Mapping Sounds in Exile // Festival - Day 3

Patterns of Nostalgia
How do we relate to our memories and the feelings it evokes? How can sound translate personal experiences? In our current climate of separation and fear, the act of listening becomes more and more important, connecting various realities and transmitting experiences and emotions, on an embodied and universal level beyond concepts.
Between the Ukulele, electro-pop and synthesized sounds, Middle Eastern pop culture and rhythmic elements harmonics merge and dissolve, forging feelings of belonging and melancholia.

Iran: Hanik Soleimani (Electro-Pop Set) 8.00 pm
Belarus: Sasha Smirnova (Sound Performance Shared Strain) 9.00 pm


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Rap, electronic music compositions and DJing, sound art, multimedia art practices and experimental sounds - the Goethe-Institut in Exile and the Berlin School of Sound present the three-day festival Mapping Sounds in Exile at Kunsthaus ACUD. On October 17, 18 and 27, musicians from Belarus, Iran and Sudan among others invite to concerts, performances and listening sessions. Participating artists are Rami Abi Rafi, Sarah Farina, Falyakon, Zeyo Mann, Sarvenaz Mostofey, Ludmila Pogodina, Sasha Smirnova und Hanik Soleimani.

Although the musicians, who are often affected by the loss of their homeland, come from different parts of the world, they are united in many ways by questions of resistance, migration, (non-)arrival and memory. Music serves them all as a source and point of contact in moments of disorientation. The musicians may have had to leave their contexts of origin, but their musical traditions and conventions survive in the sound reservoir of their own work.

The musicians, most of whom now live in Berlin, supplement their sonic repertoire with the experience of new contexts. Mapping Sounds in Exile therefore not only draws a map of political crisis locations, but above all an atlas of diverse musical traditions that assert and expand themselves beyond borders. The festival aims to showcase the diverse styles and influences of pop musicians who have experienced ruptures and new beginnings. The aim is to strengthen their visibility and promote transnational networking.