PRELUDE 02 · 12 MAY · Hania Rani presents Chilling Bambino. On Tuesday next week Hania Rani presents Chilling Bambino at Kraftwerk Berlin. This is the second of three prelude concerts at Kraftwerk Berlin leading into The Infinite Now, the first formal collaboration between Berlin Atonal and Unsound. Tickets are still available from RA from the link in bio. The Infinite Now is Berlin Atonal’s main project for 2026.
20:00 Torus
21:00 Hania Rani presents Chilling Bambino
Hania Rani strips back the ornate piano and orchestral work that brought her crossover recognition and rebuilds from the ground up. Chilling Bambino is her electronic alter ego: built around a bank of Sequential Circuits Prophet synthesisers, sculpting ambient structures in real time, moving from long drifting tones into throbbing trance. Developed across a small number of performances in Warsaw, London, Osaka and New York since 2024, the project foregrounds the synthesiser as a live performance instrument, reworking existing material alongside new compositions through dark-tinted electronica and hypnotic rhythmic structures. Rani has resisted the neoclassical framing applied to her work, telling the New York Times that the music “might be slow, not so loud, not upbeat, but it’s actually intense.” Chilling Bambino makes that distinction physical.
Dutch multidisciplinary artist Torus opens the evening. Working under an alias since 2012, Joeri Woudstra moves between club sets, sound installations and art commissions, with work shown at documenta 14 and the New Museum in New York alongside Kate Cooper. His sound pushes dance music toward maximalist reconstruction, dissecting trance, electro and harder styles and reassembling them with a critical and beautiful edge.
NON FICTION will be performed just a couple of times this year so make sure to catch your date. All shows with guest performance by @jackwylliemusic . As an opening act I’ll serve you some newly composed pieces for grand piano. Very looking forward to this madness✨
04062026 Katowice* NOSPR
15062026 Berlin* Philharmonie
04072026 Montreal** Madison Symphonique
* conducted by Marek Moś
** conducted by Hugh Tieppo-Brunt
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SHINING 08062026 WARSZAWA
My only show in Warsaw this year. Performing my new piece called ‘Shining’ for 12 musicians with phenomenal @hashtaglab.pl
See you on the 8th of June at Opera Narodowa
@ephemerafestival
CHILLING BAMBINO 12052026 KRAFTWERK Beautifully exciting things to look forward to…!
Kraftwerk, Berlin 12052026 @unsoundfestival & @berlinatonal
Photography by @olivia.wunsche
Poster by Veil Projects
Next stop: @bigearsfestival ! I’m very excited to bring to Knoxville my most recent projects - NON FICTION for 45 acoustic instruments (with guest performance by Jack Wyllie, conducted by Hugh Tieppo-Brunt) and CHILLING BAMBINO for ensemble of synthesisers. See you this week 🌞🌝
Photography by @olivia.wunsche
Design by Veil Projects
On April 14th at the @devonojas Listening Room, @180.studios , @haniarani presents Playing With Time — a deep listening session exploring how time shapes her work as a composer. Through selected pieces, the evening reflects on rhythm, duration and shifting time units, inviting listeners to experience music that unsettles our sense of time and opens new ways of inhabiting it.
#180Studios #180TheStrand #ListeningRoom #DevonOjas #DevonTurnbull
NON FICTION AT BERLIN PHILHARMONIE 15th of JUN 2026 with @rsb_orchester ! Conducted by Marek Moś, with guest performance by @jackwylliemusic
Photo by @olivia.wunsche
Design by Veil Projects
"Working on SENTIMENTAL VALUE was one fo the most exciting artistic experiences of my life." Composer Hania Rani touches on her collaboration with director Joachim Trier.
SENTIMENTAL VALUE is OUT NOW original music for film by JOACHIM TRIER
Thank you @nobledanceroslo for this incredible adventure! You can preorder the physical copy today which will be released on 22th of May on @gondwanarecords
Tracklist:
Sentimental Value 4:47
The House 2:49
Childlike 2:39
Lighter and Lighter 1:59
Riksarkivet 3:17
Agnes 3:15
Rachel 5:35
Speaking to the Past 2:19
Gustav 6:57
Nora 4:50
All music composed, arranged, and produced by Hania Rani.
Mixed by Greg Freeman in Berlin.
Mastered by Zino Mikorey in Berlin
Vinyl cut by Schnittstelle Mastering, Berlin.
Design by Veil Projects.
Recorded in multiple locations including Abbey Road Studios, London and Studios of Polish Radio, Warsaw
