KONTAKTE '22 – Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art

In September 2022, the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste is hosting the KONTAKTE Festival for the fourth time. Including premieres, revivals and a diverse range of performances, the festival offers a spectrum of current artistic trends and developments in the fields of electroacoustic music and sound art. For five days, the entire Akademie building on Hanseatenweg is transformed through concerts, performances, sound installations and discussion panels.

KONTAKTE '22 sheds light on fundamental issues surrounding electroacoustic music, artistic production, and their reception.

The festival continues productive cooperation with the Month of Contemporary Music in Berlin, and intensively collaborates with artists in Berlin’s independent scene as well as others in the German-speaking and international music scene, including the ensemble mosaik, Lange//Berweck//Lorenz, the Pony Says trio and the Female Laptop Orchestra.

This year again supports a variety of new productions created in the Studio for Electroacoustic Music presented at the festival.

Once again, cooperations have been established, among others, with the Institut für Neue Musik KLANGZEITORT, the Berlin University of Arts (UdK), the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin (HfM), the Technische Universität Berlin (TU) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik (DEGEM).

The festival is funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa des Landes Berlin.

Programme

Thursday, 22 September 2022

8 – 10 pm, Studio
Concert

Pony Says with works by Uikyung Lee (UA), Yiran Zhao and Jessie Marino and Martin Schüttler

Pony Says is a trio specialising in contemporary music and free improvisation. Its members perform solo or as a duo/trio and collaborate with other creative artists from the fields of video, performance and site-specific art.

10 pm, Studiofoyer
DJ Set: Phillip Sollmann

Friday, 23 September 2022

6 – 7:30 pm, Studio
Concert

Ogiermann together with Lange//Berweck//Lorenz – HARK 1b as part of SIMUL, an attempt to live-adapt electro-acoustic projects (2022)

Lange//Berweck//Lorenz, Works for a Synthesizer Trio, by Kirsten Reese, Christof Ogiermann, Midori Hirano, Korhan Erel and Alvin Lucier. Includes performances on historical synthesizers at the Akademie der Künste.

Lange//Berweck//Lorenz is an electroacoustic trio in Berlin. In this lineup, the trio performs scores for electric and electronic musical instruments reviving a repertoire from the past and collaborating with present-day composers on new works.

8 – 10 pm, Hall 3
Concert / Walking Concert

Netta Weiser, Radio-Choreography: Hereafter, premiere performance

In her Radio-Choreographies, Netta Weiser uses choreographic practise to explore the possibilities of acoustic translations, using multichannel electronics for the concert installation.

10 pm, Lobby under the staircase in case of bad weather
Late Night Performance

Female Laptop Orchestra, Site-specific performance

Saturday, 24 September 2022

11 am ‒ 12 noon, Clubroom
Lecture

Female Laptop Orchestra: bridging continents, countries and culture through telematic music performance

Nela Brown on the Female Laptop Orchestra

12 noon – 1:30 pm, Clubroom
Discussion Panel

Music with Electroacoustics Today. DEGEM Talk on the Current Situation.

On the Podium: Helga de la Motte, Christina Kubisch, Jens Uwe Dyffort, Clemens von Reusner.
Moderation: Julia H. Schröder

2 ‒ 3:30 pm, Clubroom
Panel

Upheavals/Cracks/Outbursts – Moments of Artistic “Reset” / Experiencing (Artistic) Crises

New orientation, reevaluations, changing perspectives

Discussion panel with Nela Brown, Johannes Kreidler, Netta Weiser and Maximilian Marcoll

4 – 6 pm, Hall 3
Concert

Students at the HfM and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) present new works of electroacoustic music, including a piece by Akademie member Kirsten Reese.

KLANGZEITORT, the Institut für Neue Musik Berlin, perceives itself as a laboratory for musical composition and a reflective approach to contemporary music. A joint institution of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” (HfM), KLANGZEITORT is, above all, a forum for students and teachers.

6 – 8 pm, Hall 3
Concert

DEGEM annual concert and the awarding of the Thomas Seelig Fixed Media Prize

Jury: Teresa Carrasco, Verena Hentschel, Bettina Wackernagel

With works of Simon Bahr, Clemens von Reusner, Antje Vowinckel, Christian Banasik, Hanna Hartmann and Gerald Eckert

As well as Jonty Harrison (Laureate of the 2022 Thomas Seelig Fixed Media Prize)

9 – 10:30 pm, Studio
Concert

ACHK: ACHK DREI, Performance for two electric guitars and live electronics

Maximilian Marcoll ‒ composer, sound artist and performer. Marcoll’swork explores the political potential of music and sound.

10:30 pm, Studiofoyer
Daniela Huerta aka Baby Vulture: DJ Set

Sunday, 25 September 2022

11 am ‒ 6 pm, ONLINE, FM 88.4
Radio Conference

Radio(non)Konferenz I
concept and moderation by Netta Weiser and Anna Leon

live auf reboot.fm: 88,4 MHz in Berlin & 90,7 MHz in Potsdam & online

Netta Weiser, Radio Conference, Radio-Choreography