FUNDED PROJECTS

berta.berlin is a sophisticated and expertly curated concert video format with a focus on Berlin. With hi-fi sound and HD video quality, berta.berlin presents ...

Schattenspiel is a three-member formation that combines cello and electronic dance music in a 90-minute audio-visual live experience of light and sound. At the ...

Bonaventure uses music as an identity research tool to connect her African and European influences and to question human relationships. Bonaventure’s compositions are expressive ...

Over the last decade, Maike Rosa Vogel has grown into an important German-speaking indie pop singer-songwriter. She’s one to listen to her own heart, ...

SEDA has been singing and performing since she was 8 years old. She was discovered by Sigmund Bothmann, a church musician and director of ...

The mission of Pathwaves is to dismantle patriarchal and misogynistic structures within the field of music production and to counteract the fact that around ...

Friedberg are the brainchild of Austrian-born Anna Wappel. The four-piece, all-female band are a tour de force of gritty rock energy combined with intuitive ...

Stella Zekri is a vinyl DJ and singer. Her dynamic, cross-genre sets combine her love of club music, disco, jazz and hip-hop. As a ...

As Ale Hop, Peruvian-born Alejandra Cardenas composes electronic and electroacoustic music that adds influences from noise, pop, avant-garde and ambient to an unorthodox repertoire ...

Klark Wolke aka Deaf Kat Night (DKN) was born in a small village near Schwerin. The deaf musician was able to feel music for ...

Ria Boss, also affectionately known as Cat Mama, is a real jack-of-all-trades. She has met Kamala Harris, hosts the show ›Cat Mama World‹ on ...

FHAT is a new duo made-up by American singer-songwriters Aaron Pfeiffer and Sedric Perry. Their journey began with a joint writing session in London, ...

It’s not easy to explain exactly what Kabeaushé does. Let’s just say, Kabeaushé makes the pop of the future. And so much more. For ...

Reverberating rimshots, organic bass and spacey synths meet melancholic vocals with lyrics about dysfunctional relationships and inner turmoil – two friends maneuvering from R&B ...

5 Seconds – Musik für Hall & Raum SPEZIAL is a project set in Friedrichshain’s Zwingli-Kirche in consideration of the church’s impressively long reverberation ...

With DJing as an artistic tool, Banu’s work can be located somewhere between sound, music, research and activism. Originally from south-eastern Turkey, Banu now ...

Instrumental work with audio samples is a fundamental component of contemporary music culture. The Sample Music Festival is the first educational music festival devoted ...

With the podcast series Transculture Express, the Neukölln collective Artistania offers a community platform to the musicians and music lovers who would regularly meet ...

Blue Desert is a form of Berlin Desert Blues: A musical encounter of five people from Agadez, Agadir, Hamburg and Berlin that has been ...

The Last Postman is a multilingual artistic-pop/indie post-rock experimental project with live electronic elements generated by playing multiple instruments and found objects. It was ...

East Side Music Days is Berlin’s first street music festival, which premiered in 2015. This public festival around East Side Park and the Oberbaumbrücke ...

The collectively run venue ausland founded the series pop im ausland in 2015, dedicated to musical forms that lie between accessibility and experimentation. Current ...

Snøffeltøffs are two boys from Berlin who serve unpretentious Grarage Rock with a real Popstar attitude (»Shit-Fi Pizza Wave« is what they call it). ...

The festival Die Nächte des Ramadan perceives itself as a Berlin-wide culture festival for Muslim-affected art and culture. In 2017 with its concert series ...

AŸA is an all-rounder. In her music, however, she tells stories that reflect her Moroccan-Yemeni roots. Her electro-pop sound is characterised by a world ...

MOLM Museum of Live Music understands live-music culture as part of a worldwide cultural identity. Within a two-day exhibition in August 2020 in Berlin’s ...

  From Lichtenberg over the ether: Cashmere Radio is an experimental, not-for-profit community radio station being on the point of preserving while furthering radio ...

In her many artistic approaches, spanning experimental installations and photography to video and audio works, Natalia Escobar follows an ongoing interest in investigating streams ...

Since 2008, Digital in Berlin has been curating, developing, and supporting concerts and festival formats as an independent cultural agency in Berlin and in ...

The Berlin Song Week is an event concept for the creatives »behind the song«. Songwriter and producer get the chance to present themselves to ...

Mind:Body:Fitness is an Australian born and Berlin based artist whose distinctly idiosyncratic music has been showcased my CTM, RBMA, Tropical Waste, Creamcake, NTS and ...

In her native country, Switzerland, Berlin-based Mia Aegerter has released four highly acclaimed and awarded full-length albums– all written in Swiss dialect. With her ...

Sissip grew up traveling around the world with her family before settling in a small town near Frankfurt as a teenager. She began her ...

For the very first time punk’d took place in Berlin in October 2017. As the name already reveals, the festival is settled far beyond ...

Ari is an artist and electronic music producer based in Berlin. They write, produce and perform genre-bending music that thinks outside the box. Their ...

Heatsick is the project of musician and visual artist Steven Warwick, whose album ›Re-engineering‹ has been released on PAN. Heatsick’s entrancing live show is ...

Berlin-based singer-songwriter Aka Kelzz has always loved making music and is now combining that with sharing their experiences around dealing with mental health, trauma ...

Milwalkie is an indie rock band formed by the brothers Matt and Steve Morris from Aberdeen, Scotland. Milwalkie began in 2011 when the brothers ...

Launched by the Latin American collective TRRUENO and curated in collaboration with the artists of Clam and FreeFormHyperSonixxXOrg, ꐦO111L is an event aimed at ...

Berlin Brass Festival is annually blasting its way into the streets, plazas and parks of the city – brassy, colorful, loud, accessible, for everyone, ...

Muzi is widely acknowledged as the hottest young DJ/Producer emerging from the South African electronic music scene. Having relocated to the epicentre of electronic ...

VEE is a Berlin-based singer and songwriter who creates dark, futuristic, avant-garde RnB with subtle trap influences. Inspired by artists like Banks and FKA ...

Made by music lovers for music lovers, Rec Room was originally established as a diverse party series at Berlin club OHM to support female ...

Empower is an Afro-futuristic and queer-feminist festival and presented some of the most important current work by queer people and/or BPoC active in music, ...

Hüma Utku, born and raised in Istanbul and based in Berlin, is an electronic music composer and sound artist. She combines her musical practice ...

The Hoelogram Festival has set itself the task of boosting FLINTA* artists working at the intersection of VR, installation and music and providing them ...

Under the title Menschu Hi Menschu (human is human) the DeutschSintiRoma Festival with free admission focuses on marginalised artistic perspectives. With a diverse programme, ...

Berlin-based Rosa Landers is a singer-songwriter as well as a trained actress working across disciplines. So far, she has created a visual EP in ...

ILYICH is a musician and storyteller reincarnated in Kherson, Ukraine. Augmenting music performances with performance art, ILYICH pilots full sound of electronic music through ...

The Stadt Nach Acht conference discusses different perspectives and topics regarding the club and music scene of Berlin. Following 2016´s success a three-day programme ...

Mary Ocher is a singer-songwriter, poet, director and visual artist. Born in Moscow in 1986, she immigrated with her family first to Israel and ...

The international network female:pressure, a network founded by Electric Indigo that brings together female, transgender, and non-binary musicians from the field of electronic music ...

She’s Drunk is a project which was launched by Berlin-based French producer David Monnin about six years ago. Due to his long-time experience as ...

The Whoriental project is a deliberate provocation, a safer space, and at the same time, a meeting place. Queer and trans people often find ...

With urban world- and bass music, street art, and graffiti as well as a platform for alternative cultural offerings, the Spreeveria Festival aims to ...

The Berlin Swamp Fest is dedicated to showcasing the musical genres of psychedelic-, stoner-, and hard rock as well as black-, death-, and doom ...

goldenair is a producer, songwriter and classically trained multi-instrumentalist living in Berlin. He is half of the R&B act GOLDA, signed to Majestic Casual ...

Otto is a village of shipping containers at the Haus der Statistik situated directly on the corner of Karl-Marx-Allee and Otto-Braun-Straße, where the collective ...

The band ROSEMARINE is an experience in itself: trashy, grungy vibes meet electronic sounds, all framed by experienced songwriting. It is an artistic statement, ...

In 2019, the musical game show Battle of Random Bands brought together musicians from all cultures and backgrounds. Whether they’re newcomers or more experienced ...

Nalan Karacagil is a musician, producer and DJ from Berlin. As slimgirl fat and part of the trio Gaddafi Gals, she has released three ...

The concert series Kidz Klang is an open-air event for kids, young people, and families – for people from 0 to 99 years old. ...

Berlin School of Sound returns with the three-day festival POP SOUNDS POP STORIES, this time with a thematic focus on crossover rap, poetry and ...

In ›Stadt unter Einfluss‹ (›City Under the Influence‹), Christiane Rösinger deals with one of the most pressing political and social issues of the present: ...

The Bassquake Weekender is an inclusive and intergenerational festival for bass music. The aim of the event is not only to network, but also ...

West Berlin in the late 1970s and 1980s: The city is thriving with a musical subculture that values DIY, sampling, improvisation and crafting as ...

When Worldwiderythm – also known under the artist name Nais – started producing music at the age of 17, he did not set himself ...

Exhilaration and ecstasy, or rather noise and confetti, are the principles of the inclusive band 21 Downbeat. Like satyrs, the cheerful demons in the ...

FAYIM is a singer-songwriter who creates a perfect balance between profundity and ease – with his lyrics, his distinctive voice and his empowering and ...

Yvois is an Aotearoa (New Zealand)-born, Berlin-based producer of warm, wonky beats and singer of moody aural treats. Armed with a collection of dusty ...

Jonas Schilling is an electronic music producer and composer from Berlin. As a multi-instrumentalist and sound explorer he likes to work with everything that ...

Juno Francis is the supposed »lovechild of a 60s gentleman and an 80s lady,« and as plausible as that sounds, it also means that ...

For five days, the Reclaim the Beats Festival presents a variety of music genres such as house, techno, rock and hip-hop in different locations ...

Sally Dige (»Dee-Ah«) is a multidisciplinary artist known for her darkly poetic yet highly danceable electro-pop songs, DIY stylistic videos, design and visual art. ...

Andreas Spechtl has been the singer, guitarist and songwriter of Ja, Panik since 2006, which has released five albums to date. In summer 2016 ...

The son of a soldier from New Orleans and a German mother with Austrian roots, Juju Rogers grew up in a working-class southern German ...

Lichtenberg Sounds is an open-air event series that comprises six concerts taking place in summer 2023 at gART.n in Berlin Lichtenberg. Well-known and unknown ...

Anna Lena Bruland was expressly warned by her grandfather, a renowned conductor in Norway in the 50s and 60s, not to pursue an artistic ...

Berlin’s hip-hop scene hasn’t been the same since SWAG JAM, a weekly live hip-hop jam session by the Berlin crew The SWAG, was launched ...

Madam Data is a musician, composer, and sound scientist who explores machine and spirit interfaces. Their fantasies are about truly knowing what sacredness is, ...

Zeyo is a songwriter, rapper and producer who mixes and masters his songs alone. His work is at the intersection of art and activism, ...

Nils Ostendorf works in Berlin as a trumpet player and composer. He studied jazz trumpet from 1997 to 2002 at the Folkwanghochschule Essen and ...

Edwin Oberender, born 1997 in Berlin, received piano lessons as a child and later taught himself the basics of playing the electric bass, electric ...

Music is something the Berlin-born Stolze considers integral to his life – a need apparent in the passion he puts into each of his ...

Schorsch Kamerun and PC Nackt offer the discreet charm of reduction, joined by actress Annemaaike Bakker, performers from the Komische Oper Berlin, the Richardchor ...

Sound System Culture is a project that was launched in 2018. Its aim is on exploring the different spectra of so-called bass music, from ...

The open-air series Sonic In(ter)ventions aims to rethink public space as an interactive venue for independent artistic expression through energetic, musical improvisational practices. The ...

Augustus Williams aka Gusto is best defined by his pure Detroit sound, while also incorporating funky house brought on by childhood memories. At an ...

An urban scenery. An adult girl in search of love. A young woman in search of extremes. Search for meaning and senseless crash between ...

In her music kaala combines elements of warm, electronical sounds with organic rhythms and profound lyrics. She sings of the hidden aspects of the ...

Soy&Synth is an independent grassroots event series initiated by Berlin-based Indonesian art collective Soydivision, dedicated to experimental and improvisation music practices from BIPOC emerging ...

J.A.W is a concert series producing a classical spectrum ranging from jazz over hip-hop to house music. The always musically adventurous concert settings deal ...

Dino Joubert from the tranquil town of Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia was just 14 years old when the American songwriter Elliott Smith died in ...

Born and raised in the rough industrial wastelands of North Jersey, oOoOO began playing in punk and hardcore bands in and around NYC as ...

VALENTIN heralds a new era in the music industry. She paves the way for upcoming artists who, just like she did, grew up hand-in-hand ...

Since 2019, Das Rattenkabinett have been playing in a new constellation with a new sound: female-fronted and more experimental than ever. Live hip-hop from ...

Mapp has quietly been making appearances in the Berlin music scene for the last six years. She has released two EPs and performed at ...

A vantage point to experiencing GIL’s music is one’s body and the haptic-affective sensation music creates; this was also the way in which the ...

Poetra Asantewa is a sensational balance of poetry, music, intellect and wit. Poetra is a multifaceted Ghanaian performer who combines smooth-like-butter neo-soul beats, lyricism ...

Kaltès is a musician and DJ based in Berlin. She has an extensive background in music, having studied jazz and improvisation in Brussels before ...