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art-errorist & friends

WE’LL WAKE YOU UP … and ROCK YOU HOME!

a dreamy Sunday Happening

Sunday marks the end of the festival. On Sunday Utopia will meet reality and we might start to feel the post festival dysphoria blues. But no worries – we’ll still have an entire day to dream together:

9.00 WAKE UP CALLS Sheep and cows and chickens and mermaids and seagulls help you to escape the arms of Morpheus and softly wake you up. The super-de-luxe outdoor cold showers will do the rest. 9.45 JAZZ IM HOF Breakfast to the sound of the coolest of cool “Jazz im Hof”. 10.15 FaUSt Let’s go in the Tenne and meet once again another incarnation of FaUSt. 11.00 DADA MAGIC PEEL Inspired by Emmet Willians and under guidance of The Wizard-on-the-Tractor, we will all perform an edible act. 11.45 THE AGF GRAND ORCHESTRA Just trust yourself. Yes, you can! 12.30 TOURNAMENT ON THE PLAYGROUND There is nothing serious about Avantgarde. Hop in the wheelbarrow and prove it! 13.30 THE GOODBYE CEREMONY Before we must leave, there should be time to celebrate the Au-Revoir.

Let’s have a good time!
art-errorist & friends

Raissa Mehner (guit), Geraldine Swayne (words), JMCCV (voc), Bart Maris (tp), Ulrich Krieger (sax), Thomas Otto (tricks), Pierre Chevalier (keys), Olaf Koep (dr), Onnen Bock (fxs), Johannes Huth (db), jhp (ac guit) … plus all last-minute surprise guests.

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Radio Makro _ ANNEX

Radio Makro is a DIY online radio station from Makroscope in Mülheim an der Ruhr — a platform for independent music culture, scene exchange, and creative media use. More than 40 event organisers, artists, and music enthusiasts now use the station to make their work audible through hosted shows, tell stories, and share personal recommendations — no algorithm, no format radio, no commercial pressure.

What emerges is a living archive of musical adventures: diverse, experimentally minded, and driven by people who don't just consume music but actively shape it.

Radio Makro connects scene participants, makes local and cross-regional underground structures more visible, and opens up spaces for new collaborations and the unexpected.

At the Avantgarde Festival this year, Radio Makro will be broadcasting the ANNEX Stage.

www.makroscope.de/radio https://www.mixcloud.com/Radio_Makro/ https://www.instagram.com/radiomakro/

photo credit: courtesy of the artists

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Peter Blegvad

Peter Blegvad has spent a lifetime doing what very few artists dare: refusing to stay in one place. He arrived via avantgarde rock, detoured through cabaret and prog, and somehow ended up drawing philosophy in four panels for a Sunday newspaper. His songs are too literate to be pop, his comics too musical to be merely visual, his writing too playful to be taken lightly — and too serious to be dismissed as play.

This exhibition — titled Hum/-or/-an because with Blegvad the human and the humorous are not two things but one thing seen from two angles simultaneously — brings together the full, gloriously unclassifiable range of his work: music, books, drawings, paintings, poetry, and the odd things that live between those words. It is an attempt to hold the whole thing up to the light and see what it does.

What it does depends on who is looking.
The Avantgarde Festival is proud to welcome an artist who has been part of its spirit long before this moment — curious, rigorous, funny, and genuinely strange in the best possible sense.
Come with an open mind. Come with your eyes.

https://rermegacorp2023.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/peterblegvad/

photo credit: courtesy of the artists

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Workshop by the Growlers Choir

Led by ensemble director Pierre-Luc Senécal, along with five growlers from the Growlers Choir, this session begins with a brief overview of Senécal’s approach to composition for the choir, as well as demonstrations of different growl techniques, both by the singers as soloists and as an ensemble. Senécal and the growlers will lead a participatory sound-painting exercise with workshop participants, and the audience will be invited to take part actively in a fun and safe way. The session will culminate in a short unplugged performance of INSIDE THE ROAR.

Disclaimer: this is not a workshop to learn how to growl.

https://growlerschoir.bandcamp.com/

photo credit: courtesy of the artists

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Dachdeckende Randgruppe

The Dachdeckende Randgruppe is a DIY performance collective from Dortmund dedicated to naive and low-barrier (performance) art, noise, music, and general mischief. Formed out of the feeling that contemporary art is often presented in such a lofty and elitist way. DDR is not into that — and happy to take the piss out of it.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Radio_Makro/die-dachdeckende-randgruppe-5112025/

photo credit: courtesy of the artists

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Open Field - a workshop to hold your radical attention

At a festival, attention is constantly pulled, scattered, and redirected. Sound overlaps with sound, bodies move between stages, conversations dissolve into noise, and experiences accumulate faster than they can be processed.

Open Field proposes a temporary shift. It creates a space within the Avantgarde Festival where listening is reactivated as an intentional, embodied practice. As a way of moving through the festival differently. To activate what composer Pauline Oliveros described as radical attention: a listening that is active, relational, and responsive to the complexity of the present moment.

By presenting the workshop as a choir practice, it sets conditions in which listening can be experienced, tested, and performed. Participants are invited to tune into their own listening, to disrupt habitual modes of attention, and to enter a collective process where listening becomes a shared act of making. Through simple prompts, collective exercises, and moments of improvisation, participants move from hearing to listening, and from listening to action.

What emerges is not a predetermined outcome, but a temporary “we”: a collective attentional state that allows for new forms of relation, perception, and creation to appear. A space where silence, noise, speech, and movement coexist. Where many voices can practice their common ground. To slow down their attention without withdrawing from intensity—to stay with what is heard, to notice what shifts, and to consider listening itself as an artistic and social act.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

photo credit: courtesy of the artist

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NATURES DISTURBING MELODIES

a filmscreening by the NNOI

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to stay with what unsettles

https://nnoi.de/

photo credit: courtesy of the artists

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AGF

AGF will perform 2 pieces at this years Avantgarde Festival.

1. about OCCAM VII - for Éliane Radigue
2. Haltung (kannanotto) - stance, position, principle, core strength, perserverance

How to hold ones space, under attack, under compromise, how to create a democratic space, what does it mean to participate? Utilising the "zimmt sound system" as a form of sonic parliament, a social sounding space, where our bodies sound in dissonance, through voicing. listening, feedback and participation, a lucid space of possibility unfolding.

The composition is a reflection on how we can weave communities under collective dissonance on a planet under attack and exploitation combining spacialized sonic weaving and vocalisation into texture-rich field recording stacked textural interspecific sonifications of mycilial tapestries.

derived from collaborative practices such as #sonicwilderness or #soundasgrowing performing as AGF, East German-now Hailuoto based poetess and media artist Antye Greie-Ripatti utilises language, music & explores the quantum within the depths of sound & listening on rec-on.org and @poemproducer

https://antyegreie.com/

photo credit: courtesy of the artist

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Luciana Rizzo

Feedbacks are wild sounds. They can't be fully controlled. They need a margin of risk to exist. That margin has to do with the atmosphere, concentration and being present. There is an interest in taking on that risk. Playing with the edges.

This solo set consists of little bells, jingles, and feedback produced using the drum bodies as resonant membranes. It is an acoustic set aiming to broaden the audience's listening experience.

https://lurizzo.bandcamp.com/album/l-r

photo credit: courtesy of the artist

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Katarzyna Karpowicz

Katarzyna Karpowicz works with koto, expanding its sound world through subtle electronic processing, alternative tunings, extended techniques and close attention to resonance, beating and unstable harmonic relations. Having spent many years in Japan, where she studied the instrument while immersed in both traditional Japanese music and the experimental and noise scenes, she approaches koto not as a fixed historical object but as a living sound body: delicate, precise and open to transformation.

Fascinated by the aesthetics of imperfection and the power of small gestures, she creates deeply personal sound worlds that resist expectation while retaining a sense of elegance. Her work unfolds between restraint and intensity, fragility and noise, drawing the listener into a space where delicate acoustic matter and unstable electronic shadows continuously reshape one another.

https://www.instagram.com/midori.no.kurokami/

photo credit: courtesy of the artist

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Loma Doom

Loma Doom, a true radio veteran and beacon of twisted and mesmerizing sounds. Whether you experience her musical activities or those relating to her contemporary arts practice, curiosity is a key aspect gracing Femke Dekker.
As Loma Doom, her signature style revolves around electronic experimentalism, both for mind and movement, seeking the outliers, one that avoids linearity, towards a space where intuition and understanding meet. Actively incorporating styles predating the computer era, she sources from her fondness for freak folk, psychedelic and hardcore punk.

Using radio and archives as her main media, her current focus is on various notions of listening and how listening is actually a call to action.

https://linktr.ee/lomadoom

photo credit: Jascha Sandles

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Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra

The Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra was founded in Berlin in 2006 — meaning that 2026 marks its 20th anniversary. AMEO — short for Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra — has for many years been one of the most distinctive and idiosyncratic large ensembles on the international music scene. The Berlin-based working ensemble primarily performs compositions by its founder Daniel Glatzel, whose aim from the very beginning has been to redefine musical boundaries, to experiment, and to collectively venture into new sonic territory. The explosive, breathtaking AMEO sound draws from a wide spectrum including jazz, traditional music styles from around the world, avant-garde, independent music, and electronica. In the summer of 2025, the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra was awarded the German Jazz Prize as “Live Act of the Year.”

www.andromedameo.com
www.linktr.ee/andromedameo

photo credit: Arnaud Ele

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HUGGING

Moving between intensity and tenderness, folklore and distortion, Hugging create boundary-pushing heavy music that refuses to sit still. The four-piece blend experimental metal with unexpected textures, cultural references, and influences as diverse as language, food, and—of course—hugs. The result: a sound that is both fierce and deeply human.

Get ready for a different kind of embrace.

https://www.instagram.com/hu66in6/

photo credit: Oyèmi Hessou

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EMBRYO

Embryo is a unique international music collective from Munich that combines Kraut Rock Jazz, free improvisation, European and non-European rhythms and sounds like no other. Embryo has been around since 1969, spanning generations, genres and borders. They have played with Mal Waldron, Okay Temiz, Fela Kuti, Charlie Mariano and many others. Marja Burchard, daughter of founder Christian Burchard, took over the band she grew up with in 2015. Since then, Embryo has continued to thrive with her, always searching for new sounds, rhythms and ideas from those who think differently.

Marja Burchard: vibraphone, vocals, organ, santur; Johannes Schleiermacher: saxophone, synthesizer, flute; Maasl Maier: bass, flute; Jakob Thun: drums

www.embryo.de
www.facebook.de/embryo2000

photo credit: Paul Günter

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MONITA WAGMA

Monita Wagma is a radio broadcaster & DJ. She hosts “Cup of Tea” monthly on 674.FM (Cologne), inviting guests to share their favourite records — and every other month she’s on air with “Maenad Transmission” live from Studio Néau (Eupen, Belgium). Her sets are shaped by interdisciplinary work and a love for music as a living archive: genres blur, contexts shift, and sound becomes a document of the present.

Friday evening she’ll open the dancefloor — dreamy records to ease into the night and the festival.

https://soundcloud.com/monitamusic
https://www.instagram.com/monitawagma/

photo credit: courtesy of the arist

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KOU

KOU is the music project of Apolline Schöser and Thomas Coquelet, since 2020, they're exploring song compositions :
- making concrete music into lullabies,
- playing fluffy guitars with the strings of a rope walker
- drowning jazz and non-jazz voices
- humming flutes with purring synths
- smoking piano stokes
- steeling giallo's cries to make them dance in almost groovy rhythms…

At a time of great deconstruction, one has the feeling of witnessing the birth of the music of a world after.

https://aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/kou
https://koumusik.wordpress.com/

photo credit: courtesy of the artists

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COPENHAGEN CLARINET CHOIR

Founded in 2020, Copenhagen Clarinet Choir is a new music ensemble that takes an egalitarian approach in the way it assembles its players; interdependent parts find an overall shape as organically as a living entity. Much like a choir, the individual voices of the six homogenous instruments are synergized, creating a warm, pulsating body of sound. The result is a profound timbral symbiosis, sculpted by the nuances of the clarinet. .

Carolyn Goodwin, Maria Dybbroe, Henriette Groth, Anders Banke, Jonas Engel, Francesco Bigoni

https://copenhagenclarinetchoir.bandcamp.com/

photo credit: Malthe Ivarsson

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BUNTE LUFT TRIO

Bunte Luft Trio is an improvisation group from Hamburg that focuses on the sonic interactions of Đàn Bầu, baritone saxophone and modular synthesizer. All three instruments have their roots in completely different genres. The musicians use this peculiarity as a springboard to create their characteristic sound. Tam Thi Pham, Jana De Troyer and Jan Wegmann bring their own artistic backgrounds to the table and move through different atmospheres, taking the audience on a journey through interplanetary deserts and microscopic forests.

Jana De Troyer: baritone saxophone;
Tam Thi Pham: Đàn Bầu;
Jan Wegmann: modular synthesiser

https://bunteluft.bandcamp.com/

photo credit: Anas Aboura

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PHYSICAL LISTENING CLUB

Physical Listening Club is a joint music and performance project by Frauke Aulbert and Hanna Eimermacher. In an experimental live installation, they combine beat-based electronic music, voice, loop station, the Zeraphone instrument developed by Eimermacher, as well as light and choreography to create a physically intense listening experience.

The focus is on the development of an experimental sound practice in which rhythm, repetition and physical presence are used as compositional tools. The performance explores listening as an active, dynamic process and deliberately shifts the boundaries of classical concert formats between new music, performance and club aesthetics.

The project will be developed in several phases in 2026, funded by the Musikfond Foundation, and will celebrate its premiere at the Avantgarde Festival.

Frauke Aulbert, Hanna Eimermacher: Vocals, Zeraphone und Electronics

https://www.stimmkuenstlerin.de/ https://soundcloud.com/hannaeimermacher

photo credit: Bülent Akgün

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and other strange songs from the remote planets by - VALLE DÖRING

The base of this unique setup is an over 100 years old pump organ. More than 25 microphones are placed within the instrument which pick up the different registers as well as some mechanical parts such as the air pump and its coil. These signals go into a conventional mixing desk which feeds several serial and parallel effect pedals.

Further mechanic modifications allow to use the right kneelever as a CV expression pedal to change assigned effect parameters in real time. All sound manipulations are created live within this setup - no further means needed. Being an electro-acoustic cyborg the instrument has a wide range of sounds from authentic harmonium over enhanced space organ sounds up to abstract sounddesign and pure noise. The instrument and its music intertwine these different aesthetics and sound qualities in mutual and organic ways creating a unique world of sound.

https://www.valledoering.de/

photo credit: Roy