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Cross-disciplinary performances by Kross Collective

KROSS COLLECTIVE presents: CONVERGENCE VI, an evening of immersive performances exploring dialogues between sound, text, and visuals.

We are delighted to kick off our 2025 series of events with an exciting programme of experimental sound, visuals, and text. Hope to see you there!

Paul Brody, Lisa Hoppe, and Magdalena Lorenz will perform their programm "Second Hand Poems", a series of poems found in the paper recycling bin in a back court yard in Berlin. Lisa Hoppe: bass, vocals, Magdalena Lorenz: violin, vocals, Paul Brody: trumpet, vocals

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Paul Brody (Sound / Text) @paul__brody  with Lisa Hoppe and Magdalena Lorenz
Days Like Television (AV Performance) @days_like_television
Mire x Ginés Olivares (Sound / Text) @mire.lands @zetaoral
Julia Witas (AV Performance) @juliavvitas

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Paul Brody was born in California, USA, and trained as a musician at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Brody works regularly as a sound artist, composer and trumpeter at the Théâtre de Vidy in Lausanne, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Berliner Schaubühne, the MC93 Paris, the New York Harlem Opera and the Vienna Burgtheater, among others. He works closely with the music producer John Zorn. His album "Hinter allen Worten'', which features artists such as Clueso, Meret Becker and Jelena Kulijic, was on the best list of the German Record Critics' Award. Paul Brody was nominated for the Europe Broadcasting Festival and the Vienna International Feature Festival for his work as a sound artist. His sound art works have already been heard on WDR, Deutschlandradio, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the MuseumsQuartier Vienna and at Transmediale Berlin. He composed an opera based on interviews about love for the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy. Currently he is starting on an opera project with the State Theater in Karlsruhe.

Lisa Hoppe has worked with musicians such as Rich Perry, Tyshawn Sorey, Ben Monder, Rudresh Mahanthappa Marena Whitcher. She can also be heard on albums by Das Seltene Orchester, Janetts Jazzmusik-Baukasten, Marc Jufer Trio, Niculin Janett Quartet, Of Dwarfs and Other Creatures, Webers Hebel and Zéphyr Combo. With the trio Me&Mobi, Hoppe was a nalist for the ZKB Jazz Prize in 2015. Her unusual quintet Ysop (with singer Gaya Feldheim Schorr, violinist Laura Schuler, trombonist Julia Rü ert and pianist Danielle Friedman) was awarded the BeJazz TransNational Prize in 2022.

Magdalena Lorenz studied: Violin: University of Music and Dance, Cologne; Cultural Studies: Humboldt University, Berlin; Tonali Stage Academy, Hamburg; Topics: Power, Space, Dying

When a narrative shatters, doors open, the ground is pulled away, the ceiling lifts off: crumbling narratives about the world that is so-and-so, music that has to sound this way, and me that is like that; best described with three words. Only in the disruption becomes visible what lies beyond, in between, behind. Something that is unpredictable, not chaotic, colourful, deep, not to be grasped by thought. Music can try to touch it.

Daniel Bryden (Days Like Televison) is an experimental artist currently based in Berlin who releases music as Days Like Television. Using an array of dissociated sound sources and fragmented synths, Bryden’s work delicately balances a viscerally intense heaviness with a melodic and nostalgic beauty. His debut album- ‘This Will Have Been the Past’ was released by Bonambi in June 2024, following a string of live AV performances across Europe in such venues as ICA (London), La Vallée (Brussels), ACUD MACHT NEU (Berlin), and VEKKS (Vienna).

MIRE is the dark-ambient drone and atmospheric soundscape project of Andreea Hriscu, a multidisciplinary Berlin based artist. She is active as an expressive painter, photographer, performer and sound artist.
Using mostly self recorded synths, modified samples and field recordings, Mire is an exploration of profound, meditative soundscapes that provoke a sense of introspection, throwing the listener into a darkening solitude, a deep claustrophobic dimension, submerged in perennial cyclic movements.

Ginés Olivares was born in Santiago de Chile and studied Cinema & Television at the Universidad Arcis. In 2002 he moved to Berlin and worked as an editor for documentary films. He has released »Vertically Challenged«, a work of experimental poetry edited by A Ñoñi Again Microediciones. He works with the collective mmmmmfilms (UK-DE), exploring the dialogue between poetry and visual narratives.

Julia Witas is a Berlin based multidisciplinary artist, vocalist and performing musician. Through photography, film, installation and sound, she explores topics such as grief, death, nature, symbolism and dream experiences. With an intuitive and experimental approach, she utilizes dynamic vocals, field recordings and multi-instrumental, atmospheric soundscapes to create sonic compositions that fluctuate between devouring, dark distortion and floating, poetic fragility.
Characterized by emotional intensity and visceral immediacy, her performances serve as intimate realms and ritualistic experiences.

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