At Berlin’s historic E-Werk, energy use is part of the event design rather than an invisible back-of-house concern. Pallas brings live electronic performances,…
At Pallas, light is not simply decoration hung above a dance floor. Inside Berlin’s historic E-Werk, illumination interacts with brick, steel, haze, bodies and…
A festival programme can tell you who is playing, where they come from and when their set begins. It cannot always explain why a particular artist belongs in a…
The E-Werk is remembered for its monumental industrial interior, but the audience-facing rooms tell only part of its story. Behind the sound, lights and crowd…
At Pallas, sound, architecture and light do most of the obvious work. The historic E-Werk supplies the hard surfaces, exposed structure and industrial scale,…
A live electronic set exists in two places at once: in the room where it happens and in the recording that survives afterwards. The first is physical, social…
At Pallas, the coat check is far more than a practical station between the entrance and the dance floor. Inside Berlin’s historic E-Werk, it becomes a…
At Pallas, genre diversity is not treated as a checklist of disconnected styles. The temporary electronic music festival at Berlin’s historic E-Werk is built…
A temporary electronic music festival in a landmark such as Berlin’s E-Werk depends on a power system that is almost invisible when it works properly. Behind…