Sound in the Garden 2026, Day 2 (Dopplereffekt, Space Afrika)

Soundscapes in the Garden
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Thursday, 13. August 2026
Space Afrika (DJ Set)
Dopplereffekt (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.


Drawing from Afrofuturism as well as the cellular grooves of biology and physics, Dopplereffekt’s icy dystopian synth lines spin out a hypnotic high-concept universe of Blade Runneresque ennui and energy. The blueprints of Detroit electro mutate into a calculated alien funk, sterile drum machine patterns and uneasy synthesizer melodies mapping out computerized futures.

It’s a universe perfectly in key with the rain-slick industrial textures and slow-shifting atmospheric collages of Manchester duo Space Afrika. Unspooling a special DJ set, their soot-stained melodies are built from muffled urban field recordings; operating like audio documentarians, deep dub basslines trap the ghosts of the city within dense layers of reverb and industrial static: soundtracks for walking alone through decaying concrete necropoli.