DISTORTIONS: SPLICE II

DISTORTIONS: SPLICE II (postcard) with text: “improvised music + moving images / DISTORTIONS: SPLICE II / Carina Khorkhordina / Camila Nebbia / Han-earl Park / Sara Neidorf / Yorgos Dimitriadis / 14.11.2025 / 15.11.2025 / Morphine Raum, Berlin”
Image © 2025 Camila Nebbia. Design © 2025 Han-earl Park.

This November (Friday, 14th, and Saturday, 15th): Two evenings of improvised music and moving images with new works by Carina Khorkhordina, Camila Nebbia, and Han-earl Park, with Sara Neidorf and Yorgos Dimitriadis. The events will take place at Morphine Raum (Köpenicker Str. 147, 10997 Berlin).

See the performance diary for up-to-date info.

about the artists

Camera shooting Sara Neidorf sitting at drumkit
Behind-the-scenes. © 2025 Han-earl Park.

Carina Khorkhordina (b. 1991) is a trumpet player, composer, photographer, video-maker, and interdisciplinary artist from Kaliningrad, Russia, and living in Berlin since 2014. Aside from developing her music on the trumpet and playing concerts she is working on a series of site-specific performances in the public space of Berlin and other places in collaboration with different musicians, presented as short films and bringing together her interest in urban space, sonic possibilities of the trumpet, field recordings and video documentation.

She has been performing in the context of improvised and experimental music since 2017. The active groups include the duo with Eric Bauer, Slurge (with Eric Bauer, Burkhard Beins, Wolfgang Seidel), Klub Demboh, the duo with Axel Dörner and the trio with Eric Bauer and Lena Czerniawska, as well as a variety of ongoing collaborations.

Since 2020 she has been working on a series of site-specific compositions in Berlin’s public space together with various musicians, presented in the form of short films focusing on individual trumpet sound and musical language in the context of urban space, as well as field recordings and video. She is also an artist who works with photography. Between 2016 and 2020 she was a student of various photography programs at FotoDepartament Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia. Between 2009 and 2020 she participated in several photographic and interdisciplinary exhibitions.

Camila Nebbia is a saxophone player, composer, improviser, visual artist, curator and educator debasing hierarchical systems by exploring migrational counterpoints through multiple, but minimally separated, mediums. From Buenos Aires, Argentina, based in Berlin, Germany, the multidisciplinary artist layers her practice through the creation and destruction of archival memory. Has released as a band leader and solo performer ‘A veces la luz de lo que existe resplandece solamente a la distancia’ (Kuai 2017), ‘De este lado’ (Club del disco 2019), Aura (ears&eyes records 2020), ‘Corre el río de la memoria’ (ramble records 2021), ‘Presencias’ (Sound Holes 2021), ‘Una ofrenda a la ausencia’ (Relative Pitch Records 2023), ‘La permanencia de los ecos’ (577 Records 2023). Played and recorded with many artists of the international scene such as Valentin Garvie, El devenir del río, Burka, Paula Shocron, Barbara Togander, Patrick Shiroishi, Paul Pignon, Vinnie Sperrazza, Katt Hernandez, Kenneth Jimenez, Lesley Mok, Violeta García, Axel Filip, Susana Santos Silva, Tom Rainey, Elsa Bergman, l’ Arfi collective of Lyon, Joanna Mattrey, Micheal Formaneck, Vincent Drombowski’s Flow regulator, Sofia Borges, John Hughes, among others. Co-creator and curator of the collective interdisciplinary group and improvised music series ‘La Jaula se ha vuelto pájaro y se ha volado,’ the interdisciplinary festival Guillotina Fest and creator and curator of the streaming concert series called ‘A door in the mountain.’ Runs the concert series and independent label ‘Disfigured Rivers’ based in Berlin. Participated of many festivals around the world such as Winter Jazz Fest NYC co-presented with M3 (U.S), Buenos Aires Jazz Festival (ARG), Lima Jazz Festival (PE), Diskurs Festival (DE), Ultima Oslo (NO), among others, and has assisted to several residencies such as, ART OMI (NYC), SIM (NYC) Jazz & Creative Music dictated by Tyshawn Sorey and Vijay Iyer (CA), Konvent Zero (ES) UNCOOL (CH), Ensemble Evolution (US), CirkusVranen (SE), CCK with Tim Berne, Marilyn Crispell & Ben Goldberg (AR), among others.

Shifting and switching from No Wave skronk to interstellar guitarist-as-drummer virtuosity, from stampedes of miniature Pomeranian Buffalos to All-You-Zombies heterophonies, Han-earl Park (박한얼) has been performing beautifully messy, joyously difficult, ambiguous and discordant improvised musics for over twenty years.

Park is drawn to the noisy poetry of interactive play; its pleasurable complexities, and joyous discords. He has become increasingly fascinated by the possibilities of refracting the improvisative through narrative tropes and forms, sometimes transposing techniques from fiction and cinema. He seeks musics that are ‘inconvenient,’ that resist easy resolution, and seeks practices that, despite understanding that connection is, in a way, unknowable, take seriously consent, affinity, agency, trust and compassion.

Park is the mastermind behind ensembles including Eris 136199 with Catherine Sikora and Nick Didkovsky, Juno 3 with Lara Jones and Pat Thomas, and Gonggong 225088 with Yorgos Dimitriadis and Camila Nebbia. Park also performs as part of a duo with Richard Barrett, and as part of Thoughts of Trio’s dark extemporizations, the avant-disco of QLH, and The Names’ hyper-lyricism. He has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Dunmall, Pauline Oliveros, Charles Hayward, Mark Sanders, Lol Coxhill, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Evan Parker, Ingrid Laubrock, Josh Sinton and Franziska Schroeder. His constructions and compositions include ‘Bandwidth,’ a videographic work for improvisation; the online #lockdownminiature series; the machine improviser io 0.0.1 beta++; and Metis 9, a playbook of improvisative tactics.

His ensembles have appeared at festivals including Jazz em Agosto (Lisbon), EFG London Jazz Festival, Brilliant Corners (Belfast), Freedom of the City (London), ISIM (New York), dialogues festival (Edinburgh) and Sonic Acts (Amsterdam). Park’s recordings have been released by labels including NEWJAiM, Waveform Alphabet, Ramble Records, SLAM Productions, Creative Sources and DUNS Limited Edition.

Sara Neidorf (they/them, b. 1990, Philadelphia) is a Berlin-based drummer and film curator. Neidorf drums in the genre-expansive, heavy bands Mellowdeath, Mad Kate | The Tide, Soporose, and Sarattma. As a session musician, they’ve recorded and toured internationally with such artists as The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Peaches, and Sometimes With Others, and have also drummed for theater and dance productions at the Volksbühne, Berliner Ensemble, Sophiensaele, Radialsystem, and at festivals such as Berlin Atonal, Tanztage, 3hd, and Grauzone. As an instructor, Neidorf has focussed their teaching efforts on women, queer, and non-binary students and has formerly taught at organizations as varied as BIMM University Berlin and Girls Rock Philly. When not drumming, Neidorf co-directs Final Girls Berlin Film Fest, which showcases horror made by women and NB filmmakers.

Yorgos Dimitriadis, born 1964 in Thessaloniki Greece, is an experimental musician, composer performer based in Berlin. Using percussion, microphones, field recordings and minimal electronics his music focuses on real time sonic landscapes, with an emphasis on timbre, sound color and long durations. Current projects include: KOPFKINO (solo for drums & microphones), Duos with Achim Kaufmann, Ignaz Schick, Andrea Parkins, Michael Thieke, Floros Floridis, DYET with Erato Tzavara (video), Trios GLUE (w/Tom Arthurs, Miles Perkin), GRIX (w/Antonis Anissegos, Floros Floridis), KERN (w/ Edith Steyer, Matthias Müller), FABRIC (w/Frank Paul Schubert, Mike Majkowski), BeingFive (w/ Andrea Parkins/Axel Dörner/Lori Freedman/Christopher Williams). He has performed/recorded as a soloist and in collaboration with an array of renowned international artists like Audrey Chen, Paul Dunmall, Tristan Honsinger, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Matthias Bauer, Frank Gratkowski, Lori Freedman, Michel Doneda, Amir ElSaffar, Tobias Delius, Marc Turner, Hilary Jeffery, Robin Hayward, Oguz Büyükberber, Meinrad Kneer, Silke Eberhard, Berlin Improvisers Orchestra (BerIO) and many more. Festival appearances include FIMAV Quebec, Jazzfest Berlin, Jazzdor Berlin/Strasbourg, Enjoy Jazz, Onassis Cultural Center Athens, Nice Jazz Festival, Theatre de la Bastille, Paleo Festival Nyon, Jazz and More Festival Sibiou, Konstanzer Jazzherbst, Soundance Festival, Berlin Solo Impro, Moving Silence Nicosia and others. Yorgos Dimitriadis has released records with Relative Pitch, Jazzwerkstatt, NoBusiness, Creative Sources, FMR, Trouble In The East and Evil Rabbit labels.

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