For three days, Funkhaus was no longer Berlin, no longer a building: it became a threshold. You didn’t enter to “see a festival”, you entered to surrender to a rite. From the very first moment I felt that sound was not accompaniment but invisible architecture: living matter shaping body and perception, carving and building, unravelling and reconnecting.

Bande à Part is an ecosystem of raw sound, of strings stretched to the point of breaking, vocals bent and twisted into cries carved from an aching body. Teething, their latest release, is a punk rock-inflected coming-of-age ballad and the first glimpse of the upcoming EP Grit. The song will premiere on the occasion of a the single release show at The Old Blue Last on October 2nd. In this interview, we trace the genealogy of the track and music video together with writer, poet and musician Sabina Hellstrom.

Berlin Atonal closed its latest edition just weeks ago, leaving behind more than a festival of electronic music and experimental art. Returning from the city, clarity emerged: this year was a meditation on Berlin itself—its history, its architecture, its ghosts. More than performances or installations, Atonal revealed how a space becomes alive, how risk defines art, and how presence transforms encounter.

A dynamic and multilayered dialogue with the artist and curator unfolds around the new site-specific installation commissioned by Chanel, on view until October 26. The work reshapes the cold, industrial immensity of the Hamburger Bahnhof’s historic hall into a terrain at once tactile and intimate.