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22/7/2008

Inventionen 2008

Villa Elisabeth, Berlin

The music festival Inventionen 2008 - Music, for more than one loudspeaker will take place from the 23rd of July to the 3rd of August in the following venues: Villa Elisabeth, St. Elisabeth’s Church, the Technical University Berlin and Prenzlauer Berg’s Wasserspeicher. The festival was originally established in 1982 by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin- Programme together with the Electronic Studio of the TU Berlin. This year’s festival is being organised in cooperation with the singuhr – hoergalerie and INA-GRM Paris. The basis for Inventionen 2008 is the exploration and deep preoccupation with the spatial / stereophonic depiction of music since the sixties in the Electronic Studio at the TU Berlin. The existing technologies and past experiences are a unique prerequisite to this year’s concert, in which many different electro-acoustic technologies will be presented simultaneously in order to realise the spatial musical potential. The works produced will also address the various significant eras within the programme.

To house the concerts, two venues were chosen which through their architecture, acoustic as well as technical layout and design, are practical in that they allow for such a range of spatial musical concepts whilst at the same time provide a consistent performance setting for all planned pieces. - St. Elisabeth’s Church will host three evenings (25th – 27th July), whereby early 20th Century French piano pieces (Debussy, Messiaen to name but a few) will be juxtaposed alongside acousmatic pieces presented by composers from the Groupe de Recherche Musicale (INA-GRM Paris). St. Elisabeth’s Church offers concert hall like acoustics and also allows for the flexible positioning of the loudspeaker with the audience at its centre which is paramount for electro-acoustic pieces.

The première will begin with a number of commissioned pieces from the Swedish composer Hanna Hartman as well as guests of the Artists-in-Berlin-Programme Wolfgang Suppan, Clara Maïda und Patrick Kosk. From 23rd July – 3rd August, the neighbouring Villa Elisabeth will provide the setting for sound installations from Hans Peter Kuhn and Agostino Di Scipio as well as Video-Sound-Works from Ed Osborn and stadtmusik.

- The Wellenfeldsynthese Room H 104 at the TU Berlin, with the existing 832 discreetly installed loudspeaker cables as well as the additional loudspeaker system installed for the Festival, offers the possibility for a number of different set-ups to allow for the immediate and direct juxtaposition of sounds / genres. In two concerts to be held consecutively on the 1st & 2nd August, the musicologist Björn Gottstein will present pieces from the Mono-Production regarding the gradual broadening of channels to the very latest and modern techniques such as the acousmatic and Wellenfeldsynthese from which it is clear that the loudspeaker is above all a tool that produces realms: natural and artistic realms, real and virtual realms. As an overture, every evening the Canadian composer Gilles Gobeil, who is currently a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin-Programme, will illustrate through a commissioned piece the differences between discreet loudspeakers, the Acousmonium and the Wellenfeldsynthese.

- To open the Festival on the 23rd July the requiem for fossil fuels which premièred in New York in October 2007 from O+A (Bruce Odland, Sam Auinger) with the VOXNOVA Quartet (conducted / lead by Nicholas Isherwood) will feature in St. Elisabeth’s Church at 8p.m. for the first time in Europe. -The three hour long concert installation resonant cuts from Michael Moser, also a current guest of the Artists-in- Berlin-Programme, along with musicians from the POLWECHSEL ensemble and guests, will première on the 24th July in the singuhr – hoergalerie in Kleinem Wasserspeicher Prenzlauerberg. This concert installation will mark the beginning of a sound installation that will run until mid-September. - The festivals concert programme is closely linked to the 4th international Sound and Music Conference (SMC08) which will take place from the 31st July to the 3rd August in the TU Berlin. The underlying motto being “sound in space – space in sound” and will involve around 30 presentations as well as discussions and demonstrations suited to academics and a culturally minded audience alike. We would be delighted to welcome you to the different events and we would also kindly ask you to list this event in your publications. The complete festival programme is available as an attachment or at the following website address

Event Coordinators: Artists-in-Berlin-Programme of DAAD & Electronic Studio TU Berlin, in cooperation with singuhr – hoergalerie and INA-GRM Paris.

Supported by: den Regierenden Bürgermeister von Berlin – Senatskanzlei Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, die Französische Botschaft, die Vertretung der Regierung von Québec, die Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Sophien, das Instituto Cervantes, das EMS Institute for Electroacoustic Music in Sweden, das Muziek Centrum Nederland, die Federazione CEMAT (Sonora), die DEGEM, den Deutschen Musikrat, das ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, TOTAL Deutsch land und ohrenstrand.net gefördert durch das Netzwerk Neue Musik ein Förderprojekt der Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Art Directors: Ingrid Beirer, Folkmar Hein, Carsten Seiffarth Programme Advisory Board: Björn Gottstein, Helga de la Motte, Daniel Teruggi

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