raster 30 Years Anniversary

20-01, on stage 20:30 280/230:- 18+ raster 30. Years anniversary. Three decades of precision, reduction and electronic music refusing to stand still. With: Frank Bretschneider · Gábor Lázár · Amelie Duchow · Xuri & John Cleworth Founded by Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider as rastermusic in 1996, raster has spent three decades exploring the borderlands of electronic music, art and science. In 1999, it merged with Carsten Nicolai’s NOTON to form raster-noton, before becoming independent again as raster in 2017. Across some 200 releases — alongside books, installations and live presentations — the label has brought together visual artists, club musicians, noise pioneers, composers and instrumentalists, connected less by genre than by a shared appetite for experimentation. Thirty years after its first release, raster comes to Inkonst for an anniversary night celebrating a catalogue — and an artistic network — that continues to ask what electronic music can be. Co-founder Frank Bretschneider has spent decades locating strange amounts of movement inside minimal structures. A musician, composer and video artist, his work is built from precise sound placement, interwoven rhythms and an unusually fluid sense of reduction, with visuals operating as an extension of the music rather than decoration. From experiments with tapes and synthesizers in East Germany to AG Geige, rastermusic and more than 30 albums, Bretschneider has developed a language where microscopic detail can produce v