Heroines of Sound 2025: Day 2
Rojin Sharafi / Meitar Ensemble / Yara Mekawei
Concert Film Performance Panel
Yara Mekawei © Jasper Kettner
Rojin Sharafi © Hessam Samavatian
Ticket Prices
Day Ticket
22 Euro reduced 15 Euro
2-day Ticket
38 Euro reduced 26 Euro
3-day Ticket / Festival Pass
55 Euro reduced 40 Euro
The concerts start at 8 pm.
The second concert evening of the festival opens with the sound artist and composer Rojin Sharafi, whose sonic textures, influenced by traditional Persian music and poetry, noise, ambient and folk, are situated between tradition and new beginnings.
Afterwards, the Meitar Ensemble makes its festival debut. Works by Israeli, German and Iranian composers, composed exclusively for the ensemble, will be performed in Europe for the first time. Sarah Nemtsov explores “blind spots”, which can also be understood as a metaphor for our current social and political realities. Anahita Abbasi takes an even more radical approach: Through pulsating layers of noise and multi-channel throat clearing, she lets us experience a darkly hissing soundscape. Julia Mihály undertakes a sonic investigation of the desert as a space and historical archive, while Brigitta Muntendorf creates a multilayered web of fragments and analogue-digital forms of expression. Sigalit Landau’s haunting video work of her performance with a hula hoop made from barbed wire on the beach of Tel Aviv represents both a personal and political act.
The evening ends with a powerful live performance by Yara Mekawei. Bringing together the ancient and the modern, their set takes us on a sonic journey.
Cast
With
Rojin Sharafi
Meitar Ensemble
Yara Mekawei
Biographien
Heroines of Sound wurde aus der Berliner Szene mit einer feministischen Agenda von Bettina Wackernagel und einer Gruppe von Künstler*innen initiiert. Zur Aufführung gelangen herausragende frühe Werke sowie zukunftsweisende Positionen von jüngeren Künstler*innen. Die Idee ist, die Verbindungslinien unterschiedlicher Genres erfahrbar zu machen und die Präsenz von FLINTA-Künstler*innen im Kunst- und Musikbetrieb kontinuierlich zu stärken.
Programme
5 p.m. – midnight: Sound and film bar
Heroines of Sound Selection 2025
Film portraits by Maryanne Amacher, Beatriz Ferreyra, Midori Hirano and Svetlana Maraš
Film screening: Sarah Hennies – “Contralto“ (2017, DE)
6 pm: Panel II
8 pm: Concert III
Rojin Sharafi – “O.O Orifice“
Meitar Ensemble with works by Anahita Abbasi, Hana Ajiashvili, Sigalit Landau, Julia Mihály, Brigitta Muntendorf and Sarah Nemtsov
10 pm: Concert IV
Yara Mekawei – “El Qibla“
Credits
Heroines of Sound Festival 2025 is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, with the kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Goethe-Institut Chile and initiative neue musik Berlin e.V.
In co-operation with Radialsystem, ZK/U, Ensemble LUX:NM, Schrumpf/ LOUDsoft, Lullabyte.eu /FU Berlin, funded by the European Union.
Media partnerships: GROOVE, Missy Magazin, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, The Wire, L.MAG, Spitz Magazin, The Berliner, Rausgegangen, tip Berlin, taz. die tageszeitung.
The second concert evening of the festival opens with the sound artist and composer Rojin Sharafi, whose sonic textures, influenced by traditional Persian music and poetry, noise, ambient and folk, are situated between tradition and new beginnings.
Afterwards, the Meitar Ensemble makes its festival debut. Works by Israeli, German and Iranian composers, composed exclusively for the ensemble, will be performed in Europe for the first time. Sarah Nemtsov explores “blind spots”, which can also be understood as a metaphor for our current social and political realities. Anahita Abbasi takes an even more radical approach: Through pulsating layers of noise and multi-channel throat clearing, she lets us experience a darkly hissing soundscape. Julia Mihály undertakes a sonic investigation of the desert as a space and historical archive, while Brigitta Muntendorf creates a multilayered web of fragments and analogue-digital forms of expression. Sigalit Landau’s haunting video work of her performance with a hula hoop made from barbed wire on the beach of Tel Aviv represents both a personal and political act.
The evening ends with a powerful live performance by Yara Mekawei. Bringing together the ancient and the modern, their set takes us on a sonic journey.
Cast
With
Rojin Sharafi
Meitar Ensemble
Yara Mekawei
Biographies
Heroines of Sound wurde aus der Berliner Szene mit einer feministischen Agenda von Bettina Wackernagel und einer Gruppe von Künstler*innen initiiert. Zur Aufführung gelangen herausragende frühe Werke sowie zukunftsweisende Positionen von jüngeren Künstler*innen. Die Idee ist, die Verbindungslinien unterschiedlicher Genres erfahrbar zu machen und die Präsenz von FLINTA-Künstler*innen im Kunst- und Musikbetrieb kontinuierlich zu stärken.
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