**For our final Kiezsalon of the year, we head to the Akademie der Künste in Tiergarten for some musical edification. Making their first collaborative appearance in Berlin are vocalist extraordinaire Sofia Jernberg and cellist Judith Hamann, presenting their commissioned work from MADEIRADiG last year. They will be joined by Berlin-based composer and psychoacoustic researcher Ben Glas and American contemporary folk performer-composer Sheherazaad.**

Stockholm-based Sofia Jernberg is an exceptional singer and composer. With a background in jazz, she focuses on unconventional techniques and sounds such as non-verbal vocalisation, split tones and toneless singing. Originally from Melbourne, Judith Hamann is a cellist meanwhile based in Berlin whose process-based creative practice encompasses electroacoustic music, site-specific generative work and microtonal systems.

Sheherazaad is a performer whose contemporary folk synthesis joins the new wave of South Asian diasporic soundscapes. Her contemporary voicing may be described as alternative folk or experimental ballad. The original lyricism modernises certain existing Hindi-Urdu poetic forms, channelling questions of displacement and mother tongue.

Ben Glas is an experimental composer who moved from Portland to pursue Sonic Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts. His works focus on the realms of subjective perception and cognition via the use of acoustics, psychoacoustics and space as tools for sonic composition.

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Kiezsalon Finale

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Akademie der Künste

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