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No dancing, just listening: Berlin techno club Berghain reopens doors

Coronavirus is keeping Berlin's techno clubs closed but Berghain has found a way to throw its doors back open, luring visitors with an unusual sound exhibition.  Visitors listen to the sound installation 'eleven songs – halle am berghain' at Berghain club in Berlin on July 24, 2020. (AFP/Stefanie Loos) Just 50 people are let in at a time to allow for physical distancing, but without the venue's notoriously picky doormen standing guard, no one has to worry about being denied entry.  The sound of techno will not fill the space during this first installation. Instead, visitors to the former power plant are enveloped by an eery, almost surreal soundscape of rhythmic throbbing, soft city noises, murmurings and even the whirling of helicopter blades.  "You listen, you experience, you can close your eyes or leave them open and follow the sound across the room," said Carsten Seiffarth, co-curator of the Singuhr projects, a platform that organises sound art install