Berghain in Berlin; Julia Bell’s essay ‘Really Techno’ details her experience of a visit to the global techno institution.

We welcome two internationally recognised writers to host this online talk relating to experiences of electronic music specifically Juila Bell's essay 'Really Techno' on the Berlin club Berghain and David Stubb's book on the history of electronic music 'Mars By 1980'

This talk will be facilitated by Dr. Kaye Mitchell.

You can be part of the talk by signing up below or you can watch the talk on Youtube or Facebook as it’s streamed live.

Julia Bell is a writer and Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck where she is the Course Director of the MA Creative Writing. Her work includes poetry, essays and short stories published in the Paris Review, Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, Mal Journal, Comma Press, and recorded for the BBC. Her most recent book-length essay Radical Attention was published by Peninsula Press.

David Stubbs is a London-based music journalist and author who started working life as a staff writer for Melody Maker. Since then, his work has appeared in The Guardian, NME, The Wire, Record Collector, The Times, The Quietus and Electronic Sound among other publications. He has had two books published by Faber; Future Days: Krautrock And The Building Of Modern Germany and Mars By 1980: The History Of Electronic Music. He is also the author of 1996 And The End Of History (Repeater) and Fear Of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen (Zero).

This event is part of a cultural programme of events celebrating the creativity and diversity of Grow’s events programme and is supported by the Government’s Cultural Recovery Grant, administered by Arts Council England.

David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, through to the familiar sounds of electronica, house and techno that we know today in this seminal book.