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This compilation of Echtzeitmusik Berlin has been assembled and designed to become a companion to the book of the same title published in 2011 by Wolke Verlag, which reflects on a multilayered phenomenon within Berlin’s musical culture, a phenomenon whose influence and meaning has effects that extend far beyond Berlin itself. Having emerged in the open spaces of the city’s east side after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and rooted in a cultural coordinate system made up of squats and free improvisation, punk and New Music, social experimentation and performance art, the Echtzeitmusik scene has passed through an eventful history of musical and social development and matured into a wide spectrum of predominantly experimental forms of music, bordering on fields as varied as noise, electronica, trash pop, free jazz, and contemporary composed music, not to mention performance and sound art.

Not every Echtzeitmusik protagonist has the chance to appear on this compilation which can only represent a temporary excerpt. The organism – a network of individuals in a constant state of flux, in permanent interaction – is living. Echtzeitmusik changes. And also through this compilation.

MIKROTON was founded in 2005 and curated by Kurt Liedwart, Sergey Kolosov and Christian Müller, and shut down in 2025.

MIKROTON recordings. 2005-2025. Experimental. Electronic. Improvised.

Distribution: Fonodroom (NL), Soundohm (IT), Squidco (USA).

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