KOLORIT Soundkollektiv

On November 29, 2025, KOLORIT returned with a new chapter of its concert series "Am I remembering it or am I reconstructing it?", turning Schleuse Zwei into a space where sound becomes reflection. This time, the question was no longer just what we remember — but how memory takes shape when we listen.

Inspired by ideas from philosophy and psychology, the concert series explores memory as something fluid and alive. A constant negotiation between what stays, what fades, and what transforms. Between echo and silence, recollection and invention, music becomes a way to sense what usually remains hidden.

LINE UP:

Kuoppamäki & Herbst
Multipolar
Phasenmensch & Antoine Saint-Martin
Eyal Talmor
Laktose Intolerant (DJ)

November 29, 2025
Schleuse Zwei

Aachener Str. 39, Düsseldorf

© Paul Andermann | KOLORIT

Kuoppamäki & Herbst, photo: © Paul Andermann | KOLORIT

Multipolar, photo: © Paul Andermann | KOLORIT

Phasenmensch & Antoine Saint-Martin, photo: © Paul Andermann | KOLORIT

Eyal Talmor, photo: © Paul Andermann | KOLORIT

Laktose Intolerant, photo: © Paul Andermann | KOLORIT

About the artists:

Kaspar Kuoppamäki, © photo: Valtteri Nevalainen // Fanny Herbst, photo: © Ruben Terlouw

Kaspar Kuoppamäki and Fanny Herbst explore the harp through carefully crafted tunings based on just intonation. Using preparations and live electronics, they expand the instrument’s sonic palette, allowing gestures that balance intuition and precision to evolve into complex textures and immersive harmonic terrains. Their work patiently unfolds as a sonic narrative that invites deep, introspective listening, reflecting on the spaces between presence and decay.

Multipolar is a duo of artists based in Leipzig. Their performances weave together rhythmic tapestries, abstract harmonies, eco-dystopian field recordings and pulsating bass lines, creating an immersive experience that draws the audience into a hypnotic journey. Their moniker, Multipolar, mirrors the complexity of their music, reflecting the myriad influences that fuel their otherworldly compositions.

In this concert, the duo premiere their work Lucid, a four-part semi-narrative piece guided by melancholic voices that recount a fragile socio-biographical journey. Through fractured field recordings, unsettling rhythms and echoes of the past, Lucid confronts the fear of forgetting and the uncertainty of memory. The piece evokes the unease of returning to a place that feels both familiar and distorted, where clarity dissolves into strangeness and remembrance collides with the inevitable process of loss.

Phasenmensch is a German electronic music project founded in 2009 by Wolfram Bange from Düsseldorf. The collaboration between Phasenmensch and guitarist Antoine Saint-Martin is the result of a close friendship, characterized by philosophical exchange and a joint search for sounds.

With A Prenatural Silence, the two artists created a multi-layered concept album in 2022 based on Jeff VanderMeer's novel "Annihilation", a complex and atmospherically dense soundtrack that moves between melancholy, dissolution, and metaphysical unease.
The central motif of the novel, as well as their work, is a reflection on the fractures in our perception: on the fluidity and fragility of our memories and on the deceptively stable self-image.

The pieces on the album take up central passages from the dystopian-seeming novel, but depart from merely illustrating the plot: it is not a matter of retelling the events, but of audibly penetrating the inner states of a protagonist whose boundaries between perception and reality become increasingly blurred in the course of the plot.
The album is an acoustic glimpse into a world that constantly eludes categorization and is therefore both fascinating and frightening in equal measure.

In dealing with themes such as identity, nature, transformation, and the relationship between humans and the environment, which are central aspects of the novel, a soundscape emerges that can be both threatening and comforting. At its core, it is about confronting ourselves and asking the question: Are we really remembering, or are we just reconstructing?

Eyal Talmor is an experimental musician dealing with unusual behaviors of electronics and sound. His improvisational performances centre around a synthesizer that, when connected to a normal functioning machine, becomes unintentionally influenced by corrupted MIDI data sent back and forth, causing it to operate beyond its planned capabilities.
While dealing with the chaotic nature of the involved machines and the live setting in real-time, Talmor's setup allows him to reach sounds that would be otherwise impossible. The described method makes every performance unique and unrepeatable, allowing the musician to research stress conditions, chaos, the physicality and behaviors of new sounds and their influence on the listener.

Laktose Intolerant is a queer communication designer, artist, and DJ from Düsseldorf. Since 2021, Laktose Intolerant has been intensively engaged with electronic music in various contexts—from clubs to exhibitions, podcasts, and listening sessions.

With a genre-fluid approach between 70 and 170 BPM, Laktose Intolerant deconstructs classic club narratives: here, ambient, house, and techno meet influences from (hyper)pop. Instead of committing to fixed contexts, DJing is understood as a performative dialogue in which rigid categories become blurred — a play with moods, breaks, and emotional tension arcs.

For the Kolorit Soundkollektiv, Laktose Intolerant provides the musical framework for the evening, with a focus on atmospheric sound.

Curated by Alexandra Korczak, Jonathan Rösen, Andrea Sigrist, Lea Wolf

FOH: Thorsten Runge

Photos: Paul Andermann

Videos: Valentin Zuckmantel

Poster design: Jan Schmidt Bist

Type: Memoir by Daniel Gremme

Funded by:

Kunst- und Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf
Kulturamt Düsseldorf