Antiphonia

Antiphonia is part of the Vorspiel festival programme for 2026.

An evening of electroacoustic-embodied, sensing-kinetic, sound and installation works. Drawing inspiration from the concept of antiphonal music, characterised by call-and-response structures that resonate through space, Antiphonia brings together media and sound artists working with computational and electronic systems, electroacoustic objects, musical instruments and the body–where performances diffuse between installations and durational sonic interventions in polyvocal exchange.

When: Jan 20, 2026
Where: Studio dB
Exhibition opens at: 19:00
Entrance: 10-15€

Performances starting at 20:00.

With sonic contributions, performances and sound installations by:

Ani Samperi
A musician and sound artist working along a thin veil between installation and performance art, using self-made instruments and recycled materials to explore notions of symbiosis and mutual care. Combining feedback systems, resonant materials, and field recordings reimagined as voices, her research in sonic materialism emphasizes both the rationality and entropy of specialized acoustic systems, christening instrument as organism. ‘Iris’ is a performative installation/instrument in which woman and electroacoustic steel sphere learn to vibrate in synchronicity using feedback noise, voice, and unconventional percussive instrumentation.
 
Lottie Sebes
A performer, sound artist and researcher who explores historical relationships between humans and machines. Her practice serves as a lens to examine how power structures continuously manifest in our technological artefacts. With a focus on body and voice interfaces, Sebes seeks to question how we shape and are shaped by machines over time. Pushing back against sleek tech fetishism, her works unsettle norms of technological ‘progress’. 

Simina Oprescu
A Romanian electroacoustic composer and sound artist whose work explores sound's physical, perceptual, and emotional dimensions across the audible and inaudible spectrum. Combining electroacoustic composition, spatial sound, and psychoacoustics, she approaches sound as both material and affect — a force that shapes perception, presence, and relation.

Nobutaka Shomura
An electronic musician, contemporary dancer and media artist. His performances and choreographies work with the interweaving of physical and immaterial media and emphasise the importance of the body as an instance of resistance.

Peter Isachenko 
A sound engineer, musician and media artist. His work spans several areas of sound application, including live sound, generative audio and multimedia art, film production and post-production, music composition, podcasting. His main interest is in the intersection of different forms of expression: Sound, image and movement.

Hilary C/B
A sound artist and intermedia creative whose practice is centered in electronic and electroacoustic modalities. In addition to her multivalent work as a composer, performing artist, sound designer and sound engineer, Hilary is also a director and curator of 90mil Radio, a broadcast platform located in the Berlin-based venue and community hub for intermedia arts, 90mil.

Anna K Bitter
A Berlin based film scholar and artist. She studied at FU Berlin and HFBK Hamburg and worked as a cultural worker in several art institutions. Her artistic work focuses on feminist concepts as well as on the entanglement of technosphere and material body.

abstraqt
a multimedia body that inhabits physical and digital spaces. In its practice it searches for and builds relations between humans, communities, media, as well as between art and activism. Deeply reliant on digital tools, abstraqt’s work is an act of extension of physical environments. It creates spaces where new forms of within-technological spirituality emerge.