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Hearing, embracing and celebrating differences: four musical traditions, four biographies in a first-time musical encounter. The FUTURE NOW Ensemble &ñịoن explores what happens when different musical upbringings challenge and contradict one another. Through a collaborative creative process involving misunderstandings, unexpected common ground and the gentle unlearning of habits, a composition emerges which will be performed for the first time at FUTURE NOW Musical Diaries.


The ensemble consists of Berlin-based musicians working across disciplines. The Argentinian composer and sound artist Joaquín Macedo is dedicated to experimental music and collaboration with performers. For Laris / Lara Bäucker, the search for a connection with the audience is at the heart of their musical practice – through voice, performance and composition. As a composer, sound engineer and video artist, Vinh Tran, a Berliner with Vietnamese roots, works across an analogue-digital continuum. He modifies guitars with acoustic distortion devices, plays algorithmically derived patterns on the piano or uses the laptop as an instrument. Hatem Hamdy, born and raised in Cairo, combines Arab and Western traditions, drawing equally on his perspectives as an engineer and composer.


The result of this multifaceted encounter? No one is here representing a particular culture. Instead, music emerges from a shared process: not four individuals working side-by-side, but a shared collaboration that allows everyone to shine.