Festival & Symposium LABOR SONOR : CHOREOGRAPHING SOUND
Composers choreograph sounds. Dancers interpret compositions. LABOR SONOR : CHOREOGRAPHING SOUND explores translation processes between sound and movement, music and body. Contemporary forms of visible music and composed actions emerge through the encounters between extended ...
CTM Festival 2018: Discourse Program on Digital Technology
Under the condition of the growing technosphere the impact of what Marshall McLuhan calls the technological unconscious has grown. The myths, hopes and anxieties of technology-driven change, of democratization or hegemony, participation or determinism are still ...
CTM Festival 2018: Discourse Program on Musical Resistance
Past research has shown that popular music can support subversive politics. There is musical potential for social change. Following this year’s theme – TURMOIL – one obvious question is how music scenes articulate counter-hegemonic and ...
Symposium: Discursive and Empirical Approaches to the Aesthetics of Improvised Music
In recent years, improvisation has increasingly become an object of research in musicology. In view of the large number of research projects and publications, it is noticeable that aesthetic questions play a rather subordinate role ...
Festival & Symposium LABOR SONOR : MOVING MUSIC
What happens when choreography gives rise to music? What happens when choreographers compose? The expansion of the concept of composition has shown that basically every sound can be understood as music. In the context of ...
Festival & Symposium LABOR SONOR : TRANSLATING MUSIC
What happens when music is translated into music? The festival LABOR SONOR : TRANSLATING MUSIC commiss ioned nine compositions: artists belonging to varying genres and scenes were invited to translate the music of artists, respectively ...
Transform: Subjectivation in Performing Arts Projects [2016-2019]
The joint research project ›Transform – Transformative educational processes in performative projects‹ (University Potsdam, Braunschweig University of Art) examines the conditions under which performative educational processes expand the capacity to act and promote social participation. ...
The Power of Things – Materiality and Performance Practice in Contemporary Improvised and Experimental Music
The Expansion of the musical material and innovations of instrumental playing techniques are part of the history of improvised music, especially in Free Jazz and European Free Improvisation of the 1960s and 70s that broke away from ...
Tacit Knowledge of Improvising Communities [2014-2016]
The research project ›Improvising Knowledge‹ is an interdisciplinary project between musicology, pedagogy and sociology and investigates the emergence of knowledge and the organisation of learning in musical improvisation. The project also aims to develop methods ...