What better place to begin a festival examining futurity than a bell tower, that traditional demarcator of time. Before the invention of the mechanic clock, it was bell towers that manifested a concept of shared, public time. Pioneering musician Charlemagne Palestine will therefore launch transmediale.10 by ringing the bells of one of the world’s largest and most distinctive instruments – the Tiergarten Carillon, next to the HKW.

With this first set at the Café Stage, which is all about the strangeness of futurity, we get a taste of experimental sound art and music courtesy of Benjamin Laurent Aman. This is music that captures the senses by losing them!

A night of performance and music examining China as one of the motifs of FUTURITY NOW!. Featuring three artists who represent a new wave of Chinese practitioners working beyond the constraints of social, political or geographical identity; Feng Mengbo, FM3_Zhang (Zhang Jian) and aaajiao (Xu Wenkai).