with residents Nigel Perera, Dinelka Liyanage and Asvajit Boyle moderated by Imaad Majeed
Border Movement was a platform that encouraged interaction between the electronic music scenes of South Asia and Germany. It was a common initiative of the Goethe-Institutes in South Asia in alliance with partners. Beyond providing content on the respective electronic music scenes, they realized a programme of tailormade residencies both in Berlin and across South Asia in partnership with Gerriet Schulz, Wild City, Ableton and Musicboard Berlin.
From 2016 – 2018 Border Movement Residencies brought together artists from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Nepal, the Maldives and Germany. Each year, three South Asian artists spent two months in Berlin, to meet and collaborate with artists, undertake music production master classes, interact with labels and music businesses and play gigs. Dinelka Liyanage and Nigel Perera were two Sri Lankan electronic musicians who got selected as Border Movement Berlin Residents. They will share memories of this experience and how it impacted their relation with Techno culture in conversation with Imaad Majeed and Asvajit Boyle, on whose original experience in 2014 this residency was modeled on.
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