First Floor Festival

Run by acclaimed German art musician Alva Noto (aka Carsten Nicolai), the Raster-Noton label focuses on stylish minimalism, as exhibited by artists like Emptyset and Kim Cascone. Expect plenty of visitors associated with the brand at this new and promising-looking get-together, organised by Japan's Raster-Noton representatives Kyoka and Ueno Masaaki. The inaugural First Floor Festival takes over Ochiai's Soup on a Sunday evening and welcomes one of Berlin's most innovative producers as headliner. Originally from Bielefeld in northwestern Germany, Grischa Lichtenberger is a prodigious, multi-disciplinary artist whose activities also reach into installations and other visual productions. Combining easily digestible beats with raw, industrial power, his tracks challenge the listener by travelling from avant-garde noise to almost pop-like soundscapes.