TSA: in transmission

TSA: in transmission
New Series of Georgian Experimental Live Music

TSA – the Georgian music community platform, announces the launch of TSA: in transmission, Georgian experimental live music series rooted in collaboration, experimentation, movement and resistance. The series begins on August 7, 2025, in Berlin at silent green and invites audiences into an exploration of Georgian sound across various genres and styles.

TSA Music
Founded in 2019, TSA Music emerged from a deep passion for Georgian music focused on documenting and promoting a scene that lacked dedicated platforms. TSA has grown into a digital archive and community, a space for artists, listeners, and industry members alike. 

In early 2024, TSA began expanding into physical events, aiming to create a new Georgian sound and invite listeners into it. However, Georgia’s increasingly repressive political environment has made this difficult. A lack of freedom - both in artistic expression and in physical space - continues to challenge efforts to bring such events to life. In response, TSA saw the necessity of taking Georgian music beyond national boundaries as a means of cultural resilience and amplification. 

Starting in Berlin, a space for collaboration, freedom and sound will be created in which Georgian music can develop uncensored and unhindered.

First edition of TSA: in transmission features live collaborations between:

Mess Montage x Rezo Kiknadze
Natalie Beridze x Tamriko Kordzaia
Anushka Ckheidze x Daniel Adikashvili

Mess_Montage
Tornike Margvelashvili (b.1989), known as Mess_Montage, is a Berlin-based Georgian sound artist whose live performances weave modular synthesis, field recordings, and reimagined Georgian polyphony into emotionally layered sonic environments. His work explores post-Soviet identity, cultural memory, and transitional states-treating folk voices and lyrics as living, evolving texts. 

Reso Kiknadze
born 1960 and grown up in Tbilisi, Georgia. Kiknadze currently is a Professor and Head of the Music Centre of Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia (since 2008); teacher at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire (since 2011); performing all over the world both as saxophone-player and computer musician in various formations of jazz, contemporary music, free improvisation; composer and coauthor of many projects with dance, visual arts, poetry, theatre, cinema; lectures and master classes in electroacoustic music, composition, improvisation, jazz.

Anushkha Chkheidze 
Georgian Anushka Chkheidze, born in Tbilisi in 1997, is one of the most promising talents far beyond the country’s borders. Growing up in the small village of Kharagauli, she began singing in a choir at the age of 11. She herself describes the time she spent there as magical and believes that her music is strongly influenced by those childhood years.

Daniel Adikashvili
Musician, Drummer, composer. Since 2010, Daniel has been performing actively on the Georgian rock and pop scene. He has participated in the Tbilisi open air festival with various projects including Green Room (Georgian pop/fusion band). Daniel is considered to be the owner and resident musician of the uprising Jazz club in Tbilisi – 1984 and is influenced by heavy metal, jazz/fusion, electronic/ambient and progressive genres of music.

Natalie Beridze
Natalie Beridze, also known by her stage name TBA, is a pioneering Georgian electronic music composer and producer born in Tbilisi in 1979. Recognized as Georgia’s first female electronic artist, she has released acclaimed works on labels like Max Ernst, Monika Enterprise and Room40, and collaborated with artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto and Thomas Brinkmann. Beridze is also active in acoustic composition, teaches music production in Tbilisi, and hosts the live performance series Live@Twilight on Artarea TV. 

Tamriko Kordzaia
Tamriko Kordzaia had already made a name for herself as a Haydn and Mozart interpreter in her native Georgia. After moving to Switzerland, she continued this work, but increasingly focused on new music. She has received numerous national and international awards, including first prize and the prize for Mozart interpretation at the International Sakai Competition in Japan and the Cultural Promotion Prize of the City of Winterthur. Her involvement with contemporary music extends far beyond the field of new music, and she frequently collaborates with musicians from electronic club music, experimental music and jazz-related contexts.

TSA Records
Alongside the live events, TSA is launching TSA Records, a label dedicated to archiving and releasing music from the series. Each event will be recorded and pressed on vinyl, creating a physical record of these collaborations. 

With the support of TBC Bank, this initiative is part of a broader effort to document the Georgian music scene, offering artists opportunities to collaborate, perform, and publish work internationally.

Thursday, August 7
Kuppelhalle
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 7:30 pm
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