#Konzert

On her fourth album Eyeroll, Ziúr lays herself completely bare, conducting an open-ended statement that prioritizes togetherness, humanity and the renewal of hope when all seems lost. And by assembling such a wide and symphonic ensemble of collaborators, she’s able to speak directly to the creative fringe in no uncertain terms. Now’s the time to throw away what you think you know, and build bridges you didn’t think you’d need. Now’s the time for action.

Ziúr has shared stages with each of her collaborators separately at Atonal Berlin, Rewire Festival The Hague, Borealis Festival Bergen, Paris and Manchester before, but Eyeroll at Volksbühne will be the first time that these individual efforts have been combined into one cohesive show.

Each artist offers their own distinct voice and creative viewpoint that together helps herald a bewildering sonic epoch. The ensemble shows that if handled with care, complex connections and seemingly unlikely pairings can evolve into strong, unique and beautiful relationships.

The musical component will be paired with a Live Video performance by Sander Houtkruijer. Additional opening set by Iceboy Violet.

Biography

Ziúr is an experimental producer/musician and a fixture in Berlin’s rich musical topography. It seems as though she produces her releases in the way someone scoring a television series does, gathering and arranging their selections for each episode … isolating and apprehending definitive scenes and memorializing their ethos in song. Soundtracks, much like her release “Antifate”, guide the listener through radically different emotional states, yet somehow still offer an idea of what underpins a show’s (or in this case an album’s) particular hues.
Ziúr produces music within such a scope, expansive, rich and diverse in texture. The sounds are simultaneously machinistic and deeply anthropomorphic, toying with mechanical isolation and the chaotic spectrum of human emotion. Unlike a soundtrack or score, there is no film to which one can turn to narrativize the music … there is only evocative sounds reaching from each song towards the cybernetic sublime.

Elvin Brandhi is an improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist from Bridgend, Wales, who builds aberrant beats from field recordings, tape, vinyl, instrument and voice. Using sound and voice as an expansive language transgressing intrinsic systemics and inherited syntactical etiquettes, her live shows are unyielding bursts of erupting animation where her caustic stream of consciousness cavorts with restless, glitched out heaviness. Her creative momentum comprises a range of collaborations and an endless nomadism.

Abdullah Miniawy, born in 1994, is an Egyptian expressionist, writer, chanter, composer and actor. Having shared the stage with artists like Erik Truffaz, Kamilya Jubran, Yom, Médéric Collignon, Aly Talibab, A Filetta, Simo Cell and many others. He has performed on prestigious international stages and venues such as Festival d’Avignon edition 72, French national theaters, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Haus Der Kunst museum, Munich, or the Louvre in Paris, and more.
As a composer he composed many different sound tracks for dance shows, theater pieces and exhibitions, notably headed by Cabaret Crusade III by Wael Shawki premiered in Moma ps1, AMDUAT by Kirsten Dehlholm premiered in Hotel Pro forma, Insurrection by Jilani Saadi.
Since 2016 he has been collaborating with the German trio Carl Gari melding avantgardist electronic soundscapes with poetic lyrics. Their first record „Darraje“ was selected as one of the best 50 albums of 2016 by the American NPR. With their most recent output being released as part of the Berlin Atonal „More Light“ compilation, they came together before on AD93 (formerly Whities) for a 6 track mini-album. „The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor“ was featured by Pitchfork, The Quietus and Wire Magazine, while Resident Advisor placed „Zawaj“ among the best tracks of 2019, top of the list „Deep Listening”.

Iceboy Violet is a producer//vocalist re-appropriating the energy, emotionality and resistance of Grime music to challenge heteronormativity and toxic masculinity. Giving voice to anger, anxieties and defiance as personal and collective catharsis.

Sander Houtkruijer is a Berlin based Filmmaker and Video Artist. With an education in fine art, his works offer a feeling of the surreal, dreamlike settings and often a dark tone.