Newsletter

Autumn Invites and Updates

19 September 2025

Dear Friends,

As the new lunar Jewish year is beginning on Monday eve I strongly feel the tides of time, and despite the horrifying realities materializing all around, I thought it is nonetheless a worthy moment to bring to your attention some performances, updates and news.

Quite a few topics here, and I have added a few new friends to this list, but as always - if these sparse emails are a burden on your Inbox, no hard feelings if you choose to unsubscribe.

Dear Dead Doctor in Beyond Gravity, Dortmund

Early in October, a new production by Kiraṇ Kumār of our Sono-Choreographic Collective is going to be premiered in Theater im Depot. Dear Dead Doctor is an audio-visual essay-performance, inscribed as an inter-generational letter across surfaces of stage, page and screen. Against the backdrop of a dialogue between yogic/tāntrik practices and allopathic medical traditions, two happenings unfold simultaneously: one, a sharing of personal history between Kiran and his grandfather; and second, the live generation of a hybrid digital being through real-time data capture from artists and audience alike.

As some of you may know, this production faced many hardships, true signs of the time: Equipped with a letter from the German minister of culture, Kiraṇ was still denied a visa, and we had to overhaul the work completely in order to accommodate his forced absence. Despite all this, the materials are very special and strong and I think we are finding good paths around these constraints.

If you are around Dortmund you are welcome to check it out. Tickets here

Instrumentalities for Common Grounds in Berlin

As part of Berlin’s Science week, on November 9th we will finally present our concert-lecture in Berlin!

In ‘Instrumentalities’ the Sono-Choreographic Collective unpacks aspects of their artistic-scientific research ‘Common Grounds’. Scaling 20 years of environmental data into 60 minutes, this participatory concert-lecture presents some of the methods developed for listening, sensing and understanding climate change from an embodied perspective. These include various sonic and somatic techniques that connect the planetary scale with individual and collective sensory scales of participants. The concert-lecture unfolds around a table that is a hybrid surface for discourse, policy, strategy, negotiation, communication and communion.

Time & Place: Holzmarkt, Sunday, November 9th, at 12:00 PM. Info here

New song is out

More than two years ago my dear friend and wonderful composer Ziv Slama came over to my Berlin studio with the aim to produce a song, a poem by Israel Dadon which he composed. Atalya Tirosh contributed her amazing voice and the piece is out today on all platforms: Spotify · YouTube · Apple Music

Italian residency

Amidst the tectonic shifts of recent years, Atalya and I began feeling our urban days are coming to an end. Over this period we have been looking for a place to move to on the countryside and have found it in the Italian Piedmontese alps. And so, in December we will be moving, for a year at first, to a tiny village in the foothills of the alps.

I see it as an experiment - running our lives and staying in touch with the worlds of music and culture from afar. It’s an evolving shared project - establishing a quiet place for hosting researchers, artists, those in healing, family, and friends.

If this sounds like something that tickles your curiosity and you want to get involved, you are more than welcome to get in touch.

May you have a prosperous, healthy and yes, peaceful year!

Thank you for your attention and time,
Bnaya