Moritz Simon Geist (live) + Sarah Farina (DJ)
Closing the Day 2 Forum: Art & Science
We are delighted to conclude Forum Day 2: Art & Science with a very special evening performance programme: Moritz Simon Geist (live) followed by Sarah Farina (DJ set).
21:30 – 22:30 Moritz Simon Geist — Tripods One (Live)
Moritz Simon Geist opens the evening with Tripods One, a live techno-robotic performance in which self-built instruments produce every sound in real time. His machines, tone-generating tripods, percussive sculptures and kinetic sound devices, bring electronic music into physical space, turning the stage into a futuristic sound laboratory that questions the boundaries between human and machine creativity.
22:30 – 23:30 Sarah Farina — DJ Set
The night continues with Sarah Farina, one of Berlin’s most visionary DJs and producers, known for her fearless, genre-rejecting style she calls RainbowBass. Her sets blend heavy basslines and futuristic beats with radiant positivity, weaving through the hardcore continuum while celebrating Afro-diasporic roots of club culture. Through projects like Emergent Bass and Transmission, she expands the dancefloor into a space of dialogue, awareness, and joy, showing how music can be both deeply political and profoundly unifying.
ARTISTS
MORITZ SIMON GEIST
Moritz Simon Geist is a German artist, engineer and musician who builds robots that play techno. In his live performance Tripods One, self-built sound machines generate every tone in real time, transforming electronic music into a tactile and visual experience.
Combining a background in electrical engineering with a deep curiosity for how sound is made, Geist designs instruments that bridge craftsmanship and technology: from futuristic kalimbas and pneumatic hi-hats to drone guitars and kinetic sculptures. Each robot becomes both a performer and an experiment, revealing the mechanics behind rhythm and sound.
Using tools like 3D printing, CNC milling and laser cutting, Geist merges digital fabrication with musical intuition. His projects, including viral works such as Popcorn Jazz Robot and the giant drum robot MR-808, have reached audiences worldwide, expanding the idea of what live electronic music can be. Through Tripods One, Geist brings machine music to the dancefloor, exploring how creativity, technology and human emotion can resonate in perfect mechanical rhythm.
SARAH FARINA
Sarah Farina is an international DJ, music producer and curator. She hosts and curates the interdisciplinary Berlin event series Emergent Bass with her friends, which focuses on the historical awareness of cultural contexts of music and celebrates and uplifts the Afro-diasporic influences in underground club culture. She’s innovative, she’s skilful, and she’s the smiling antithesis of genre cliques and sour scene elitists and sprinkles positivity over the darkest bass.
What you hear is all you need to know. And what you’ll hear from Sarah Farina’s sets and music productions are seamlessly blended bass-heavy frequencies and futuristic beats with fearless forays through the hardcore continuum and beyond. It’s inclusive, forward-thinking and unrestrained. It’s a genre-rejecting style that she’s named Rainbow Bass. She’s vocal about the issues of current club culture and runs the project Transmission with researcher Dr. Kerstin Meißner, which aims to make the political relevance and history of international sound, club and rave culture audible and visible.
