces and songs set to melodies and chants are impulses, observations and reflections brought into form.

Occasionally, enlightening insights also flow into the musical representations.

Inspired by her grandmother's spiritual legacy, megouem's artistic practice focuses on preserving, passing on and communicating knowledge.

At the silent green Open Lab, megouem presents various fragments that are located somewhere between vocal performance and music theater and bring them together to form a harmonious concert piece.

Dara Shikoh
Dara Shikoh is a Berlin-based Sindhi interdisciplinary artist whose music is located on the threshold between language and emotion. For him, sound is a vessel for feelings that have not yet been put into words - raw, intuitive and sacred. His creative journey is an attempt to dwell precisely in this in-between space and make it audible.

By merging field recordings from places he calls home with electro-acoustic sound textures and intimate vocal passages, Dara Shikoh creates immersive soundscapes that reflect memory, migration and inner states.

Kkoki
Kkoki is a Korean musician currently based in Berlin. Her songs are shaped by her long-time exposure to pop and pop culture, especially influences from movies and TV shows.

She spends most of her time writing and recording songs together with artists such as Emil Gabriel, COBEE, Kev Koko, Mathis Ruffing, Valentin Hansen and others.

Her debut single was released in August 2025 and further releases are planned.

Monday, September 29
silent green Kuppelhalle
8 pm
Free admission