Over three evenings in July, the Kiezsalon inhabits the Akademie der Künste, moving between the subterranean bunker and rooftop terrace overlooking the Brandenburg Gate. On Saturday, 18 July, we present San Francisco ambient producer Cahl Sel and the premiere of a collaboration between Limpe Fuchs & Grischa Lichtenberger. The program begins on Thursday with Francesca Marongiu and Peder Simonsen, followed by Elif Gülin Soğuksu and Sarah Neufeld on Friday.
Percussionist Limpe Fuchs has been one of the most imaginative sound artists on the international experimental music scene for decades. Her extraordinary sound installations and self-built instruments use materials such as bronze, granite and hardwood, demonstrating a rare sensitivity for surprising interactions and spontaneous sonic development. Reviewing Dessogia/Queetch/Fauch, her 2024 triple album collaboration with Mark Fell, The Wire said: “Limpe Fuchs has consistently embraced open-ended, free-flowing sounds.”
Since his emergence on Raster-Noton, Grischa Lichtenberger has carved a singular path through digital music, rendering technological debris into delicate latticeworks of sound. His music exists at the uneasy intersection of abstraction and tactility, bristling with the erratic energy of a hard drive on the verge of collapse.
Beneath the digital brutalism, there’s a sensitivity to decay and the fragility of memory encoded in corrupted data streams. Scene Point Blank called his 2023 album Works for Last Work: “a work of boundless imagination and true feeling.” At the Kiezsalon, Limpe Fuchs and Grischa Lichtenberger will premiere their first collaborative piece.
Cahl Sel is the alias of Jasper Sharp, a producer and DJ based out of San Francisco. He is the son of Jonah Sharp (Spacetime Continuum) and has released two EPs and his 2025 debut album, Traces, on his family’s label, Reflective Records. Traces appeared on Phonica Records’ Best of 2025: Albums and Pitchfork’s 30 Best Electronic Albums of 2025 lists; the latter noted that it “sounds like a lost ambient-techno classic from the ’90s”. This summer marks his European debut, performing live on his hardware rig for the first time outside the US.
Located directly next to the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin, the Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz is home to art presentations, documentary exhibitions, temporary installations, performances and more. At the Kiezsalon, you’re invited to move between the very top and bottom of the building — watching concerts in the bunkers and enjoying DJ sets on the rooftop terrace.
