Bendik Giske & Sam Barker presented a surprise performance on the opening night of Le Guess Who? 2025, with light design by Theresa Baumgartner. Relive the performance with our concert film.
Both artists share a fondness for European techno culture with all its collective improvisation and transcendence. Corporeality and queer theory play a major role in Giske’s work, known for exploring the outer limits of the instrument and the body. Extensive use of circular breathing both stretches and shapes his compositions and improvisations. With a classical music education as his foundation, Barker has experimented extensively with atmospheric techno without beats, challenging and expanding the boundaries of dance music in Berlin and beyond.
Le Guess Who? Recordings
The publication of this recording is part of Le Guess Who?’s ongoing expansion of the festival’s recordings archive, with 150+ recordings from past editions now freely available online.
This archive contains audio and/or video recordings of performances by Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends featuring Surya Botofasina, The Dwarfs of East Agouza, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Ali Sethi & Nicolás Jaar, aja monet, ASA-CHANG & Junray, DARKSIDE, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kamilya Jubran, Alan Sparhawk, Stereolab, Tom Skinner, Selda Bağcan, clipping., Aldous Harding, Deerhunter, Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Microphones, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Arooj Aftab, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and many more.
Captured at TivoliVredenburg's Grote Zaal on Thursday, 6 November 2025.
Bendik Giske - saxophone
Sam Barker - electronics
Theresa Baumgartner - light design
Kay Sievers - techical support
Direction: Dammes Kieft
Camera: Anaïs Saebu, Emily Duurland, Hannah Zwaans, Manou Veldman, Jonathan Sipkema, Nicky Pajkić, Rikash Gobardhan, Yuma Eekman, Dammes Kieft
Production: Studio Dammes, Ramon de Lima
Montage & Grade: Dammes Kieft
AC & Datahandling: Dennis Bravenboer
Sound recording: Marc Broer
Photography: Noah Schielen
