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GRAYCONTRAST

GRAY CONTRAST

Live Improvised Techno, Electro & Trance ·
Synths, Loopy Pro & Vocals · Berlin

On stage, everything I do is 100% live and mostly improvised. I am obsessed with the magic of spontaneous creation: every performance is unique, unrepeatable, and deeply connected to the crowd and the moment.

Open airs, festivals & street sessions in Berlin. Also played Italy, Czechia, Switzerland and South Korea, and recorded in Pakistan.

MUSIC

Long Sets

Improvised psy-techno until the police stop me

Surprise live psy-techno at Berlin Pride (CSD) 2024

Stop calling me a DJ! (It’s all live!)

SoundCloud

Full Sets, Live Songs & Demos

Streaming

Apr 2026 · Humnava Season 1 · Hunza, Pakistan

Qataghani

Co-produced and arranged with Xulfi. Synths, bass & beats on 7 of the 9 songs of the season.

Gray Contrast in traditional dress on the set of Humnava Season 1 in Hunza Gray Contrast with members of the Humnava team in Hunza, October 2025
Full season on YouTube

All songs of Humnava Season 1, recorded in Hunza. I play on most of them.

Live

RECENT SHOWS

Aug 2026 Ferrara Buskers FestivalFerrara, Italy · invited artist Aug 2026 Pyramid Party · Lions TranceMetropol, Berlin · ceremonial all-night rave, 8 live artists
Gray Contrast singing into a microphone at his keys in blue stage haze, dancers in silhouette in the foregroundGray Contrast at his rig in blue light, seen from the gallery above a dancing crowdGray Contrast at the mic behind his keys, seen from above with the crowd around himFrames from the video: Tian Sthr / Pyramid Party
Sep 2025 Pilsen Busking FestPlzeň, Czechia · line-up 2022 to 2025 Jun 2025 Stadtfest OranienburgOranienburg · played right before Dr. Motte

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COMMUNITY

Teaching & Workshops

Grooveboxes•Synths•Live Looping
Course group with grooveboxes and synths at the VHS Tempelhof-Schöneberg, October 2026 Course participants playing synths together with Gray Contrast

I teach what I do on the street: building tracks on grooveboxes, synths and loop stations, and performing them live. Beginners welcome.

Adult-education course (VHS) · Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg

„Grooveboxes, Synth & Loop: eigene Tracks bauen und performen“

Course 1 sold out (12/12) · Next: Mondays, 2 to 30 Nov 2026 · places available

Free Taster Session · vhs@Bibliothek

Hands-on with grooveboxes, synths and loop stations at the library makerspace.

Past: 1 Oct 2026 · Theodor-Heuss-Bibliothek, Schöneberg

1:1 Coaching

Personal sessions on your gear, your songs and your live set.

Loopy Pro Meetup Berlin

Meetup for Loopy Pro users in Berlin.

Weekly · join via Telegram

Mauerpark Love Kommando

My crew · Berlin
The Mauerpark Love Kommando crew on a Berlin street, with two dogs

I am part of the Mauerpark Love Kommando (MLK), our Berlin family of live-electronic street musicians around Mauerpark. Together we brought our own float to Rave The Planet in 2025 and again in 2026 (Float No. 23). I organised the float in 2025, and in 2026 Hendrik Nitsche led it, which I was proud to co-organise with him. Every challenge on the way made us grow, and today we are a crew I am proud of.

Crew
Hendrik Nitsche / Dshanna / Julez / Mirco Erdmann / and many more
Activism

MOVEMENT

Fight for Mauerpark
Urgent Sign the Petition

Fight for Mauerpark!

Your signature helps to protect one of Europe’s most vital spaces of cultural freedom!

1,000+ signatures · add yours

Berlin Street Music

Fighting for street musicians' rights, better laws & a more musical Berlin. Proud team member.

Freunde des Mauerparks

20 years of grassroots lobbying & advocacy for Mauerpark. Social heroes of the district.

Media & Speeches

rbb

Reel · Mauerpark protest

DW Travel

YouTube · Featured segment

MY JOURNAL

2025/26 Hunza, Pakistan

Humnava, Pakistan

Humnava Season 1 (Hunza) is out. I worked across most of the album: I co-produced and arranged “Qataghani” with Xulfi (520K+ views), arranged “Sway”, and played synths, bass and beats on 7 of the 9 main songs. Those seven have 7.1M+ plays on Spotify and YouTube, and Humnava now reaches 1.5M monthly listeners on Spotify. In August 2026 Xulfi was named for Pakistan’s Pride of Performance award in music.

In September and October 2025, I was invited to Hunza, Pakistan for a music production camp and artist residency, created by Giraffe Music in cooperation with the European Union (EU).

It took place in the Karakoram Mountains and brought together artists across backgrounds, with many of the local talents coming through LLMC.

Gray Contrast on keys on the set of Qataghani, Karakoram Mountains, Hunza
Humnava Season 1 · On set

Qataghani

Co-produced and arranged with Xulfi, recorded live in the Karakoram Mountains. Me on keys and synths.

520K+ views on YouTube

Watch Qataghani
Rave The Planet 2025 Main
12 Jul 2025 Berlin, Germany

Rave The Planet 2025

In July 2025, our local family of live-electronic street musicians, known as the “Mauerpark Love Kommando”, and I contributed a truck to the legendary Rave The Planet, the successor to the Berlin Love Parade. Playing this techno protest and organizing our own Mauerpark truck was an insane honor.

Massive gratitude to our visionary partners Loopy Pro, Zoom, Kinoheld, Novation, and Temple Audio for powering this mobile sonic assault.

ARTE TWIST Documentary
Jun 2025 ARTE TV / TWIST

ARTE: Techno, Tanz, Protest

Featured in TWIST, the ARTE cultural magazine, exploring street art across Europe.

The documentary dives deep into the reality of street art across Europe: the passion, the struggles with authorities, and the raw creativity that emerges when artists have nothing but public space and their talent. Featuring breakdance, techno, and street art from cities across the continent.

Gray Contrast at the mic with his arm around the guest singer, crowd behind, St. Gallen
May 2025 St. Gallen, Switzerland

Aufgetischt St. Gallen

In May 2025, I got to perform in beautiful St. Gallen with my friend and vocalist Zeli. The full 45-minute live set is now on YouTube, and you can also watch how Zeli and I rehearsed:

Dec 2024 to Apr 2025 Hamburger Kunsthalle

SCORING AND SFX FOR HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE (Andreas Greiner)

I contributed to Andreas Greiner’s work in the exhibition “Illusion” at one of Germany’s leading art museums, the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

For the installation inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey and HAL 9000, I created the majority of the sound design for a locally hosted, dystopian AI encounter staged like an interrogation room. The system observes museum visitors and engages them directly, often with a cynical edge, occasionally crossing into authoritarian and deliberately uncomfortable tones.

Oct 2023 Gwangju, South Korea

Gwangju Busking World Cup

In 2023 I made it into the round of 64, with buskers from 25 countries, at the Gwangju Busking World Cup. Here's one of my sets.

Berliner Zeitung: Sound für die Straße (2023)
Feb 2023 Berliner Zeitung

BERLINER ZEITUNG: SOUND FÜR DIE STRASSE

“Sound für die Straße” is a biographical article about me and my life as a guerrilla rave curator.

BOOKING

I'm Dorian Goetsch, a Berlin-based live electronic artist. I build Techno, Electro & Trance from scratch, improvised live on synths, Loopy Pro and vocals. Berlin street musician since the 2020 lockdown.

Sets of 45 to 120 minutesone power socket, or fully on batteryno backline needed

Played: Ferrara Buskers Festival 2026 (invited), Pilsen Busking Fest 2022 to 2025, Rave The Planet 2025 and 2026, Pyramid Party Berlin 2026, Oranienburg 2025, Aufgetischt St. Gallen 2025, Gwangju 2023 (round of 64).

Highlights

Reach figures in the highlights: plays & views as of Oct 2026

Partnered With

Collaborations

On request, I can bring vocalists, ones that are also great at improvisation.

Collaboration with KIM
Ceremonial

I have hosted numerous meditation and cacao-ceremony events where I guided the space with more ambient music. In August 2026 I played the Throat Chakra round of the Pyramid Party at Metropol Berlin, a ceremonial all-night rave built around the chakra system.

Fully Open-Air Equipped

On request I can provide a premium PA including power stations for remote raving :)

Press Kit·Tech Rider

Bio

Stylised neon portrait of Gray Contrast with round mirrored glasses

Gray Contrast is the solo project of Berlin-based musician Dorian Goetsch, built for real-time, improvised electronic performance where Techno, Electro, and Trance collide on the spot. Shaped by Berlin's street-music culture and especially the Mauerpark hotspot, each set is constructed live with a custom Loopy Pro-centered rig, synthesizers, and vocals, without playback or pre-written sequences. The music follows the room and the crowd, which is exactly why no performance can be repeated: every show is a one-time event that disappears the moment it ends.

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Tech Rider PDF · 1 page · Oct 2026
Tech Rider (Stage)

Stage space: minimum 2 m x 1.5 m. 360-degree stages welcome.

I am a one-man band, optionally with a live singer (+1). I bring all my own gear (including mics) and give you a finished stereo out:

  • Outputs: 2x 6.35 mm (1/4") jack (L / R) from the Zoom LiveTrak L6max
  • Please provide 2 DI boxes; no XLR outputs

If there is no FOH desk or no DI boxes for me, please let me know in advance.

No mixing, compression or limiting needed: my rig already delivers a finished mix. I need FLAT settings!

Monitors: usually I don't need any, I monitor myself on headphones. If there are monitors, please keep them quiet and don't let them fire straight into my vocal mic from behind. From the side is ok, from the front is best.

Set-Up Time

~15-20 mins

Soundcheck

5 minutes