Chromatic

Index
Season  4

E.1        E.2         Transmutation  - UPCOMING
E.1          Suspension  


          Season  3



E.24      CW x Postklub Satellite
E.23      A Desperate Vitality
E.22      On the Verge
E.21       Some of Hell Is Born of Good Manners
E.20      Talking Nature
E.19        Invisible to the Eye
E.18        Uncomfortable Utopia
E.17        Belonging
E.16        Collective Utopias
E.15        The Questionarch Solidarity Walk and Fundraiser and FEED
E.14        Light Exciter
E.13        Dare You Say: Game Night
E.12        Enigma
E.11         Chronicles
E.10        Equal Distance
E.9          Syntax
E.8          Spectrum
E.7          Gelgit
E.6          Of Memories and Dreams
E.5          Refuge Worldwide presents «Parallels»
E.4          Trembling Ground
E.3          Tumultuous
E.2          Sketches of Eastern Ukraine
E.1               E.1           Thinking about the Meanings of the Archive

Se    
Season 2


E.24      110 × 3:33:08
E.23      Glaring Light
E.22      She-Pigeon
E.21       Presence of the Absent
E.20     Sunken Temple
E.19        Cinema of Cockaigne w/ anorak
E.18       Anatolian Leopard
E.17       Phantom Power & Eribòz
E.16        Maths, Euphoria, and Misinterpretations
E.15        Rockingdesk & Fine Tuning
E.14       «Chromatic Wednesdays» in collaboration with Hive International  Short Film Days  Berlin
E.13        Offseeds present  «Tales of Extinction»
E.12        The Matter of Memory
E.11         A.I.D and abet! #3
E.10        Anthony Hüseyin – Project O: «Yıldızların Altında» Release
E.9          MitEinAnder – an exploration
E.8          Troubled Relations
E.7          The Ruins of Empire
E.6          Wanderings Through Uncertainty
E.5          The Hungry and the Restless
E.4          Haunted / Desert
E.3          Looking Back and Moving Forward
E.2          Liquid Machine
E.1           Escargot à la Rostropovich!
             




Chromatic Wednesdays is a monthly interdisciplinary event series based in Berlin, organized by visual artist and filmmaker Emre Birişmen and sound artist Melih Sarıgöl. The series brings together various artistic practices, including performance, sound, moving image, and panel discussions, in thematically structured programs at different venues across the city. 

Chromatic Wednesdays, which previously centered around the Apartment Project space in Neukölln, will transition to a mobile and decentralized structure for its upcoming fourth and fifth seasons. This shift aims to encourage stronger collaborations, emphasize site-specific thinking, and build new connections that reflect the social and cultural fabric of Berlin.
             Current Team:                     Emre Birişmen – Lead / Coordination / Video Production
Melih Sarıgöl –  Lead / Administration / Sound Production
Beril Ece Güler - Graphic Design / Production Asisstant


Current Advisory Board Season 4:                     Korhan Erel, Florian Wüst,  Anette Maechtel

Current Partner Spaces:                          Refuge Worldwide, anorak  e.V.,  Flutgraben, Top e.V., Errant Sound, nGbK,

Moderation:                                         Erden Kosova, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Florian Wüst, Nil Mutluer
Past Advisory Board Members                    Berk Asal, Anıl Eraslan, Zorka Wollny, Stéphane Bauer, anorak (Lukas Ludwig / Johanna Markert)
Selda Asal, Valentina Karga, Florian Wüst, İpek İpekçioğlu, Steffi Weismann
                Past Team Members
                    Merey Şenocak, Ece Gökalp , Gökçe Berndt, Soliane Malefond 
Suat Can Beldek, Gabriela Seith, Berk Asal, Selda Asal
Cemre Bayatlıer, Bengisu Caglayan

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Season 4
Episode 1

Theme:
Unlearning & Reimagining

4 February ´26


TRANS-
MUTATION  

Bioglitch (Giorgio Alloatti, Alexandra Maciá, Xristina Sarli)
Swantje Lichtenstein
Auguste Vickunaite

Transmutation
Season 4, Episode 2
Chromatic Wednesdays

25.02.2026 19:00 
@TOP e.V. 
Industriestraße 38, 12099 Berlin

Theme: Unlearning and Reimagining
in collaboration with TOP e.V.

In our second event under the theme unlearning and reimagining we are diving into the basement of TOP Lab, a transdisciplinary community and Berlin’s first DIY BioLab, where we will witness three different approaches in sound and image generation. The idea of decomposition and decay of material or deconstructing language to gain different perspectives to knowledge draws a direct line to the core of the theme “unlearning”. This stage opens for the artists new ways to reinterpret their material by using literal feedback loop between organism, signal, and found material or transforming the sound of words, based on a feminist, non-canonical form of knowledge, which can be seen as an attempt to cast a magical spell.

The evening will start with the performance Plastivorous Futures by Bioglitch. Bioglitch is an ongoing series of experiments by Giorgio Alloatti, Alexandra Maciá, and Xristina Sarli, where sound, data, mycelium, and obsolete media collapse into one more-than-human circuit. In Plastivorous Futures, the plastic-eating fungus meets the synthetic afterlife of ancient dead trees in polyurethane tapes, fossil-fuel plastics and magnetic relics of human memory, and de-composes them into unstable, noisy scores that rehearse life after the age of plastic. Bioglitch sonified the genome of Pestalotiopsis microspora, the plastic-eating fungus that feeds on polyurethane, recorded that sound onto polyurethane-based reel-to-reel tape, and then returned the tape itself to the plastivorous fungus as food. BioGlitch stages a literal feedback loop between organism, signal, and matter. In performance, lab instruments, oscilloscopes, XR perspectives, humans, and fungi are wired into one unstable system where signals de-compose and co-compose through fungal decay. The result is a noisy, shifting landscape that treats decay as resistance: fungi metabolizing both the materials and the metaphors of oppressive systems, a multispecies resistance against speciesism and extractivism, and a slow unlearning of the architectures of harm.

In her work “sound of undead words” , Swantje Lichtenstein deals with the transformation of the sound of words, based on a feminist, non-canonical form of knowledge, attempted as a magical spell and performative form that deals with the curse of a broken language. The performance reveals unruly family relationships through rhyming connections in a language marked by destruction, violence, and trauma. Swantje's second work, “regenerative poems. rules rhymes rhythm” is a regenerative sound poem performance based on a vulnerable voice work collaboration which she produces as an ongoing project to research sound generated words, texts and the sound of knowledge. As the word algorithm derives from the Persian polymath Muhammad Ibn Musā Al-Khwārazmi محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي who wrote the compendious book on calculation by completion and balancing (c.813-88 CE) and was head of the library of the house of wisdom in Baghdad, the idea of knowledge in the western world ignores the fact of these roots. Sound-based knowledge shows another way of orality of knowledge and wisdom which is often forgotten in the European world, even if it is still ruling it. 

In the closing act of the night, Auguste Vickunaitė will use reel-to-reel tape recorders to create her soundscape. The sound sources she uses are found material, field recordings, voice, music instruments and objects. In her performance the application of glitches and distortions by a decaying technology in a looped order, give hints of ways of unlearning and reimagining in sound generation.

Artists:

Giorgio Alloatti
BIO Moo17 (444,LFZ,Ebe Midwife, G) musician, maker, noisier and sound artist also known as Giorgio Alloatti, founding member of the collective AudioHackLab. He creates music by controlling voltages untangling in tangles of patch cables, devoted to creative coding made in puredata, orca, max/msp/gen, csound, processing. Born in Turin - Italy in 1984, he has been performing since 2007 treading across half of Europe. He lives by analogical expedients and digital substances. He loves to scream in small black boxes or naked circuits that he builds. His sound moves between drone, harsh noise, ambient, downtempo, juke, concrete and breakbeat. He moved to Berlin recently where is running a series of concerts called Amorphq and Ears Wide Shut. Active member of PAS, an art space situated in Moabit in which he organizes workshops about diy electronics and noise/experimental gigs.
IG  https://www.instagram.com/agramof_mo_o/

Alexandra Maciá
Alexandra Maciá is a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Her work focuses on the interaction between sound and image, stemming from a background in film and photography, developing over the last 15 years and exploring the limits of sound and multimedia art. She utilizes analogue audiovisual techniques from the past to create subliminal psycho-audiovisual landscapes, infused with artistic connotations derived from DIY and hacked 90's video broadcast equipment. In her soundscapes, Maciá uses synchronized elements generated by electromagnetic frequencies, modular synthesizers, or captured from field recordings, televisions, cameras, oscilloscopes, and modified or homemade hardware. The result is a haunting cacophony, critiquing current political paradigms. She is also an active member of E_09 and Phallucipher, and one of the co-founders of fem*noise and Vortex Era.
IG https://www.instagram.com/alexandra__macia/


Xristina Sarli
Xristina Sarli is a bioartist, game artist, XR artist, hybrid researcher and curator. They fuse biomaterials, mycofabrication, extended realities, and gamification systems to challenge conventional boundaries between art, science, technology, ecology, and activism.
IG https://www.instagram.com/xristinasarli/

Swantje Lichtenstein
Swantje Lichtenstein works as a musician, performance artist and poet. Her sonic work investigates the ties of language and music in a trans-artistic, and improvised, as well as conceptualized and composed, mode. The work is based on deconstructed voices, channeling of sounds, and opens resonating, healing spaces of connection.
https://swantjelichtenstein.de/

Augustė Vickunaitė
Augustė Vickunaitė is a sound experimentalist who employs vintage reel-to-reel tape recorders to play, record, and create sounds, articulating diverse layers of recordings including found material, field recordings, voice, music instruments, objects, and the whole spectrum of malfunctions of decaying technology. Auguste specializes in tape music, noise, and collage music, known for her theatrical and darkly humorous approach, often exploiting errors of analog audio equipment. Her solo work encompasses tape loops and collages of found audio tapes. Since 2016, Auguste has been active in Europe and beyond, primarily as a solo performer, although she has collaborated with other artists too. She has self  released solo CD album “Dance Alone”. 
https://archive.org/details/@augustevi
https://augustevickunaite.bandcamp.com/album/dance-alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvRfxetWxvc




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