Kiezsalon mit Sarah Neufeld und Elif Gülin Soğuksu

Sarah Neufeld isa violinist and composer based in Montréal. She is best known as a member ofArcade Fire, but she is also one of the founding members of the renowned contemporary ensembleBell Orchestreand recently formed a duo with saxophonist Colin Stetson.

Elif Gülin Soğuksuis an electroacoustic artist and researcher who was born in Istanbul and currently lives in Berlin. Her recordings and live performances encompass voice-controlled live electronics and creative coding, digital processing, acousmatic music, and spatial sound.

The three Kiezsalon concert evenings at the Academy of Arts are a project byDigital in Berlinin collaboration with the Academy of Arts’Studio for Electroacoustic Music. Curated by Michael Rosen and supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Presented byThe Wireand thetaz, die tageszeitung.

Kiezsalon

Since 2015, the Kiezsalon has provided a forum for innovative musical activities that transcend genre boundaries. As an interface between the avant-garde, innovative pop music, and interdisciplinary art, the series presents compact performances by artists of diverse genres, backgrounds, and statuses. Today, it is considered unique in the German independent music scene in terms of its focus and continuity and has established itself as one of the city’s most popular and successful music series.

Since 2020, the Kiezsalon has benefited from a four-year funding program from the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, which provides planning and financial security through 2027. The concerts are usually sold out and regularly feature a high number of Berlin premieres—often more than 70% per year. In this way, the Kiezsalon makes a significant contribution to raising the profile of new artistic perspectives.