Acephalic Headspace is a new event series emerging from the orbit of disk rec., Salon des Amateurs and Institut für Feinmotorik, bringing together different musical and social bubbles. For the first installment, they present IFF EXPANDED, a format that connects side projects and guest artists who are methodically, sonically, aesthetically or otherwise related–from experimental to danceable.
Performances can unfold across and throughout the venue, with the audience invited to move among them rather than face a fixed stage. Short live interventions and connections by IFF link the contributions into a continuous flow of sound, image and interaction. Acephalic Headspace thus opens a space for collective listening, improvisation and the expansion of musical form beyond conventional concert formats.
Anna Butter is a Berlin-based DJ and sound artist with a focus on obscure, unconventional sounds and textures. Mixing genres from deconstructed club, post-industrial noise or powerful feminist vocal pieces and leftfield techno, she creates intense journeys that turn the dance floor upside down.
Mina Lord crafts doom-infused electronic music, merging distorted rhythms, ghostly atmospheres, and fractured structures. Rooted in drumming and experimental sound, her style fuses industrial power and broken noise into a seamless, uncompromising wave of sonic darkness.
Don’t DJ is a solo side-project concentrating on polyrhythmic structures between ambient and dance-music, based on one or two prepared turntables that serve as additional sound sources and rhythmic pulse generator.
Marc Matter is involved in different musical projects, is part of Institut für Feinmotorik, was 1/3 of The Durian Brothers, co-runs the Spoken Matter label, and creates word compositions for radio and performance, sometimes as Voiceover, like for this very event. He started DJing in the mid 1990s, and is a resident at Salon des Amateurs (Düsseldorf) since the beginning. After a decade-long hiatus, he re-entries DJing with unbroken curiosity, he now fuses old and new, straight and broken beats, rhythms and noises in his sets.
IFF then Elze (AV live) is an audiovisual extension of IFF’s set-up of prepared turntables that exists since the early 2000s. It includes rotating light sources (e.g. bicycle lights, small flashlights etc.) and surveillance cameras, resulting in an abstract and polyrhythmic audiovisual performance that is based on the same simple principle: prepared turntables.
