This story appears in VICE magazine and Noisey's 2017 Music Issue. Click HERE to subscribe to VICE magazine.Berlin's Atonal festival is called that for a reason. It's the gathering for fans of white noise, weird experimental music, "apocalyptic sound," and incredibly hard techno. An average EDM spring-breaker would probably attend this mix of live performances and DJ sets and leave crying. Nearly everyone wears black, and the people in the crowd are the type whose music collections are probably half "cultural document" and half seriously enjoyable head-fuck. This past August, artist and photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, who has long been associated with this counterculture scene, made his festival debut there in a collaborative performance with the artist Powell. Together their set was a combination of Powell's fizzy techno and Tillmans's spoken word about democracy and eating ass.Continue reading on Noisey.