Programme
Thursday, 28 Sept 2017
Friday, 29 Sept 2017
Saturday, 30 Sept 2017
Sunday, 1 Oct 2017
Thursday, 28 Sept 2017
5:30 – 6 pm, Hall 1
Inauguration of the Festival
Welcoming address: Gregorio García Karman, Director of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music, Akademie der Künste
Inaugural event: Johanna Diehl, Das imaginäre Studio (2017), display case presentation with materials from the Hermann Scherchen Archive and inauguration of the sound installations in the presence of the artists
6 – 11 pm, Public spaces
Sound installations and public space interventions
With live-coding performances by the Society for Nontrivial Pursuits (Hannes Hoelzl, Alberto de Campo, and others), Camilla Barrat-Due, Alexandra Cárdenas, amongst others
7 – 7:15 pm, Public spaces
PRELUDE
Tabla and Live Electronics
Stefan Keller, Phoenix (2017) (GP) for Tabla and live electronics
8 – 9:30 pm, Main auditorium
CONCERT
PianoPercussion & Electronics
Works for piano, percussion, and electronics by Enno Poppe, Luigi Nono, Mauricio Kagel, Magnus Lindberg
Featuring the Ensemble Berlin PianoPercussion
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Friday, 29 Sept 2017
5 – 6 pm, Halle 1
CONCERT
Berliner Lautsprecherorchester
World premieres by Anna Petzer, Elie Gregory, Firat Can Coskun, Alexander Choeb, Roberto Fausti, Sebastien Vaillancourt, composition students of the Hanns Eisler School of Music, and the Berlin University of the Arts
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6 – 11 pm, Public spaces
Sound installations and public space interventions
8 – 10 pm, Hall 2
CONCERT
Allegories of Light
Musical compositions involving light, video, film
Works by Olga Neuwirth, Ludger Brümmer, Clemens Gadenstätter, Malte Giesen und José María Sánchez-Verdú
Featuring the Ensemble ascolta
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10:30 – 12 pm, Studiofoyer
LATE NIGHT SESSION
DAAD Concert
Multichannel works by Arturas Bumšteinas, Charo Calvo. Greeting word: Julia Gerlach
In collaboration with the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD
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Saturday, 30 Sept 2017
10 – 11 am, Club Room
FORUM
Artist portraits
Mario Verandi, Society for Nontrivial Pursuits
10 – 11 am, public spaces
Sound installations and public space interventions
11 – 12 am, Club Room
FORUM
Round table
With participants and guests of KONTAKTE '17
12 am – 1 pm, Hall 1
MATINEE CONCERT
Our Language: Noises-Sounds-Music
Collaborative musical project for persons with disabilities and composers working in the field of experimental music. In collaboration with Lebenshilfe Berlin
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2 – 2:45 pm (open end), outside the building
LUNCH HAPPENING
Utopia / Share Control, Share Influence
Network-based collaborative music performance with instructors and participants of the eponymous workshop, students of Berlin University of the Arts, and the audience
3 – 3:45 pm, Club Room
FORUM
CD release and Tommy Award
Presentation of the new DEGEM CD XV (2017) followed by the inauguration of the Tommy Award (award for composition) and audition of Gilles Gobeil’s Promenade (2017)
4 – 5 pm, Club Room
FORUM
Round table
With participants and guests of KONTAKTE '17
5.30 – 6:30 pm, Hall 1
RECITAL
Music and accelerator physics
Gerriet K. Sharma, Akustische Skulpturen BESSY VSR (2017) (WP). Series of works for the IEM icosahedral loudspeaker
In collaboration with Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
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6:45 – 7:30 pm, Grass Garden
RECITAL
Music and behavioural biology
José Manuel Berenguer, Bienen (2017) (WP), for 16 loudspeakers, with live monitoring and live streaming of a bee colony
8 – 9:45 pm, Main Auditorium
CONCERT
DEGEM Konzert
Works by Karl F. Gerber, Thomas Gerwin, Rainer Bürck, Hanna Hartman, Jorge García del Valle Méndez, Mario Verandi, Max Joy
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10:30 – 12 pm, Studio Foyer
LATE NIGHT SESSION
Heroines of Sound
With Loïse Bulot, Annette Krebs, Les Femmes Savantes
In collaboration with Heroines of Sound
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Sunday, 1 Oct 2017
FORUM
10 – 11 am, Club Room
Artist portraits
Karl F. Gerber and Hanna Hartman
10 – 11 am, Public spaces
Sound installations and public space interventions
11 – 11:45 am, Club Room
FORUM
Round Table: Panorama Cuba
With Enmanuel Blanco, Juan Piñera, Wilma Alba Cal, Sunlay Almeida, Humberto Díaz +
12 am – 1:30 pm, Hall 1
MATINEE CONCERT
EM4 Nr. 9 | Berliner Studios “Back to the origin”
Concert and discussion with Luca Frei and Myriam Scherchen. Music from Gravesano by Vladimir Ussachevsky, Luc Ferrari, François-Bernard Mâche, Iannis Xenakis, and others. With a performance by Ensemble ilinx, Studio for Contemporary Music of Berlin University of the Arts
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2:30 – 5 pm, Club Room
DEGEM membership meeting
Guests welcome from 4 pm onwards
4 – 5:40 pm, Studio Foyer
Radio play and round table
Marie Guérin, Même morts nous chantons (2017) (WP)
In coproduction with Deutschlandfunk Kultur and France Culture, followed by the round table “World in Snippets” with Nathalie Singer, Hermann Bohlen, and Marcus Gammel Moderation: Cornelia Klauß
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6 – 7 pm, Hall 2
CONCERT
Laboratorio Nacional de Música Electroacústica de Cuba
Including works by Juan Blanco, Carlos Fariñas, Jesús Ortega, Juan Piñera, Wilma Alba Cal, Jorge Denis Mora. Also, Body Symphony (2017) (WP) by Sunlay Almeida and Humberto Díaz
In coproduction with the International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe-Institut
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8 – 9:30 pm, Main Auditorium
CONCERT
Counterplay
Works for voice and electronics by Cathy van Eck, Clara Iannotta, Kirsten Reese, Hans Tutschku, Wolfgang Heiniger. Featuring the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
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9:30 – 11:30 pm, Studio Foyer
Festival finale
Festive closing of KONTAKTE '17 with a screening of the documentary Elektronische Musik, 1966/67, 113 min.
Direction: Stefan Meuschel. Music: Josef Anton Riedl