June 5th 2014 DOORS 21:00 CONCERTS 21:30

Happening at N.K. (The Magical Secrecy Tour)

PERFORMANCES & WORKS BY:

MATTIN / ALBERTO DE CAMPO, HANNES HOELZL & DANIEL HROMADA/ HACKLANDER \ HATAM, FREDRIK OLOFSSON & MARINA FRENK / MATTHEW GOODHEART / PAUL BRODY / ALETCHKO & BERLIN ORIENTAL GROUP / LEAKED FILM SCREENING LARS EIDINGER & JOHNATHAN LETHEM

N.K. curates an exceptional evening with musicians and artists responding to data politics, surveillance & privacy issues, cultures of fear and Snowden’s actions. Come hear sonified metadata; experiments in both computer-controlled instruments and stroboscopes; algorithmic composition using various programming environments; and see familiar NSA slides in a new light.

The Magical Secrecy Tour is co-produced by transmediale/resource, N.K. Projekt, and Leslie Dunton-Downer.

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Program:

A special presentation by elusive intellectual & noise celebrity Mattin (ES).

AudioVisual Anarchivism: The Edward Snowden Jubilee Edition by Alberto de Campo, Hannes Hoelzl & Daniel Hromada (DE).

‘Levels of Intrusion’ by Hacklander \ Hatam with Fredrik Olofsson and special guest vocalist Marina Frenk (BER)

‘das Geräuschprisma’ by Matthew Goodheart (US)

‘Five Families Listening’ sound installation by Paul Brody (US)

ALETCHKO & BERLIN ORIENTAL GROUP (INT) five-piece acoustic ensemble playing oriental tunes.

+ leaked premier of new short fictional film ‘Lars and Jonathan: A Berlin Friendship’, starring German actor Lars Eidinger & American author Jonathan Lethem.

+more! Check back for updates.

Happening highlight: A three-day-long sound piece will reach its dramatic conclusion. This work, a collaboration by Farah Hatam, Colin Hacklander, Leslie Dunton-Downer, and selected students from the Ernst Busch Hochschule für Schauspielkunst in Berlin, presents the US Constitution, the German Constitution, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace in states of change and contradiction, embodying the residual & renewable allure of authority and its opposites. Piece live-streaming NOW through June 5th. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN. CHECK BACK OFTEN AS PIECE TRANSFORMS.

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