<div dir="ltr">With Apologies for any X-Posting<br><br><div><div><b>17.06.2015 Doors 20h00 Concerts 21h00<br></b></div><div><b><br></b><a href="http://www.berghain.de" target="_blank">Berghain</a><br>Am Wriezener Bahnhof<br></div><div>12043 Berlin<b><br></b></div><div><b><br>Polymorphism x Morphine</b><br><br></div><div><b>HIEROGLYPHIC BEING<br>CHARLES COHEN<br></b></div><div><b>SENYAWA<br></b></div><div><b>PIERRE BASTIEN<br></b></div><div><b>RABIH BEAINI w/ DANIELE DE SANTIS</b><br><br></div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/876594152413022/" target="_blank">FB Event</a><br></div><a href="http://www.koka36.de/polymorphism+x+morphine_ticket_65037.html" target="_blank">Tickets</a><br><br><b>On June 17, <a href="http://www.ctm-festival.de/" target="_blank">CTM</a> and Berghain’s Polymorphism series celebrates the 10th year of <a href="http://www.morphinerecords.com/" target="_blank">Morphine</a>’s ongoing journey with a very special concert night.</b><br><br>The
lineup of this evening, put together by Rabih Beaini, who will also be
one of CTM 2016’s guest curators, explores heterogeneous ways in which
musicians dive into analogue experimentation by bringing together some
of the label’s main protagonists. Produced in collaboration with CTM,
Berghain, and Berlin-based promoter Manuela Benetton, the night
highlights approaches ranging from pure synth laboratories, to hybrid
methods using homemade instruments, mechanical orchestras, audiovisual
creativity, and universal mysticism.<br><br>The music begins with <a href="https://soundcloud.com/rabih" target="_blank">Rabih Beaini</a>
himself. A Lebanese-born producer best known for his grainy,
imaginative techno as Morphosis, Beaini’s genuine musical ability and a
range of influences from krautrock to new wave to folk music seep into
his inventive, dark, and emotional productions. Increasingly steering
clear of the techno realm in order to explore improvisation and new
configurations such as with his Upperground Orchestra, Beaini retains an
ongoing fascination with sound synthesis. Tonight Beaini appears as
part of a first time collaboration with Berlin-based percussionist and
electronic music producer <a href="https://soundcloud.com/d-d-s-gruen" target="_blank">Daniele De Santis/GRÜN</a>, a recent addition to CTM’s Berlin Current initiative.<br><br><a href="http://pierrebastien.com" target="_blank">Pierre Bastien</a>
is a musical inventor who, through his delicately anachronistic
creations, opens nostalgic spaces for reflection. "Mecanium", Bastien’s
orchestra, is an assembly of individual, home-made robots designed to
play music mechanically. Constructed from meccano and recycled turntable
motors, and numbering more than 80 at last count, the oldest dates back
to 1977. Building his loops with the robotic rhythm section, he adds
additional melodies, basslines and tone colour for recorded material,
and in live performances the musician himself sits amid his mechanised
instruments accompanying them on cornet, violin or musical saw.<br><br>Synthesizer improviser and experimental composer <a href="http://soundcloud.com/beepsandboops" target="_blank">Charles Cohen</a>
has been exploring the possibilities and limits of the Buchla Music
Easel synthesizer for over 40 years. Cohen’s intuitive approach to
making music combines the spontaneity, energy, and rhythm of free jazz
with the sonic possibilities of synthesizers. He released two albums as
Ghostwriters with Craig Anderton and Jeff Cain in the 1980s, but a
decade later shifted his focus almost exclusively to playing live
improvisation that went largely unrecorded. December 2013 saw increased
recognition for this pioneering artist’s decades of work with the
release of a 3xLP retrospective on Morphine Records.<br><br>Despite
being part of the Chicago house/techno scene since the 1990s and
developing a cult following through his Mathematics record label that
counts non-stop releases over the last decade, <a href="http://mathematicsrecordings.blogspot.de" target="_blank">Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being</a>,
aka IAMTHATIAM, has continuously eschewed the mainstream. A quick
listen to his music reveals why; even his most beat-driven,
dancefloor-ready productions slip the shackles of four-on-the-floor via
his hallmark distorted bass thump, hazy chords and layers of bleeping,
all cobbled into a vague structure that’s more about uncentered pulse
than logic. The producer’s music accurately depicts his philosophy; Moss
hears music as a unified, hulking beast, beyond races or genres. <br><br>Closing the night is Indonesian duo <a href="http://senyawa.tumblr.com" target="_blank">Senyawa</a>,
who uniquely manage to embody the aural flavours of Javanese music
while exploring the framework of experimental music practice, and
extreme musics such as noise rock and metal, pushing the boundaries of
all three traditions. In doing so their music strikes a perfect balance
between underground and avant-garde influences, and cultural heritage to
create truly contemporary Indonesian music. Their sound is comprised of
Rully Shabara’s deft extended vocal techniques punctuating the frenetic
neo-tribalism of instrument builder Wukir Suryadi’s modern-primitive
instrumentation.<br></div>