Festival
Mensch Maschine Musik
19 September 2025 · 19:00–23:30
Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde
On 19 September 2025, in tandem with the opening of Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth, Mensch Maschine Musik launched as the inaugural edition of a new interdisciplinary music festival. The event took place in the iconic Bauhaus swimming pool adjacent to E-WERK Luckenwalde, reimagined as Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde.
Conceived as a convergence point between technology and ecology, the festival brought together experimental music, performance and contemporary art. Across the evening, live concerts and performative interventions explored the intersections of sound, robotics, embodiment, artificial intelligence and speculative thought.
The programme featured internationally acclaimed artists including Bendik Giske, Discovery Zone, and Nazanin Noori, alongside performances by Rae Hsu, Kira Xonorika and David Osaodion Odiase & hn. lyonga.
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Programme
19:00–19:15 Rae Hsu – Enter the Wetware
19:30–20:15 Nazanin Noori
20:30–20:45 David Osaodion Odiase & hn. lyonga – after the wires, our hands remain
21:00–21:45 Discovery Zone
22:00–22:15 Kira Xonorika – Agent
22:30–23:15 Bendik Giske
23:30–00:30 Discovery Zone – After Party DJ Set (EW TRAFO)
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Artists & Performances
Bendik Giske
Bendik Giske’s performance unfolded as an immersive study in breath, stamina and presence. Drawing from material across his three albums for Smalltown Supersound, his expressive use of physicality and endurance created an arresting display of musical precision and vulnerability. Every element, from microphone placement to lighting and sound design, was carefully calibrated for maximum resonance.
Nazanin Noori (Persian: نازنین نوری; IPA: [ˈnɑːzəniːn ˈnʊəri])
Nazanin Noori presented a dense hypnoacoustic live set merging ambient hardcore with doom electronics. Working across sound art, performance and installation, her atmospheric compositions extended into sculptural space, fusing sonic intensity with postdramatic sensibility.
Discovery Zone
Discovery Zone, the experimental pop project of multimedia artist JJ Weihl, presented a live set combining luminous vocals, layered instrumentation and immersive 3D visuals. Drawing from Remote Control and Quantum Web, the performance blurred boundaries between the human and post-human, sincerity and irony, cybernetics and pop.
Rae Hsu (HSURAE) – Enter the Wetware
Rae Hsu presented Enter the Wetware, a performance lecture in which machine and body converged through an oracle of liquid circuits. The work examined artificial intelligence through latency and estrangement — where language leaked and glitched, and empathy emerged through difference rather than sameness.
Kira Xonorika – Agent
Kira Xonorika’s Agent merged soft robotics and choreography in a high-tech performance exploring cognition and technological ecosystems. The work proposed a relational approach to machines beyond dominant narratives of control and extraction.
David Osaodion Odiase & hn. lyonga – after the wires, our hands remain
In after the wires, our hands remain, David Osaodion Odiase and hn. lyonga turned away from algorithmic violence toward body, breath and ancestral memory. Rooted in Afro-diasporic philosophies, the performance rejected colonial linearity, proposing technology not as data or code, but as spirit and pulse — carried through flesh, rhythm and collective becoming.
Mensch Maschine Musik at Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde on 19 September, Design: Basics09