{"title": "TOPO 16 – Antje Vowinckel, Michael Thieke, Adam Pultz Melbye, Andreas Voccia, Chris Heenan", "start": "2026-11-08T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zwitschermaschine", "address": "Potsdamer Str. 161, 10783 Berlin", "price": "€10–15 (sliding scale)", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "TOPO 16 is an improvised music concert in the TOPO series, whose name derives from the term topology. The performing quintet features Antje Vowinckel (soprano saxophone), Michael Thieke (clarinet), Adam Pultz Melbye (FAAB, a Feedback-Actuated Augmented Bass), Andreas Voccia (modular synthesizer) and Chris Heenan (contrabass clarinet). TOPO stands for the creation of sonic spaces that emerge through improvisation in the interplay between musicians and audience, changing continuously while always retaining their core characteristics.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/topo-16-antje-vowinckel-michael-thieke-adam-pultz-melbye-and-114788/", "official_url": "https://www.zwitschermaschine-berlin.de/15957/uncategorized/15957/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9b53225d66248c772aec4c98213f5e3702d998fed8b89f3dd38078f2735a09df-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zwitschermaschine", "address": "Potsdamer Str. 161, 10783 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "TOPO16", "start": "2026-11-08T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zwitschermaschine", "address": "Potsdamer Str. 161, 10783 Berlin", "price": "€10–15 (sliding scale)", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "TOPO16 is a concert of free improvised music. Performing are Antje Vowinckel on soprano saxophone, Michael Thieke on clarinet, Adam Pultz Melbye on FAAB (Feedback-Actuated Augmented Bass), Andreas Voccia on modular synthesizer and Chris Heenan on contrabass clarinet. The event is behind the toposound project. The musicians each bring their own instruments and sound means, from the feedback bass to the synthesizer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/topo16-105226/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lars Töpperwien - Trumpet Solo / Sumpf Trio", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "RCHTN25", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental"], "description": "An evening concert in two parts: Lars Töpperwien plays solo trumpet, followed by the Sumpf Trio. The Trio consists of Piotr Tkacz on turntable and objects, Patryk Daszkiewicz on electronics and Paweł Doskocz on electric guitar.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lars-topperwien-trumpet-solo-sumpf-trio-96727/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "ECHOES OF EVOLUTION", "start": "2026-11-14T20:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sowieso", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation"], "description": "\"Echoes of Evolution\" is a concert at the Berlin venue Sowieso. The band consists of Gerhard Gschlößl on trombone and tuba, Antje Messerschmidt on violin, Alberto Cavenati on guitar and Steve Heather on drums. The four musicians play improvised music in the field of real-time music together. The concert starts at 20:30, with doors at 20:00.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/echoes-of-evolution-67759/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Christoph Gallio - reeds / Dominic Lash - Kontrabass / Mark Sanders - drums / Ackern 76 + Chris Pitsiokos / Justin Remfrey: double bass", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "RCHTN25", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "A concert of free improvisation bringing reeds, double bass and drums into dialogue. The trio features Christoph Gallio on reeds, Dominic Lash on double bass and Mark Sanders on drums. It takes place in a volunteer-run project space in Berlin for experimental music and art. The nonprofit project puts donations directly toward programming, operations and community.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/christoph-gallio-reeds-dominic-lash-kontrabass-mark-sanders-72333/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "🇬🇧 THD Musical Improv Night", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "800A", "address": "Stettiner Straße 19, 13357 Berlin", "price": "€12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/improv"], "description": "A musical improv variety night where songs and stories are made up on the spot. The host is THD Impro, a group of musical improvisers from Berlin calling itself the city's most unpredictable gang. Every first Friday of the month they invite favorite friends from the capital's comedy scene to join them on stage. Together they turn love, life, fantasy creatures and whatever else comes up into a proper variety show.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thd-musical-improv-night-10596/", "official_url": "https://www.800aberlin.com/events/thd-musical-improv-night-Nov-06", "image": ""}, {"title": "Coffee and Free Music at Zilla Godiosum", "start": "2026-11-10T09:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "", "price": "Donations encouraged", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "A breakfast concert of free improvised music: Utku Tavil plays drums, Pablo Lienhard alto saxophone and electronics. Utku Tavil and Chris Pitsiokos organize a series of breakfast concerts at a secret location in Berlin; directions are available by email to cpitsiokos@protonmail.com. It starts sharply and lasts about twenty to thirty minutes, after which oatmeal and coffee are eaten and drunk; coffee is provided at every concert, oatmeal at all events Chris plays (November 9-30). Donations are encouraged.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/coffee-and-free-music-at-zilla-godiosum-113571/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Godiosum", "start": "2026-11-16T09:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zilla, near Eldenaer Brüke, 10367 Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "Godiosum is a series of breakfast concerts pairing coffee with free music; the concert starts sharply and is over after roughly twenty to thirty minutes, at which point oatmeal and coffee are eaten. The series was started by Utku Tavil and Chris Pitsiokos and takes place at a secret location. The concert features Utku Tavil on drums and Pablo Lienhard on alto saxophone and electronics. Directions to the secret location are available by email, and donations are encouraged.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/godiosum-113589/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Wandelkonzert durch drei Säle", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Konzerthaus Berlin", "address": "3, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Normalpreis 28 Euro auf allen Plätzen, ermäßigter Solidar-Preis 20 Euro, zusätzlicher Supporter-Prei", "price_from": "28.00", "price_to": "37.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/contemporary-classical"], "description": "In the Wandelkonzert durch drei Säle at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni opens the nowHERE festival with music by Thomas Tallis, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Iannis Xenakis. In Xenakis's „Terretektorh“, 88 musicians spread through the space, wrapping the audience in sound and physical closeness. Percussionists Jan Westermann and Ingo Reddemann play among others Steve Reich, and the Berlin duo TEKNOIR ends the evening with a live set between ritual, club night and controlled escalation. Before the concert, a workshop introduces „Deep Listening“ in the method of Pauline Oliveros.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wandelkonzert-durch-drei-sale-7286/", "official_url": "https://www.konzerthaus.de/de/programm/wandelkonzert-durch-drei-sale/13249", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c6b69bb38601a05ab0bb1ceab2168aba26aa634e5caee69d0b8f43fca270a0ca-1200.webp"}, {"title": "DEAD LEAF BUTTERFLY", "start": "2026-11-04T20:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "PANDA Platforma", "address": "", "price": "10€", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/improvised"], "description": "A concert of improvised real-time music with four musicians. Lina Allemano plays trumpet, Els Vandeweyer vibraphone, Maike Hilbig double bass and Lucía Martínez drums. The four improvise together live as a quartet.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dead-leaf-butterfly-113561/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Merche Blasco: What Hums Beyond", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Tieranatomisches Theater - Haus 3 (Campus Nord)", "address": "Philippstr. 13, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Freier Eintritt", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "music/electronic"], "description": "A site-specific performance using live electronics to make the hidden electromagnetic activity of the Tieranatomisches Theater audible. Sound artist Merche Blasco recorded electromagnetic traces throughout the building, including its offices, using self-built antenna wands and small EMF microphones attached to her fingers. These recordings were woven into a quadraphonic composition of drones, pulses and noise patterns, with which Luc Vitk / Lucie Vítková on accordion and Li-Chin Li on sheng improvise in dialogue. Before the performance, Brett Mommersteeg leads a tour of the Wavematters exhibition at 6 pm; the event is part of Berlin Science Week 2026 under the theme \"In Touch\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/merche-blasco-what-hums-beyond-33820/", "official_url": "https://tieranatomisches-theater.de/2026-11-performance-merche-blasco_bsw/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dbb1747e59fb1bf97778b843be0b63ff93fdc0ae4f6a85286d728c73b8c1a662-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Merche Blasco: WHAT HUMS BEYOND", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tieranatomisches Theater", "address": "Philippstraße 12/13 10117 Berlin", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/experimental-electronic", "art/sound-art"], "description": "What Hums Beyond is a site-specific performance at the Tieranatomisches Theater. Composer and sound artist Merche Blasco uses custom-built antennas to transform the building's invisible electromagnetic activity into a multichannel landscape of drones, pulses and hissing, shifting patterns. Accordionist Luc Vitk / Lucie Vítková and sheng player Li-Chin Li improvise in dialogue with this electronic environment. Before the performance, researcher Brett Mommersteeg leads a tour through the exhibition „Wavematters. Attending to the spectral“.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/merche-blasco-what-hums-beyond-76267/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Portal vol. 6 - Ambient Gong and Drone Listening in the Chapel", "start": "2026-11-16T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-16T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kiezkapelle", "address": "Hermannstraße 99–105", "price": "25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/ambient"], "description": "„The Portal vol. 6 – Ambient Gong and Drone Listening in the Chapel“ is a two-hour sound performance inviting deep listening. Berlin-based ambient artist and producer Kimi Recor and sound art artist and composer Yasemin Vollmond perform entirely live and intuitively, responding to the room and to each other in real time. Multiple gongs, chimes, analog drones, vocal loops and layered textures fill the acoustically resonant chapel, whose space amplifies the sound into an enveloping atmosphere. Visitors are asked to bring a mat, pillow, eye mask and warm layers to get cozy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-portal-vol-6-ambient-gong-and-drone-listening-in-the-cha-26402/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/33efd8d308fd55861562ad972e05041ef705f9fdfe59e83913390719dc637ab6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Konzert – Ars Nova „In Touch“ (JIB – Jazz Institut Berlin, im Rahmen der Berlin Science Week)", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin", "address": "Charlottenstraße 55, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation", "stage/dance/performance"], "description": "ARS NOVA – IN TOUCH is a performance of music and dance that is created in the very moment it happens. Students of the Jazz Institut Berlin and the dance programme of the Universität der Künste Berlin explore whether improvisation might be the key to dealing with an uncertain future. Starting from original compositions by Tobija Hudnik, virtuosic soli meet collective improvisation, from which new musical and choreographic forms emerge in real time. Presented as part of Berlin Science Week and its motto \"In Touch\", it invites reflection on how creativity, improvisation and acting together can change society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/konzert-ars-nova-in-touch-jib-jazz-institut-berlin-im-rahmen-108167/", "official_url": "https://www.hfm-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungskalender/detail/event/ars-nova-in-touch/", "image": ""}]}