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Ensemble KNM Berlin stands for the active, current music scene in Berlin's metropolis. Along with other students of former East Berlin's Hanns Eisler School of Music, Juliane Klein and Thomas Bruns founded the ensemble in 1988. It is now made up of ten musicians from all over Germany, Great Britain, Hungary and Switzerland. In close collaboration with international composers, authors, conductors, artists and producers, KNM has presented compositions, concert installations and projects worldwide. Programmes result from a fascination with the unknown and constant discussions about the most essential topics of our time. The ensemble has performed over a thousand concerts since its creation. KNM is known internationally, not only for its frequent appearances at the major European music festivals such as ars musica Brussels, Donaueschinger Musiktagen, Festival d'Automne à Paris, MaerzMusik, Berlin, musica Strasbourg, settembre musica Torino, UltraSchall - Festival für neue Musik, Berlin, Wiener Festwochen and Wien Modern, but also for its own productions including «HouseMusik», «space+place», «KNM New Music Spa», «The Stereoscope of Solitary Being «or «Clang Cut Book «. Concert tours have taken the ensemble to places including Carnegie Hall, New York City, Teatro Colon Buenos