Name: Kiezsalon w/ Balladeste, Harry Gorski-Brown and Tristan Perich
Start: 2026-09-11T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-11T23:30:00+02:00
Location: Congregation of the Holy Spirit

$Kiezsalon w\/ Balladeste, Harry Gorski-Brown and Tristan Perich$

This September, the Kiezsalon debuts at the Heilige-Geist-Kirche in Moabit.
About this Event

This September, the Kiezsalon visits Moabit’s gothic Heilige-Geist-Kirche for the first time. Here we present the debut of Glasgow-based bagpipe player Harry Gorski-Brown, London-based string duo Balladeste, and NYC composer Tristan Perich, who will activate the church’s organ.

Based in Glasgow, Harry Gorski-Brown makes music and audiovisual work which often draws from traditional Scottish music, performing using voice, pipes (big and small), fiddle and electronics. His album focused on old Scottish Gaelic songs; Tabs Out said: “The traditional songs make for a rather entrancing drone medley, one that embodies naturalism akin to crystalline ponds after rain showers,” while Rootsworld wrote: “While these are new takes on old songs, they sound deeply rooted in the soil and stone, uncompromising in the way they’re presented.”

The London-based duo of violinist Preetha Narayanan and cellist Tara Franks, Balladeste merge contemporary classical, Indian classical, baroque influences and folk traditions into a rich, contemplative blend of texture and melody—ancient yet modern, devotional yet boldly experimental. Following their 2021 album , rated by KLOF as “an extraordinary and beautiful listening experience,” the duo’s 2023 release Conversations in Ritual captured fully improvised live performances, including the track “Rain Shimmer,” which KLOF praised for its “ethereal quality” and “tantalising harmonic effects.”

New Yorker Tristan Perich's work is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of maths, physics and code, using barebones computing to create what The Wire calls “gorgeous music through elementary additive processes, where the basic individual channels merge in sublime collective tides.” His 2004 release 1-Bit Music was the first album ever issued as a microchip, programmed to synthesise his composition live. His 2010 follow-up, , was called "sublime" by New York Press and the Wall Street Journal said: "Its oscillations have an intense, hypnotic force and a surprising emotional depth."

The Kiezsalon is a project by Digital in Berlin. Curated by Michael Rosen and funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Presented by The Wire and taz, die tageszeitung.