This June, 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 Burkhard Beins, Tony Buck, Teresa Carrasco, Andrei Cucu, Yorgos Dimitriadis, Tony Elieh, Ensemble Ascolta, Heather Frasch, Susanne Fröhlich, Owen Gardner, Emilio Gordoa, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Frank Gratowski, Ketevan Hahn, Hainbach, Hanna Hartman, Marisol Jimenez, Mazen Kerbaj, Matthias Koole, Annette Krebs, Magda Mayas, Julia Mihály, Hugo Morales, Niko de Paula Lefort, Maria Pelekanou, Arezou Rezaei, Thomas Schulz, Gerriet K. Sharma, Ming Tsao, Ute Wassermann, Christian Winther Christensen, Raed Yassin, Viola Yip, JD Zazie
The Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste has a long tradition as a forum and laboratory for experimental sound art. Although the idea of establishing an experimental music studio at the Akademie der Künste der DDR (East German Academy of Arts) was already proposed in the 1960s, the Studio for Electroacoustic Music was only publicly inaugurated in 1986. However, even from 1980, it existed as a production venue and meeting point for composers and master students. Here, numerous productions were created and refined, concerts planned and organised, and seminars designed and held.
After the two post-war Akademie der Künste founded in East and West Berlin were merged to recreate the historic institution, the Studio was relocated to provisional rooms. Finally, in mid-2012 the Studio moved to the central Akademie location in Berlin’s Hansa quarter where it was festively re-opened.
