Prelude 1 - Oneohtrix Point Never with Freeka Tet

PRELUDE 1 · SUNDAY 10 MAY · KRAFTWERK BERLIN

Oneohtrix Point Never with Freeka Tet present Tranquilizer
Piotr Kurek

Daniel Lopatin performs the Berlin show of the Tranquilizer live project, a new stage presentation developed with multidisciplinary artist Freeka Tet. Lopatin's eleventh album, released on Warp Records in late 2025, is widely recognised as one of his most emotionally direct records: collage-based composition refined to a luminous, unsettling clarity, sifting through the residue of digital memory and conjuring something that feels both familiar and displaced. The live show translates that intricate sonic architecture into a fully immersive visual environment, extending Lopatin's long-running exploration of the space between sound, technology and digital surrealism. Whether as musician, composer or film scorer, his ongoing collaboration with the Safdie Brothers now spanning two decades, Oneohtrix Point Never remains one of the most restlessly inventive figures working in electronic music.

Polish composer Piotr Kurek opens the night with The Meeting, a new live project centered on an early digital piano and a deliberately limited harmonic language. The work unfolds as a minimal, instrumental piece positioned between a late-night lounge concert and an installation, with stage design and visuals by Fabien Lédé. The project was awarded an Honorable Mention at the Giga-Hertz Award 2023.

This is the first of three prelude concerts at Kraftwerk Berlin leading into The Infinite Now, the first formal collaboration between Berlin Atonal and Unsound. Each prelude presents a single focused bill as an independent proposition. The thirty-hour continuous programme begins at Kraftwerk Berlin on Saturday 16 May and runs without interruption until Sunday 17 May.

Line-up: Oneohtrix Point Never, Freeka Tet

Arrangör: Berlin Atonal