📅 18 September, 2025 FROM 19:00-22:00 CET
🧭 Orchestral Tools, Pfuelstraße 5, 10997 Berlin Map
Private Event / RSVP
In 2015, we began our slow movement project Foreign Bodies. Ten years later, we are finally giving birth to this work, and are so eager and happy to share it with you. On September 18, we invite you to a private listening party and artist talk at the offices of Orchestral Tools on the River Spree.
Bodies: near and distant. Bodies which have been determined “grievable”–bodies which are not. Devouring Bodies: extracting and extracted from in measures of time, energy, value, blood, piss, shit, cum. Having a body vs. Being a body and existing somewhere in between. Hearable bodies, bodies that signal that they must be heard, and bodies we choose to ignore. Glacial bodies and frenzied bodies.
Across 21 works, constructed from field recordings gathered in transit points, intentional communities, migrant camps, ancient traveler’s outposts and along pilgrimage paths, we have created sonic reactions to bodies in motion, in resistance, in synchronicity. We are also accompanied by the voices of Thomas F. DeFrantz, Sivan Ben Yishai, Erin Manning, Sylbee Kim, among many other writers, choreographers and activists who contribute their reflections with us.
During our journeys, we began to think about these questions of relationality, while simultaneously considering our own bodies in the act of recording itself: what is it to “unthink mastery”; how we relate to the animacy of sound; how we build equitable collaborations with human and non-human actors; how do we resist cultures of extraction, and what kinds of methods allow us to weave music from one sound fabric?
And where do you locate yourself, or where is your body located? (And by whom?) Can you move, and would you? Is your body packed in permissions and papers or is it so bare that your skin chafes on edges and borders? Is your body light enough to float above surfaces, or does it sink to ocean floors? And why is it that my body and your body are allocated different shares of the wealth of the earth? Who or what does it serve to carve up bodies so?
These are the questions that animate the Foreign Bodies. We will explore them with you as we share the music. We hope you can make it.