Strom
Festival for electronic music at the Philharmonie Berlin

Fri 06 February 2026
20:00–21:30 Foyer: Stefan Goldmann (DJ)
21:45–22:30 Saal: Murcof + Sergi Palau (live AV)
22:30–00:00 Foyer: Ehua (DJ)
00:15–01:00 Saal: Fennesz & Oscar Jockel with Ensemble 
01:00–03:00 Foyer: Ellen Allien (DJ)

Installation: Nevin Aladağ »Jamming«

Sat 07 February 2026
20:00–21:00 Foyer: Polygonia (live)
21:15–22:00 Saal: Cinna Peyghamy & Azu Tiwaline (live)
22:00–23:45 Foyer: DJ Marfox (DJ)
00:00–01:00 Saal: Alva Noto (live AV)
01:00–03:00 Foyer: Ben Klock b2b Fadi Mohem (DJ)

Installation: Nevin Aladağ »Jamming«

Alva Noto
Born in 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz), Alva Noto is internationally recognized as one of the leading figures in minimalist electronic music. On the label Raster Noton, which existed from 1994 to 2017, Alva Noto – who is also known under his real name Carsten Nicolai as a visual artist – released numerous albums and a series of acclaimed collaborations with Japanese composer and electronic music pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Their collaboration on the soundtrack for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s award-winning 2015 film The Revenant also established Alva Noto as a sought-after film composer.

Azu Tiwaline & Cinna Peyghamy
Azu Tiwaline is a Tunisian-French artist whose music fuses the cultural influences of the El Djerid desert with the spatiality of dub and the pulse of techno. She regularly collaborates with Paris-born percussionist and composer Cinna Peyghamy, who has Iranian roots. In their joint performance in the Main Hall, acoustic percussion and modular synthesis are intertwined through digital sound processing to form new sonic entities.

Ben Klock & Fadi Mohem
Ben Klock has been a resident DJ at Berlin’s Berghain since its early days and has been instrumental in shaping the club’s signature heavy, minimalist techno sound. Today he is regarded as one of the key figures of contemporary techno. He regularly collaborates with Fadi Mohem, who has also been a Berghain resident since 2022. Together they recently released their joint album Layer One. At Strom, they will close the festival with a back-to-back set in the foyer.

Ehua
London-based Italian DJ and producer Ehua is known for her thoughtful approach to rhythm and sound and for her bold, versatile DJ sets. Her dynamic mixes and acclaimed debut album Panta Rei reflect her refined rhythmic sensibility in percussive textures, shifting tempos, and clear structural forms.

Ellen Allien
Few artists embody Berlin’s rise to the world capital of electronic music as distinctly as Ellen Allien. Since the early 1990s, she has been deeply connected with Berlin’s most influential techno clubs. In 2001, she founded the label BPitch, which has released works by artists such as Paul Kalkbrenner and Ben Klock. Ellen Allien also publishes nearly all of her own works on BPitch, including ten albums to date. Today she is one of Berlin’s most prominent artists and among the most in-demand techno DJs worldwide.

Fennesz & Oscar Jockel and Ensemble
In the music of Fennesz, time seems to stand still and space to dissolve. Since the 1990s, he has been a defining figure in ambient music, a largely beatless form of electronic sound. His dense, multi-layered textures originate from the electric guitar—often processed beyond recognition—yet the instrument remains a hallmark of Christian Fennesz’s sound. For Strom, he is creating a new work in collaboration with composer and conductor Oscar Jockel, performed together with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Karajan Academy, and video artist Lillevan.

DJ Marfox
DJ Marfox is one of the founders of the edgy Afro-Portuguese music style known as Batida or Batucada, which emerged from Lisbon’s housing estates and has since gained worldwide attention. He was responsible for the first genre-defining release on leading Batida label Príncipe Discos and contributed to Warp Records’ Cargaa compilation, which brought the style international recognition.

Murcof + Sergi Palau
Murcof is the moniker of Mexican musician Fernando Corona. Many of his minimalist electronic compositions are built on abstract, heavily processed, and often complex percussive patterns. His more recent works typically forego beats and are based on samples of acoustic instruments recorded by Corona and collaborators. At Strom, Murcof presents The Alias Sessions, an audiovisual performance developed in collaboration with Catalan video artist Sergi Palau.

Polygonia
Under the name Polygonia, Lindsey Wang produces and performs electronic music that merges her deep understanding of acoustic instruments with shimmering rhythmic structures and digital sound design. Her diverse and organically structured live and DJ sets have taken her around the globe. She is also a resident artist at Munich’s Blitz Club and co-founder of the label IO.

Stefan Goldmann
During the festival’s first edition of Strom in 2020, curator Stefan Goldmann presented a newly developed audiovisual format in the Main Hall. This year, he opens the festival with a DJ set on the foyer stage.