Dani Gal, Christian Naujoks

Performance – Concert – Premiere

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Ritterstrasse 50, 10969 Berlin
Door opens: 8:00 pm, Starts: 8:30 pm

Sonic dialogue in a new constellation:

Dani Gal uses a constantly evolving system that brings different sound sources—such as live radio, recorded sounds, and acoustic instruments outfitted with specially designed motors—into dialogue with each other. For example, when switching between stations on the radio receiver, the shift in sound level affects the movement of a record player that by result manipulates the sound on the record but also triggers oscillators. In relation to one another the sources, which the player has only partial control over, create an indeterminate musical composition.

Christian Naujoks plays an alternately tuned electric guitar with an electric bow and bottleneck slide; he layers the resulting long notes to create ambiguous harmonies and also incorporates pink/white noise and other sounds often used in tinnitus relief therapies. Through the interplay of consonance and dissonance, Naujoks blurs the boundaries between internal and external acoustic stimuli, sonic illusions, natural and synthetically generated tones. Culturally charged or standardized typical sounds often appear distorted, stretched, emptied, or shifted in his pieces.

Source: Yellow Solo