EMU Festival 2026

Umspannwerk Reinickendorf – Breitenbachstraße 32, 13509 Berlin

June 26 – door open 19:00, live music from 19:30

  • Voltaic Landscape: New Horizons
    Tetsuya Hori — electronics
    1605munro (Andrés G. Jankowski) — Electronics
    Yukihiro Ikutani — Live Animation
  • Improvised Set for Electric Guitar + Modular Synth
    Gałgał — Modular Synth
    Siffredi — Prepared Electric Guitar
  • Stroum
    Maxfield Gassmann — Drums / Noise / Keys / Voice
    Cristoph Adrian — Guitar / Bass / Keys
    Andreas Riska — Guitar / Bass / Drums / Voice
    Bruno Berlaver — Viola / Bass
  • DJ Set + Visual Performance
    Tashi Tashi     — DJ
    BEAM TEAM (Stella Ivšek & Urša Čuk) — Visual Performance, Funded by SKICA Berlin (Slovenian Cultural Information Centre Berlin).

June 27 – door open 19:00, live music from 19:30

Program Curator / Sound Engineering: Sasha Mali
Lighting Design: David Ojala
Dance / Musical Direction: Ichi Go
Live Animation / Artistic Direction: Yukihiro Ikutani

Production Support: Karim Karel, Andreas Heilig, Luzie Kork, Ryota Maeda, Yvonne Leppin, Bernd Kumar, Kollektiv Kagura e.V., and Theaterhaus Berlin

Tickets: €15 / reduced €10 For reduced‑price tickets, please contact us by email: elektrokagura.e.v@gmail.com
Tickets are available through Resident Advisor and Rausgegangen, as well as at the door. At the door, payment is possible in cash or via PayPal.

Tickets on Resident Advisor

Tickets on Rausgegangen

The project is supported by Dezentrale Kulturarbeit Reinickendorf.

Artists

Tetsuya Hori & 1605munro

Tetsuya Hori — Electronics
1605munro (Andrés G. Jankowski) — Electronics

Voltaic Landscape New Horizons is a testament to Tetsuya Hori’s approach to composition and his open, liberating style, which allows him to release music with fewer boundaries than usual. He expanded this further through his collaboration with 1605munro. Voltaic Landscape ZERO reached the first voting round in the Best Instrumental Composition category of the Grammy Awards 2025.

Andrés G. Jankowski (aka 1605munro) is a Buenos Aires–born, Berlin‑based artist, sound designer, and multimedia creator. In the 1980s, together with Hernán Nuñez, he founded the influential group Santos Luminosos, which released two key albums on Possible Records. In 1990, he launched his solo project 1605munro, collaborating with artists such as Nuñez, Alan Courtis, and Guillermo Ueno. He later returned to Buenos Aires and became a core member of Bioma, a pioneering force in Argentina’s electronic music scene. Since 2005, he has been a member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music, and in 2006 he joined the Berlin Laptop Orchestra.

https://www.tetsuyahori.de/
https://www.youtube.com/@munroparktv/videos

Gałgał & Siffredi

©Oda Haugerud

Gałgał — modular synth
Siffredi — prepared electric guitar

Siffredi is a Berlin‑based Swedish improviser and composer who uses the prepared electric guitar as his primary means of expression. With a background in modern jazz and contemporary music, he has released five albums as a bandleader and has performed with artists such as Linda May Han Oh, Savannah Harris, Bill Stewart, Mats Gustafsson, Dayna Stephens, Maggie Nichols, and Terri Lyne Carrington. As a composer, he has written commissioned works for Jakob Koranyi, Sigge Nisbeth, Kati Raitinen, Kristina Winiarski, the Sonanza Ensemble, the Kamraterna Opera, among others, which have also been performed. He also composes for dance and theatre.

Gałgał is a Berlin‑based musician and improviser. He has composed numerous soundtracks for short and feature films and has been developing his electronic‑experimental music project for several years. His music has been released both as a solo artist and in collaboration with others on the Melbourne‑based label LAN, as well as the Berlin labels Abstand, Blankrecords, and Ömschen Kerm. His rhythmic and noise‑driven tracks and improvisations have been described as “micro‑catastrophic chaos in a glass of water, brain‑crack in a nutshell, pixelated radiation, a roller‑coaster ride at breakneck speed under constant plunderphonic fire” (Bad Alchemy).

At EMU Fest, they will perform together live for the first time, presenting an improvised set for electric guitar and modular synthesizer.

https://linktr.ee/gaougow
https://www.instagram.com/lokerisberg

Stroum

Maxfield Gassmann — drums / noise / keys / voice
Cristoph Adrian — guitar / bass / keys
Andreas Riska — guitar / bass / drums / voice
Bruno Berlaver — viola / bass

Stroum, a Berlin‑based band, is the result of a shared deep dive into the motorik sound. The group uses their basement studio as an organic instrument, creating multilayered musical structures with electroacoustic tools such as viola, drums, modified guitars, and drum machines. Half of their performance is improvised, leaving space for the unexpected — and for voices and poetry to occasionally emerge…

https://soundcloud.com/user-922717536

Tashi Tashi

Berlin based Tashi Tashi plays high energy groove driven techno with a vivid edge. Her sets move between rolling bass pressure and sharp percussive drive, where funk, grit and momentum sit in tension. The tone ist upbeat, the delivery measured yet forceful.

Goat Playground | Tashi Tashi
Groovado | Tashi Tashi

BEAM TEAM

Stella Ivšek & Urša Čuk

The performance combines real‑time generative visuals, live VJing, and reactive audiovisual processes. Urša Čuk creates the visuals live in TouchDesigner using generative systems and audio‑reactive techniques. These visuals are transmitted in real time via NDI into Stella Ivšek’s Resolume Arena setup, where they are further manipulated, layered, and combined with additional video samples, textures, and live effects.

Both visual systems independently receive and analyze the live audio signal from the DJ mixer, allowing the visuals to respond dynamically to the rhythm, frequencies, and intensity of the music. The performance is therefore not based on pre‑rendered timelines but unfolds performatively in direct interaction with the sonic environment and the atmosphere of the venue.

The visual language blends abstract generative structures, textures, spatial compositions, feedback systems, layered video material, and live compositing. Each performance is partly improvised and site‑responsive.

Stella Ivšek and Urša Čuk are currently participating in a one‑month residency program (June) in Berlin, supported by the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia and the Slovenian Cultural Centre in Berlin (SKICA Berlin).

https://www.instagram.com/beam_team_visuals/

Seiji Morimoto

© Haruka Akagi

Seiji Morimoto — Electronics

Seiji Morimoto is a Japanese artist working in performance, composition, and installation. His practice focuses on fragile, unstable acoustic phenomena that emerge between everyday objects and technological media. His work is defined by the search for small, nuanced structures and the attempt to discover these accidental phenomena through and within technological systems. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 2003.

He has collaborated in various formats with artists such as Takehisa Kosugi, Olivier Di Placido, Francesco Cavaliere, Tomoko Sauvage, Ignaz Schick, Luciano Maggiore, Crys Cole, Felicity Mangan, Alessandra Eramo, Seijiro Murayama, Hannes Lingens, Derek Shirley, Eric Wong, Olaf Rupp, Clare Cooper, Katsura Yamauchi, Makoto Oshiro, Yan Jun, Mario de Vega, Liz Allbee, Andreas Voccia, Eva‑Maria Houben, Grgur Savic, Mizuki Ishikawa, and many others. He has participated in numerous festivals, concerts, and exhibitions across Europe and Asia.

Morimoto is co‑owner of the Berlin label emitter micro and has curated the concert series Experimentik at tik in Berlin since 2017.

Website: https://www.seijimorimoto.com/
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/seijimorimoto
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seijimorimoto

Elektro Kagura & Guests

©Jide Tom Akinleminu

AXL OTL — Composition / Electronics
Ichi Go — Voice
Yukihiro Ikutani — Live Animation

AXL OTL (Cédric Douhaire) is a French musician and composer based in Berlin, working at the intersection of acoustic, electric, and electronic music. He studied classical violin and composition and was active in the Parisian gypsy‑jazz scene, including as a member of the band Monsieur Jacquet. He also played guitar in the legendary French hardcore formation SNA‑FU Grand Désordre Orchestre. Influenced by artists such as James Holden, Plaid, and Siriusmo, he relocated from Paris to Berlin in 2013, where he deepened his work in electronic music. In addition to composing for film and theatre, he develops live‑electronics setups that merge improvisation, club aesthetics, and performative formats.

As a co‑founder of Elektro Kagura, AXL OTL serves as music director and composer, shaping the collective’s sound through hybrid electronic landscapes in which traditional elements intertwine with subcultural influences.

His performance offers an opportunity to rediscover the musical diversity of Elektro Kagura — in an evening where all participating artists, as well as the audience, are actively involved.

Join in — take part — shape it together!

Website: https://axl-otl.com/

In C from Terry Riley

Jacopo Salvatori — Musical direction / Electronics
Ichi Go — Dance / Voice
Jueri — Percussion
Susanne Szambelan — Cello
AXL OTL — Guitar
Seiji Morimoto — Voice / Electronics
Sebastian Schunke — Piano
Gałgał — Electronics
Cornelius Onitsch — Percussion
Alexey Kochetkov — Violin
Susanne Fröhlich — Recorder
1605munro — Electronics
Sawako Ogo — Recorder / dance
Yukihiro Ikutani — Live Animation

The starting point of this project lies in Ichi Go’s participation in In C at Hamburger Bahnhof, where she performed with voice and dance under the direction of Jürgen Grötzinger. This experience became the impulse to develop an original version of In C for Elektro Kagura. Ichi Go then reached out to Jueri (Jürgen Grötzinger) and Susanne Szambelan, marking the beginning of this project.

In addition to this year’s festival participants, numerous outstanding musicians who have collaborated with Elektro Kagura across various projects agreed to join. Jacopo Salvatori serves as musical director. The musical language of Elektro Kagura—shaped by the compositions of AXL OTL—merges here with the acoustic instruments of Jürgen Grötzinger, Susanne Szambelan, Alexey Kochetkov, and Susanne Fröhlich. Furthermore, Sebastian Schunke brings jazz‑inflected elements into the project, expanding the sonic palette even further. Added to this are AXL OTL’s electric guitar and the electronic setups of Gałgał and 1605munro. Ichi Go contributes voice and dance, and Seiji Morimoto also joins with vocal elements.

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