For the Thursday–Sunday stretch of October 29 through November 1, the sharpest electronic-music route begins with two concentrated nights inside the Berghain / Panorama Bar complex. Sound Metaphors Festival’s October 29 and 30 programmes put live performance at the centre, joining artists whose work treats electronic sound as a physical material: sustained tones, programmed rhythm, detailed timbre and pressure from the sound system. The festival describes its three-day scope in terms of techno, ambient, dub, live electronics, experimental and leftfield music; these two upcoming evenings offer a useful way into that broad field without turning the weekend into a scattershot club crawl.[1][2]

Thursday: Alessandro Cortini and the patient shape of sound

Thursday, October 29, begins at 7:00 PM with Alessandro Cortini Live at Berghain. Cortini’s solo catalogue on Mute is built from dark ambience, pulsing rhythm and dense, restrained textures, a vocabulary that makes this a strong opening point for listeners drawn to electronics with room around every gesture. Mute also traces a prolific solo path through releases on its own label, Hospital and Important Records, alongside collaborations with Lawrence English, Daniel Avery and Merzbow. That history gives the evening a clear sense of an artist moving between private, textural composition and wider experimental-electronic exchange. He arrives alongside Grand River, Jonathan Fitoussi and ASIA, giving the bill a shared focus on live authorship across distinct electronic practices. This is a concert-format evening inside a venue usually associated with marathon club time, so arrive with ears prepared for scale, detail and transitions between individual live sets.[1][3]

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Friday: Mark Fell inside a wider rhythmic field

Friday, October 30, shifts the emphasis toward pattern, motion and the edge where experimental composition meets dance-floor force. Mark Fell Live heads the Berghain room from 7:00 PM, joined by Robert Henke presenting Dust Live, Surgeon Live and Temple Rat Live. The surrounding programme expands outward through Aba Shanti-I and Mark Ernestus, while Panorama Bar hosts artists including Daphni, John Talabot and Lena Willikens b2b Audrey Danza; Säule adds Robert Leiner Live. That breadth makes Fell a useful anchor: one rigorous live proposition situated within a night that connects electronic abstraction to techno, dub and DJ-led flow.[2]

Practical route

Take Thursday as the immersive entry point and Friday as the wider, multi-room continuation. Both selected events take place at Berghain / Panorama Bar, Am Wriezener Bahnhof, with a 7:00 PM local start listed for each night. The festival runs October 28–30, while this guide covers the upcoming October 29–November 1 window. Recheck the official Berghain pages before travelling for door policy, ticket availability, set times and any programme changes.[1][2]

These concerts happened on 29–30 October 2026

The next dates at these venues: Berghain / Panorama Bar

Sources

  1. Sound Metaphors Festival Part 1 — Berghain
  2. Sound Metaphors Festival Part 2 — Berghain
  3. Alessandro Cortini — Mute