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Pallas medics use infrared thermography to read crowd strainThe Pallas weekend turns Berlin's decommissioned E-Werk into a constellation of stages, with bass bleeding through brickwork that once carried industrial…
Why Pallas Turns Its Schedule Into a Recycled Paper PosterAt Pallas, the programme is designed to move through the building rather than sit inside a phone screen. Concerts, live electronic sets and late-night club…
Why An Off-Centre DJ Booth Can Improve A Room’s SoundIn electronic music, the DJ booth is usually treated as the visual and operational centre of a room. It is where the performer works, where the crowd directs…
How Pallas Filters Bar Cleaning Waste Before Berlin's SewersCold lager residue, sticky cocktail syrups, lemon pulp, dishwater from hundreds of plastic cups: cleaning a busy festival bar generates a particular kind of…
The living tree at the heart of E-WerkInside Berlin’s historic E-Werk, where bass moves through steel, brick and concrete, one living tree offers a different kind of presence. It does not perform,…
How a Berlin festival trains its bar staff to spot drink spikingPallas takes over Berlin's E-Werk each year and transforms the former power station into a layered playground of live techno, ambient rooms, and late-night…
Why a silent disco hour has become part of Pallas programmingInside the brick and steel shell of Berlin's E-Werk, Pallas unfolds across multiple stages where the venue's industrial bones meet rotating stacks of speakers.…
Designing a VIP area without splitting the room in twoVIP areas at music festivals often get a bad rap. They're seen as glass-walled fishbowls where the chosen few sip cocktails while the masses sweat it out on…
Behind the decks at Pallas: surviving eighteen-hour production daysWhen the lights go down at Pallas and the first kick drum lands inside the E-Werk, the audience experiences a few hours of carefully programmed sound and…
What artist hospitality riders reveal about local food at PallasHospitality riders rarely make headlines, yet they sit quietly inside the touring machinery of any major electronic music event, listing exactly what a…