Friday, June 19, 2026, 10 pm
Maria Bertel, Elena Victoria Pastor & David Wallraf
Maria Bertel is a danish trombone player, and composer. The acoustic sound of her amplified instrument creates an output that draws inspiration from drone and noise music. What is normally not hearable is presenting itself, movements, metal and breath become a swirling part of her compositions. Changing organic patterns are emerging, tiny sounds becomes brutally clear as well as the range of overtones of the instrument.
Flying Rivers is a live sound installation inspired by more-than-human listening and the biology of atmospheric rivers. Drawing from Amazonian and monsoon soundscapes, the work invites an interspecies mode of listening beyond the human. Cymbals, drums, gong, barrels are played by water while the sound is being transformed though modular, feedback and effects. David Wallraf is a nonbinary noise artist, researcher and theorist, no pronouns. Elena Victoria Pastor is a venezuelan interdisciplinary artist and vocalist, both based in Hamburg.
Saturday, June 20, 2026, 10 pm
Helgoland / Hunger
The Hamburg-based instrumental band Helgoland has been active since 1993. Their earlier work spanned a range from free improvisation to electro tracks and short jingles to multi-stylistic pieces. Helgoland’s sound has been described as “avant-pop,” “jazz-punk,” or “snatch-core” (Max Dax) and characterized as a “straddle on eight awkward chairs” (Lars Brinkmann) or “thousand-tone-rhythm bananas” (Kristof Schreuf).
The band Hunger, consisting of Christoph Rothmeier and Jörg Hochapfel, has existed since 1996 — first on Lake Constance, then in Hamburg, and finally in Berlin and in Thiers, France. Previously known in the music world for their “abstract pop studies with a dadaist touch” (taz) and “nervous disco-punk clatter” (Tagesspiegel), in recent years they have been moving on somewhat quieter, but no less disorienting, musical terrain between stumbling exotica and out-of-tune fake folk, using synthesizers, home organs, theremin, and self-built instruments.
Both concerts take place in the frame of blurred edges festival 2026.
Supported by: Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg , Verband für aktuelle Musik Hamburg