Labor Neunzehn is pleased to invite you to a concert by Passepartout Duo, the project of pianist Nicoletta Favari and percussionist Christopher Salvito, active since 2015. For this evening, the concert will be paired with an experimental film screening, offering an immersive, multisensory experience that invites the audience to hear, see, and feel sound in a new way.
Wednesday, December 17th, 2025
20:00 DOORS 20:30 EVENT STARTS
Location: KM28 (www.km28.de)
Karl-Marx Straße, 28
12043, Berlin, Neukölln
INM-FIELD NOTES: www.field-notes.berlin
A. Film Screening Programme
IN ORDER NOT TO BE HERE
Deborah Stratman
2002 / 16mm / colour / sound / 33′ 00
Film courtesy of Canyon Cinema (San Francisco)
Curated by Valentina Besegher Scotti
SYNOPSIS
An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. An isolation-based fear (protect us from people not like us). A fear of irregularity (eat at McDonalds, you know what to expect). A fear of thought (turn on the television). A fear of self (don’t stop moving). By examining evacuated suburban and corporate landscapes, the film reveals a peculiarly 21st century hollowness… an emptiness born of our collective faith in safety and technology. This is a new genre of horror movie, attempting suburban locations as states of mind.
BIO
Deborah Stratman, born in 1967 in Washington D.C., USA, is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker. She has exhibited internationally at major biennials, art institutions, and film festivals. Stratman is the recipient of several awards, fellowships, and grants. She teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
B. Concert
‘Passepartout Duo Live’ showcases a multiyear journey of sound experimentations and a unique ecosystem of original musical instruments.
Carefully balancing acoustic and electronic sounds, the duo’s virtuosic performance of complex rhythms couples with a refined craft of simple melodic gestures, positioning the music close to Minimalism as much as popular music traditions.
It is a journey that covers much ground between lyrical depths and saturated noise, between crystalline medieval polyphonies and futuristic synthesized voices. The choregraphic interplay between the performers on stage, a dizzying dance of instrument-sharing and secret cues, becomes an essential ingredient of hypnotic charm.
Passepartout Duo (IT/US) looks for unprecedented ways of connecting through sound.
Their music combines a varied instrumentation ranging from analog synthesizers to processed percussion and found objects, often employing specific chamber music techniques to explore spatialized and psychoacoustic effects. The group, formed by Nicoletta Favari and Chris Salvito, has been on a nearly continuous world tour ever since they began collaborating in 2015, and their experiences traveling have heavily influenced their unconventional creative process.
In 2024 they teamed up with the Berlin-based company KOMA Elektronik to start producing their instrument called ‘Chromaplane’.
passepartoutduo.com
Cluster is a new-music series devoted to the investigation of sound and notation, which provides musicians and composers with an exchange area in Berlin, at the crossroad of compositional and performance practices.
This concert is curated by Labor Neunzehn for Cluster Series and generously supported by inm Berlin e.V
img. 1 © Passepartout Duo 2.3 © Deborah Stratman