silent green Open Lab #1: Nino Dava + Conjunto Desenfreno Tropical

Promoting young talent and revealing artistic processes is a major concern at silent green – and this is precisely what Open Lab is all about. It is deliberately conceived not as a mere showcase, but as a space of opportunity: for entering the public sphere, for encounters, for resonance, and for further development.



Both solo acts and ensembles/bands from Berlin were eligible to apply. Their approaches demonstrate not only individual artistic expression but also a desire to explore and transcend genre boundaries – between electronic music, improvisational practice, pop, spoken word, or performance.



Nino Dava


Nino Dava is a Tbilisi-born, Berlin-based composer and sound artist whose practice combines field recordings, noise, electroacoustic composition, and site-specific sound installations. In her work, she explores the intersections of sound, public spaces, memory, and noise as a performative practice. In her latest works, Dava shapes heavy drone sounds, synthetic vocals, and prepared accordion. By incorporating choral folk music scales into an unpredictable sonic turbulence, the performer addresses noise as both a political construct and a means of expanding listening—in a quite aggressive way.

Nino Dava presents Mosquitos, Fireflies—a four-channel live noise performance (partly improvised, partly composed) based on electromagnetic resonance, FM distortion, accordion amplification, and vocal processing.



Conjunto Desenfreno Tropical

With their musical and interdisciplinary performance, Conjunto Desenfreno Tropical embarks on a search for the lost spirit of the festival and its sonic manifestations: an anthropophagic exploration and experimental approach rooted in tropical and Latin American music, drawing on "modern" musical influences such as contemporary jazz, electronic music, and psychedelic rock to enable an encounter with a diffuse origin.

• Tuesday, August 19
  
• Silent Green Kuppelhalle
  
• 8 p.m.
  
• Free admission
  

The project is funded by the State of Berlin's program for the preservation and development of cultural infrastructure in the districts (District Cultural Fund).