Reethaus

24/05/2024

There are still limited tickets available for this Sunday’s Open Haus featuring the first public listening experience of “Behind Her Name Chestnuts Fall Forever” by the Danish sound artist and producer Sofie Birch. We’re expecting beautiful weather, perfect for exploring the riverside just beyond the Reethaus terrace.

Built upon a series of improvisations from the same morning, the piece is arranged and played without tempo and grid. Birch set a close mic on a piano with a stereo setup of two Røde NT5, and in the same room set up an old B&O ribbon microphone, allowing a very dusty and noisy mono sound to weave in and out of the composition, and recording the synths and vocals later in her Copenhagen studio.

As always, the Open Haus is free when you pre-register at the link in our bio.

02/04/2024

At this Thursday’s Listening Experience, the Reethaus presents a new arrangement of the original score to .jarmusch’s classic film “Only Lovers Left Alive.”

In “Only Lovers Left Alive,” two vampires, both centuries old, drift through the romantically desolate cities of Tangier and Detroit keeping Weltschmerz and boredom at arm’s length only by piles of books, rare guitars and each other. This sentiment echoes that of Jarmusch himself, who once said: “When I get depressed I think of all the music I haven’t even heard yet!’ So, it’s the one thing. Imagine the world without music.”

19/03/2024

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19/03/2024

On Thursday, April 4 we’re thrilled to announce that the iconic film director Jim Jarmusch, will present a new site-specific arrangement of his original score to the 2013 classic, “Only Lovers Left Alive,” on the 360-degree sound system of the Reethaus.

Largely a collaboration between Jarmusch’s “marginal rock band” SQÜRL and the Dutch minimalist musician Josef van Wissem, the score also features Zola Jesus, Yasmin Hamdan and Madeline Follin (of Cults), combining psychedelic fuzz, feedback rock and neo-classic lute for a dark, slow soundscape, at once modern and ancient, that bridges the distinct textures of Detroit and Tangier.

Part of the “Transmissions” series curated by Soundwalk Collective, the 45-minute listening experience will be followed by a conversation between Jarmusch and Stephan Crasneanscki of Soundwalk Collective.

A limited number of tickets are available at the link in our bio.

Portrait by Sarah Driver.

21/12/2023

As we close on a beautiful opening season at the Reethaus, we wanted to ask you to save the date for January 21 when we launch our 2024 program with a special 10-hour Open Haus featuring a 1986 recording of the Gyuto Monks Ta***ic Choir produced by Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead.

“They will rattle your bones”, Hart said about the choir, whose chanting was never heard outside the context of their temples until after the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1959, when the order fled to India. At that point, their prayers became political, expressive of the Tibetan resistance, and a spiritual rallying cry for repressed peoples. “Close your eyes, leave behind your prejudices,” Hart said, “After an hour of their sound, you’ll be different, cleaner, lighter.”

Curated by , the Open Haus is free when you pre-register, which you can do at the link in our bio.

14/12/2023

Introducing the expert team whose thoughtful curation of food and drink is at the at the core of the holistic experience at the Reethaus.

First, we welcome Flora Hohmann as Executive Head Chef. Coming to the Reethaus from Alois Lageder Paradei in Südtirol, Flora has worked for many years at the nexus between agriculture and gastronomy, sourcing regional products with an eye toward developing new locally-inspired menus. Second is Hatim Zubair, our Food & Beverage Director, who joins us from internationally renowned Fäviken in Sweden. Lastly, we welcome our Bar Operations Manager Joe-Lewis White and Beverage Manager Noureddine Elmoussaoui. The duo curate our custom beverage offerings for each program the Reethaus, from excellent wine lists to non-alcoholic elixirs supporting health, energy and wellness.

23/11/2023

On Saturday evening, we dove into the rich world of Carnatic music with Crystal Winds. Their contemporary rendition of the ancient Indian classic genre, inspired by Hindu scripture, enveloped the inner room of the Reethaus in complex, layered melodies. Afterwards, audience members got a closer look at the glass rods of the Crystal Baschet, a chromatically tuned instrument invented in 1953 and played by only a few musicians around the world. Immense thanks to and of Crystal Winds for the mesmerizing performance, and to our guest curators Alain Weber and Alexandra de Cadaval who joined the duo for a thoughtful conversation on preserving the Carnatic tradition.

17/11/2023

“At the center of the building is a bunkerlike 1,300-square-foot room with asymmetrical walls, its trapezoidal ceiling embedded with a 360-degree sound system. A dramatic skylight gives the space the feel of an observatory or one of the artist James Turrell’s contemplative Skyspace installations.”

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08/11/2023

Next Saturday, Crystal Winds will kick off our ongoing exploration of traditional and sacred musical forms at the Reethaus. The renowned duo are masters of Carnatic music, one of two Indian classical music genres evolving from ancient Hindu texts and traditions.

Crystal Winds consists of a young bansuri flute virtuoso named Flute J. A. Jayant, one of India’s most prominent Carnatic instrumentalists, and Loup Barrow, an expert on Cristal Baschet, a chromatically tuned instrument invented in 1953. After the performance, the duo will be joined in conversation by traditional music curators Alain Weber and Alexandre de Cadaval to discuss preserving intangible music heritage globally and the ancient roots of their musical practice inspired by the Sanskrit verses of the Samaveda.

Limited tickets to the intimate performance are available at our link in bio.

07/11/2023

Lyra Pramuk graced the Reethaus with a stunning site-specific performance last weekend. Auratic, emotional and sensual, Pramuk debuted a new live set accompanied by Jules Reidy on electric guitar and Dylan Kerr on flutes, bells, Shruti box and voice. Afterwards, a creative dialogue with her frequent collaborator, synth virtuoso , explored what inspired her new live experimentation. Dressed in custom , Pramuk embraced the spirit of improvisation, integrating unreleased work and spoken poetry into an immersive performance that closed out the opening season of our ‘Transmissions’ series curated by .

06/11/2023

We believe that a thoughtful culinary experience complements and expands upon the artistic program at the Reethaus.

02/11/2023

Back in September, inaugurated the Reethaus with a site-specific performance exploring sonic frequencies of their liminal dream world on our in-built spatial sound system.

17/10/2023

See you tonight when Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen floods the Reethaus with sounds captured beneath the surface of the Spree River. Limited tickets are still available at the link above.

13/10/2023

This coming Tuesday, Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen performs a 16-channel composition using field recordings gathered from the Spree River, part of her longtime project revealing underwater audio topographies in order to draw attention to urgent ecological issues.

Following the performance, she will join a conversation with American author Daniel Pinchbeck, whose books include "How Soon Is Now?," exploring the idea that the ecological crisis is forcing us to reach the next level of consciousness as a species.

Limited tickets are still available at the link in our bio.

13/10/2023

See you tomorrow for our staging of a seminal minimalist composition, spatialized by for our monastic inner room. And read more about La Monte Young and the New York Hypnotic School on site or at slowness.com.

12/10/2023

A pioneer of minimalism, La Monte Young forged a radical new approach to musical performance. Pictured here are his conceptual instructions to one of his most famous pieces, “Compositions 1960”.

This Saturday, we’re presenting a rare staging of La Monte Young work on our 360-degree spatial sound system in honor of his 88th birthday. The 12-hour listening experience will cycle through several pieces in the composer’s oeuvre, including his seminal work “The Well-Tuned Piano in the Magenta Lights: 87 V 10 6:43:00 PM — 87 V 11 1:07:45 AM NYC."

First conceived in 1964, Young continued absorbing, evolving and expanding the piece for more than two decades until it flourished to its full structure in the 1980s. The keyboard of Young's Bösendorfer was sometimes stained with blood from his wounded fingers after a long performance. The 45-minute recorded version (1964) gradually developed into a continuous 6-hour 25-minute virtuoso live performance in 1987.

A few remaining free tickets to the installation, spatialized by MONOM for our in-built 360-degree sound system, can be found at our link in our bio.

11/10/2023

We’re happy to announce that we’re opening our doors to the public for this Saturday’s listening experience. As a thank you to our community, we’ve decided to make admission free when we host a rare staging of an early composition by drone music pioneer La Monte Young, a central figure in postwar avant-garde music.

Curated by Soundwalk Collective and spatialized by MONOM for our 360-degree in-built sound system, the installation takes place on Young’s 88th birthday in the monastic inner room of the Reethaus.

Reserve a free ticket at the link in our bio.

10/10/2023

Daylight touches the wood-pressed concrete walls that form the inner room of the Reethaus.

04/10/2023

Soundwalk Collective at the launch of their series "Transmissions" at Reethaus, featuring frequent collaborators across their extended body of work, such as Nan Goldin, pictured in the second image with Soundwalk Collective founder Stephan Crasneanski.

This Sunday, “Transmissions” continues with a listening experience that tracks the use of the human voice and operatic techniques in the work of composer and artist Pan Daijing. Including sonic fragments and compositions from across her practice, Reethaus presents arrangements spatialized by in 4DSOUND of works that have never before been experienced outside of the live performances, exhibitions or installations in which they first appeared.

We’re happy to announce that the listening experience will be followed by a conversation between Pan Daijing and Andrea Lissoni, curator of her upcoming solo exhibition at Haus der Kunst in Munich and of the 2019 Tate Modern debut performance of her five-act opera “Tissues.” As ever, food, wine, sake and cocktails will be served over the course of the evening.

02/10/2023

We hope to see you this weekend on the Reethaus terrace, where we gather over the course of the evening for food, wine, sake and cocktails.

Limited tickets for this Sunday's listening experience featuring unreleased music by composer and artist Pan Daijing followed by a talk with Andrea Lissoni, the curator of her upcoming solo exhibition at Haus der Kunst in Munich, are available at the link in our bio.

29/09/2023

Known for her raw storytelling approach melding performance art, music, dance and film, composer and artist Pan Daijing’s multi-sensorial approach to music will come alive at the Reethaus on October 8 when it's spatialized in 4DSOUND by as as part of 's “Transmissions” series.

26/09/2023

20/09/2023

Immerse yourself within the singular aesthetic and acoustic environment of the Reethaus. Performances take place in the inner room of the Reethaus where modular seating - wooden benches, woven tatami mats and cushions - bring audiences in close communion with artists.

This Sunday, you can experience the monastic space yourself during a special evening-long program with acclaimed sonic arts duo . They will be joined in conversation by photographer Nan Goldin () following the first-ever live performance of their score to “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”, the Oscar-nominated documentary about Goldin’s life and activism. Secure remaining tickets at our link in bio.

19/09/2023

Since exhibiting her groundbreaking 1985 photo series, “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” Nan Goldin () has become one of the most eminent and influential photographers of our time. Her autobiographical documentation of New York’s late 1970s and early 1980s downtown avant-garde and post-Stonewall gay subculture would become a benchmark for confessional photography.

Join us this Sunday at when Goldin sits in conversation with Soundwalk Collective founder Stephan Crasneanscki following the first-ever live performance of their score for “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras’s Oscar-nominated documentary film about her life, work and activism.

Limited tickets are still available at the link in our bio.