Commissioned for last year’s CTM 2017 festival, Sacred Horror in Design sees Ata 'Sote' Ebtekar collaborate with celebrated audiovisual composer Tarik Barri and performers Arash Bolouri (santoor) and Behrouz Pashaei (setar) on a project merging electronics with traditional acoustic instruments for a "Persian techno apocalypse," which they are now bringing to Festsaal Kreuzberg on 23 September for the CTM 2018 Prelude kick-off. Jan St. Werner will be opening the night and presenting his new album, Spectric Acid. A record both brute in force and exacting in its sensitivity to perception’s effective limits, Spectric Acid offers fresh glimpses of the deft compositional grasp Werner has developed across more than two decades of practice.

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