MKULTRA — Last Sounds

Concert

  • Silhouettes of audience members viewing a projected light installation with purple and orange horizontal bands in a darkened room © Daeyong Lee
  • Overhead view of a concert or performance setup in a dark atrium with metal truss scaffolding, lit floor areas, and audience members © Daeyong Lee
  • A person works at a laptop in a dark room with a colorful spiral light pattern projected on a vertical screen behind them © Jihye Gebhart
  • A person with glasses and long dark hair adjusts knobs on a modular synthesizer and electronic music equipment during a performance © Jihye Gebhart
  • A person operates electronic music equipment including a laptop and mixing console at a table while an audience watches in a dim industrial space © Jihye Gebhart
  • A person sits on the floor next to a shopping cart equipped with a tilted monitor, electronic components, and connecting wires © Jihye Gebhart
Date(s)
Fri, 13 Feb 2026
Time
19:00
Duration
1h
Venue
HfG Atrium, Karlsruhe

The concert MK-ULTRA Sound presented current works from the semester alongside contributions by students, alumni, and friends of HfG Karlsruhe in the field of MK Sound. The evening featured a collaborative performance installation by Dr. John Richards (Dirty Electronics) and Lorenz Schwarz (Circuitry-Based Sound), emerging from the workshop Shifting Signals, as well as stage performances by Ichiigai and invited guest Elmar Farchmin (Toredebruit). Analogue and digital circuits, demodulation, and signal shifting formed the basis for experimental audiovisual works oscillating between concert and installation.

Contributing Artists

Michelle Emmert, Tobias Ehrhardt, Lorenz Hohn, Paula Huaynalaya, Jeonghun Lee, Julian Vollmert, Nik Wallbaum, Yunfei Zhang, Xinyun Zhang, Tordebruit, John Richards

Production & Documentation

  • Production manager and technical coordination: Lorenz Schwarz
  • Sound Engineer: Lorenz Schwarz
  • Stagehands: Manuel Urrutia
  • Documentation (Photography): Jihye Jang, Daeyong Lee
  • Documentation (Video): Pauline Cemeris, Sebastian Schönfeld
  • Editing / Post-production: Sebastian Schönfeld
  • Additional Support: Xinyun Zhang, Yunfei Zhang

Collaborations

  • Dr. John Richards (Dirty Electronics)

Acknowledgments

  • Dr. Paul Modler