In the organizer's words:

With their publishing project for acoustic poetic experiments,Andreas Bülhoff and Marc Matter invite you to an evening with Tabea Nixdorff, Monique Ulrich and Mathias Traxler for the first time. Be there live when experimental audio pieces are created in a mixture of radio, podcast, reading, performance, dappening and language-based DJ set.

For this edition, ULRICH NIXDORFF present their latest project - SOUNDING OUT (READING PARATEXTS) - in which they draw on paratexts (texts that stand alongside the actual body of the text, such as dedications or footnotes) that they find in libraries and archives. These places themselves add a paratextual level: how did the found collections come about and what brought the artist duo there? The reading performance SOUNDING OUT (READING PARATEXTS) explores the 'beside' of paratexts as a place and listens to them as evidence of the many steps and collective efforts involved in the creation of a book. Celebrate the release of her cassette with us this evening!

In HERVORHEBUNGEN (ACCENTS) Mathias Traxler moves in a field of gaps, caesuras, feeds and vocal improvisations. Silence and words enter the room almost simultaneously. Similar to a concert, when you think in retrospect that it is still going on, moments are shaped into the creative. A cassette by Mathias will soon be released by Spoken Matter.

The evening will be rounded off with the performance AGAIN AS by Andreas Bülhoff and Marc Matter, in which individual words are looped on turntables in such a way that the linguistic tilt into the musical through rhythmic repetitions and distortions.

Monique Ulrich and Tabea Nixdorff have been working together as the artist duo ULRICH NIXDORF since 2018 and have since given performative readings, including at diffrakt (Berlin), the Swiss Literary Archives (Bern) and the Andreas Züst Library (Alpenhof, Oberegg), where they were artists in residence in 2022. SOUNDING OUT (READING PARATEXTS) is published as an audio cassette by Spoken Matter.

Mathias Traxler is a writer and translator based in Berlin. His literary work operates at the interface between poetry and music, poetry recitation and translation. Of particular importance in his work are readings that incorporate text-generating, interpretative and improvisational elements.

Andreas Bülhoff conducts artistic and academic research into text and technologies. He is co-founder of the Library of Artistic Print on Demand and hosts the event series Tab Talks. Together with Marc Matter, he runs the label for experimental language art Spoken Matter and publishes post-digital books under sync edition.

Marc Matter works as an artist and researcher between text, sound and music. He is part of the Institut für Feinmotorik. Together with Andreas Bülhoff he runs the Spoken Matter publishing project.

SPOKEN MATTER is a publishing project for spoken art and acoustic texts.

The work on this format was funded by the German Literature Fund.