Kara-Lis Coverdale + Ellen Arkbro

Name: Kara-Lis Coverdale + Ellen Arkbro
Start: 2025-09-24T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche

Schedule

Wed, 24 Sep, 2025 at 08:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche | Berlin, BE

Returning to Berlin for the first time since 2021, Kara-Lis Coverdale will perform a new solo piano set that continues her turn toward acoustic intimacy after years of electronic exploration. Rich in layered overtones, ambiguous harmonic centers and gestural detail, the aural world of the Canadian composer favors neither strict minimalism nor lush romanticism, but rather a spectral sensitivity suggestive of shifting planes of memory and afterlife. Her new album »From »Where You Came« weaves ambient choral textures, delicate dissonance and intricately-layered sonics into a marvellously introspective listening experience.
Prior to presenting the outcome of her CTM x Somerset House residency at CTM 2026, Ellen Arkbro's »Nightclouds« is a solo organ performance that deepens her investigations into dissonance and harmonic instability and physically charged sound worlds demanding patient, participatory listening. Embracing the full resonant power of the instrument while resisting its traditional harmonic resolutions, she builds stark, slowly shifting structures where microtonal tensions accumulate into uneasy, unresolved spaces—a practice of vulnerability and intuition that foregrounds the act of listening itself, transforming the instrument into a site of shared unfolding discovery.