Berlin Atonal x Unsound - The Inifnite Now: 1st Artists Announcement
The Infinite Now is the first formal collaboration between Berlin Atonal and Unsound: a singular 30-hour continuous musical program at Kraftwerk Berlin. Today it announces its core artists, alongside three stand-alone Prelude Concerts curated for May this year.
The Prelude Concerts take place in the week before The Infinite Now program begins, each presenting a single headline bill. On Sunday 10 May, Oneohtrix Point Never performs the Tranquilizer live show with Freeka Tet following an opening set from Piotr Kurek. On Tuesday 12 May, Hania Rani presents her audacious new alter-ego Chilling Bambino after a show from Torus. On Thursday 14 May, Sinfonietta Cracovia performs Gavin Bryars' The Sinking of the Titanic and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, alongside Pure Voices by Aleksandra Słyż.
Then, on Saturday 16 May, the thirty-hour continuous program begins at Kraftwerk Berlin and runs without interruption until midnight on Sunday 17 May. Among the over 20 participating artists will be legendary Japanese collective improvisation group Marginal Consort; famous theatre director Romeo Castellucci with Scott Gibbons premiering a new performance work To Carthage then I came; Japanese experimental pioneer Keiji Haino; Detroit techno visionary Terrence Dixon unveiling a new project entitled A Cosmic Display Of Beauty; Scottish amplified smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul; the new live show from Actress; Glasgow-based singer and songwriter Joanne Robertson; a powerful new work from the quartet of 2k88, Lauren Duffus, Rainy Miller & Bianca Scout; bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry; producer and engineer Marta Salogni presenting a new work; Polish composers Aleksandra Słyż & Teoniki Rożynek; Bristol-based composer Paul Jebanasam; New York ambient experimentalist 7038634357; American fingerstyle guitarist Shane Parish playing the music of Autechre; and Polish guitarist and musicologist Raphael Rogiński. Further artists, installations and video works to be announced along with the full schedule over 30 hours.
Audiences are encouraged to sleep, rest, eat, watch, listen, withdraw and pay attention. Tickets for each of the three Prelude Concerts are now available, as well as tickets to the continuous The Infinite Now program which permit re-entry throughout the full thirty-hour duration. The space includes dedicated areas for sleeping and rest.
The next full edition of Berlin Atonal will take place in August 2027. The flagship Unsound festival takes place in Poland at the start of October 2026, alongside events in Adelaide, New York and London.
The Infinite Now is partly supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and the Polish National Foundation.