JJJJJerome Ellis

JJJJJerome Ellis, Music For The Garden

“A stutter… can be a musical instrument,” says JJJJJerome Ellis, a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and author from Norfolk, Virginia. Ellis speaks with a glottal block stutter, which manifests as involuntary pauses in speech. In his artistic practice, this interruption becomes compositional material: Pauses, repetitions, and extended silences fracture linearity, reorder time, and open space for a more patient, attentive form of listening.
 
Working across performance, sound, text, and improvisation, Ellis draws on free jazz, contemporary composition, musique concrète, gospel, and environmental music. Saxophone, organ, dulcimer, electronics, and voice converge in an ongoing exploration of Blackness, stuttering speech, time, and the natural world.
 
For Haus am Waldsee, Ellis is developing a musical performance that moves between the garden and the interior spaces of the house. The plants, textures, and acoustic conditions of the site are woven into an open composition shaped by the interplay of sound and silence, presence and interruption.

As part of Berlin Art Week 2026

Price info: Admission included in the exhibition ticket

Next date:

• Date Sunday, 13/September/2026 16:00 bis 19:00
• Venue Haus am Waldsee
• Address Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin-Zehlendorf