Sound in the Garden 2026, Day 3 (Guðnadóttir & Slater // Slauson Malone 1)

Soundscapes in the Garden
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Friday, 14. August 2026
Hildur Guðnadóttir & Sam Slater (LIVE)
Slauson Malone 1 (LIVE)
Doors: 6.30 pm

In August 2026, Berlins Neue Nationalgalerie once again presents the open-air concert series Soundscapes in the Garden, featuring ambi-tious live concerts specially customised to this venue, featuring a highly diverse line-up of renowned musicians from various genres. After five nights of live concerts, Sunday will be dedicated to special sound installations created in honour of the Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya, who is presenting a site-specific fog sculpture in the sculp-ture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie.

Oscar and Grammy-winning cellist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir is known for her terrifyingly heavy television and film scores such as Chernobyl and Joker, extreme minimalism and suffocating tectonic design manipulated to generate an overwhelming sense of cosmic terror. British sound designer and music producer Sam Slater won that Chernobyl Grammy right alongside Guðnadóttir. His murky electronic productions manipulate acoustic instruments and field recordings until they burst and bloom into metallic nightmares: the sound of the failing machinery running this world.

Slauson Malone inhales the anxieties of modern life and horks them out as frenzied collages. Shifting abruptly between fractured jazz loops and lofi punk spasms, brief flashes of soulful vocals and melody are violently cut off with roaring guitar, snippets of spoken word or other hyperactive ADD effluvia. Existing within the same logic of a fast-paced unpredictable variety show, his cut-and-paste performances drip and fizzle with syrupy existential dread and political frustration - an insidiously delectable genre-fluid counterweight to the harrowing that precedes it.

Line-up: Hildur Guðnadóttir

Arrangör: CTM Festival, FREUNDE der Nationalgalerie e.V.