transmediale and CTM continue their collaboration with the evening programme Transhemispheric Resonances.

In this two-part concert, Nursalim Yadi Anugerah and Vica Pacheco take the stage separately - yet together they compose a trans-hemispheric conversation across forest soundscapes and time-honored breath-based codes and technologies.

Nursalim Yadi Anugerah invokes the kadedek, the bamboo mouth-organ of West Kalimantan, Borneo, whose layered breaths carry forest memory, echo·logical fragility, communal ritual, and the imaginative infra·structures of everyday life. In Lawing, he extends the kadedek’s time-honored voice through air-powered modulation, shaping an acoustic field where land, displacement, and resilience resonate closely together. Through a simultaneous, hypnotic, drone-based approach, the performance brings together humans, instruments, and machines to explore the spectral properties of sound and their relationships across different scales of multiplicity and everyday violence, reflecting the social and environmental challenges in Kalimantan. Lawing blends and synthesizes traditional sounds with technological “otherness” to create works that evoke questions of exploitation, suffering, and the tensions between nature and machines.

Vica Pacheco’s practice is rooted in experimental music and composition, working syncretically with ceramic instruments and hybrid sonic devices. In Animacy or A Breath Manifest, Vica Pacheco bridges the realms of animism, ritual, and technology through an evocative sound performance. Drawing inspiration from pre-Columbian Mesoamerican whistling vessels – ceramic instruments that produce sound using air and water – Vica has developed a series of hydraulic ceramic sculptures that serve as both sonic and sculptural works. These pieces explore themes of breath, organicity, and the interplay between ancient and contemporary technologies. Her work proposes that if everything is alive, then dialogue must move beyond words into affect, vibration, and breath.

Though they perform separately, Vica Pacheco and Nursalim Yadi Anugerah compose a reciprocal field of listening and echoing: clay vessels answering bamboo reeds, ritual meeting ritual, myth touching forest. Their sonic offerings converge into an exploration of how sound becomes protocol, orientation and re·attunement - how listening might serve as a form of healing, compassing, and multi world-making across distance and difference.

Doors open 20:00.

This event is included with the transmediale Festival pass and the Connect pass , but not with the Day pass or the CTM pass. Individual event tickets are also available separately.