This is a 30 min studio recording of the live set Checkpoint 303 prepared for the Massive Attack show in Berlin (July 8th, 2025 at Zitadelle) / Checkpoint 303 was invited by Massive Attack as main opening act for the show, but the event and the rest of the Massive Attack tour was unfortunately cancelled and new dates will be announced. Huge thanks to Massive Attack for their solidarity and continued support. End genocide. End starvation. Free Palestine.

Berlin Opening Set CP303 - Massive Attack July 2025

“Forsythia—
and radiant spring’s
melancholy”
— Mantarō Kubota

Forsythia (2024-25) 
Composed for and dedicated to Yarn/ Wire
Musicians: 
Pianos: Julia den Boer, Laura Barger
Percussions: Russell Greenberg, Dennis Sulivan

Forsythia (2024-25)-Ashkan Behzadi

IV - Convex Mirror

On episode 402, NASA’s all-American 2025 astronaut candidates share a little about themselves by playing a fun icebreaker game. 

Houston We Have a Podcast: On a Desert Island with the 2025 Class of Astronaut Candidates

Composed for and with the help of Martin Lorenz.
Performed by Martin Lorenz and recorded by Ronald Boersen.

5 Perspectives on a theme that is yet to be composed - II. - percussion and live electronics

Àphones (2011), for 17 musicians
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris
conducted by Tito Ceccherini

Clara Iannotta "Àphones" (2011), for 17 musicians

Hadas Pe'ery is a composer, sound artist, audio professional, educator and activist. Currently residing in Tel Aviv, Hadas teaches electro-acoustic composition and musicology at the University of Tel Aviv and is responsible for developing the university’s electronic music studies curriculum. She is curator of “This is what happens when you play with electricity”, a concert series for experimental electro-acoustic music that aims to introduce new audiences to electronic music and to promote women composers and performers. A social and political activist, Hadas is involved in numerous initiatives that advocate for Palestinian, refugee, women and worker rights, such as “the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality” and “Elifelet - Citizens for Refugee Children”.

Hadas’s works are regularly commissioned and performed throughout America, Europe and Israel by institutes and ensembles such as Court-Circuit (Fr), MusikFabrik (De), Akademie der Künste Berlin (De), Meitar Ensemble (Isr), Lunatics at Large Ensemble (USA) among others, and at festivals such as Manifeste (Paris), Zeitkunst (Berlin), Sound Ways (St. Petersburg) among others. An interdisciplinary artist, she collaborates with choreographers, directors and visual artists throughout the world to create interactive, live electronic performances.

A laureate of awards and grants from the Theodore Presser Foundation (NY), the Fondation International Nadia et Lili Boulanger (Paris), New Music USA (NY) and the Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts amongst others, Hadas also received residencies from the Camargo Foundation (Fr) and Herrenhaus Edenkoben (De). She was recently awarded the prestigious Israel Prime Minster’s Prize for Composers.

Hadas holds B.Mus degrees in composition and music theory from the Mannes College of Music in New York, an M.A. in musicology specialised in computer-aided composition from Université Paris 8 and an M.Mus. in electronic music from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Her principal composition teachers have included: Wolfgang Heiniger, Jean-Luc Hervé, Philippe Leroux, Christine Groult and Robert Cuckson. Additional teachers have included: Johannes Schöllhorn, Rebecca Saunders and Chaya Czernowin.

5 Perspectives on a theme that is yet to be composed - II. - percussion and live electronics

Hadas Pe'ery Composer

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