Knistern
Graphic design for live music event series, 2025
at Richten25, Berlin
"Knistern" describes a crackling sound, and is also a metaphor for something that’s in the air between people, be it a crush or an argument. Something invisible that makes the relational space vibrate and spark. Something magical, intangible and not to be pinned down that is happening in the moment of relation to each other.
The series Knistern each time brings together two artists and a musical idea they are currently working on. They present their current work in a short set, and then have space to share their musical ideas in conversation with each other, a music journalist, and the audience. What happens in the space between the two artistic approaches, and what happens between people in the room in the conversation? And also, what happens between the sound and the review, the thinking, the tuning in, the conversation?
Knistern takes place in collaboration with Richten25, project space for improvised music in Berlin Wedding. Knistern is contingent and ephemeral. It lives in the present, and something amazing may come out, or maybe it’s just a brief moment in time.
Photo courtesy of Mehwish Zuberi; more images to come!