A L'ARME! Festival Vol. XII FINALE – Day 3
"LONG LIVE MONIKA!" – For Monika Döring (1937–2024)
Concert Performance Festival
Ticket Prices
Day ticket: 30 Euro (plus pre-sale fees)
Festival pass (3 Days): 75 Euro (plus pre-sale fees)
Doors: 6 pm
She needs it loud. She wants power. And she loves drama. Monika Döring, the music-obsessed icon of Berlin’s cultural life, left us for other spheres in May 2024. The last day of the final edition of A L’ARME! is a big farewell party that pays tribute to Döring’s immeasurable influence and idiosyncratic taste. Many of her favourite acts will come together to create a musical evening true to her spirit: loud, energetic and full of drama.
Geniale Dilletanten, Einstürzende Neubauten and Mythen, Monster, Mutationen were key milestones in Monika Döring’s work. Gudrun Gut has also been active within the same manifestations of Berlin subculture since the early 1980s. Following the period in which she was an early member of Einstürzende Neubauten and founder of the band Malaria!, she founded a feminist music platform in 1997, which she fittingly called Monika Enterprise. At A L'ARME!, Gut’s set features electronic sounds and her unmistakable voice.
In the late 80s, Döring became acquainted with the avant-garde pop of AG Geige and brought the band to West Berlin. AG Geige then developed into raster in the early 90s, an electro music label which continues to have decisive influence on the global techno scene. Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender are exemplary figures in this development and were among Monika Döring’s most beloved acts, as was a younger raster generation with protagonists such as Grischa Lichtenberger and Mieko Suzuki. They all perform on the final evening of A L'ARME! Vol. XII Finale with their distinctive electro sounds.
Yet, Döring never gave up on rock music, as long as it was uncompromising and packed a punch, like Caspar Brötzmann’s music. At A L'ARME! he will be playing together with festival newcomer Farida Amadou for the first time. Also a figure of amassed energy, Keiji Haino performs a solo sets that is situated between meditation, ritual and a departure into the unknown.
→ To the complete programme of A L'ARME! Festival Vol. XII FINALE
Biographien
Seit 2012 hat das A L’ARME! Festival neue Perspektiven auf Jazz und experimentelle Musik eröffnet, ungewöhnliche Kollaborationen ermöglicht und eine Generation von Hörer*innen geprägt. Mit einem Programm aus Musik, Kunst und Performance, das den Geist der Zeit einfängt und Entwicklungen vorwegnimmt, ist A L’ARME! zum Brennglas aktueller Tendenzen, zum Verstärker von Kontrasten und internationalen Referenzpunkt für transdisziplinäre Improvisation geworden. Diese Errungenschaften werden das Festival überdauern – als Erinnerung, als Haltung und Möglichkeitsraum.
Programme
Set 1
hÄK/Danzeisen
Bernd Nobert Wuertz (DE) – electronics
Philipp Danzeisen (DE) – drums
Set 2
Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem / Amadou (Premiere)
Caspar Brötzmann (DE) – long scale electric bass, vocals
Farida Amadou (BE) – electric bass
Set 3
Gudrun Gut (Monika Enterprise)
Gudrun Gut (DE) – electronics, voice
Set 4
Johansson / Jelinek
Sven-Åke Johansson (SE/DE) – percussion
Jan Jelinek (DE) – modular
Set 5
Frank Bretschneider (raster)
Frank Bretschneider (DE) – modular
Set 6
Byetone (raster)
Olaf Bender (DE) – modular AV
Set 7
Keiji Haino Solo
Keiji Haino (JP) – electric guitar, vocals
Set 8
Grischa Lichtenberger (raster)
Grischa Lichtenberger (DE) – electronics/AV
Set 9
Lippok / Gutierrez AV
Robert Lippok (DE) – drum machines, computer
Lucas Gutierrez (AR) – visuals
Set 10 – 12
Electric Indigo (female:pressure)
Mieko Suzuki (Kokoo)
Ara (Kookoo)
DJ Sets
A L’ARME! Open Air Deck 6 – 10 pm
Cashmere Radio
Live Show: Pattern Dissections DJs
A L’ARME! Concert Films Public Viewing
Natural Italian Wine Bar
Credits
An event by Louis Rastig and Karina Mertin/ABOUTNOW. In collaboration with Radialsystem.
Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the generous support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the Japanese Cultural Institute.
Media partnerships: taz, tip Berlin, The Berliner, Cashmere Radio/Pattern Dissection, Bpigs, Rausgegangen, rbb Radio 3.
She needs it loud. She wants power. And she loves drama. Monika Döring, the music-obsessed icon of Berlin’s cultural life, left us for other spheres in May 2024. The last day of the final edition of A L’ARME! is a big farewell party that pays tribute to Döring’s immeasurable influence and idiosyncratic taste. Many of her favourite acts will come together to create a musical evening true to her spirit: loud, energetic and full of drama.
Geniale Dilletanten, Einstürzende Neubauten and Mythen, Monster, Mutationen were key milestones in Monika Döring’s work. Gudrun Gut has also been active within the same manifestations of Berlin subculture since the early 1980s. Following the period in which she was an early member of Einstürzende Neubauten and founder of the band Malaria!, she founded a feminist music platform in 1997, which she fittingly called Monika Enterprise. At A L'ARME!, Gut’s set features electronic sounds and her unmistakable voice.
In the late 80s, Döring became acquainted with the avant-garde pop of AG Geige and brought the band to West Berlin. AG Geige then developed into raster in the early 90s, an electro music label which continues to have decisive influence on the global techno scene. Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender are exemplary figures in this development and were among Monika Döring’s most beloved acts, as was a younger raster generation with protagonists such as Grischa Lichtenberger and Mieko Suzuki. They all perform on the final evening of A L'ARME! Vol. XII Finale with their distinctive electro sounds.
Yet, Döring never gave up on rock music, as long as it was uncompromising and packed a punch, like Caspar Brötzmann’s music. At A L'ARME! he will be playing together with festival newcomer Farida Amadou for the first time. Also a figure of amassed energy, Keiji Haino performs a solo sets that is situated between meditation, ritual and a departure into the unknown.
→ To the complete programme of A L'ARME! Festival Vol. XII FINALE
Biographies
Seit 2012 hat das A L’ARME! Festival neue Perspektiven auf Jazz und experimentelle Musik eröffnet, ungewöhnliche Kollaborationen ermöglicht und eine Generation von Hörer*innen geprägt. Mit einem Programm aus Musik, Kunst und Performance, das den Geist der Zeit einfängt und Entwicklungen vorwegnimmt, ist A L’ARME! zum Brennglas aktueller Tendenzen, zum Verstärker von Kontrasten und internationalen Referenzpunkt für transdisziplinäre Improvisation geworden. Diese Errungenschaften werden das Festival überdauern – als Erinnerung, als Haltung und Möglichkeitsraum.
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