KONTAKTE 2025
Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art
In June 2025, the Studio for Electroacoustic Music will once again host the KONTAKTE Festival. The festival combines current socio-political developments with versatile contemporary sound art in a four-day dialogue.
The buildings at Hanseatenweg and Pariser Platz will be permeated by experimental sound structures and transformed into places of intensive listening.
Immersive soundscapes and experimental musical impulses merge into a multi-layered and interdisciplinary programme featuring, among others, Ensemble Ascolta, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Thomas Schulz and Hanna Hartman, as well as works by Tony Elieh, Hainbach, Annette Krebs, Heather Frasch, Gerriet K. Sharma and Susanne Fröhlich – and what is presumably the most extensive loudspeaker orchestra in the world to date.
Programme
Installations at Hanseatenweg
Hanna Hartman (MONO), Thomas Schulz and students from the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Runtimes:
26 Jun 7 – 11 pm
27 Jun 4 – 10 pm
28 Jun 11 am – 8 pm
29 Jun 11 am – 10 pm
Thursday, 26 Jun, Hanseatenweg
8 pm, Studio
Vortices and Children’s Songs
Ensemble Ascolta with works by Arezou Rezaei, Hugo Morales and Christian Winther Christensen
10 pm, Beech Garden (in case of bad weather: Studio Lobby)
Music for Sonic Assemblages
Annette Krebs, Heather Frasch
Friday, 27 Jun, Pariser Platz
5 – 8 pm, Exhibition Halls
Huge Crash (So-far-not-guilty)
Gerriet K. Sharma, Susanne Fröhlich
Limited number of places
Registration at kontakte@adk.de
8 pm, Black Box
Passé Composé
Tony Elieh
10 pm, Black Box
Hainbach
Saturday, 28 Jun, Hanseatenweg
6 pm, Hall 2
Hyperphonie I
Works by Bernard Parmegiani, Elżbieta Sikora, Kirsten Reese and students from the HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, UdK Berlin, HfM Saar
8 pm, Studio
Plus or Minus
GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
SWR Experimentalstudio
Sunday, 29 Jun, Hanseatenweg
4 pm, Hall 2
Hyperphonie II
Works by Bernard Parmegiani, Elżbieta Sikora, Kirsten Reese and students from the HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, UdK Berlin, HfM Saar
6 pm, Hall 2
DEGEM Annual concert
In cooperation with the Division of Musicology, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation guest professorship, FU Berlin
Funded by
With kind support of the
