Playing the space of Kraftwerk: Rabon Aibo’s sound art at Atonal

In fragmented materials and process-based performance interventions, this year’s Atonal exhibition seems to breathe life into debris, a deconstruction of ruined objects. But most striking of all is the work of sound artist Rabon Aibo. With mechanical constructions, he makes the cavernous Kraftwerk power plant into an instrument – and makes use of gas canisters that resonate with dark moments in Kurdish and European histories.

Immerse yourself in the full live AV concert by raster’s Belief Defect

Computer and modular machine textures collide with explosions of projected particles and glitching colored textures. Now the full concert footage of the duo Belief Defect (on Raster) is out.

Peter Kirn - April 9, 2019

Watch enchanting experimental live acts from Atonal’s control room

Berlin Atonal Festival wrapped up last week, and for all of the breathtaking impact of the power plant’s cavernous main room, as per usual, the sleeper hits came from the more intimate control room tucked next to the mainstage.

Peter Kirn - August 30, 2018

What you can learn from Belief Defect’s modular-PC live rig

Peter Kirn - November 22, 2017

Radical electronics on a grand scale: Berlin Atonal in its fifth reboot year

Peter Kirn - August 10, 2017

Robin Fox talks epic AV performances and rare synthesizer archives

Mantarlian - January 26, 2017

A festival to ponder the nature of time

Peter Kirn - March 18, 2016

Returning the festival to a place for the specific and the new, at Atonal

Peter Kirn - August 19, 2015

Krake, Killekill, and the Growing Appetite for Experimental Electronic Music [Listen, Pictures]

- August 9, 2013

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