THE ORB OF XIATH is a performance and recording project featuring by Ani Samperi and Paußnitz (Uwe Lüdicke) in a ritualistic musical interaction with a 2-meter spherical instrument used to create otherworldly (i.e. interplanetary, "round") sounds. This instrument doubles as an experimental vocal booth, utilizing the resonant frequencies and overtones of a perfectly-spherical steel chamber to summon as yet unknown sonic entities into our earthly dimension.

As part of the performance, a select few audience entrance tickets will have been randomly inscribed with their own special sigil, whereby each audience member whose ticket bears one of these sigils will be asked to volunteer a brief vocal “offering” to the Orb upon display of their sigil. Wishes, oms and pure guttural screams from these willing participants will be transformed via several cycles of recording and replaying into the Orb’s hollow cavern until mysterious sounds appear. Those with which She is most pleased will distort and swell with ecstatic internal vibrations.

The ominous presence of the Orb – the One, the vacuous, the reverberant, She-of-many-names – invokes the spirit of George Bataille and Kantian notions of the sublime to create an image of the Sacred and that which is greater than all that is human. All of this begins with the ritual of a birth in an off-grid nuclear bunker in a forest on the border between Brandenburg and Saxony at the beginning of spring.

The performance will be followed by an open-deck DJ set curated by Sofá Loader, a live IDM set from Avtomaty [live] with video projections by Data_Lū, and a live gameboy electronic music set by Daimon Chip + 0r4. A small sauna will be accessible on site before and after the performance. Shuttles will be organized from the train station to and from the venue.