Stefan Goldmann (Macro, from Berlin)
Stefan Goldmann is regularly credited as one of today’s most adventurous artists in techno. His DJ sets evolve around the same cutting edge principles as applied to his label Macro. He has performed at leading festivals including SXSW, Mutek and Time Warp, and tours regularly throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.
Since 2006 he has been playing regularly at Berghain. For the past years his Sunday main floor sessions have become legendary rituals, with a sound that is hard-hitting while it also probably shapes one of the most musically diverse journeys heard at the club today. For the Berlin club he also wrote an influential column for its program flyer and conceived the ‘Electroacoustic Salon’ events series.
This interest in the experimental possibilities of techno saw him develop an artistic reach well beyond clubland: Works for film, collaborations with ensembles, choreographers and visual artists, and a best-selling book are as integral to his vision as his dance tracks. His numerous special projects include sold-out solo performances at iconic venues such as Kyoto’s Honen-In Temple, Los Angeles’s LACMA museum and the CCK center in Buenos Aires.
Since 2020 he curates Strom Festival at the Berlin Philharmonic, where he presents a unified vision which ranges from audiovisual experiments to banging peak time action, with appearances by Nina Kraviz, Marcel Dettmann, KiNK, Ryoji Ikeda and Robert Henke.
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