Radio Show with weird 60s-90s German Underground Tracks
Su. 12.10. 5 PM
RadioHub Mimikri
Yus (28): always making music—and always on the hunt for songs that almost no one knows.
Category: Performance
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Holger Jenss
The project Face the Music or The King of Kassel and Local Nightlife’s Seminal Shift deals with subcultural movements in the Kassel area during the late 1970s and 1980s, specifically the phenomenon of GI discos. Against the backdrop of the Cold War, US troops were stationed here until 1993 (and longer in other regions), with black GIs in particular shaping and influencing the music scene. The richness and diversity of the club scene and music styles at that time surprised and fascinated me in view of the current situation of the scene in Kassel and its surrounding areas. For Black Americans in particular, Kassel became a central hub for music and exchange in the 1970s and 1980s. Many clubs and concert events focused primarily on Black genres such as soul and funk, and later also electro and early rap. This resulted in a number of band projects between US-Americans and local German musicians, some of which were very short-lived and oftentimes released their music independently. Musically, this period produced many exciting upheavals which resulted in genres that were not yet fully formed or were being merged with other styles. In addition to the social context and political background, I am particularly interested in the emergence and transformation of the scene and its potential to create a sense of identity for people from different backgrounds. Equally important are the ways in which racism was dealt with in post-war Germany and the US (which sometimes carried over into life in the barracks) and the various forms of cultural appropriation happening within music and nightlife. With regard to the region, I am also interested in the transience of many subcultural trends and their influence on later developments. Formally, I use three vinyl releases by Kassel bands from the 1980s for the lecture performance, drawing on them to address various aspects and developmental stages of the scene. Further I use my own as well as found photographs, video excerpts from live performances, recordings of parties, and excerpts from interviews I conducted with contemporary witnesses and experts.
Su. 12.10. 4 PM
RadioHub Mimikri
Holger Jenss works with photography, moving images, and sound. His research and artistic practice focus on the analysis of normative visual worlds, the construction of subcultural and mainstream contexts through visual codes and their translations, and postcolonial perspectives on photography and popular culture. From 2018 until 2024 he taught at Kunsthochschule Kassel as artistic associate in the field of intermedial photography. He lives and works in Kassel.
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Artie S
Drones to close the night, Lyra-8 goes brrrrrr
Fr. 10.10. midnight
Neue Nachrichtenmeistrei
Su. 12.10. 8 PM
Mimikri
Artie S is a multi-media artist and architect based in Vienna and Kassel, with works ranging from photography and drawings to soundscapes.
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Yonagold
Ambient DJ Set
Sunday 12.10. 2 PMMimikri
Yonagold alias DJ Joyboy JonaYonagold aka DJ Joyboy Jona
Sometimes vinyl, sometimes digital. Sometimes lounge, sometimes disco, sometimes rave.
Genre surfing my way trough electronic music.
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Soukaina
A Moroccan electronic experiment: Soukaina El Adak explores sound, identity, and movement through DJ Sets.
Sunday 12.10. 7 PM
Mimikri
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Moa Florell and Jonas Eschner
Performance and Installation
In this collaboration we examine the relation between sound and movement through technological means. Our aim is to merge fragments from different artistic fields into a single expression. This unity may be unattainable, but it remains our horizon. The performance uses raw physical and technological elements: sensors, bodies, oscillations. A wooden box-frame, about 2.5 meters on each side, carries sensors that generate sound. Moved by a dancer, its signals are processed by a computer and guided by an artist. The sound in turn informs the performers, creating a loop between the inanimate and the living. Over time the frame is dismantled. What remains is a pile of wood and electronics, still transmitting values, now producing a steady sound that endures as an installation throughout the festival.
Sa. 11.10. 6 – 8 pm PerformanceSu. 12.10. 2 – 6 pm Installation Exhibition
kleine Weinkirche / WH22 cdw Kulturareal
In 2024, we collaborated on the short project Angles as an artistic duo. Coming from different professional backgrounds, we are eager to continue this collaboration, deepening our combined knowledge and artistic expression. Moa Florell is a contemporary dancer, performer, and choreographer from Trosa, Sweden, with more than 15 years of stage experience across Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Portugal. Since 2024, she has been based in Kassel, where she contributes to the freelance dance scene as a member of the association Tanzwerk. Alongside participating in collective artistic projects, she develops her own works, including Tag Für Tag and Unveiling Layers. Her artistic practice explores fundamental human themes such as identity, communication, and relationships, with the aim of creating emotional resonance and inviting audiences to reflect on their own experiences. Jonas Eschner is a visual artist and musician from Kassel, Germany, with over ten years of arts education. His practice explores the blend of digital and acoustic realms, merging interactive design with live performance. He works with CG and animation but also programming real time applications, digital modeling, and custom interfaces, reflecting a balance between systematic techniques and human expression.
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Joshua Weitzel and Samuel Nerl
Moritzturm (2023) – Installation / Performance
In 2022, Samuel Nerl and Joshua Weitzel took an in-depth look at the role of Landgrave Moritz “the Scholar.” Although his forced conversion of the Kassel population to Calvinism was a violent act of domination, it also led to the influx of Huguenot refugees several centuries later.
“Moritzturm” is part of a series of performances that deal with biblical and religious themes from an agnostic perspective. The performance consists of three acts: Procession / Initiation / Dismantling.
The procession involves transporting 10 vintage loudspeakers in a handcart across the city to the venue.
The initiation is the main part of the performance and lasts about 40 minutes. While Joshua Weitzel gives a sermon in the role of the pastor (based on classics of sound studies and analog sound synthesis), Samuel Nerl builds a cross about 3 meters high from the loudspeakers.
The loudspeaker cross remains in place until dismantling, at least one day later.
Sa. 11.10. 6 – 8 pm PerformanceSu. 12.10. 2 – 6 pm Installation Exhibition
kleine Weinkirche / WH22 cdw Kulturareal
The work of artist and curator Joshua Weitzel (born in Kassel in 1989) is based on a social understanding of art and encompasses improvisation, electroacoustic and experimental composition, installation art, jazz, intermedia projects, curating, and art education.
Samuel Nerl studied philosophy at Philipps University Marburg and the University of Kassel from 2009 to 2017, and film at the Kassel Art Academy and Babelsberg Film University.Through his many years of work in various areas at the Kassel State Theater, he has gained extensive experience in the performing arts.
He has been working as a freelance artist since 2016. The focus of his work is on the visual arts. His projects are characterized in particular by the short-circuiting of ephemeral arts with general criticism of the material end product. His work is therefore characterized by documentary works and significant sculptures.
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Youngbin Noh
<inner dansdansdans>
Sometimes, when I’m doing something—or just sitting around lost in thought—I suddenly hear a meaningless sound coming from the white noise. And somehow I recognize a rhythm in it.
Not that it’s particularly rousing or really invites you to dance. But still… it’s precisely these quiet, unobtrusive sounds that sometimes make me want to just move.
Saturday 11.10. 10.30 PM
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
Youngbin Noh
Dokfestlounge Kassel 2023
Bruit Secret mit YSL Gropius Bau Rehearsal studio Berlin 2024
Bruit Secret mit YSL apiece gallery Vilnius 2025
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djfroggy69
Really likes mixing David Guetta with gabber <3. Sometimes tries his hand at downtempo.
Saturday 10.10 midnight
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
djfroggy69 cute and messy dubstepbro
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heden
heden love for music fuses together base heavy, fearless, and unrestrained sounds.
Saturday 11.10. 1 AM
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
heden is a high energy magic, commands the space, gets you bouncing and feeling care free.
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Habian666
Dance set: Legendary Dance Music Paladin Habian666 heroicly slays the decks yet again!
Saturday 11.10/ Sun. 12.10 3.30 AM
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
Habian666 is a DJ, musician, producer and Sound artist based in Kassel.
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Timothy Hammer and Marit-Helen Brunnert
a spoken word soundscape
Friday 10.10. 9 PM
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
We are a duo studying at Kunsthochschule Kassel, both with a passion for atmospheric sounds and poetry. Usually being active in different disciplines, we will come together for our first joint performance.
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Franziska Ullrich and Franz Wagner
A regular piece dissolves within its own symmetry; movement emerges along the edge of the metric. We are two with five bodies, secretly becoming seven impossible polyhedrons—have we listened to the underlying flower of life, or drawn a crack into the ground? A composition of sound and dance.
Freitag 10.10. 11.30 PM
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
In 2021, Franzi completed her studies in fine arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, specializing in
new media/installation/performance. She experiments with the embodiment of poetry in
dance and voice performance. Ecosomatic rituals, alchemical work with text and textiles,
and the exploration of movement through touch in partner and group constellations form the basis
of her practice. She also completed training as a contemporary stage dancer at Sozo
Visions in Motion Kassel.
FrAnZ received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Kassel Music Academy in 2024. Since then, contemporary and globally inspired musicians have been strumming and tapping away.
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Sidney Mantei
live composission based on Tape loops, spoken word and noise.
Saturday 11.10. 10.15 PM
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
My name is Sidney Mantei. I am an artist based in Kassel. I mostly do multy-media-installations but also sound based art such as music and experimental sound performances.
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Samuel Julian Grace
Untitled
Investigating the material properties of abstract sound with Supercollider and Pure Data.Friday 10.10. 8.30 PM
neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
Samuel Julian Grace is an artist who works predominantly with sound to investigate its relations to the body and mind. Samuel works abstractly, twisting areas of perception, cognition and understanding while challenging definitions of art
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Videodilettanten- Elko Braas und Jan Heise
An audiovisual performance based on the bidirectional transformation between video and audio signals. In this experimental format, visual information—brightness values, color intensities, movement patterns—is translated into acoustic structures in real time: light becomes sound, movement becomes rhythm, color becomes frequency.
The transformation process works in both directions—audio signals in turn modulate the visual level and generate abstract image worlds that arise directly from the vibrations and overtones of the music. This feedback loop between the modalities creates a self-organizing system in which sound and vision are in constant dialogue.
Pixel grids become oscillator fields, waveforms materialize as geometric structures.
Friday 10.10. 11 – 11.15 PM
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
Videodilettanten is an audiovisual collective founded in 2017 by Elko Braas and Jan Heise, dedicated to the exploration and artistic application of analog video technology. The project deliberately moves beyond digital perfection and uses the characteristic properties of analog signal processing—noise, distortion, unpredictable interference—as creative elements.
Videodilettanten develops audiovisual performances that focus on the electromagnetic properties of video signals. Through experimental interconnections, feedback loops, and the manipulation of historical video hardware, lively, organic visual worlds are created that interweave with acoustic elements in real time.
In addition to live performances, the collective also creates installations that treat space as an extended instrument, as well as VJ sets that enrich club and festival culture with media-archaeological approaches. In their work, Braas and Heise regularly collaborate with artists such as Jan Grebenstein, continuously expanding the creative spectrum of the project.
The work of Videodilettanten represents a conscious regression in the history of technology—not out of nostalgia, but as a critical practice that gives new relevance to the forgotten aesthetic potential of obsolete technologies. The project combines craftsmanship with conceptual acuity.
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Monoyama
At the Range Festival, Monoyama presents a live performance exploring the fusion of sound modulation and short recordings captured on site. By combining these immediate field recordings with intricate electronic processing, a complex yet delicate sonic blend emerges. This dynamic interplay creates a new mode of sound perception, inviting the audience to engage in an immersive and reflective listening experience.
Friday 10.10. 11.30 PM
neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
Monoyama explores the boundaries of sound at the intersection of space and digital aesthetics. His works combine complex textures with minimalist clarity, creating immersive soundscapes that challenge perception and invite listeners on a sensory journey of discovery. In his performances, his architecture unfolds with a contemplative intensity that arouses curiosity and creates space for reflection.
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Cat Woywod
Catalysing possible futures through non-linear time experiences,Cat Woywod’s live compositions weave sonic topographies with field recordings, electronic processing, and voice. Between Meditation and Catharsis, Its site-specific rituals reflect on human and non-human sensory experiences.
Frequently commissioned for film scores, sound installations,
instrumental compositions and sound designs,
Cat Woywod also collaborates with dancers and multidisciplinary artists as a live performer internationally.Dreaming through the ears,
It creates timespace for sounding cripqueer Hope within apocalyptic Cataclysm“Like Ghosts in the Sun” – Live Composition Remixes
Saturday 11.10. 9.30 PM
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
Cat Woywod questions habits of perception.
Born as a descendant of artisans in Post-Wall Germany,
It grew up in Silicon Valley, USA, the lignite mining industry of the Lower Rhine,
The lime, slate, and metal industry of the Bergisches Land and on the soil of the Upper Bavarian foothills of the Alps. Since 2016, it’s haunts peculiar perceptions of time and space, through sound, light and drag in Kassel, Germany.
Cat Woywod has been working as a freelance artist, sound designer, sound engineer, and drag thing since 2020. In 2023, it was awarded the “Kasseler Kunstpreis for Intermedia Art” by the Dr. Wolfgang Zippel Foundation, and is a post-grad from 2024 – 2026. Master student for “Sound Art / Composition” with Prof. Kiefer at the HfM, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz.
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Xrom
Xorm is an audiovisual performance set in a fictional sci-fi universe, blending dungeon synth-inspired electronic music with immersive CG visuals. In a 1-hour live set Jonas Eschner is delving into the world of Xorm. From infinite castes to frutiger dolphins – the journey awaits.Friday 10.10. 9:30pm – 10:30pm
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
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Allen Homburg
The project “Abrasive” by Allen Homburg features modern folkloric samples—heavily distorted and rapidly repeated. The sound of old melancholia contrasts with a mechanical groove.
Saturday 11.10. 11:30pm – 00:10am
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
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(b)engel
Experimental DJ set mixed with own productions as well as sound landscapes and spoken word
Saturday 11.10./ Su. 12.10.
02:25 AM 03:25 AM
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
(b)engel formerly known as gemini is a queer DJ and Producer based in Kassel. If they had to describe their DJ style it would be unhinged, high energy mixes ranging from 130 to 190 BPM. However their productions differ: Their first EP VOID* is based on feminist theories about the construction of the monstrous in film and cinema. They focus on storytelling and setting a certain mood for both disciplines, inviting you to dream of haunted landscapes on the dancefloor.
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META
For Range Festival META will perform an electroacoustic live-improvisation. These sessions are at the core of their musical work as a collective and are both musical and non-musical explorations of their shared feelings in the moment and a reflection of the environment. It will usually last from 30 to 45 minutes and move through different phases and moods. It will consist of amplified acoustic instruments, synthesizers, layered vocals and spoken word, soundscapes and found sounds which are weaved together by their shared tonal memory and the trust in each other. Listeners will be able to explore sonic landscapes, lay down or sit back and follow META´s collective dreamscapes.
Saturday 11.10. 8pm
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
META is a sound and light art collective based in Darmstadt and Schwanheim, (GER) known for their immersive ambient, drone and free folk improvisations, that explore themes of fragility, trauma, the unconsciousness and trance. They have played since 2021 in changing constellations and showed their installations and performances among other places at Casino Luxembourg, Experimance Festival and during their residency at Frise Künstler*innenhaus Hamburg. The current lineup includes light artist Karen Fritz, multimedia artist Katharina Hamp and the sound designer and field recordist Dirk Dullmaier.
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Thea Josepha Konatsu
ECHO
Sound performance with voice and loop station
Echo – the one who was robbed of her voice, but retained the last word. Her voice is reassembled: fragmented, looped, multiplied. Repetition as resistance, resonance as reclaiming space, a polyphonic self, an emancipatory form?
Friday 10.10. 8pm
Neue Nachrichtenmeisterei
Thea Josepha Konatsu’s intermedia practice deals with dislocation and the influence of cultural influences on the understanding of history and memory. Memories, fragments, and snippets are brought together in changeable montages and woven into stories, moving images, and sound.
